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Workers' share of income explains why many Americans are down on the economy (cbsnews.com)

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The High School Pipeline to South Korea's Chip-Making Fortunes (nytimes.com)

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Feds Tracked Down an Anti-ICE Dad in NYC Hotel, but How? (gizmodo.com)

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'Digit' maker Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal (geekwire.com)

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How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages? (nytimes.com)

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The little-known story of the first IoT device (ibm.com)

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The Magic of a Yellow No. 2 Pencil (2019) (cartoonresearch.com)

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Personal taste fell out of fashion (theguardian.com)

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How much an Uber driver makes in Boston (boston.com)

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Boston University grad students demonstrate flaw in MBTA tap-to-pay system (nbcboston.com)

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Manufacturer bloatware is finally becoming optional – and this app is proof (makeuseof.com)

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Russian Satellites Have Been Jamming GPS Signals Across Europe, Scientists Say (nytimes.com)

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Philly cops admit they're tracking "First Amendment activity" critical of AI (theintercept.com)

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Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024) (robotsinplainenglish.com)

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How did Asterix and Obelix learn to speak fluent Hindi? (2019) (indulgexpress.com)

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1-Wire (wikipedia.org)

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An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation (theverge.com)

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Notes on AI, Labor, and China (jasmi.news)

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Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15M for allegedly using her image to sell TVs (nbcnews.com)

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Samsung warns memory shortage will be worse next year (mashable.com)

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The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019) (increment.com)

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How the UK Retreated on Cloud and Called Its Local Media Band-Aid a Plan (techpolicy.press)

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Men Are Arrested in $1M Lego Theft in California (nytimes.com)

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Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold (iguanaworks.net)

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How Do You Count 1.4B People? India Is Trying (nytimes.com)

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The Brigade System Helps Restaurants Succeed. Does It Also Lead to Abuse? (nytimes.com)

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The Process of Movie Casting Has Changed Drastically (nytimes.com)

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Thanks for Typing: Women's Typing Labor in Literature and the Arts (library.harvard.edu)

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Netflix is buying Ben Affleck's AI startup (theverge.com)

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Big Medicine Can Learn from the Cheesecake Factory (2012) (newyorker.com)

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The Tyranny of Convenience (2018) (nytimes.com)

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Steven Fenves has died (January 2026) (post-gazette.com)

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India Became One of the Biggest Economies (nytimes.com)

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DVD Demystified (2012) (demystified.info)

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Will AI Replace White Collar Jobs in 12 Months? [video] (youtube.com)

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Bell Labs: Birthplace of Your Favorite Technology (nytimes.com)

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YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (pcmag.com)

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India bids to attract over $200B in AI infrastructure investment by 2028 (techcrunch.com)

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Visa Debate for Foreign Workers Fuels Racism Against South Asians (nytimes.com)

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Border Officials Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser (nytimes.com)

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Wall Street Is Paywalling Your Kids' Sports (levernews.com)

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ChatGPT sucks at being a real robot (vox.com)

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Fake Images Before AI (nytimes.com)

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A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo (nytimes.com)

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Chris Bathgate: Machinist Sculptor (chrisbathgate.com)

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Trump Officials Move to Double Number of H-2B Guest Visas This Year (nytimes.com)

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Yann LeCun – Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI (2025) (the-information-bottleneck.com)

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Amazon and Google Eat into Nvidia's A.I. Chip Supremacy (nytimes.com)

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The most dangerous code: Validating SSL certs in non-browser software (2012) [pdf] (cornell.edu)

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Trump's return-to-office mandate backfired (thehill.com)

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U.S. Automakers' Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada (nytimes.com)

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Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving (nytimes.com)

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Overlapping Markup (wikipedia.org)

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Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media (nytimes.com)

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Why Europe Is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash (facebook.com)

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Read the Clintons' Personal Letter to Comer (nytimes.com)

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The Scam Complex's Detailed Playbook (nytimes.com)

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Smart home controller is a piece of wood (theverge.com)

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Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture (robotsinplainenglish.com)

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Self-Driving Cars Can't See Without Their Eyes (nytimes.com)

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The Roomba Was a Disappointment (theatlantic.com)

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He's the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way (nytimes.com)

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Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right (nytimes.com)

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What One Airline's Meltdown Reveals About India's Economy (nytimes.com)

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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners (howtogeek.com)

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Please stop buying the fastest SSDs (howtogeek.com)

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How to fix a typewriter and your life (nytimes.com)

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Is Canada Helping Identify Boats the US Is Blowing Up? (thewalrus.ca)

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Feeling Flush with Success – Making Museum Bathrooms into Exhibition Spaces (orselli.net)

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The Crypto Industry's $28B in 'Dirty Money' (nytimes.com)

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It's Time to Give Up on Email (2024) (theatlantic.com)

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How the "meter" came to be exactly one meter long (bigthink.com)

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Developer Describes How Roomba Got Its Vacuum (ieee.org)

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Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% (wildingout.substack.com)

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Cloudflare extends robots.txt to separate AI input and AI training use cases (arstechnica.com)

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To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Screenshots (nytimes.com)

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Mamdani's win helps New York City's food scene (bbc.com)

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Epic and Google agree to settle their lawsuit and change Android's fate globally (theverge.com)

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Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes (nytimes.com)

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Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia (theverge.com)

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Can a Startup Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry's Giants? (nytimes.com)

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Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom are slapping 'golden handcuffs' on workers (businessinsider.com)

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Introduction to ArrayForth (greenarraychips.com)

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India's Most Valuable Export: Workers (nytimes.com)

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A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most (nytimes.com)

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London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why (nytimes.com)

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There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else (nytimes.com)

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Immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling (suntimes.com)

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Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023 (yahoo.com)

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Toward an eventual unofficial news network (tyburrswatchlist.com)

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Corporate America Is Caving to Trump, Not Just Because of a Lack of Backbone (nytimes.com)

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The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News (nytimes.com)

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A $2B crypto deal and an agreement to sell valuable chips to the UAE (nytimes.com)

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You Might Have Fallen for MAHA's Conspiracy Theories (nytimes.com)

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Americans' Most Valuable Asset Isn't Stocks or a Home. It's Social Security (nytimes.com)

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JPMorgan's Long Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (nytimes.com)

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SQLite's Use of Tcl (2017) (tcl-lang.org)

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How Anime Took over America (nytimes.com)

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A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China's Surveillance State (nytimes.com)

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Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war (businessinsider.com)