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Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI (techcrunch.com)

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Copilot Usage Report 2025 (microsoft.ai)

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OpenAI must hand over 20M ChatGPT logs in New York Times lawsuit (windowscentral.com)

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GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras (cerebras.ai)

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React State Management in 2025: What You Need (developerway.com)

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Speeding up Unreal Editor by not opening 5500 files (larstofus.com)

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Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100 (ashvardanian.com)

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Laravel inventor: don't code 'cathedrals of complexity' (theregister.com)

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips (larstofus.com)

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Complete Guide to Self-Hosting Next.js at Scale (dlhck.com)

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PHP Is the Perfect Language for Beginners (medium.com/gilberttallam)

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Farewell OpenAI (substack.com)

3

Anthropic Lands Victory in AI Case on Fair Use (wsj.com)

4

Netflix CEO: Not in China because no show or episode passed Censorship Board (indiewire.com)

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Apple Products Are Struggling (trendlinehq.com)

1

Symfony vs. Laravel: A Humble Request (medium.com/paulclegg_18914)

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Node just added TypeScript support (deno.com)

5

Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation (microsoft.com)

2

Majorana: Fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays (arxiv.org)

8

Uber Sues DoorDash over Food-Delivery (wsj.com)

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Tech Giants Double Down on AI Spending and Data Centers (wsj.com)

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ElevenLabs raises $180M Series C to be the voice of the digital world (elevenlabs.io)

2

Microsoft and OpenAI evolve partnership to drive the next phase of AI (microsoft.com)

4

GoDaddy pledges $520k to the WordPress Community Collective (godaddy.com)

2

Graphite (open-source art editor) 2024 highlights (graphite.rs)

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It's 2025, we're ready for more Open Source (opensource.org)

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Microsoft plans job cuts focusing more on underperforming employees (businessinsider.com)

3

Nvidia's Digits Outperforms Apple's M4 in AI Inference (twitter.com/alexocheema)

2

HMPV virus cases rising in rest of world after outbreak in China (independent.co.uk)

3

The Rise of Digital Assets (lynalden.com)

3

Harvard Releases Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (wired.com)

2

Popular Python package ultralytics compromised in supply chain attack (github.com/ultralytics)

2

I Put the Entire Planet into Unreal Engine (Kindof) (twitter.com/josh_makes_game)

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U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group (pewresearch.org)

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Unreal Engine 5.5 Performance Highlights (tomlooman.com)

3

Epic Games Has Gone from Losing $1B a Year to Nearly Breaking Even (twistedvoxel.com)

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Unreal Fest Seattle 2024: update highlights (unrealengine.com)

2

Laptop has a desktop Nvidia 4090 GPU, weighs nearly 15 lbs (videocardz.com)

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Video Game Devs Are Leaving the Industry and Doing Something, Anything Else (aftermath.site)

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IT (Tech) Unemployment Hits 6%, Up from 3% Low in Dec 2023 (wsj.com)

1

Why Our Video Got Taken Down by Google (Linus Tech Tips) (youtube.com)

1

Laravel Trends 2024: Latest Market Insights (jetbrains.com)

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Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? (goethena.com)

3

We gave away $1500 at LaraCon and got leads (thunk.dev)

15

PHP Is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business (tomasvotruba.com)

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Tumblr is moving its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techradar.com)

1

Airbnb and short-term rental market analysis: July 2024 (airdna.co)

2

Shein sues Temu over copyright infringement (cnbc.com)

23

OpenAI exits SF HQ after Elon Musk stops paying their rent (therealdeal.com)

7

'Star Wars: The Acolyte' has been canceled (theverge.com)

3

Nvidia offers RTX 4090D 48GB and 4080 32GB GPU variants in China (videocardz.com)

2

State of Computer Graphics 2024 (poliigon.com)

1

AMD unlocks MI300's full potential with fresh code (theregister.com)

1

AMD Ryzen 9000 official pricing is finally here (videocardz.com)

1

Google antitrust case: Judge's 286 page ruling [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

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Google Loses Antitrust Case over Search-Engine Dominance (wsj.com)

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Balancing open-source and a full-time job (github.com/gyulyvgc)

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Reddit CEO: Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (theverge.com)

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Rural Towns Are Aging and in Desperate Need of Workers (wsj.com)

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Google's Ad Sale Growth Slows in Second Quarter (wsj.com)

9

Rates Insensitivity in the Economic Downcycle (lynalden.com)

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[dupe] AT&T: Hacker Stole Cell, Text Data on Nearly All Wireless Customers (wsj.com)

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Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit (theregister.com)

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PHP version stats: July 2024 (stitcher.io)

15

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too (nytimes.com)

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Apple first rejected, then quickly approved, Epic's app store in Europe (ign.com)

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Follow the Capex: Triangulating Nvidia (platformonomics.com)

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Enhancing New York Times Web Performance with React 18 (nytimes.com)

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McDonald's to end AI drive-thru experiment after errant orders (nypost.com)

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Netflix: Sharing Our Latest Culture Memo (netflix.com)

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AI Startup Etched Unveils ASIC Claiming 20x Speed-Up over Nvidia H100 (techpowerup.com)

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Stable Diffusion 3 banned on CivitAI due to license (civitai.com)

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Google Ad Tech Antitrust Suit Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules (bloomberg.com)

2

Running Blender 3D on a 2006 Nokia N95 phone (twitter.com/dante_leoncini)

1

Fed Projects Just One Rate Cut This Year Despite Mild Inflation Report (wsj.com)

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Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone (theverge.com)

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Apple Is Under Pressure to Deliver on AI at WWDC Event (wsj.com)

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Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions with installs discovered (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Court rules Meta must face lawsuit over fraudulent ads (signalscv.com)

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Intel's Gaudi 3 will cost half the price of Nvidia H100 (tomshardware.com)

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China's tallest waterfall goes viral after tourist video reveals pipe source (nypost.com)

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Google is working on Recall-like feature for Chromebooks (pcworld.com)

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Apple Fell Behind in the AI Arms Race (wsj.com)

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NPGA: Neural Parametric Gaussian Avatars – high-fidelity digital faces (arxiv.org)

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One month of selling on Unreal Engine Marketplace (x.com)

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I built a GPT model in 10 hours (youtube.com)

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AI characters try to find the human in a VR game (reddit.com)

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Autodesk acquires Wonder Dynamics, offering cloud-based 3D AI technology (autodesk.com)

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Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers (searchengineland.com)

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OpenAI sends memo releasing former employees from controversial exit agreements (cnbc.com)

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Nvidia has flooded the market – Gamers Nexus (youtube.com)

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Khan Academy and Microsoft expand access to AI tools that personalize teaching (microsoft.com)

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Microsoft Build continues the evolution and expansion of AI tools for developers (microsoft.com)

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AI poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand (goldmansachs.com)

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I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Focused PCs. Windows Is Exciting Again (wsj.com)

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Analysis of GNOME Foundation's public economy: concerns and thoughts (gnome.org)

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Problems with the Bond Market (lynalden.com)

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Microsoft will change how 'Call of Duty' is sold (wsj.com)

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Netflix to stop using Microsoft for ad platform, will build its own (thedesk.net)

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Google's Gemini video search makes factual error in demo (theverge.com)