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[flagged] Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor' (variety.com)

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Hacking Cheap Smart Photo Frames into a Family Dashboard (wesbos.com)

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Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules (arstechnica.com)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling – Alexis King (youtube.com)

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VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA (daringfireball.net)

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I vibe-coded a C compiler that can build SQLite (fsck.com)

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Apple/NeXT Human Interface Guidelines Collection (github.com/gingerbeardman)

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Frasier Fantasy: The Director's Cut (edward-la-barbera.itch.io)

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Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab (rebeccawilliams.info)

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Trump administration 'Not in Favor' of Apple Using Chinese RAM (wsj.com)

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The Artistry in 8-bit and 16-bit pixel art [video] (youtube.com)

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Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)

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Recovery Key storage transition highlights Apple's privacy and obscurity (sixcolors.com)

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Is Netflix Washed Now? (sharptext.net)

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BMW ads: "I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism" (tumbledry.org)

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Tape scratching the "Peter Piper" routine, using a homemade tape loop [video] (youtube.com)

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And Grail Holy Monty Python The: A comprehensive alphabetical re-edit [video] (vimeo.com)

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Musk Refuses Ukrainian Request to Enable Starlink for Deep Strikes Inside Russia (united24media.com)

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The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It (theringer.com)

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AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow [video] (youtube.com)

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Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can't catch (arstechnica.com)

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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

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Tear Here: Condiment Packet Archive (condimentpacket.com)

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AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case (nme.com)

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Why cartoon characters curse like this [video] (youtube.com)

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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack (technologyreview.com)

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The hidden logic behind #, @, & and § (youtube.com)

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Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam? (theverge.com)

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Preparing for next year's Rosetta 2 demise (sixcolors.com)

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Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare's Developer Platform (cloudflare.com)

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Adopt AI or Die? "The God Test" proposes AI is an opportunity and epochal threat (newrepublic.com)

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BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat (theautopian.com)

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Datatype: A variable font that turns text into charts (franktisellano.github.io)

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Boy George Releases Pro-Israel Song, We Will Dance Again (theguardian.com)

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Always Choose the Good Soap (sixcolors.com)

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A toy Swift for the browser, in Rust (tswift.pages.dev)

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'Skynet Day' is now shorthand for OpenAI's agent going rogue (fortune.com)

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AI agents are eating the Web, growing by 8,000% and rewiring business models (fortune.com)

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The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them (daringfireball.net)

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I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes (thedrive.com)

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Researchers let AI models run a simulated society (fortune.com)

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I Turned a 1982 Vectrex into the Strangest Spotify Player [video] (youtube.com)

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Spotify Deleted 75M AI-Generated Tracks – and It's Not Done Yet (gadgetreview.com)

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Not your keys, not your songs: Last rites for Nina Protocol (components.news)

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Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C (hackaday.com)

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Stacks: Run classic HyperCard stacks on modern macOS without emulation (morphing.cloud)

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Four-Byte Burger [video] (youtube.com)

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Accelerating Gemini Nano Models on Pixel with Frozen Multi-Token Prediction (research.google)

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Why Meta's Move to the Cloud Is a Big Deal–and Bad News for CoreWeave and Nebius (barrons.com)

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Roanoke homeowner says Flock Device was installed on her property without notice (wsls.com)

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Flipper Device's new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity (techcrunch.com)

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Leaked A20 Pro Image Hints at iPhone 18 Pro Performance Gains (macrumors.com)

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Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants (npr.org)

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Playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player (dunstanorchard.com)

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Exhaustive and Definitive Ranking of All NES Games Released in North America (8bitnintendo.science)

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Exosomes in nanomedicine: A cell-free therapeutic intervention in burn wounds (nih.gov)

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How the FAA is using AI to prevent close calls on runways (politico.com)

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ReixOS: Experimental microkernel written in Embedded Swift for ARM64 (github.com/eliorodr2104)

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swift-os: A real operating system, written in Swift (swiftos.tech)

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Eve: Vercel's Framework for Building Agents (vercel.com)

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Siri won't be your AI girlfriend (sixcolors.com)

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What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

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Lego Batman's Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg (bsky.app)

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A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. I (catandgirl.com)

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Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place (xda-developers.com)

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The destruction of 3D printing: Bloomberg is behind it [video] (youtube.com)

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Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents (macrumors.com)

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We Uncovered a Hidden Wealth Transfer in the SpaceX IPO. You're Holding the Bag [video] (youtube.com)

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Haiku, a generative music album for Mac OS (giorgiosancristoforo.net)

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The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum [video] (youtube.com)

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Gabe Newell snapped at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam (pcgamer.com)

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Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (techradar.com)

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Frozen to -22 Degrees, BYD's New EV Just Charged to 97% in Only 12 Minutes (insideevs.com)

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Bringing Goodnotes to the Web with Swift and WebAssembly (swift.org)

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To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant (wired.com)

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Apache Fory v1.0.0 Serialization Framework Released (apache.org)

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TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election (psypost.org)

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AI as a Design Medium (harvarddesignmagazine.org)

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Microsoft to stop sending SMS codes for personal accounts (support.microsoft.com)

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A Technical Deep Dive into the New Raycast (raycast.com)

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App Store stopped $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025 (apple.com)

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Everything You Do Is Being Recorded: Is there any way of fighting back? (theatlantic.com)

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Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer (thestranger.com)

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The Morse Code Hack That Made an AI Agent Spend $200k [video] (youtube.com)

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What were scanners like in the 80s? – 1988 IBM PageScanner 3119 [video] (youtube.com)

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How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory [video] (youtube.com)

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The Hidden Reason Screwdriver Handles Look Like This [video] (youtube.com)

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Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Information Retrieval (arxiv.org)

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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' (businessinsider.com)

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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (youtube.com)

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'Microshifting' puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules (apnews.com)

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2 Letters from Steve (2013) (davidgelphman.wordpress.com)

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The tortoise and the hare live on (aresluna.org)

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Tech is in turmoil–but the rest of corporate America isn't. One CEO knows why (fortune.com)

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The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet (ai-on-the-internet.github.io)

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Arcade Games: Source Code Collection (mrcook.uk)

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Tiny 1000bhp 13Kg Motor Cuts 200kg From EVs [video] (youtube.com)

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New Apple support doc: "If you're asked to confirm that you're an adult" (support.apple.com)

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Your Name in Landsat (nasa.gov)