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Effect of antivaccine tweets on Covid-19 vaccinations, cases, & deaths (springer.com)
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' injection' claims in ski jump competition investigation by WADA (theguardian.com)
3
Japan begins 24-hour social media monitoring at Winter Olympics (kyodonews.net)
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South Korea launches landmark laws to regulate artificial intelligence (japantimes.co.jp)
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Colundi Waftundi (wftlrd.uk)
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Tepco restarts reactor at largest nuclear plant (japantimes.co.jp)
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The quiet way AI normalizes foreign influence (cyberscoop.com)
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TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models (blog.google)
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AI is great for scientists, but perhaps not for science (programmablemutter.com)
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DHS used neo-nazi anthem for recruitment after fatal Minneapolis shooting (theintercept.com)
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X restricts Grok image generation capabilities for all users (twitter.com/safety)
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From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video] (ccc.de)
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Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) (audio-database.com)
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[dupe] 7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (keshikan.net)
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Will Japan's 'Fire Horse' curse strike again in 2026? (japantimes.co.jp)
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China manga convention bars Japanese content amid political tensions (kyodonews.net)
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Dronage Terminal: a terminal based drone workstation (github.com/boorch)
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Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use (thegamer.com)
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South Korea to mandate facial recognition for opening new mobile numbers (kyodonews.net)
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Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say (washingtonpost.com)
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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company in $6B deal (today.com)
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The game behind the gig economy (techpolicy.press)
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25,600 GB of storage ruined by 10 year old oblivious to global NAND crisis (tomshardware.com)
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Bad Opsec Considered Harmful (buttondown.com/grugq)
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US plans to scrutinize foreign tourists' social media history (nytimes.com)
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A mutually incomprehensible AI communication system (hackster.io)
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Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf] (andrewoswald.com)
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Kircher and Schott's computer music of the Baroque era (2014) (larkfall.wordpress.com)
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Presidential executive order would ban all state AI regulation (theverge.com)
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AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet (axios.com)
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Computational Turing test shows systematic difference between human, AI language (arxiv.org)
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Mapping 2M votes in the NYC mayoral elction (kieranhealy.org)
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[dupe] IRS halts Direct File and points to other free services (wsj.com)
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Friction interventions to curb the spread of misinformation (nature.com)
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Calm: Continuous Autoregressive Language Models (github.com/shaochenze)
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Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules (science.org)
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It's surprising that people are surprised that Signal runs partly on AWS (bsky.app)
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Use of full-body restraints during deportation raises humanitarian concerns (apnews.com)
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Daniel Naroditsky, who became chess grandmaster as a teen, dies at 29 (washingtonpost.com)
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Elon Musk now owns 2/3 of satellites after 10,000th Starlink launches (independent.co.uk)
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This is just the Internet now: the slop is winning (theatlantic.com)
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Florida attorney-general issues subpoena to Roblox over child safety (nbcnews.com)
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China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center (kyodonews.net)
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Russian/neo-Nazi fight clubs grew audience using YouTube, isntagram (theguardian.com)
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OpenAI accused of using legal tactics to silence nonprofits (nbcnews.com)
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US charges Cambodian executive in crypto scam and seizes $14B BTC (kyodonews.net)
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Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers (kyodonews.net)
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Salesforce CEO Says National Guard Should Patrol San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
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MIT rejects political cooperation in exchange for university funding (nbcnews.com)
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A debate about AI plays out on the subway walls (nytimes.com)
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Universities should reject the administration's proposed 'compact' (msnbc.com)
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Denmark leads EU push to copyright faces in fight against deepfakes (techpolicy.press)
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Takaichi Sanae wins LDP vote, likely to be Japan's first female Prime Minister (japantimes.co.jp)
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Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks (washingtonpost.com)
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YouTube to pay $22M for White House ballroom to settle Trump lawsuit (cbsnews.com)
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Wave of phony news quotes affects everyone, including EFF (eff.org)
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Hollywood performers union condemns AI-generated 'actress' (reuters.com)
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South Korean government services offline following data center fire (techradar.com)
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Electronic Arts to be acquired – $52.5B in largest ever private equity buyout (nbcnews.com)
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[flagged] NSPM-7 labels common beliefs as terrorism 'indicators' (kenklippenstein.com)
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US plans to require 1:1 ratio of domestic to imported chips (reuters.com)
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Japanese ship-mounted railgun successfully hits targets in test (mainichi.jp)
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Japanese city passes ordinance to limit smartphone use to 2 hours/day (yomiuri.co.jp)
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Eschatological thinking: why Peter Thiel is talking about the Antichrist (realtimetechpocalypse.com)
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Wikipedia can save the Internet with advertising (techpolicy.press)
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material (washingtonpost.com)
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Fees for H1-B visas raised to $100k (nbcnews.com)
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Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation (hani.co.kr)
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New bill would give Marco Rubio 'thought police' power to revoke US passports (theintercept.com)
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Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after US immigration raid, CEO says (japantimes.co.jp)
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EPA plans to stop collecting greenhouse gas emission data from most polluters (propublica.org)
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US Senate Republicans trigger 'nuclear option', changing rules to speed nominees (nbcnews.com)
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AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
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[flagged] House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints (techdirt.com)
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SSA whistleblower's resignation email mysteriously disappeared from inboxes (wired.com)
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Sony confirms critical flaw in IC chips used for Japan's transit cards (mainichi.jp)
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End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says (reuters.com)
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Researchers say AI 'deadbots' are primed for monetization (npr.org)
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Director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Resigns (reuters.com)
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DHS admits it no longer preserves text message data for top officials (americanoversight.org)
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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems (kyodonews.net)
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'Cheapfake' AI celeb videos are rage baiting people on YouTube (wired.com)
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Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations (apnews.com)
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A Climate of Unparalleled Malevolence (theguardian.com)
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Philip K Dick and the fake humans (2018) (bostonreview.net)
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Federal court decision finds cellphone tower-dumping searches unconstitutional (courtwatch.news)
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PicoCalc (clockworkpi.com)
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AI may make dubbing for film and TV easier (bbc.com)
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Trump reverse on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation (cnbc.com)
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Japanese government to use AI to teach language skills to kid with foreign roots (kyodonews.net)
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Bureau of Labor Standards nominee suggests suspending monthly jobs report (axios.com)
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Wplace – pixel art on a world map (wplace.live)
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Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Government – reports (cnbc.com)
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Major Japan newspaper sues 'free-riding' AI firm Perplexity (japantimes.co.jp)
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July 2025 Tech litigation roundup (techpolicy.press)
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Rapidus is Japan's best bet. Will it be enough? (zososdispatches.substack.com)
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Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS (skyatnightmagazine.com)
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Age verification is coming for the whole internet (nymag.com)
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