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Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get (pluralistic.net)

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British intelligence misplaced 1000s of storage devices still can't say how many (theregister.com)

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Meaningless as a laptop screensaver: reviewers slate Musk's AI-made Odyssey film (theguardian.com)

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Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts of Super-Sensitive User Data (techdirt.com)

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Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create (theregister.com)

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The young Americans choosing Y2K cars over shiny new SUVs (theguardian.com)

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Barclays to cut 5k jobs as bank's bosses hail AI productivity advances (theguardian.com)

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AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests (theguardian.com)

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IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem (theregister.com)

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Europe's cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good (theregister.com)

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AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for 'public good' (theguardian.com)

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Microplastics React with Water, a New Study Says. That's a Problem for Biology (wired.com)

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The Leap Second Is No More (wired.com)

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Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters in Breakthrough (404media.co)

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work (404media.co)

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Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse (theregister.com)

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OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in office (theguardian.com)

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Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten it is staring at nuclear annihilation (theguardian.com)

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Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage (theregister.com)

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Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials (theregister.com)

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Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system (theregister.com)

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Molly Russell's father to tell UK cinemagoers: Instagram helped kill my daughter (theguardian.com)

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Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing (theregister.com)

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Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (techdirt.com)

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Why YouTubers are ready for battle with the BBC (theguardian.com)

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Why trauma changes how our memory engages with our conscious experience (scientificamerican.com)

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FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals to the Benefit of Elon Musk and Comcast (techdirt.com)

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China lands its Zhuque-3 rocket, rivaling Blue Origin and SpaceX (scientificamerican.com)

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The Milky Way's fastest star could expose our black hole's spin (scientificamerican.com)

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UK Shared Rural Network roll-out passes key target (computerweekly.com)

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Taking Pause – All property is theft (futilitycloset.com)

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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star (wired.com)

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388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist (scientificamerican.com)

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The Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty (wired.com)

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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (wired.com)

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Why sexualisation of women by Grok's GenAI is a data privacy issue (computerweekly.com)

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Humans' sense of smell is still evolving (scientificamerican.com)

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How many paper folds would get you to the moon? (scientificamerican.com)

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OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say (scientificamerican.com)

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Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing (theguardian.com)

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Road Trains Roam the Backroads of Australia (hackaday.com)

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Wikipedia article "Ship of Theseus" has changed entirely since its inception (wikipedia.org)

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Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy (theguardian.com)

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China's tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House (theguardian.com)

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Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation (palladiummag.com)

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Drones offer alternative to balloons for weather research (theguardian.com)

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What 20M Bans Reveal About the Stress on Wikipedia's Volunteers (techdirt.com)

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UK's only all-female chess team promoted – then told they must recruit a man (theguardian.com)

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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much (theregister.com)

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US bans humanoid robots from China, citing 'unacceptable risks' (theguardian.com)

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Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks (theregister.com)

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US Officials Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe (techdirt.com)

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Forth (xkcd.com)

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The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon (theguardian.com)

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The math of traffic jams and how to avoid them (theconversation.com)

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Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic (theregister.com)

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Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter (theregister.com)

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Trump says nearly 200 firms signed pledge to protect from costs of datacenters (theguardian.com)

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Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own (theregister.com)

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Google Cloud is killing it (theregister.com)

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Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files (theregister.com)

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GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries security team (theregister.com)

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2026 Fields Medals go to four young mathematicians (scientificamerican.com)

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Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce (404media.co)

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OpenAI tries consulting – charging boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents (theregister.com)

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Richard Medhurst mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data? (computerweekly.com)

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Australia's Next Target in the War on Kids Online: Your VPN (techdirt.com)

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The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward (wired.com)

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Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage (theregister.com)

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Trump made $1.4B from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him? (theguardian.com)

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Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers (scientificamerican.com)

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Datacentres need to consider alternatives to grid connection (computerweekly.com)

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The New York nurses replaced by AI: 'It should concern every patient who cares' (theguardian.com)

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Telstra CEO 'deeply sorry' for outage, admits risk of time-keeping failure known (theguardian.com)

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Chasing new skills, going back to basics: how software engineers adapting to AI (theguardian.com)

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T. rex fossil could become most expensive dinosaur ever sold (bbc.co.uk)

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To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate the Neurochemistry (github.com/smithandrewjohn)

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El Niño Is Wreaking Havoc on Pacific Fisheries (wired.com)

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International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour (scientificamerican.com)

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Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain for spreading lies? (theguardian.com)

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GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues (theregister.com)

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AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top (theregister.com)

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Wikipedia Banned Its Co-Founder Because Its Rules Mostly Work (techdirt.com)

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Meta's AI 'Perv Glasses' Now Come with Stupid Comcast-Esque Usage Restrictions (techdirt.com)

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Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town (wired.com)

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US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (theguardian.com)

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Ancient cave paintings can harbor human DNA for millennia, scientists find (scientificamerican.com)

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Companies Are Making Claude, Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AIs Soaring Costs (404media.co)

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The EU Wants to Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible (techdirt.com)

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AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them (theregister.com)

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Stop Killing Games Pivots to Amending Digital Fairness Act in EU After Loss (techdirt.com)

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The brain was never just a language model (computerweekly.com)

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Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state's child social media ban (theguardian.com)

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US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive (theregister.com)

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Google found liable for bad AI Overview results Let's play Truth Or Consequences (theregister.com)

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Starmer to announce 'Australia plus' ban on social media for under-16s in UK (theguardian.com)

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Google's DiffusionGemma uses diffusion tech to speed text generation (theregister.com)

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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones (theguardian.com)

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Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts (theregister.com)

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First wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China (theguardian.com)