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Microsoft's Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs (theverge.com)

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The Secret to Success Is 'Monotasking' (theatlantic.com)

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How Silicon Valley's Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School (wsj.com)

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Tourist dies after being bitten at snake show while on vacation in Egypt (cnn.com)

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California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate (kmph.com)

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What is up with UK bridge height signs? [video] (youtube.com)

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OpenAI CEO Apologizes for Not Flagging Mass Shooting Suspect to Police (wsj.com)

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The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World (theatlantic.com)

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America's Largest Landowner Is Using AI to Digitize the Forest (wsj.com)

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Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Accuses World Liberty of 'Criminal Extortion' (wsj.com)

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How Cybercrime Became a Leading Industry in 'Scambodia' (wsj.com)

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You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them (wsj.com)

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The Art of the Fictional Pop Song (newyorker.com)

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The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea... Right? (theatlantic.com)

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Netflix Chair Reed Hastings to Leave Board in June (wsj.com)

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For Its Next Act, Allbirds Makes an Unlikely Pivot from Shoes to AI (wsj.com)

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Elon Musk's xAI Sued by NAACP over Memphis Data Center (wsj.com)

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PyCon needs 1,146 more hotel nights to meet "hotel minimum bookings." (twitter.com/lundukejournal)

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Satoshi Has the Right to Hide. We Have the Right to Search for Him (thefp.com)

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The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts [video] (youtube.com)

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Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing (wsj.com)

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The Romance of the Gas Station Sign (theatlantic.com)

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Kids Are Discovering the Joys – and Pains – Of the Landline (wsj.com)

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We're Drugging Ourselves with Dopamine (wsj.com)

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The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI (wsj.com)

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Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear" (wsj.com)

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The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture (theatlantic.com)

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Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

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The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed (theatlantic.com)

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If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now (theatlantic.com)

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How to Keep the Suburbs Tenant-Free (theatlantic.com)

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The sudden fall of Sora (wsj.com)

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The People Who Are Using AI at Home to Free Up Their Time (wsj.com)

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Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster (theatlantic.com)

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Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base was targeted by 'multiple waves' of drones (nationalreview.com)

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Gov. Newsom's Office Claims Grindr Provides to Them Opponent's Usage Data (twitter.com/govpressoffice)

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California Billionaires Are Spending Big in Costly Wealth-Tax Fight (wsj.com)

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Quadruple Amputee, professional cornhole player, accused of fatally shooting man (fox5dc.com)

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LaGuardia Airport Closed After Runway Collision That Killed Two Pilots (wsj.com)

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Ads Are Popping Up on the Fridge and It Isn't Goong Well (wsj.com)

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America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff (wsj.com)

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The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives (wsj.com)

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Tech Exec Accused of Smuggling Nvidia Chips to China Resigns from Board (wsj.com)

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Why Can't You Finish Anything? (newyorker.com)

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C Strings are Terrible [video] (youtube.com)

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Elon Musk's X teases new dislike button on replies (mashable.com)

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Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste (newyorker.com)

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She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn't Live to See It Work (wsj.com)

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The Cure for Snoring: A journey into my larynx (theatlantic.com)

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States Went All in on Sports Gambling – and Young Men Are the Losers (nationalreview.com)

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Waymo Fun: The Self-Driving Car Revolution (nationalreview.com)

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A New Bigfoot Documentary Helps Explain Our Conspiracy-Minded Era (wsj.com)

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The Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers (theatlantic.com)

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What Entertainment Might Look Like in 20 Years (wsj.com)

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Aaru: The Billion-Dollar AI Startup That Was Founded by Teenagers (wsj.com)

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Why Ads in Chatbots May Not Click (wsj.com)

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HP 197A oscilloscope camera Instax conversion [video] (youtube.com)

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Love in the Time of A.I. Companions (newyorker.com)

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A New Generation of Mall Rats Has Arrived (wsj.com)

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War prediction markets are a national-security threat (theatlantic.com)

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Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)

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Tesla's Secret Weapon Is a Giant Metal Box (theatlantic.com)

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Apple Uses Low Prices to Attack Rivals During Memory-Chip Crunch (wsj.com)

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American Snacking Habits Are Transforming the Restaurant Industry (theatlantic.com)

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A man who broke into jail (newyorker.com)

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The Atlantic AI Watchdog (theatlantic.com)

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When Do We Become Adults, Really? (newyorker.com)

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What Do the People Building AI Believe? (theatlantic.com)

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Two insider cases we've recently closed (kalshi.com)

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Gladys West, Who Got Belated Credit for Helping Create GPS, Dies at 95 (wsj.com)

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"TBPN" and the Rise of the Tech-Friendly Talk Show (newyorker.com)

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What the U.S. Government's UFO Deep Dive Might Reveal to Americans (wsj.com)

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Amazon Is Now America's Biggest Company by Annual Revenue (wsj.com)

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“Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy (newyorker.com)

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California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves (adafruit.com)

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Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information (techcrunch.com)

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"Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for bolognese" [video] (youtube.com)

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Pentagon might ask contractors to certify they don't use Anthropic's Claude (wsj.com)

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Retrotech YouTuber Sam Battle "Lookmumnocomputer" to Represent UK in Eurovision (theguardian.com)

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How Gotye Wrote Somebody That I Used to Know [video] (youtube.com)

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U.S. Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals into Iran After Protest Crackdown (wsj.com)

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What Mamdani Doesn't Know About Tenants (theatlantic.com)

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OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination (wsj.com)

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UPenn data leaked after University refused to pay $1M ransom (thedp.com)

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Why Do We Like Music? (newyorker.com)

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Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More (wsj.com)

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America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs (theatlantic.com)

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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either (newyorker.com)

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Why Unemployment Is Rising Among Young College Grads (wsj.com)

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Memory Devices (Bell System Film, 1959) [video] (youtube.com)

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Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver (nytimes.com)

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Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video] (youtube.com)

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Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

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Do You Feel the AGI Yet? (theatlantic.com)

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When Bad UI Design Kills: China Bans Flush Car Door Handles (core77.com)

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The World's First Viral AI Assistant Has Arrived, and Things Are Getting Weird (wsj.com)

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Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems (wsj.com)

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The Problem with Using AI in Your Personal Life (theatlantic.com)

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The Wild Markets Behind Polymarket's 'Truth Machine' (wsj.com)

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Tesla Just Killed the Most Important Car of the 21st Century (theatlantic.com)