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Amazon copyright protection changed for Kindle Direct's self-published e-books (techcrunch.com)

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Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri (bbc.com)

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Claude Code is coming to Slack (techcrunch.com)

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'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis (bbc.com)

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Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)

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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool (arstechnica.com)

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A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test (wired.com)

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Admins and defenders gird themselves against max severity server vulnerability (arstechnica.com)

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Russian astronaut kicked out of the U.S. for stealing proprietary SpaceX designs (behindtheblack.com)

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37signals open-sources Kanban tracking tool Fizzy (github.com/basecamp)

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The Structural Limits of Global Central Banking (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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The Algorithm That Exposed the AI Industry's Circular Financing Scheme (substack.com)

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The Sleep-Age Paradox (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (nbcnews.com)

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Five Years of Structural Deficit Broke the Silver Market (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished (msn.com)

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Nexperia crisis: Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit (cnbc.com)

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Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 (cybertec-postgresql.com)

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Russia's Hydrocarbon Revenue Crisis and the Mathematics of State Exhaustion (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (arstechnica.com)

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[flagged] DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts (arstechnica.com)

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MIT Student Awed Top Economists with His AI Study Then It All Fell Apart (msn.com)

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Long lost Moon-forming planet formed in the inner Solar System (euronews.com)

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Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Reveals the Fatal Architecture of AI Economics (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery (ieee.org)

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What you should know from a trove of ChatGPT conversations we analyzed (yahoo.com)

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Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China (arstechnica.com)

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The Rise of "Mindless" TV: Quantifying a New Way of (Kinda) Watching Television (statsignificant.com)

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Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved (phys.org)

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The growing problem with China's unreliable numbers (ft.com)

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New Axial Flux Motor Power Density is Three Times Tesla’s Best (ieee.org)

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The surprising benefits of giving up (nautil.us)

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Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] (nber.org)

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Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus, study finds (nbcnews.com)

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China Plans to Limit How Fast Your Car Accelerates to 62 MPH at Startup (carscoops.com)

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How AI is breaking cover letters (economist.com)

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PS5 Has Now Officially Outsold Every Xbox Console Ever Released (ign.com)

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End of the Line: How Saudi Arabia's Neom Dream Unravelled (ft.com)

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The Company Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers (msn.com)

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How to trade your $214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell (arstechnica.com)

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IKEA's Big Smart Home Push Arrives with 21 New Matter Devices (forbes.com/sites/paullamkin)

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Don't blame AI for your job woes (economist.com)

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Movies Make Money After Leaving Theaters: The Economics of Streaming (statsignificant.com)

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Tape containing Unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973, found in storage room (phanpy.social)

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Chaos and lies: Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI according to new testimony (theverge.com)

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Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs (arstechnica.com)

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Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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A new ion-based quantum computer makes error correction simpler (technologyreview.com)

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The Deadliest US Nuclear Accident Is Not What You Think (hackaday.com)

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When Do People Speak Out Against Tyranny? (nautil.us)

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The tallest chip defies the limits of computing (elpais.com)

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A Fight over Credit Scores Turns into All-Out War (msn.com)

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The Curious Case of the Disappearing Captcha (wired.com)

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Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (cloudflare.com)

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Why should I accept all cookies? (idiallo.com)

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Liquid Jets Could Be Key to Studying Cancer Cells (ieee.org)

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NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times (arstechnica.com)

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Goodnight, MTV – Gen X fades along with the network (unherd.com)

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AMD to help Nvidia's $4k DGX Spark with lack of performance and overheating (tomshardware.com)

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Ubuntu Unity faces possible shutdown as team member cries for help (neowin.net)

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Harvard says it's been giving too many A grades to students (fortune.com)

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Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era (wired.com)

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OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly (techcrunch.com)

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The seven phases of the Internet: A map to where the Web goes next (ieee.org)

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Firms are blaming AI for job cuts. Critics say it's a 'good excuse' (cnbc.com)

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SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers (arstechnica.com)

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As China's 996 culture spreads, South Korea's tech grapples with 52-hour limit (techcrunch.com)

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This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I've ever seen (arstechnica.com)

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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws (csoonline.com)

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Do animals fall for optical illusions? It's complicated (arstechnica.com)

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JLCPCB Locking Accounts, Mentions "Risky IP Addresses, Activities" (hackaday.com)

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Should scientists be allowed to edit animals' genes? Yes say conservation groups (nbcnews.com)

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How the Brain Moves from Waking Life to Sleep and Back Again (quantamagazine.org)

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Only 40% of Workers Have High-Quality Jobs, Gallup Finds (gallup.com)

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Free Graphic Cards for Everyone (idiallo.com)

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China 'stole vast amounts' of classified UK documents (cityam.com)

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Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition (theguardian.com)

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Google will let friends help you recover an account (theverge.com)

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Common yeast can survive Martian conditions (phys.org)

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OpenAI has five years to turn $13B into $1T (techcrunch.com)

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Beyond Enshittification: Hostile (idiallo.com)

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Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize (quantamagazine.org)

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A window into modern loan origination (bitsaboutmoney.com)

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More than half of entrepreneurs are considering moving to a new country (cnbc.com)

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Bose SoundTouch home theater systems regress into dumb speakers on Feb 18 (arstechnica.com)

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The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks (bbc.com)

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Legendary MS developer reveals famous WinXP activation key was a disastrous leak (tomshardware.com)

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Polymarket Founder Is Youngest Self-Made Billionaire After Deal with NYSE Owner (yahoo.com)

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Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life to Become Complex (quantamagazine.org)

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Keeping the Candle Lit (idiallo.com)

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Australian Commonwealth Bank moves entire core banking system to AWS (afr.com)

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Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden government report that used AI (ft.com)

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The Death of Microservice Madness (2018) (dwmkerr.com)

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Greater Manchester Police home working ban amid 'key jamming' probe (bbc.com)

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Have we passed peak social media? (ft.com)

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Starbase hires Cameron County to police its streets and jail its offenders (techcrunch.com)

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Swift to add blockchain-based ledger to its infrastructure stack (swift.com)

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Frank founder Charlie Javice sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud (techcrunch.com)

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The Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)

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Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection (arstechnica.com)