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Vela: The True Scale of a Hidden Giant Structure Revealed (sarao.ac.za)

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AI should not replace people at Atlassian, says CEO (heise.de)

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The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (After 35 Years in the USA) (improbable.com)

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Outside Anthropic's Office in SF (twitter.com/roybahat)

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Full transcript of our interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (cbsnews.com)

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We don't have to have unsupervised killer robots (theverge.com)

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Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design (irregular.com)

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Dell PC teardown shows mechanically locked 12V-2×6 GPU power connector (videocardz.com)

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Accenture 'links staff promotions to use of AI tools' (theguardian.com)

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NASA's Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies (nasa.gov)

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Freedom.gov: US State Department Plans VPN Portal for Europe (heise.de)

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We need to act with urgency to address the growing AI divide (blogs.microsoft.com)

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Sony Considering Pushing Back PS6 to 2028 or 2029 Amid AI-Fueled Chip Crisis (ign.com)

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WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)

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German-language Wikipedia considers comprehensive AI ban (heise.de)

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Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Regulatory Rollback (wsj.com)

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New Siri Runs into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27 (macrumors.com)

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South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users (reuters.com)

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Debian project leader warns of developers' silent withdrawal (heise.de)

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Marine biologists discover 28 new deep sea species–and an old VHS tape (popsci.com)

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Updates in two of our core priorities (blogs.microsoft.com)

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Memory Price Outlook for 1Q26 Sharply Upgraded (trendforce.com)

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OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives (reuters.com)

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New satellite view of Tibet's tectonic clash (esa.int)

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High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: A Labor Shortage (wsj.com)

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Pushing Simulation to the Limit to Find Order in Chaos [video] (youtube.com)

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Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: "I don't think they're great right now" (arstechnica.com)

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GNU gettext 1.0 released (lists.gnu.org)

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Scientists assemble the most detailed map of dark matter (nationalgeographic.com)

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Vivaldi 7.8: No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features (vivaldi.com)

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Charting a Moral Vision of American Foreign Policy (adw.org)

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One Giant Leap: 95% Less Sampling Cost (norlinder.nu)

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Bad Apple but it's a sorting algorithm [video] (youtube.com)

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Navigating the volatile silicon market: updates on memory and storage pricing (frame.work)

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iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users (cultofmac.com)

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Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads at 60k years ago (doi.org)

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Ensuring American Space Superiority (whitehouse.gov)

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ResidentBat: A new spyware family used by Belarusian KGB [pdf] (rsf.org)

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Serious concerns about the rise in sycophantic and delusional outputs [pdf] (iowaattorneygeneral.gov)

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Apple Chip Chief Johny Srouji Could Be Next to Go as Exodus Continues (macrumors.com)

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US Flips History by Casting Europe–Not Russia–As Villain in New Security Policy (wsj.com)

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Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse (reuters.com)

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John Gruber's Scathing Commentary About Apple's Departing Software Design Chief (macrumors.com)

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AI Safety Index Winter 2025 Edition (futureoflife.org)

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RFC 9901: Selective Disclosure for JSON Web Tokens (rfc-editor.org)

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A Comparative Study of Time on Mars with Lunar and Terrestrial Clocks (iop.org)

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Amazon's Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come (gizmodo.com)

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Global Stock Leaderboards Are Ruled by Europe in Rare Dominance (bloomberg.com)

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2025 Edelman Trust Barometer Flash Poll: Trust and AI at a Crossroad [pdf] (edelman.com)

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A New Bridge Links the Math of Infinity to Computer Science (quantamagazine.org)

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Zero [video] (youtu.be)

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IACR Election 2025 Update (iacr.org)

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EU Commission's Digital Omnibus is a major rollback of EU digital protections (edri.org)

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World's Largest 'Modern' Crater Found Hiding in Plain Sight in China (sciencealert.com)

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Star Wars Theatrical OT Official Restoration Leaked Clips (youtube.com)

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More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans (graphite.io)

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Process World, Object-Oriented Mind (aethermug.com)

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Strandbeast Evolution 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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The Business of the Culture War (sites.harvard.edu)

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Weather disasters limit prosperity, also for many industrialised countries (munichre.com)

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World’s biggest spiderweb discovered within Sulfur Cave (livescience.com)

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Discover how apps are using the new design and Liquid Glass (developer.apple.com)

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US judge approves DOJ decision to drop Boeing criminal case (journalrecord.com)

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Google Plans AI Data Hub on Christmas Island Amid Strategic Defence Push (moderndiplomacy.eu)

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New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings in Decades (nasa.gov)

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a 'legitimate AI researcher' by 2028 (techcrunch.com)

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Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy (therecord.media)

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Project Shadowglass (shadowglassgame.com)

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The Smallest Pixel in the World (uni-wuerzburg.de)

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China Unveils Mini Fridge-Sized AI Supercomputer, Cuts Power Use by 90% (chosun.com)

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The AI that we'll have after AI (pluralistic.net)

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Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars (esa.int)

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Microsoft clamping down on Windows 11 local account setup (tomshardware.com)

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Gaia discovers our galaxy's great wave (esa.int)

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How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs (anildash.com)

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Virtual Boy is back, baby! (polygon.com)

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AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun (wsj.com)

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ASML becomes Mistral AI's top shareholder (yahoo.com)

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PAPERS (1991) [video] (youtube.com)

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Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth from NASA's Webb Telescope (nasa.gov)

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Louvre says 'game over' to its Nintendo 3DS visitor guide (lemonde.fr)

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Apertus: An open, transparent, multilingual language model (ethz.ch)

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Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development (theregister.com)

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Engineers send quantum signals with standard Internet Protocol (phys.org)

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Practical Recommendations on Stretching Exercise (sciencedirect.com)

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad (theatlantic.com)

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Y Combinator backs Epic in Apple appeal, calls App Store fee a tax on innovation (9to5mac.com)

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Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment (nature.com)

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My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers (usenix.org)

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Scalable metasurface-enhanced supercool cement (science.org)

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Microsoft to Discontinue Volume Licensing for Large Customers Starting November (themunicheye.com)

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Trump tells Zelenskiy that Putin wants more of Ukraine, urges Kyiv make a deal (reuters.com)

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Turning Microsoft's Login Page into Our Phishing Infrastructure (infocondb.org)

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Trump puts Washington police under federal control, National Guard to be deployd (reuters.com)

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Proton Authenticator (proton.me)

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US and EU strike trade deal setting 15 percent tariff (politico.eu)

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I saved a PNG image to a bird [video] (youtube.com)

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TikTok content moderators in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs (euronews.com)

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A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers (umontreal.ca)

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Gemini North telescope discovers long-predicted stellar companion of Betelgeuse (science.org)