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US seizes tanker near Venezuela, Trump says (bbc.com)

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Tourists to US would have to reveal 5 years of social media activity: new plan (theguardian.com)

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Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos (scientificamerican.com)

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Japan warns of possible megaquake after powerful earthquake, 98-foot tsunami (cbsnews.com)

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Waymo self-driving cars in 'standoff' cause traffic jam in San Francisco (abc7news.com)

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iPhone Users in Japan Can Now Send Messages via Satellite (macrumors.com)

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Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks (blockclubchicago.org)

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Europe forges ahead with Big Tech crackdown with X fine, defying Trump (reuters.com)

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'It's like the lottery': AI boom has created parking chaos in SF neighborhood (sfchronicle.com)

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'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says Google is 'beginning to overtake' OpenAI (businessinsider.com)

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BBQ gas is helping to cool a warming planet (japantimes.co.jp)

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Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes (news.mit.edu)

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After AI push, Trump administration is now looking to robots (politico.com)

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Shibuya Ward cancels New Year countdown event; security to be tightened (japantoday.com)

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After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death (arstechnica.com)

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For 'No Tax on Tips,' the IRS Gets Intimate (nytimes.com)

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Foreign tourists to pay extra fee to visit US national parks (bbc.com)

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The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China's Hands (wsj.com)

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Physicists Just Showed the Faraday Effect Works in a New Way (zmescience.com)

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Microplastics hit male arteries hard (ucr.edu)

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Want a 60-Minute Memory Boost? Neuroscience Just Revealed a Powerful Trick (inc.com)

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What We Can Learn from Brain Organoids (nytimes.com)

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Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math (nytimes.com)

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Her Research Could Improve Training for Service Dogs (nytimes.com)

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SCOTUS weighs whether to hear appeal seeking to overturn marriage equality (axios.com)

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People Inc. forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops (techcrunch.com)

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FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown (cnbc.com)

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A16Z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff (techcrunch.com)

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A robotaxi killed a beloved SF cat; city supervisor wants driverless car reform (sfchronicle.com)

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Meta has an AI product problem (techcrunch.com)

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[flagged] 'This is the big one' – tech firms bet on electrifying rail (bbc.com)

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Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver (techcrunch.com)

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San Francisco's skyline is set to change with a new 41-story tower (sfgate.com)

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Illegal teeth-whitening industry exposed by BBC (bbc.com)

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What If You Spent Every Waking Moment Taking on Elon Musk? (nytimes.com)

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ESPN, ABC cut off for millions as Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV (axios.com)

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Waymo robotaxi kills 'one-of-a-kind' bodega cat, owner claims (sfstandard.com)

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How Venezuela's Leader Uses Crypto to Fight Trump's Sanctions (nytimes.com)

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Why 'India's Picasso' is breaking auction records – and enraging the Hindu right (cnn.com)

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Mario Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Might Be Right About the Future of Gaming (comicbook.com)

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Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds (npr.org)

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Direct Sales and Direct Anti-Piracy Action Underpin Japan's Plan for Growth (torrentfreak.com)

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Japan to conduct survey on online hate speech (japantimes.co.jp)

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Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October (japantimes.co.jp)

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Desperate SF residents ask for help blocking autonomous cars from their street (sfgate.com)

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Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck (nytimes.com)

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Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation (newscientist.com)

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Analyzing Dominion Voting Systems sale to firm run by elections official (npr.org)

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Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education (npr.org)

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I was skeptical about the redesigned Evercade EXP-R, until I tried it (creativebloq.com)

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Assessing microplastic contamination in milk and dairy products (nature.com)

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Hacking Group Claims to Have Breached Nintendo (thegamer.com)

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[dupe] California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services (ca.gov)

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An Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Combat Tasks in 3D Action RPGs (arxiv.org)

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If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great (theverge.com)

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Newsom threatens state funding for CA universities that agree to Trump demands (sfchronicle.com)

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"OpenAI Is Trying to Get Sued" – Nintendo IP Floods Sora 2 Video Generation App (nintendolife.com)

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Improving the Workplace of the Future (news.mit.edu)

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Nintendo Co., Ltd. Modern Slavery Transparency Statement [pdf] (nintendo.co.jp)

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FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics (engadget.com)

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How China's Secretive Spy Agency Became a Cyber Powerhouse (nytimes.com)

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The Wrong Kind of Maths (ft.com)

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Microplastics Found Deep Inside Human Bones, Scientists Warn (sciencealert.com)

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Trump announces 100% tariff on branded or patented pharmaceuticals from Oct. 1 (reuters.com)

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FBI ex-chief Comey criminally charged as Trump targets critics, source says (reuters.com)

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Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI 'Superintelligence' (wired.com)

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Super Smash Bros. On N64 Had a Funny Anti-Piracy Trick (kotaku.com)

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MIT's LOBSTgER AI Blends Science and Art to Inspire Love for Nature (petapixel.com)

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H-1B workers abroad race to US as Trump order sparks dismay, confusion (reuters.com)

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AKB48 releases AI-generated single after fans preferred it to human-written song (cnn.com)

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DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (nature.com)

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San Francisco Politician Recalled over the Great Highway's Closure (nytimes.com)

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Sega revives 'blast processing' Genesis TV ad to fire shots at Mario Kart World (videogameschronicle.com)

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Banning teens from YouTube won't keep them safe (japantimes.co.jp)

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Trump says the US should do away with quarterly earnings reports (apnews.com)

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In Giant Deals, UAE Got Chips, and Trump Team Got Crypto Riches (nytimes.com)

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Nintendo's Controversial Game-Key Cards Aren't About Greed, Veteran Dev Says (gamerant.com)

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The Starbucks Turnaround That Has Baristas and Customers Steamed (nytimes.com)

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US to split profits with Tokyo from Japan-funded projects till $550B is recouped (cnbc.com)

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The Trump Administration Wants to Roll Back Airline Passenger Rights (nytimes.com)

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We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself (nytimes.com)

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Nintendo wins a $2M lawsuit against popular Switch modding webstore (engadget.com)

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Major Travel Disruptions with over 30 Cancellations Across Japan (travelandtourworld.com)

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Startup behind $700-a-month bed 'pods' wants to put 10k more in San Francisco (sfgate.com)

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Family Mart opens first clothing store in Tokyo (soranews24.com)

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Is Ghosting Inevitable? (newyorker.com)

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Japan Post Bank to issue yen deposit-backed digital currency in fiscal 2026 (japantimes.co.jp)

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Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly (nytimes.com)

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In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China's Surveillance State (nytimes.com)

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Qiddiya Acquires Evolution Championship Series Organizer RTS (esportsadvocate.net)

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How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone (404media.co)

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AI can't solve these puzzles that take humans only seconds (scientificamerican.com)

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The 'self-inflicted injury' to US tourism making Americans angry, disappointed (cnn.com)

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Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Apraxic teen with autism, thought to be intellectually disabled, accepted at MIT (wbur.org)

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Nintendo Reportedly 'Almost Discouraging' Switch 2 Development (ign.com)

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Is today's self-help teaching everyone to be a jerk? (nytimes.com)

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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels (wired.com)

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Postal services in India, Europe. U.K. to suspend shipment of packages to U.S. (cbsnews.com)

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Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times (bbc.com)