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The Obituary Cocktail: The 'deadly' drink that symbolises New Orleans (bbc.com)

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Elon Musk vows to give a share of SpaceX stock to every US child (abcnews.com)

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What Von Braun Said to His American Captors (cafex.biz)

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What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer (bbc.com)

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Polymorphism (Part 1): Stop Teaching "Dog Extends Animal" (xenoterracide.com)

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Your Lean Canvas Is a Ladder of Beliefs (ashmaurya.com)

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A Doctor and a Drummer Walk into a Bar (hs-sites.com)

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Cheeky Pint Benchmark – Power laws everywhere for those with eyes to see (twitter.com/nbaschez)

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The First U.S. Farmer to Plant a Crop Autonomously (10 min video) (youtube.com)

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Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA (wowhaus.co.uk)

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Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case (bbc.com)

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US freezes Microsoft green card program; Vance: Hire American workers (1M video) (yahoo.com)

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Drebbel's submarine: 1620 invention the Royal Navy dismissed as a novelty (forcesnews.com)

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Bill Wyman Took Up Metal Detecting After Worker Found a Medieval Jug at His Home (indiatimes.com)

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Kevin Kelly – The Influence of Science Fiction on Science (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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How to turn your AI into a world-class designer (lennysnewsletter.com)

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GOP carpetbagger claims she's not charged with fraud – records say otherwise (rawstory.com)

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SaaSpocalypse (bigdeskenergy.com)

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Finger: The 1971 Social network that never died (andros.dev)

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How A Tweet Changed My Life (hugorcd.com)

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Making LEDs in the Home Fab (hackaday.com)

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Before We Join the Fight, What the Hell Is a Data Center? (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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The Fight to Save a 300-Year-Old Tree That Survived a Revolutionary War Battle (smithsonianmag.com)

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Robots are asking for tips. But who gets the money? (bbc.com)

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How to Destroy AI Scam Phone Calls (Short Video) (youtube.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Why Open Source Matters for AI (oreillyradar.substack.com)

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Google Aims to Boost AI with Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data (bloomberglaw.com)

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Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937. New evidence could find her plane (usatoday.com)

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Coffee Grams: Brew Calculator (apps.apple.com)

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Bringing butterflies back from the brink of extinction (msu.edu)

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The Argument Against AI Writing Is at Least 2,400 Years Old (feld.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Google's Westinghouse Bet (asimovaddendum.substack.com)

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Chilean Supreme Court ruling on the protection of brain activity 2023 (nih.gov)

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Putin's Missiles Carry American Technology (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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The daring mission to smuggle a V2 rocket out of Nazi-occupied Poland (bbc.com)

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He's Building the Trust Infrastructure Detroit's Tech Future Runs On (blacktechsaturdays.com)

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Ukraine – Life and Death of Innovation in the Drone War (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP (twitter.com/nickkokonas)

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São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)

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Same-Day Delivery, Same-Day Detonation: Wildberries' Hit by a Ukrainian Drone (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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AI in the Classroom, Part 3: Where It Earns Its Place (forta.com)

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How AI Is Helping One-Person Companies Scale to $1M–and Beyond (wsj.com)

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Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps (cnbc.com)

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The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door (theatlantic.com)

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AI in the Classroom, Part 2: The Fears, Real and Imagined (forta.com)

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Let It Crash: How to Steer What Comes After (twitter.com/vijaypande)

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AI in the Classroom, Part 1: What's Happening Now (forta.com)

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Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In (feld.com)

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Fred Wilson – The Clarity Act (avc.xyz)

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Wreckage of Pan Am plane that shaped aviation safety found 74 years on (bbc.com)

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Sahil Lavingia – God Mode (Oct 2024) (sahillavingia.com)

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Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids (tomshardware.com)

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See How Prufrock Continuously Mines (90 second video) (youtube.com)

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Micro-drone achieves first insect kill on the way towards eradicating mosquitoes (tomshardware.com)

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The Camden Fourteen – Identifying America's First Veterans (fhdforensics.com)

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India reached Mars on its first try with a mission that cost less than a film (spacedaily.com)

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An Eloquent Argument For Data Centers (6 min video) (twitter.com/tstoliker)

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Welcome to the Modern World. Is The Most Unhelpful Thing You Can Say to a Dev (codemonkey.studio)

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Cuban Missile Crisis II – Cuban Has Drones Capable of Striking the USA (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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Entire Is building a Git network for agents (thenewstack.io)

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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (2022) (technologyreview.com)

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Lansing's truck-munching bridge Big Penny now has a video game (wkar.org)

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Gene modification proposed to bring back near extinct American chestnut (usatoday.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors (oreilly.com)

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OpenAI is fast-tracking its own "AI Agent Phone" for 2027 to challenge iPhone (reddit.com)

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How AI Made IKEA Workers 10x More Valuable (5 min video) (youtube.com)

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Free, on-device text-to-speech in the browser (and a scam-call sound board) (mycfml.com)

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The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring (techcrunch.com)

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GitLab founder when facing terminal cancer attacks it like a startup problem (twitter.com/afshineemrani)

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32 Principles of a Viral Product (twitter.com/marclou)

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Boris Cherny on AI Archetypes (twitter.com/bcherny)

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[dupe] Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (eff.org)

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Startup Wants to Sell a U.S.-Built Tiny Truck for $21,500 (roadandtrack.com)

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An argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother (crazystupidtech.com)

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Dan Primack – Remembering Om Malik (axios.com)

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Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016) (newyorker.com)

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My Pele Agent Trading the World Cup Prediction Markets with AI and Crypto (avc.xyz)

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The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack (nytimes.com)

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Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It (crypto thriller) (feld.com)

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Delete Doesn't Mean Deleted. Just Ask OpenAI (lindsaygross1.substack.com)

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OpenMontage the first open-source, agentic video production system (github.com/calesthio)

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The smartphone's days are numbered. Meet the device that could come next (fortune.com)

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Ben Forta - The UK's Social Media Ban: Necessary, and Bound to Fail (forta.com)

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AI Image Generation from CFML in One Function Call (kukiel.dev)

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TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processing (3/26) (spacenews.com)

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Brad Feld – Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware? (feld.com)

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GenZ fled SF for TX and FL turning 'welcomer cities' into next big tech towns (fortune.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Look at the rate of change, not the volume (twitter.com/timoreilly)

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Woman Gets on Route 66. Then She Starts Hearing Music Coming from Her Tires (motor1.com)

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Canada's CHU Will Go Silent on Shortwave on June 22, 2026 (swling.com)

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A 29-year-old man has created magnetic cement (ecoticias.com)

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Meet The Agents at USV: Arthur, Ellie, Sally, and Friends (usv.com)

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Bernie Sanders introduces bill giving the public a 50% stake in top AI companies (yahoo.com)

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US and Iran are playing a crypto cat-and-mouse game over sanctions (yahoo.com)

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Iran's largest crypto exchange is used by the IRGC to move millions (reuters.com)

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Iran's largest crypto exchange is used by the IRGC to move millions (reuters.com)

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Computex 2026: All the news and announcements (theverge.com)

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'It was devastating': Detroit man's Uber hit by QLINE streetcar (clickondetroit.com)

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The architect who became the king of bank robberies (thehustle.co)

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Om Malik – Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not as Much (om.co)