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State Champs (seths.blog)

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Every .ru Domain Now Needs Government ID (webhosting.today)

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Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 – Results, results, results (dedoimedo.com)

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Oh My God, Stop Asking What I Do for Work (absurdpirate.com)

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I got tired of writing `yarn workspace ` (zubach.com)

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If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more (techcrunch.com)

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A Rhino from the Arctic (nature.ca)

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Pushing 4.7M Commits an Hour (mattrickard.com)

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Apple Services Price Hikes 2026 (mjtsai.com)

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Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days (theregister.com)

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Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids (2025) (plos.org)

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'.ai' websites are booming – and making millions for this tiny Caribbean nation (techradar.com)

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Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees (mymodernmet.com)

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The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. Startups Are Making Millions from It (inc.com)

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Neanderthal Dentistry Was a Total Horror Show, Research Shows (gizmodo.com)

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Irregular bedtime linked to higher risk of cardiac events (oulu.fi)

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Scientists discover over 1,100 new marine species in landmark Ocean Census (oceancensus.org)

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Fujifilm X100 vs. Leica Q vs. Ricoh GR (simonsarris.com)

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Physical Media vs. Digital Media (itsjustchronicallyoffline.bearblog.dev)

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Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks (theconversation.com)

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Jitter (omegalogic.neocities.org)

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A Fine balance between curiosity and digital hoarding (libraryofpotential.com)

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How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux (michaelharley.net)

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I Own My Books (michaelharley.net)

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The joy of rediscovering a 12-year-old camera (dmpop.xyz)

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Markdown makes learning HTML less scary (newsonaut.com)

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Back to Kagi (melashri.net)

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Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns (fiddery.com)

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Claude Pro, Kagi Assistant and Charm Hyper (probably.co.uk)

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Stt+LLM+TTS voice chat server on RTX 3050 Ti 4GB: 11.9s voice-to-voice (lilting.ch)

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Spend the AI Dividend on Quality (ronaknathani.com)

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Raku: A Language Where 0.1 and 0.2 is 0.3 (andrewshitov.com)

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Oracle critical July patch update advisory contains 1,449 new security patches (oracle.com)

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No one wants to work in hospitality (chilblands.bearblog.dev)

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Is Software Enshittified? (natemeyvis.com)

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New UK report finds AI models consistently cheat and deceive users (cyberscoop.com)

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From Payroll to Pyongyang: The DPRK IT Worker Money Trail (dtex.ai)

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If You Lack Inspiration, Talk to People (photoni.st)

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N.J. MVC error registered 6,600 undocumented immigrants to vote (nj.com)

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Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (popsci.com)

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Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain again (theregister.com)

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Firefox's Best Privacy Extension Is Becoming a Native Feature (linuxiac.com)

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Handwriting Like It's 1895 (francescrossley.com)

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A $40k-per-Year AI School with No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August (oklahomawatch.org)

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Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users (alex4d.com)

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Google (Again) Clearly Needs to Unite Their AI Clans (spyglass.org)

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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe (arstechnica.com)

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Delaware judge dismisses UnitedHealth Group lawsuit against the Guardian (theguardian.com)

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Text as Music (jeravalue.com)

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So, I tried to build an Android app (david.coffee)

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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa (yale.edu)

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Why the Iran war hasn't caused a global oil crisis – yet (grist.org)

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber (deepmind.google)

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Domain registration information should be transparent (rushter.com)

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Using a SSH bastion, but only when I'm touching grass (evertpot.com)

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AOL's Instant Messenger Was the Unsung Hero of the Early-Aughts (schwarztech.net)

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Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM (ericgoldman.org)

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Study Claiming AI Helps Students Learn Retracted (plagiarismtoday.com)

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (404media.co)

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Software Engineering Is a Shit-Eating Contest (erikmcclure.com)

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Expensive Is Just a Brand Now (idiallo.com)

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Security versus Privacy (ldstephens.net)

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TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027 (tomshardware.com)

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Windows LegacyHive zero-day flaw gets free, unofficial patches (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup (markwrites.io)

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Same Rows, Different Sum (boringsql.com)

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How to kill a community (before it even starts) (supernuclear.substack.com)

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State-by-State Data and ITEP Tax Inequality Index Map (itep.org)

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A Linux Kernel 0-day Journey – From a limited UAF to Physical Memory R/W (1day.dev)

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I Use Vim BTW (closingtags.com)

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AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow (rosipov.com)

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Engineering a Fast Logger (coderspirit.xyz)

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The notification that gave up after a minute (jva.lol)

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User crippled a network while trying to learn NMAP (theregister.com)

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A vibe-coded alternative to YieldGimp (mazzo.li)

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Server Migration (lmnt.me)

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A Power Trip (hackerfactor.com)

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I Stopped Running Out of Tokens (danielabaron.me)

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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (sophiebits.com)

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Chinese AI Open Weights Grow Safer as American AI Becomes Dead Weight (flyingpenguin.com)

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Current Opinions on AI Generation (risingthumb.xyz)

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Running Zed Editor on ARM Chromebooks (Mali G925 / Crostini) (johnozbay.com)

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AliExpress hit with record $629M fine for counterfeit and illegal goods (engadget.com)

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Rocket launch costs have dropped 96% since 1960. How low can they go? (space.com)

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It Might Be Time to Grow Your Own Lettuce (nymag.com)

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Majority of US voters link extreme weather to climate crisis (theguardian.com)

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Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain (theregister.com)

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We can now track animal panic from space. Here's why it matters (bbc.com)

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Tested Kimi K3 for Coding (dotnetperls.com)

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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (risky.biz)

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Underwater Kites Harvest Power from Slow-Moving Tides (ieee.org)

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Taylor Farms Recall. 27 States and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores (marlerblog.com)

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How to Prepare for Chat Control (homehack.nl)

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Meta accused of using AI to pick employees with medical conditions for layoffs (latimes.com)

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Victory Flock Ends Rollout of Audio "Distress Detection" of Human Voices (eff.org)

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Researchers shed new light on ancient concrete's extraordinary durability (engineering.berkeley.edu)

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The Word "Hide" Is Now a Legal Question (ppb1701.com)

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North Korean campaign uses fake coding interviews to steal developer credentials (elastic.co)

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CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)

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Is Denuvo's Dominance Beginning to Crack? (gardinerbryant.com)