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Gaming is in serious trouble. GTA VI may be the nail in the coffin (salon.com)

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$4 Gas, $5 Diesel: Strait Tensions and Russian Refinery Strikes (gaspriceguy.substack.com)

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How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Only Security Updates? (crepererum.net)

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TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)

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I thought AVIF would make every image smaller. It didn't (stuffandnonsense.co.uk)

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Software Has Changed (abeautifulsite.net)

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Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)

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Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe (space.com)

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Do you prefer Claude or ChatGPT for creative writing? (murugappan.com)

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The Paused Web (binarydigit.net)

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I Regret to Say That Gmail Is Now a Spam Farm (scalzi.com)

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The internet is becoming increasingly hostile towards VPNs (basementcommunity.com)

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You Have Become a Fat King (highstandards.substack.com)

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Settling a 2006 conjecture on Huffman codes (iczelia.net)

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Auth and Curl (taonaw.com)

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Sydney MP pushes to bring human composting to Australia as burial costs rise (abc.net.au)

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Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks (aljazeera.com)

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Reading is the art of attention. What a mess we've made of that word (aworkinglibrary.com)

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If you want to make money, be useful to rich people (filiph.net)

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A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks (ripe.net)

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Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)

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W11 Copilot tells you what's slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself (windowslatest.com)

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Britain's biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears (theguardian.com)

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[flagged] Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026 (statcounter.com)

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Bethesda union members organise protest in response to Xbox layoffs (gamesindustry.biz)

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Monitoring DNS Registry Mutations with an Ensemble Anomaly Detection Framework (sidnlabs.nl)

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Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)

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Last American polio survivor in an iron lung dies at 78 (kron4.com)

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GhostCommit – Convention-File Steganographic Exfiltration (Attack PoC) (github.com/asset-group)

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The Game Disc May Be Dying and I Think I'm Okay with It (zenofdesign.com)

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The oceans are full of heat, and it's coming ashore (grist.org)

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An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition (understandingai.org)

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I Am Offgrid Now (freira.dev)

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Father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio (tomshardware.com)

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45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC (pushsquare.com)

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Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died (popsci.com)

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"Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means (bombich.com)

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The Joy of Old-School Coding After a Stupid Mistake (canro91.github.io)

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Migrating from GitLab to Forgejo (bentasker.co.uk)

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It will be as if it has always been this way (utf9k.net)

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An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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LineageOS now has a web installer (manualdousuario.net)

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The Politics of Shrimp (thedial.world)

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Commit Messages (mataroa.blog)

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Steam sales reportedly topped $11B during H1 2026 due to shifting trends (tomshardware.com)

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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)

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Status Bars on Websites (futureperfect.bearblog.dev)

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Record ticket sales for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition (museumsassociation.org)

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Energy is AI's natural home – but, it's fumbling (weforum.org)

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Starbucks bets on AI to replace Microsoft and IBM software (latimes.com)

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OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups (ft.com)

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Memories Can't Wait–Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web (zeldman.com)

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Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)

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Gage Roads Beer Surfboard (toxel.com)

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Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development; they relocate them (indiatimes.com)

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Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X Released (orbitiny.com)

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FIFA World Cup 2026 · Data Portraits (bogachev.fr)

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Don't Get Sick in America (blogography.com)

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Open Sourcing Our Most Advanced Linux Security Engine: OwlSM (levelblue.com)

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Be a Gardener, Not a Tenant (lireo.com)

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Microsoft's patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger (theverge.com)

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What If We Accidentally Outsource the Real Work to AI? (insidehighered.com)

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1.5M Words (eveoganda.blogspot.com)

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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month (osnews.com)

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How to Write an Email (dannycastonguay.com)

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Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha (na0341.bearblog.dev)

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Are Bug Bounties Cooked? (hakluke.com)

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First Impressions of Claude Fable (philipotoole.com)

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A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median (krisshamloo.com)

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PC Market Runs Low on RAM to Grow: Shipments Decline 4.9% as Memory Crunch Bites (idc.com)

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Linux Journey: Solving Hid Access Denied Errors for the Keychron Launcher (noisydeadlines.net)

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uBlock Origin Chrome extension now blocks known ClickFix sites (cyberinsider.com)

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Nothing at all like the bloated app that Dropbox's Mac client has grown into (aresluna.org)

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Offensive PowerShell for Red Teamer with Defense Evasion Techniques (screetsec.com)

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In Linux, things are often upside down (dedoimedo.com)

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Moving to FreeBSD from Linux (kuon.ch)

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Tail Scale (dehora.net)

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What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? (yale.edu)

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The web is dead, what's next? (ashk.au)

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Be Grateful to Own Nothing (mkultra.monster)

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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash (platformer.news)

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I'm tired of the libertarian culture on the internet (relevant-information.com)

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[flagged] What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (medium.com/dapscience)

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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential costs by 1.3% (tomshardware.com)

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Should tests in codebase be tripwires (zohaib.me)

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Chatto is now open source (hmans.dev)

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Kids (With Phones) Are Alright (heatherburns.tech)

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America's Greatest Hot Dog (theringer.com)

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DuckDuckGo's Free Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Video Ads (cnet.com)

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Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Personal Software and BaremetalVMM (raesene.github.io)

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Valve's Gabe Newell continues spending his billions on an undersea armada (gamesradar.com)

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How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two (lennysnewsletter.com)

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Should we stop using the word "Responsive" for design? (andreaverlicchi.eu)

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Stop Writing Claude.md Rules. Write Linting Rules Instead (zernie.com)

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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes (theguardian.com)

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Humans Don't Work at GitHub (aleahim.com)

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Watch Out for Data Loss When Redirecting to a File in a Shell Script (nickjanetakis.com)

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1099 threshold 2026: now $2k, not $600 (taliivue.com)