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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)

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How to unionize your tech workplace (computerworld.com)

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AI and Microsoft's Hubris: Return of the Browser Wars (korte.co)

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Cosmic DE's First Seven Months (system76.com)

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Are "no AI" disclaimers necessary? (basementcommunity.com)

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Did Frank Herbert Predict Bistable Displays Like E-Ink? (technovelgy.com)

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If you solve this CAPTCHA, you are not welcome here (lowentropy.net)

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MN solar wildflowers 20x'd native bees, which pollinated neighbor soybeans (ecoportal.net)

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Returning Zork (ruk.ca)

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House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent (apnews.com)

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In Defense of Polyfills (verou.me)

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Tools vs. Resources vs. Prompts: the MCP primitive you're misusing (prashamhtrivedi.in)

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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University and US Government (lithub.com)

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Microsoft Entra ID Will Retire SMS and Voice Authentication (lazyadmin.nl)

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Free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables (theverge.com)

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From Prompt Engineering to Intent Engineering (danielmiessler.com)

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What happens when you put politicians in charge of science (sciencenews.org)

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Iran exploited mobile flaws to locate U.S. troops in the Middle East (techcrunch.com)

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I'm a USB-C Maximalist (shkspr.mobi)

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Honeycomb Structures Spotted on Mars (space.com)

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Sale of multimillion-dollar T rex skeleton is big headache for scientists (theguardian.com)

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"If HEIC has no haters I'm dead." (aresluna.org)

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Apple Stock Surges to Record Highs as Traders Cheer Outsourced AI Strategy (macobserver.com)

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OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members (yubico.com)

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Fractional Freezing (wikipedia.org)

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DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won't Say How (wired.com)

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The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn (newscientist.com)

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Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes (theregister.com)

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The Growing Self-Reliance of Chinese Innovation (arxiv.org)

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Red cards have more than tripled since the last World Cup, data show (phys.org)

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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)