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Google can''t have exclusive search deals (www.businessinsider.com)
Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals (www.cnbc.com)
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Frostbyte10 bugs put refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk (www.theregister.com)
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U.S. gov''t revokes TSMC''s authorization to ship tools to its fabs in China (www.tomshardware.com)
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LA28 to break longstanding tradition with corporate venue names at Games (www.theguardian.com)
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Louvre says ''game over'' to its Nintendo 3DS visitor guide (www.lemonde.fr)
Senko – Very Fast Speaker Diarization (github.com)
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OpenAI: Vijaye Raji to Become CTO of Applications with Acquisition of Statsig (openai.com)
ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI acquires Statsig (www.theverge.com)
Physically based rendering from first principles (imadr.me)
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Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling belongings (fortune.com)
Germany''s far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote (www.bbc.com)
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State of Permanent Fake Emergency (www.theatlantic.com)
SuperTuxKart is now SuperTuxKart Evolution (blog.supertuxkart-evolution.com)
Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA''s rocket is called the "Senate Launch System" (arstechnica.com)
Andreessen Horowitz''s Quiet Accelerator Woos New Founders (www.bloomberg.com)
WhatsApp Business Calling API: Revolutionizing Customer Service (blog.mabexy.com)
Anthropic raises 13B Series F at 183B valuation (techcrunch.com)
The Tariffs Are Still Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
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New AI Native Language (github.com)
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report (www.npr.org)
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Scientists Denounce Trump Administration''s Climate Report (www.nytimes.com)
Real World OCaml (dev.realworldocaml.org)
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The Memorization Problem: Can We Trust LLMs'' Economic Forecasts? (arxiv.org)
32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers (www.tomshardware.com)
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Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus (www.cnbc.com)
What Follows GitHub? (jmduke.com)
Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn''t Given Up on Print–Or Buying Infowars (www.wired.com)
You Can Just Choose to Be Happy (www.kylestar.net)
Is AI the end of software engineering or the next step in its evolution? (www.theverge.com)
Why does academia suck? incentives (www.sebjenseb.net)