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The Amazon Tax
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Seth's Blog
The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
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I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore
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Finger: A Protocol from 1977 Is Still Delivering Malware in 2026
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Artemis Security
A Protocol From 1977 Is Still Delivering Malware in 2026
Attackers revived the 1977 finger protocol to drop a Python RAT on a default Windows install. The full attack chain, and how Artemis caught it live.
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An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet
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Pleated Jeans
An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides The Internet
Michael Chu's decades old recipe format just went viral, and it's got the internet completely divided over whether it works.
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Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
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The Conversation
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life.
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One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
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The Oaklandside
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
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JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer
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Jpegxlconvert
Free JPEG XL Converter — convert to & from JXL in your browser
100% private, in-browser JPEG XL converter. No sign-up, no limits, no watermark.
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Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
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arXiv.org
Nova3D: Code-Native Generation of Programmable 3D Assets
Current 3D generative models mostly produce a final surface: a visually strong but largely opaque mesh. Interactive 3D worlds need more than a surface. They need named parts, an assembly...
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Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
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Apple Newsroom
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
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Launch HN: Machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
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machine0.io
Persistent CPU & GPU VMs from the CLI - machine0
Designed for agents using CLI or MCP. Up to 60 vCPUs, 240 GB RAM & H200s. Billed by the minute.
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Claude: Degraded Performance for Multiple Models
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Claude
Degraded performance for multiple models
Claude's Status Page - Degraded performance for multiple models.
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What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
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It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA…
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Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow
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Claude
Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion | Anthropic Help Center
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Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
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ASME Digital Collection
Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts
Abstract. Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban environments. Despite heat flux densities that exceed peak solar irradiance by a factor of 2–6, their thermal impacts on adjacent communities have never…
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The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
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YouTube
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon
DEF CON is one of the largest and longest-running hacker conferences in the world. I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state.
0:00 DEF CON Is Wild
0:38 Ludlow's IoT Village Hackathon
2:08 Colonel Panic — Flock Camera Detector…
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Mojo is now open source!
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Modular
Modular: Mojo
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The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and distributing…
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Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
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GitHub
GitHub - RyanCodrai/turbovec: A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings
A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings - RyanCodrai/turbovec
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
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Ikea
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? - IKEA Sweden
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
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Terence Eden’s Blog
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour…
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US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
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Bbc
US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
The Trump administration has vowed to dismantle the international court "brick by brick".
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Norway Should Buy OpenAI
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Onethousandmeans
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
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