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• 'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
• Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral
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• Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices
• Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu
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• FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
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• THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD
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• In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
• In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News
• Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media
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• What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
• Threads turns 1
• Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.
• Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board
• The White House will host a conference for social media creators
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• Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
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• Perplexity's grand theft AI
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
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• Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August
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• Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
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• A Captcha for Mikah's Therapist
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• The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
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• Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court
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• Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
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• Jeff on Perplexity Discover
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• Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence Inc.
• Paper: "ChatGPT is bullshit"
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• US bank Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards
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• Reuters annual news report
• ChatGPT of the Reuters report
• Original YouTube deal memo & pitch deck

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• Apple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool
• Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
• Hallucination is Inevitable
• Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
• Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial
• New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
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• NotebookLM goes global with Slides support and better ways to fact-check
• 12 useful features Google just announced for Pixel phones, watches, and tablets

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• 'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
• Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban
• Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike
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• The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka
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• The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant
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• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
• Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter
• OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic
• UN statement on risks from generative AI
• We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
• Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
• Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase
• Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook
• Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget
• Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results
• YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users
• How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
• BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy, Its New Activist Investor
• Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
• HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
• TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass
• Parents Dance Like It's the '80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House
• Meta's white, male advisory group
• My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO
• Canva meets Hamilton
• Top 50 podcasts

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