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President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants could have serious economic reper…
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At a "couples retreat" for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners (Sam Apple/Wired)
Sam Apple / Wired : At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services li…
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The leader of Los Choneros gang, Adolfo Macías Villamar, had been on the run for 17 mo…
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Wonsan Kalma opens to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be co…
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The men shared indecent photos and videos of girls with a chat group of 10 teachers fr…
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How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)
Decca Muldowney / The Verge : How online fandom communities are advocating against …
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Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press : Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 publi…
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Jacky Jhaj, a convicted paedophile, has staged several elaborate productions involving…
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Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become only the second Indian to travel to space. …
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How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech startup Osmo promises 48-hour sample turnarounds and incumbents like DSM-Firmenich embrace the tech (Arabelle Sicardi/The Verge)
Arabelle Sicardi / The Verge : How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragran…
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The charity was awarded a Cannes Lions award for its campaign to destigmatise the infe…
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A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahead: OpenAI's o3 is a breakthrough, AI agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow down (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects : A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahea…
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Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on joining Detachment 201, the Army's tech challenges, the vibe shift in Silicon Valley's military relations, and more (Blake Dodge/Pirate Wires)
Blake Dodge / Pirate Wires : Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on joining Det…
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Iran's threat to block the world's most vital oil transit point has raised fea…
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Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay "a $4.20 flat fee" (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 v…
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The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-generated music across the music pipeline, with a focus on licensing and control rather than takedowns (Jack Buehrer/The Verge)
Jack Buehrer / The Verge : The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-gene…
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Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Raab / Wall Street Journal : Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone…
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A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired : A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which let…
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Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning (New York Times)
New York Times : Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera w…
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Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky disputed Russian claims that Ukraine had been push…
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This comes after US President Donald Trump said she was "wrong" for saying I…
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Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies (New York Times)
New York Times : Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarm…
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The 90-year-old Italian designer is recovering at home after a hospital stay, his comp…
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A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg : A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties…
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