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Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
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Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
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Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says
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This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
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Fruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevity
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OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
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To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
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Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
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NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm
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F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
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Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
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Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
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AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
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Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
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CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
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F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
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New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling
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We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece"
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Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer
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New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
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Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
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Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
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RFK Jr.'s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access
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FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
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YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
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XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
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Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
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After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai
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