Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping (squoze.net)
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Android introduces 2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links (support.google.com)
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2001 [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Unix v4 Tape (discuss.systems)
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NYPost Coverage of Epstein Release (nypost.com)
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Epstein Library (www.justice.gov)
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Myocarditis documented only in vaccinated groups (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Microsoft made another Copilot ad where nothing works (www.theverge.com)
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AI''s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source (www.quippd.com)
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Fine-Tuning Is (Probably) a Trap (bits.logic.inc)
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New Texas Instruments 60B fab will pump out tens of millions chips per day (www.tomshardware.com)
Your AI is lying to you. (withtofu.com)
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Instacart to Pay 60M in Consumer Refunds to Settle FTC Lawsuit (www.ftc.gov)
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Revealed: How Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to motivate workers (www.theguardian.com)
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Freely giving software vs. perpetuating an ideology (dieggsy.com)
Improper Hierarchy (2018) [video] (www.deconstructconf.com)
Instacart agrees to refund subscribers 60M in FTC settlement (arstechnica.com)
One Year of Trying to Be an AI Optimist (www.abgn.me)
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OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
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Avi Loeb Is a Fraud Part 2: 3I/Atlas Shrugged (www.youtube.com)
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Zuckerberg Cut Ties with Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded (www.bloomberg.com)
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A Decade on Datomic – Davis Shepherd and Jonathan Indig (Netflix) [video] (www.youtube.com)
We should prepare for the possibility of profound change (secondthoughts.ai)
Sara Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War (www.dwarkesh.com)
133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising (www.theguardian.com)
CTO bench: an online LLM coding benchmark (cto.new)
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gh-Wrapped Is Your GitHub Wrapped Year in Review, on Demand (www.joshbeckman.org)
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games (quanticfoundry.com)
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Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station (arstechnica.com)
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Neuromuscular Cyborg Aim Assist [video] (www.youtube.com)
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4 (www.tomshardware.com)
Mark Zuckerberg''s stops funding the pro-immigration group he founded (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenZFS 2.4.0: Encryption Performance Improvements (github.com)
Repurpose AI (www.repurposeai.app)
Rebuilding state management: How we made our VS Code extension 2 faster (www.augmentcode.com)
ChatGPT Works with Apple Music Now, for Some Reason (lifehacker.com)
AI Infrastructure Will Face a Reckoning in 2026 (thenewstack.io)
India now largest market in world in AI model adoption: BofA (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
Prepare for That Stupid World (ploum.net)
Claude "figured out how to control my oven" (twitter.com)
Invisible Cities (invisiblecities.aneeshsathe.com)
DOJ won''t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files (www.politico.com)
Today is the deadline to release the Epstein files. Here''s what to expect (www.npr.org)
The Comforting Myth of Effortless AI (www.insidevoice.ai)
New Yorker Archives Now Fully Digitized (www.newyorker.com)
I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky (spitfirenews.com)
AI will kill all the lawyers (spectator.com)
MIT fusion-lab head shot dead: a horror ''impossible to believe'' (www.nature.com)
If promotion depends on complexity, guess what teams will ship? (www.proactiveengineer.com)
Samsung planning to raise DDR5 RAM prices in 2026 (www.extremetech.com)
The moon-forming event: explosive ejection rather than a giant impact (phys.org)
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TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
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China blamed for UK government cyber attack (www.ft.com)
Map: Operator[] Should Be Nodiscard (quuxplusone.github.io)
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Cloudflare Incident Detected (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
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The future of AI: What will your life look like in 2035? (www.theguardian.com)
The World Is Awash with Oil and Prices Are Poised to Keep Falling (www.bloomberg.com)
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Two space startups prove you don''t need to break the bank to rendezvous in space (arstechnica.com)
Fastmail increases subscription cost to 6/month (files.catbox.moe)
Austria''s top court rules Meta''s ad model illegal (www.reuters.com)
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
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