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Black Celebs We Lost In 2025

The Root

Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines

The Verge - All Posts

Blank check company Dynamix says it plans to merge with another entity to create Ether Machine, holding $1.5B in ether, backed by $800M+ from Kraken and others (Wall Street Journal)

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Inside the federal government’s purge of climate data

Vox - All

KKR acquires a significant minority in Swedish travel tech firm Etraveli, sources say valuing it at ~€2.7B; Etraveli sells plane tickets to ~50M users per year (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft wants to fix ‘slow or sluggish’ performance in Windows 11

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How Europe is seeking US tech alternatives, as lawmakers consider adding "Buy European" to future laws; Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have unveiled local clouds (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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Did A Black Mom On a Delta flight Save The Day When A Passenger Allegedly Stormed The Cockpit? Here’s What We Know

The Root

TSMC closed above a $1T market cap in Taiwan on July 18, a first, up nearly 50% from an April low and the first Asian stock worth $1T+ since PetroChina in 2007 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

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Why navigating ongoing uncertainty requires living in the now, near, and next

The Next Web

How Judge Mathis Officially Saved His Marriage Almost 1 Year After Divorce Announcement

The Root

How Judge Mathis Officially Saves His Marriage Almost 1 Year After Divorce Announcement

The Root

Cutting five words from this law could make houses cheaper

Vox - All

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version

The Verge - All Posts

X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic "manipulation" and "fraudulent" data extraction is "distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda" (Financial Times)

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Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw

The Verge - All Posts

$241 Million Later, Brand-New Bellevue Hospital Jail Unit Sits Empty

THE CITY - All

UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

The Verge - All Posts

Survey: when asked about using AI as a companion to seek advice, flirt, or share deep conversations, ~75% of US teens say they've used AI this way at least once (Neda Ulaby/NPR)

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