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House of the Dragon season 3 episode 2 ending explained: Let's talk about [SPOILERS] big death

Polygon - All

Evo 2026: All the reveals, announcements, and character reveals

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Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40%-50% in Q3 2026 and 30%-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

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Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration From WorkOS

Daring Fireball

Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

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Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’

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Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

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The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’

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Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ Android users ahead of Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes, providing seconds or up to two minutes of prior notice (New York Times)

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China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity

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Best RPG side quests: 8 games that make the optional stuff feel essential

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Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

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Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine

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MMO legend Raph Koster is countering World of Warcraft with Stars Reach, his dream project

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GPT-5.6's system card indicates Sol is well below the level of the most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could launch without delay (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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MAPPA's next big hit looks simultaneously adorable and unhinged

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Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors

The Next Web

Brandon Sanderson's Lord of the Rings talk nails one thing fantasy writers get wrong

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Australia says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law to AU$99M and grant more powers to enforcers (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

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