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How Ireland wrote the modern story of progress

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Bring back the strangest Disney cartoon of 1996

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MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech

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Rewatching Hamilton in 2025

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3 Netflix shows you need to binge this weekend (Sept. 4)

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Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)

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First look: Dyson’s Spot+Scrub Ai robot seeks out stains

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A book excerpt details Spotify's decade-long push against Apple's App Store commissions and steering rules, including pushing the EU to pass new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

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Source: Balderton Capital, one of Revolut's earliest VC backers, has sold ~$1B in shares through multiple transactions that valued the fintech company at $45B (Financial Times)

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Russia publishes a list of locally developed apps it says will function during mobile internet shutdowns, excluding foreign services like WhatsApp and YouTube (Reuters)

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Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, its flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability and other issues (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

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C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M+ est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth-fastest and Europe's first exascale system (Reuters)

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Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, one of India's most prominent SaaS founders, announced he will step down as executive chair effective December 1, 2025 (Chandra R Srikanth/Moneycontrol)

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Cadence Design to acquire Hexagon's Stockholm-based design and engineering unit, a computer-aided engineering software provider, for €2.7B in cash and stock (Juby Babu/Reuters)

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Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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'The Threadspun Town' quest walkthrough in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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How to upgrade the needle in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

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