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William Barber: Lemon’s Arrest Proves the Same DOJ Created to Protect Black Americans Now Persecutes Them

The Root

A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes (Wall Street Journal)

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Alibaba says it will spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign from February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (Reuters)

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Getting Burned on Home Heating Oil? More Than Half of Firms Failed Inspections

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Demond Wilson and Other Black Stars We Lost in 2026

The Root

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)

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SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

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Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenSourceMalware: 230+ malicious OpenClaw extensions, posing as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

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Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Review - Smooth Sailing

Game Informer

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

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Kanye West’s Latest Performance With Daughter North West Has Folks Online Shedding A Tear

The Root

All of the 2026 Grammys Red Carpet Fashion Trainwrecks

The Root

The Third Season Of The Last Of Us Could Be Its Last, According To HBO CEO

Game Informer

Kendrick Lamar’s 27-Grammy Massacre: How The Rap Assassin Killed the Pop Star

The Root

When being Hitler’s guard was a literal drag…

Christian Heilmann

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Disney Lorcana’s Winterspell won me over when I leaned into silly nostalgia

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French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (Sybille de La Hamaide/Reuters)

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