Update: Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he’s back in control after CEO ouster
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Google will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland's nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn investment in the country's AI infrastructure
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'
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The tragedy of Perez Hilton
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
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Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
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Young adults in the US are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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Tech (or political?) choices
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Fairphone Gen 6+ now available in the US
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US Federal Communications Commission abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
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McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me
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AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws
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US tax law is funding the AI infrastructure boom, not creating it
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Four top Google AI researchers form new startup
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Rural NY school district will be one of first to bring humanoid robot into classroom
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Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in US schools. These teens figured it out.
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A hacker's arrest reveals Microsoft can track users via a Windows device ID
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Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles, state media claims
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Protect your privacy with California's DROP tool (Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, for California residents)
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Big Tech is now targeting Native American land for data centers
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Gigafactory in Sacramento will produce sodium-ion batteries for grid storage
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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem
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Mark Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers
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Alleged Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland – Peter Stokes was apprehended in April and extradited to the US following an Interpol Red Notice
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US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
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Om Malik, 1966-2026
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US releases powerful Anthropic model Mythos to some US companies
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OpenAI says the US government will vet users of its latest AI model
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The White House now determines which customers can access new AI models
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The Swedish-based “W” platform is the latest in a series of new social media sites vying to replace US Big Tech companies
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The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars. He fears for an America where generosity is trolled.
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Access to Fable and Mythos 5 cut off after US government order
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"Teachers are going to hate it": How social media apps hooked teens at school
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Comedian Ronny Chieng tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as graduates cheer
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Commemorative US Mint Steve Jobs coin sells out in just eleven minutes
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US FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
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Erin Brockovich launches a crowdsourced AI data center map
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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
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Public backlash after Utah county approves 62 sq miles of development sites for data center
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Canvas hack impacts university students and professors during finals week
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Byron Allen to buy BuzzFeed in $120 million deal, will take over as CEO
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How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted
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Apple has reached a preliminary deal with Intel to make chips in the US
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New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses
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Forget the AI apocalypse. Memes have already nuked our culture.
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Reddit reports 69% jump in revenue, topping analyst estimates
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Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year
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US National Security Agency using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
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Anthropic invests at the top tier in the Blender Foundation
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