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Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)

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The future of same-sex marriage under a second Trump administration, explained

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I saw the Hurricane Helene response up close. This is how disaster relief actually works.

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Man Says Gun Legislation Is Anti-White, Uses N-Word At Senate Committee Hearing

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Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021 (Federal Trade Commission)

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US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks (GovTech)

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Dragons, Magic and Superheroes: Black Fans’ Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Universes

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Netflix served the Tyson vs. Paul fight to 60 million households

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The FTC says spam call complaints are way down since 2021

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Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams (Bloomberg)

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FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the "reoffending risks" of prisoners (Ben Quinn/The Guardian)

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Half-Life 2 turns 20, gets a big update, documentary, and 100% off sale price

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The best fitness trackers to buy right now

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Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming (Wall Street Journal)

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The best MagSafe and Qi2 chargers for your iPhone

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The best of Arcane’s League of Legends (and Riot Games) Easter eggs in season 2

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Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames (Gavin Anderegg/anderegg.ca)

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Narwal’s Freo X Ultra, the best mopping robot available, is on sale for a new low price

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Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen because he was ‘stumped’

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