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Janix? New Star Wars planet was inspired by the best Batman movie

After years of focusing on the ever-popular city planet of Coruscant, Star Wars is finally taking us somewhere new: Janix

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people  —  South Korea's strained social care system turns to ChatGPT-enabled devices as population ages  —  NEW

Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin  —  Quick Take  — Polymarket noted the upgrade is its “biggest infrastructure change since launch,” and will include …

Fairy Tail returns to serialization to celebrate 20th anniversary

Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail returns to Weekly Shonen Magazine with a short serialization to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary with new chapters.

Cheap cloud was built for stability, but that world is changing


The Iran war is not making cloud suddenly expensive. It is exposing how cloud economics was always downstream from energy markets, and Europe is structurally exposed. The current conflict in the Middle East is no longer contained to the region. Its effects are beginning to ripple into economies still recovering from the 2022 energy crisis, […]



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