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A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

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Roblox plans to restrict unrated experiences to devs, automatically remove servers with violative content, and limit some social hangouts to verified 17+ users (Matt Kaufman/Roblox Corporate)

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Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’

Daring Fireball

Trump’s BLS Pick E.J. Antoni Is — Shocker — a Crackpot Hack

Daring Fireball

Eight years of Jessie

Oh Hello Ana

Threads Now Has DMs, But They’re Not Encrypted and, Contrary to Reports, Not Yet Available on the Web

Daring Fireball

Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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A US district court judge temporarily blocks an FTC probe into Media Matters, part of an antitrust investigation into ad boycotts, calling the probe retaliatory (Bloomberg)

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Roblox shares closed down 6.34% on Friday after the company was accused in two lawsuits of failing to sufficiently protect youngsters on its platform (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Winklevoss twins' Gemini files for a US IPO and reports a $282.5M net loss on $67.9M revenue in H1 2025, vs. a $41.4M net loss on $73.5M revenue a year earlier (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

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Keep Calm and Delete Your Old Emails to Conserve Water

Daring Fireball

Roblox sued by U.S. state over child safety and abuse concerns

Polygon - All

Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring in six months, dividing its superintelligence lab into TBD Lab, a product team, an infrastructure team, and FAIR (Kalley Huang/The Information)

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Superman, Fixed and every new movie you can watch on streaming this weekend

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Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Where to find brittle quartzite for brittle whetstone in Grounded 2

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The best budget smartphone you can buy

The Verge - All Posts

CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup ended; the stock held steady on Friday after dropping about 35% over the previous two days (Financial Times)

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Looney Tunes shorts arrive on Tubi today

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