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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

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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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The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Woz’s Ongoing YouTube Lawsuit

Michael Tsai

TextKit 2: The Promised Land

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Notepad.exe 1.2.1139

Michael Tsai

Senator Josh Hawley says he will investigate Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Meta to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Louisiana sues Roblox for creating an environment where ‘child predators thrive’

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Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

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What my first five Steam purchases say about me

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Researchers say they used generative AI algorithms to design novel antibiotics targeting drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA (Anne Trafton/MIT News)

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PBS is slashing its budget in response to Trump’s attack on public media

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What your favorite UFO 50 game says about you

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Where to find all Amphoreus nymphs in Honkai: Star Rail

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Pokémon Go '2025 World Championships Celebration' event guide

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Anthropic updates Claude usage policy, adding stricter cybersecurity rules and explicitly banning the development of WMDs, and loosens political content rules (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Anker’s 3-in-1 Qi2 charging station has returned to its Prime Day low

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