• Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife
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• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue
• Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election
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• Google's learning
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• Microsoft, A16Z AI manifesto: AI for startups
• Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
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• I Spoke Only to Chatbots for 24 Hours. Who Needs Human Friends?
• Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb
• Chris Wallace Quits CNN to Pivot to Streaming, Podcasting
• Nicholas Carlson, the former top editor of Business Insider, is starting a new company that will focus on video.
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• Tech in the new Admin
• TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope
• Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'
• Elon Musk says Trump win is just the start of his political ambitions
• Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence
• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
• NYTimes Games for the strike
• Florida Access Network
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• Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
• Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
• Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
• Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
• Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
• Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
• Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
• McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
• RIP Foursquare
• Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
• WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
• LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
• Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
• Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
• Masnick on Elon Musk Events
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
• The Age of Cage
• Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

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• Requiem for Raghavan
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• Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
• Google will block election ads after polls close
• LinkedIn is News Publishers' New Best Friend
• People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
• Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
• Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
• Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
• Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
• On-device AI could make apps obsolete
• Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
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• Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
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• YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video
• Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition
• Citizen pruners
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
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• Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout
• October Pixel Drop: Helpful enhancements for your devices
• Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments
• Google Shopping's getting a big transformation
• The latest Gboard beta lets you switch between Roboto and Google Sans fonts
• Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
• Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
• TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
• The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites
• Joe Trippi starts a social network: sezus
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• Defector: Year 4 in review
• Doritos to open first restaurant
• AI - generated restaurant via Taylor Lorenz

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• More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
• Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unmasked: Will HBO reveal who really made the cryptocurrency?
• How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
• OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
• Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI Who Expressed Alarm Over the Technology, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics
• Paris Megalopolis review
• The Wordpress saga
• Justice Department weighs fixes for Google search monopoly
• Google's response
• U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store
• Why Caroline Calloway Is Staying Put in Sarasota for Hurricane Milton
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• A Google Doc of 2024 Events
• Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
• First a statue. Now Zuck designs a minivan for his wife.

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• OpenAI Is A Bad Business
• Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?
• Taylor Lorenz, Chronicler of Digital Culture, Will Start Own Newsletter
• Twitter's value in freefall: Fidelity cuts estimate by whopping 79%
• Masnick: Gavin Newsom Vetoes Terrible AI Bill 1047, But Brace For Something Worse
• Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

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• Stanley Is Releasing Collectible Tumblers Every Day This Week to Honor Different Decades of Barbie
• EssilorLuxottica extends smart glasses partnership with Meta
• Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into 'god mode' with latest AI post
• AI conversation about Jeff's book
• The Paris show
• Exclusive: Meta's AI chatbot to start speaking in the voices of Judi Dench, John Cena, others, source says
• Google TV adds several more free channels including The Bob Ross Channel
• YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
• Google's passkey syncing makes it easier to move on from passwords
• New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
• Google Photos is getting a redesigned video editor
• Google's Gemini AI might soon appear in your corporate Workspace
• Google Earth AI eliminates clouds
• Ahead of Gemini coming to Google Buds, Hey Google & Voice Match Settings Change on Headphones
• Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough
• Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because 'Generative AI Has Polluted the Data'
• Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
• Marques Brownlee says 'I hear you' after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
• Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for trespassing
• McDonald's touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened
• Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
• Introducing HP Print AI, Industry's First Intelligent Print Experiences
• The 90s Executive Yes Man
• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok

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