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"Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-04 | related products | tags: database, domestic, going

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Sen. Warren, others urge FTC, DOJ to scrutinize tech AI 'acquihire' deals for antitrust violations (cnbc.com)

2026-02-04 | by Jonathan Vanian | related products | tags: deals, letter, senators

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Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-02 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: administration, branch, grok

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How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-02 | by Lenharo | related products | tags: brain, children, cursive

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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | related products | tags: letter, letter words, list

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50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | by David Cassel | related products | tags: basic, computer, gates

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities (wired.com)

2026-01-30 | by Katie Drummond | related products | tags: iceout, iceout tech, industry

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Microsoft is experimenting with a top menu bar for Windows 11 (theverge.com)

2026-01-30 | by Tom Warren | related products | tags: access, command, command palette

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Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | related products | tags: application, applications, cost

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Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers (wired.com)

2026-01-29 | by Vittoria Elliott | related products | tags: administration, board, building

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Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Kirsten Korosec | related products | tags: investment, letter, musk

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Tesla invested $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Kirsten Korosec | related products | tags: investment, letter, physical

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Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push (cnbc.com)

2026-01-28 | by Annie Palmer | related products | tags: amazon, continue, cuts

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Tim Cook addresses Minneapolis shootings in internal memo: ‘time for deescalation’ (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-28 | by Marcus Mendes | related products | tags: apple, cook, letter

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Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-28 | by Dean | related products | tags: et al, lett, optical

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AppLovin demands short-seller CapitalWatch retract 'conspiratorial' report (cnbc.com)

2026-01-27 | by Lola Murti | related products | tags: applovin, capitalwatch, criminal

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The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun (wired.com)

2026-01-27 | by Maddy Varner | tags: grok, images, letter

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Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-26 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: agents, industry, leaders

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US Congress members call for 'thorough review' of EA's $55 billion sale (engadget.com)

2026-01-24 | related products | tags: acquisition, deal, federal

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Proton spam and the AI consent problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | by David Bushell | related products | tags: email, github, lumo

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Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | by David Bushell | related products | tags: email, github, lumo

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The Ultra-Wealthy Are Demanding to Pay Higher Taxes (futurism.com)

2026-01-22 | by Joe Wilkins | related products | tags: letter, millionaires, rich

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As AI becomes pervasive, CTOs need to talk to clients and educate their bosses (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-22 | related products | tags: bonus newsletter, ceos, chief

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What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t (wired.com)

2026-01-21 | by Molly Taft | related products | tags: rain, snow, states

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The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Deng | related products | tags: crystal, earth, geophys

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Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Jungwirth | related products | tags: et al, lett, phys

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Microsoft PowerToys adds new CursorWrap mouse 'teleport' tool (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-20 | related products | tags: command, command palette, microsoft

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | related products | tags: birmingham, birmingham jail, jail

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Benchmarks of Performance-core only Bartlett Lake CPU emerge, 10-core offers 26% faster multithreaded performance than 14-core i5-14400 — 12-core version launch could be imminent (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-17 | by Aaron Klotz | related products | tags: bartlett, bartlett lake, core

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California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-16 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: california, grok, letter