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Jul 16, 2026 at 19:02 UTC · 📋 Sources
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TruthOut 1d ago

Musk-Linked Lawyers Back Delaware Lawmakers Who Gutted Shareholder Protections

by Luke Goldstein

Law firms that lobbied for the Musk-backed “billionaires bill” are bankrolling the lawmakers facing primary challenges.

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Media Matters 1d ago

MS NOW's Vaughn Hillyard reports that Bill Pulte and John Solomon have “greater access to the president of the United States than ever before”

by Media Matters for America

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TruthOut 1d ago

Day After Threat to Put Fees on Strait of Hormuz, Trump Says He Denounces Idea

by Sharon Zhang

The president said that, actually, “I don’t think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the strait.”

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Kottke 2d ago

“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...

by Jason Kottke

“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth shows signs of having devoured one of its planets — and is now gearing up for a second helping…” Scientists found signs of the…

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404 Media 6d ago

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

by Matthew Gault

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

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Aaron Parnas 5d ago

NEWS: Trump Leaves Instructions if he Dies, ICE Mocked Immigrant After Killing Him, Endangered Species Protections Rolled Back

by Aaron Parnas

Happy Friday night, everyone.

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Ars Technica 2d ago

SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week

by Stephen Clark

This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.

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Less Wrong 1d ago

How Brussels can avoid becoming a digital vassal to US Big Tech

by clening

An export-control order in June exposed the real problem—and why Europe's regulatory toolkit can't fix it. [1] The most important AI-governance development of 2026 so far wasn’t a…

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Kottke 3d ago

Earth’s Holes

by Jason Kottke

From XKCD, a tour of some of the Earth’s deepest and most notable holes , including mines, caves, boreholes, subway stations, lakes, tunnels, neutrino detectors, and, of course,…

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor

by Jeremy Hsu

Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.

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Slashdot 2d ago

US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router

by BeauHD

CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to…

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Tangle 5d ago

Palm Beach Airport officially renamed to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

by Isaac Saul

The airport in West Palm Beach, Florida has officially been renamed after President Donald Trump. Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill in March to

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Less Wrong 1d ago

Watch a chess transformer think

by dl

I was poking around at a chessformer which mimics human play and made this fun companion app to visualize a lot of the internals of the engine. Check out how attention heads look,…

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Kottke 3d ago

A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State...

by Jason Kottke

A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State Fair this year . They’re all some variation of “jerked pork rolled in butter & sugar, deep fried in dill pickle batter, and…

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Heather Cox Richardson 5d ago

July 10, 2026

by Heather Cox Richardson

Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J.

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Pluralistic 6d ago

Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)

by Cory Doctorow

Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the…

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