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Microsoft Up, Google Down. A Tale of Two Hyperscalers. (Gift Article)

Investors are showing little patience for lavish spending and meager returns on companies’ artificial intelligence bets.

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New York Times sportstechnology
Your guide to MLB’s coming lockout: Why it’s happening, whether games will be lost, and when baseball will be back (Gift Article)

Will MLB lose games in 2027? How far apart are the league and the union? And what are they actually fighting over?

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New York Times technologyculture
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech (Gift Article)

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.

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New York Times sportstechnology
What we learned about the NHL in October: Devils are complete, Blackhawks can’t defend (Gift Article)

Newfound finishing and a new reliable goalie make the Devils formidable, David Pastrnak is scoring again and more.

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The Atlantic businesstechnologyopinion
A Stress Test for Prediction Markets

Is the industry ready for the midterms?

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NRC culturetechnologyopinion
‘We zouden net zo over Taiwan moeten praten als over Oekraïne’

Remco Breuker en Casper Wits | Oost-Azië-experts: Nu de naoorlogse wereldorde ontrafelt, moeten we inniger samenwerken met democratieën in Oost-Azië, schrijven Remco Breuker en Casper Wits in een net ...

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New York Times businesstechnologyscience
New Batteries That Store Blistering Heat Are Taking Off (Gift Article)

Large batteries that store electricity have revolutionized power grids and car markets. Now some start-ups are betting that “heat batteries” could be just as transformative.

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New York Times technology
18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World (Gift Article)

It took Lael Wilcox 108 days to circumnavigate the globe. Improbably, she said it was “the most fun ride of my life.”

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Medium technologysports
The French Connection

Pick Of The Week — 29th October 2026

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Medium technologypolitics
Google’s Harness² Suggests the Next AI Upgrade May Not be a New Model

The open-source framework lets agents rewrite the prompts, tools, skills, and guardrails around a frozen model. Its results are promising…

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The Times (UK) technologybusinesspolitics
Hundreds of GP websites down after tech firm collapses

Thousands of people cannot view test results or make appointments after the website provider Silicon Practice went into administration

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The Times (UK) technologylegal
Meta plotted ‘takedown’ of author who inspired social media bans

Staff discussed how to ‘turn academics against’ Jonathan Haidt, the psychologist whose book The Anxious Generation pushed Australia to ban social media for children

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New York Times technology
Who’s Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement (Gift Article)

Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.

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Medium technologyculture
John Ternus Is Leading a Reality Distortion Field at Apple — and the Touchscreen Macs Build My Case

Apple is glowing again, but please don’t touch my Mac (yet)

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New York Times culturetechnologyscience
Huerta Is Remembered as a Labor Champion With a Multidimensional Legacy (Gift Article)

Ms. Huerta, a champion for workers and Latinos, was lauded after revealing she had been sexually assaulted by Cesar Chavez. But some women said she rebuffed their own complaints about abuse within the...

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New York Times politicstechnology
Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza (Gift Article)

The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

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Bloomberg businesstechnologysports
Kalshi CEO Eyes Guardrails After Studies Detail Customer Losses

Mansour argued that speculators fare poorly with many products that have recently become popular with retail traders, including options and futures, and said Kalshi is talking with regulators about creating additional safeguards.

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New York Times technologyculture
A Crash, Gunfire and Then a Race to Save a Synagogue Full of Children (Gift Article)

“I didn’t breathe until I knew all of the kids were OK,” one teacher recalled after a truck crashed through the doors of a Michigan synagogue this week.

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The Atlantic businesstechnology
Vibe Coders Are Clogging Up the App Store

An extraordinary number of apps are flooding the market. Is anyone actually using them?

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New York Times technologybusiness
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (Gift Article)

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

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New York Times technologyopinionbusiness
Opinion | TikTok Is Making Politics a Little Better (Gift Article)

Algorithms are making politicians focus more on positive messaging in short video.

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Medium technologyculturebusiness
China’s AI bubble has burst, but the technology is here to stay

The history of capitalism is replete with examples of investors who lost their shirts after betting on technologies that went on to change…

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New York Times cultureentertainmenttechnology
5 Horror Movie Locations to Get You in the Halloween Spirit (Gift Article)

Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”

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New York Times technologyculture
Opinion | Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work. (Gift Article)

Everything is content.

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San Francisco Chronicle transportationbusinesstechnology
Tesla Semi truck fire shuts down major Bay Area freeway for hours

A Tesla Semi truck battery fire forced the closure of I-880 in both directions in Hayward. Northbound lanes have reopened, but southbound lanes could remain closed into Wednesday.

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New York Times culturetechnologybusiness
Harvard’s Asian Student Enrollment Jumps as Black Enrollment Declines (Gift Article)

Harvard’s Asian American student enrollment jumped to 43 percent and Black students enrollment dipped to 9 percent after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in 2023.

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Medium politicstechnology
My online lines in the sand

Social media has a way of catching you out, especially when you have been on a platform for a large amount of time. While I no longer post…

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Medium sportsbusinesstechnology
Hex Cycle V: Complete

Tome of The Sixth Sun — A Cosmic Dramady

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New York Times technology
Inside the world of marathon ‘cheats’: Online sleuthing, ‘scary’ abuse and grey areas (Gift Article)

The rise of Strava has led to more scrutiny on marathon times posted by amateur runners - with some dark consequences

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Medium culturetechnologyopinion
Prejudice Doesn’t Know Borders in Josephine Baker’s “Fearless and Free”

I have tangentially known about Josephine Baker for a long time, but I had never learned much beyond the basics that she expatriated to…

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New York Times technologyculturehealth
How to Actually Sleep on an Airplane (Gift Article)

These tested strategies can help you get some degree of rest, even in an unforgiving upright seat.

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New York Times sportstechnologybusiness
Chiefs signing kicker Justin Tucker to practice squad (Gift Article)

While a free agent last season, Tucker served a 10-game suspension for violations of the NFL's personal conduct policy.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Where the Internet Lives Now

“Networks of New York” serves as a spotter’s guide to the city’s internet infrastructure, updated for a new era of data centers, surveillance tech, and AI fears.

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San Francisco Chronicle businesstechnology
S.F. Genentech employee identified as first local victim of new opioid sold in smoke shops

The synthetic drug is sold openly at smoke shops and gas stations, but can be deadly.

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The Atlantic technologypolitics
Substack Has a Nazi Problem

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

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National Observer culturetechnology
AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry

In British Columbia, a helicopter crew rescued a 16-year-old hiker from a ledge in the Widowmaker Arete on the back of Crown Mountain. The teen had used Anthropic’s chatbot Claude to help him plan his...

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
US Data Centers Could Undo 15 Years of Declines in Power Emissions

Data center developers are turning to natural gas to meet AI’s immense electricity demand.

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National Observer technologysports
Quebec has allocated little electricity capacity to data centres since February 2023

The small amount of electricity capacity allocated to data centres in recent years stands in stark contrast to the industry's requests, which have been flooding the government with applications for gr...

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National Observer politicstechnologybusiness
Calgary’s mayor wants a moratorium on data centres

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas will join four city councillors in proposing a moratorium on new data centre development in the city. Calgary would be the second Alberta municipality to consider pausing n...

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New York Times technologypolitics
The Thunder’s injury nightmare has raised a much bigger question about their future (Gift Article)

Oklahoma City has the draft assets and contract exceptions to make moves. But is that approach the best one for its future?

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Washington Post culturetechnology
Analysis | The phone security feature everyone should enable — and not worry about

It's understandable to be worried about these security features on your phone. But don't fret over turning over your fingerprint or face ID.

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New York Times culturetechnologybusiness
Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. (Gift Article)

Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

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New York Times sportstechnology
Canadiens’ Jacob Fowler, Kirby Dach continue to impress — and complicate decisions (Gift Article)

Fowler and Dach are making it increasingly difficult for Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis to take them out of the lineup.

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New York Times culturetechnology
The Photographers Who Helped Turn Marilyn Monroe Into a Global Star (Gift Article)

The New York Historical exhibition explores the images that propelled the rise of Marilyn Monroe.

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The Atlantic culturetechnologyopinion
Why I Suddenly Started Seeing the Same Pair of Pants Everywhere

One article of clothing defines the Cool Millennial Mom.

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Bloomberg businesspoliticstechnology
A New Era of Debt Doom Loops Has Begun

Anybody who has lived through the past quarter century or so is familiar with the concept of a debt doom loop. Big government deficits, say, cause higher interest rates, making the government pay more to borrow and also bail out the banks that own its sinking bonds, driving it even deeper into debt. Rinse, repeat.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Wall Street’s AI Debt Machine Is Starting to Choke on Supply

A new anxiety is gripping Wall Street as it bankrolls the vast network of data centers and chips behind the artificial intelligence boom: Early signs suggest that the credit market is approaching the ...

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Medium opiniontechnology
No-Code Lost to Vibe Coding, But Here’s What You Should Use Instead

I’ve been championing no-code for over a decade, but this looks like the end of the road

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Bloomberg businesstechnologyscience
A Guide to the Circular Deals Underpinning the AI Boom

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential.

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New York Times businesspoliticstechnology
Trump Administration Backs Down on an Opioid Ban After Kratom Industry Lobbying (Gift Article)

Health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural. The change could help a G.O.P. donor facing wrongful death lawsuits.

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