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Alex Pretti’s family say they have no answers nine months after federal agents killed him (+10458)
cnn.com

James Comey charged for a third time by the Trump administration (+10500)
nbcnews.com

Microsoft offers voluntary exit packages to 60,000 staff (+16904)
ctvnews.ca

Average price of gasoline during Trump's term now exceeds Biden's, as midterms loom (+6825)
reuters.com

Dollar General sued by FTC, 20 states for what's being described as deceptive pricing (+3823)
abcnews.com

Hacker News

Anthropic S-1 (+1596)
www.sec.gov

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce (+917)
www.seattletimes.com

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics (+836)
openai.com

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models (+688)
magazine.sebastianraschka.com

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] (+593)
github.com

GPT-6.1 Terra (+579)
openai.com

CSS-Tricks has a new owner (+451)
css-tricks.com

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 (+400)
blog.enlyth.com

Websites Should Be Printable (+325)
brennenputh.me

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024) (+284)
humantransit.org

Daring Fireball

The NYT Seemingly Does Marissa Mayer Dirty – Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link): Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and …
www.nytimes.com

Apple Issues Statement on iPhone Duo’s Crack Problem – Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique f…
9to5mac.com

Glenn Fleishman on Apple Notes and Markdown – Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. …
sixcolors.com

★ Apple Announces New A20 Pro iPad Mini – Pros: OLED display, nano-texture option, A20 Pro chip, thinner and lighter. Cons: no Face ID, no ProMotion.
daringfireball.net

A Simple Two-Step Shortcuts Shortcut Lets You Lock the iPhone Duo When You Close It – Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed . Lock the screen. I mentioned in my review that I kep…
x.com

r/technology

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees (+21116)
arstechnica.com

Police Are Increasingly Pulling People Over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns “Suspicious” (+6902)
aclu.org

Someone debloated their Samsung Tizen OS TV by pointing a camera at it for Claude to see (+3497)
xda-developers.com

In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn’t Real / In comments at a private police conference, Garrett Langley also said his wife advised him to never apologize. (+4438)
404media.co

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear (+2095)
bbc.com