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More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code (+14140)
apnews.com

Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials (+9177)
abcnews.go.com

Minneapolis and state leaders prepare for possible Derek Chauvin pardon (+4443)
kstp.com

UnitedHealth under criminal probe for possible Medicare fraud, WSJ reports (+2369)
reuters.com

18-year-old girl escapes captivity from New Jersey home where she was allegedly forced to live in dog crate and abused (+8725)
nbcnews.com

Hacker News

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (+825)
deepmind.google

What is HDR, anyway? (+625)
www.lux.camera

A server that wasn't meant to exist (+324)
it-notes.dragas.net

Databricks acquires Neon (+322)
www.databricks.com

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York (+281)
www.nytimes.com

How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip (+266)
ericmigi.com

Human (+258)
quarter--mile.com

Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges (+229)
github.com

Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away (+224)
physics.aps.org

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation (+222)
arxiv.org

Daring Fireball

‘Max’, the Dumbest Name Ever, Changes Back to ‘HBO Max’ – Variety: The surprise announcement, made less than two months after Max tweaked its logo to look more like the classic black-and-white HBO color scheme, was revealed at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation to ad execs in New York on Wednesd…
variety.com

The App Store Is Showing a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases – The app in question, Instacar, is not available in the US App Store, but multiple people in the EU have confirmed this warning on its App Store page is real: This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system. It uses extern…
mjtsai.com

★ Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1 – A single-story “a” in Chicago feels more blasphemous than that AI image Trump tweeted of himself as the new pope.
daringfireball.net

Pete Rose and ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Among Players Reinstated by MLB in Historic Decision – Kyle Feldscher, CNN: Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson — two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game — from the league’s permanently ineligibl…
www.cnn.com

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srv.buysellads.com

r/technology

YouTube viewers will start seeing ads after ‘peak’ moments in videos. (+4913)
techcrunch.com

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet (+35971)
yahoo.com

Grok AI Is Replying to Random Tweets With Information About 'White Genocide' (+5217)
gizmodo.com

Why The Fuck Are Democrats Helping Build MAGA’s Censorship Machine With KOSA? (+1812)
techdirt.com

White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive data (+1393)
techcrunch.com