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US Senator Lindsey Graham dies (+49298)
bbc.com

Conor McGregor’s long-awaited UFC return ends after 69 seconds with knee injury (+9047)
theguardian.com

Israeli settlers attack journalists, including CNN, on the anniversary of deadly West Bank beating (+1283)
cnn.com

Iran declares Strait of Hormuz closed as 'unauthorised' vessel hit (+17689)
reuters.com

Sweeping housing affordability bill becomes law (+4902)
cnn.com

Hacker News

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (+312)
io-fund.com

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (+300)
antjs.org

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (+294)
www.iroh.computer

Modern decor may be straining people's brains (+235)
studyfinds.com

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (+228)
clickhouse.com

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (+216)
timeseriesofindia.com

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (+186)
thebeach.dev

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring (+180)
techcrunch.com

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (+172)
github.com

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao (+149)
terrytao.wordpress.com

Daring Fireball

Can Someone Explain to Me How to Get ‘ChatGPT Classic’? – One more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to the new “super” app version: Follow the prompt in the app to download the new ChatGPT desktop app. Then sign in with the same ChatGPT account. The ne…
help.openai.com

OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT – OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the ChatGPT desktop app when included for your plan and workspace. Work on web and mobile runs i…
help.openai.com

Benedict Evans on the New ‘Super App’ ChatGPT – Benedict Evans with a succinct review on Threads: Wow, what a total mess. What is the difference between a project, a task and a chat? Why did chats get a crappy floating window but tasks and projects don’t? Why does choosing ‘plugins’ get me ‘templ…
www.threads.com

★ Exactly Like Om Malik – Remembrances, tributes, and stories.
daringfireball.net

Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade – Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice …
www.bloomberg.com

r/technology

IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products (+6442)
neowin.net

The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (+12264)
ca.pcmag.com

LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app (+7532)
sfgate.com

Rare bacteria traced back to Meta data center construction in Wyoming (+858)
sfgate.com

New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years (+616)
livescience.com