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Six stories worth your coffee. Edited by humans, ranked overnight by 41,000 diggers.
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POLITICS
The EU's new AI law has a two-sentence loophole everyone missed.
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SCIENCE
A 14-year-old re-ran a decade of sleep research with a $200 ring.
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A 1998 spreadsheet error is overcharging 38 states in property tax.
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The quiet death of the Google shortcut — and the chatbot replacing it.
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BUSINESS
Why every US airport is pulling its conveyor belts at once.
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The Atlantic's new paywall math, explained in one chart.
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