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Social Security cuts from Trump's "big beautiful bill" will double the poverty rate of America's seniors, according to several estimates, if policymakers don't stop them from happening. t.co/3ut65Sudrp



The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again

A ban on “woke AI” in government aims to control the politics of chatbots.


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IRS considers eliminating non-English language tax services (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)

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“I was given an offer that would explode same day.”

The AI talent wars are intense! Here’s Windsurf’s second hire describing the way Google came in and reverse acquihired the core AI research team. He didn’t take the deal and is now at another AI coding startup called Cognition, which acquired the rest of Windsurf that Google didn’t want.

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Republicans plan to use the threat of impeachment as a key midterm issue (NBC News)

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Fortune laid off its European editorial team, including Executive Editor Alex Wood Morton; the layoffs took place before its 10% global workforce cut on July 21 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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Texas AG claimed three homes as primary residence. Democrats are being probed for similar issue (Brian Slodysko/Associated Press)

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Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says (Andrew Hay/Reuters)

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Interstellar Visitor Zipping Through Solar System Could Be Hostile Probe
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C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
posted on 2025.07.24 at 14:24:49 (c=4, p=4)


2025 One Hertz Challenge: 555 Timer Gets a Signal From Above

One of the categories we chose for the One Hertz Challenge is “Could Have Used a 555.” What about when you couldn’t have, but did anyway? The 555 is famously …read more
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#paradise : the abode of sanctified souls after death

- French: paradis

- German: das Paradies

- Italian: paradiso

- Portuguese: paraíso

- Spanish: paraíso

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