Mad Bulls: The Ferocious Activists Who Tear Companies Apart to Rebuild Them
Chief among them is Elliott Investment Management, one of the most feared and effective activist hedge funds in the world.
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China Closed the Bone-Ash Apartment Loophole—What the Ban Actually Covers
Since March 30, 2026, China has barred homes dedicated to storing cremated remains. The rule ends the model’s legal viability, but it is narrower than a blanket ban on keeping ashes at home.
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Senate’s Prediction-Market Ban Still Stops at the Chamber Door
The Senate’s April 30 ban remains in force for senators, officers and employees. Later ethics guidance clarified divestment and exemptions, but the rule still does not cover other branches.
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Maryland’s Grocery Pricing Ban Starts October 1—but Personalized Discounts Survive
Maryland’s enacted grocery pricing law takes effect October 1, 2026. It restricts certain data-driven price increases but preserves loyalty offers, subscriptions and consent-based discounts.
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Joan Westenberg’s ‘The Loop’ Endures—But History Is Not Biologically Guaranteed
Joan Westenberg’s April essay remains a compelling map of recurring crises. Four months on, its warning still works best as a diagnostic framework—not a biological law.
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GitHub’s Switch to Usage Pricing Reignites the AI Economics Debate — And Ed Zitron Is Back With Another Bubble Warning
GitHub’s quiet but seismic shift from flat-rate subscriptions to usage-based pricing for Copilot has done what no earnings call or hype cycle could: it has forced the AI industry to confront the uncomfortable math behind the curtain.
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Talkie-1930 Remains 13B—and Its Historical Knowledge Wall Still Leaks
Talkie-1930’s public release remains a 13B model trained on pre-1931 text. Its larger successor is unverified, while documented data leakage complicates its historical premise.
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SpAItial AI Echo-2: The Free “World Generator” That Turns One Image Into an Interactive 3D Reality
If you tried the original Echo on the waitlist and thought “cool, but not quite there,” Echo-2 is the version that crosses the threshold from demo to daily tool.
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Trump’s AI Push Collides with Rural America: Data Centers Become a Political Headache Ahead of the Midterms
The Trump administration’s aggressive drive to build America’s AI future is running straight into a wall of resistance from the very voters who put him back in the White House.
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Flipbook: The AI-Powered “Visual Browser” That Turns the Entire Internet into Generated Images
Flipbook is still a prototype, explicitly labeled as experimental. The team openly acknowledges current limitations: occasional hallucinations, imperfect text rendering, and the fact that it’s not yet ready for complex actions like filling forms or persistent data storage.
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Switzerland Signals Shift from Microsoft: A Long-Term Push for Open-Source Independence Amid Lingering Dependencies
The Federal Chancellery of Switzerland has announced plans to gradually reduce the federal administration’s heavy reliance on Microsoft products and explore a transition to open-source alternatives.
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Mythos Just Rewrote the Rules of Cybersecurity: One AI Found 271 Firefox Vulnerabilities in a Month — More Than Human Teams Had in 18 Months
The internet just got a little safer — but only because defenders got there first. Mozilla has already shipped the most secure Firefox in history.
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AI Slop: The Glowing Pickle of Our Time
There is near-universal agreement that AI-generated slop is a plague. It floods social feeds, search results, and comment sections with low-effort, hyper-engaging nonsense — dancing AI cats, endless ASMR whispers, hyper-realistic fake security footage, and an army of synthetic influencers.
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What strategies does an SEO Company Old Toronto use to improve local search rankings?
An effective SEO Company Old Toronto recognizes that generic city-wide optimization falls short; hyper-local targeting is essential.Agencies analyze search volume and use tools like Google Keyword Planner in conjunction with local data.
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Lenny’s Product Pass Just Got Even Better: $400/Year Now Delivers $30,000+ in Premium AI Tools
Lenny’s Product Pass Just Got Even Better: The $400/Year Insider Subscription That Now Hands You $30,000+ in Premium AI Tools (And It’s Still Insanely Underrated).
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