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• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
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• Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
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• Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
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• YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom
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• GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation
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• Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
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• OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
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• Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals
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• Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - Slashdot
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