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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

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UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)

Score: 13 | Comments: 6

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AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is "unsustainable."

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Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

Score: 164 | Comments: 40

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Clojure Hosted on Go

Score: 169 | Comments: 20

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Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

Score: 190 | Comments: 46

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Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our b

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Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.

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VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription

VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style m

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Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

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After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive

Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its

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How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)

Score: 178 | Comments: 122

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FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

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Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game developm

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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

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Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands

Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including us

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Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world

An alleged Russian-speaking group of cybercriminals is reportedly compromising and targeting several major companies that use Fortinet Firewalls and VPNs through previously known passwords.

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Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

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