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New SNES Hardware Is Coming This Month From Columbus Circle | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

Columbus Circle Unveils New SNES Clone Hardware...

Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. (arstechnica.com)

Boeing Spacecraft: They'll never let you down! (www.thetimes.com)

Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now? (www.theverge.com)

A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we...

Walz has history with China - it's more hawkish than critics claim (www.bbc.com)

'Elder Scrolls Online: Lamenting a challenge-free landscape' - article by Biobreak blog (biobreak.wordpress.com)

FBI: California woman brought sword, whip and other weapons into Capitol during Jan. 6 riot (www.ctvnews.ca)

Kennedy Lindsey had a short sword, a steel tactical whip, a collapsible baton, pepper spray, a butterfly knife and a flashlight taser in her possession when a U.S. Secret Service officer searched her backpack, according to an FBI affidavit....

Republicans want someone younger than Donald Trump as president: new poll (www.newsweek.com)

In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75....

Bulgarian Parliament passes ban on LGBTQ "propaganda" in schools (aussiedlerbote.de)

A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’? (theconversation.com)

Yesterday, Ukraine invaded Russia. Today, the Ukrainians marched nearly 10 miles. (www.forbes.com)

Yunus sworn in as interim Bangladesh leader, vowing to "uphold, support and protect the constitution" (www.bbc.com)

Ortega expels Brazilian ambassador from Nicaragua for not attending national event - EFE Noticias (efe.com)

Communities Rally in U.K. Against Racism & Islamophobia Following Far-Right Riots (www.democracynow.org)

Thousands filled the streets across the United Kingdom this week in massive rallies against racism and Islamophobia, a show of unity to counter a recent surge in far-right violence....

COVID still 'very much with us' with 20% of tests positive in Europe, WHO warns (www.euronews.com)

Zelenskiy: Ukrainian army knows how to surprise (www.reuters.com)

AI works better if you ask it to be a Star Trek character (www.fudzilla.com)

I’m leaving the hed as-is per protocol, but the larger story here seems to be we’ve already hit the point where LLMs produce better prompts for other LLMs than human prompt engineers do....