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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist (gizmodo.com)

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A chief economist at investment giant Apollo says the top ten AI stocks are more detached from reality than the tech titans of the 1990s were. His chart is a stark warning that history is about to repeat itself.

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists (www.wired.com)

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A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

This mindblowing project lets you run Windows XP on the web (www.neowin.net)

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A talented developer has simulated a significant portion of Windows XP on the web, and you can access and you can play around with it using a simple link.

Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists (arstechnica.com)

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Dictionary website isn’t offering refunds and is now only available with ads.

Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media (techcrunch.com)

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Dorsey's initial investment has gotten the new nonprofit "andOtherStuff" up and running, and he worked on some of its initial iOS apps.

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats (www.theverge.com)

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Roblox will still monitor the conversations for ‘critical harm.’

ChatGPT Agent Wants You to Hand Over Full Control of Your Computer (gizmodo.com)

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You can just say no. You don't have to do any of this crap.

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users (techcrunch.com)

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Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.