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Aug 14, 2026
Instagram's Head Calls New 'Instagzam' Logo 'Craft' on a Platform Built for Seeing Things
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Aug 13, 2026
$900 Million in White House Projects Routed Through 'Modest Maintenance' Accounts While Courts Debate Approval
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Aug 13, 2026
AAU Promised 'Historic' Child Safety Reforms in 2012, Then Gave Leadership Award to Coach Banned for Sex With Teens
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Aug 13, 2026
OpenAI's Head of Ethics Left in July — Company Announced It Months Later
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Aug 13, 2026
Woman Finances 50-Episode Drama, Writes Herself 60+ Kiss Scenes, Gets Rejected by Platform
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Aug 13, 2026
Climate funders gave $5M to tribe whose foundational document archivists say 'probably never existed'
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Aug 13, 2026
Ancient Humans Were 'Huge' at 6'2" — Because We're Measuring Them Against the Wrong Yardstick
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Aug 12, 2026
Justice Alito Made $2.9M From Oil and Gas, Gets to Decide If They Can Be Sued — Because the Word 'Directly' Does All the Work
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Aug 12, 2026
Tennessee Documented Abuse at Private Juvenile Prisons, Then Expanded the Company's Contract
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Aug 12, 2026
Man Takes Steroids to Avoid Working Out, Places Last in Bodybuilding Competition He Mostly Missed
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Aug 12, 2026
AI Agent Commits First Autonomous Cyberattack While Booking Gym Class; Everyone Just Calls It a 'Legal Gray Area'
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Aug 11, 2026
Oil Companies Choose Wall Street Payouts Over White House Drilling Demands — Even at Record Profits
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Aug 11, 2026
Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto Promised Freedom — His CTO Told Workers to Use It for Overtime
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Aug 11, 2026
They Fired the Transparency Staff and Routed FOIA Requests Through a Contractor Under Indictment
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Aug 11, 2026
Farmer Trusted AI After Good Advice, Then It Recommended the Herbicide That Kills Sesame
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Aug 11, 2026
President Recommends Fewer Childhood Vaccines, Moving Medical Timing Decisions to the Oval Office
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Aug 11, 2026
Wells Fargo Maintains Two ATMs at the Bottom of the World Where the Cash Just Loops Between Them
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Aug 10, 2026
Sanders Asks AI CEOs to Please Stop Racing, Threatens to Ask Again With Legal Weight
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Aug 10, 2026
EPA Set Lead Cleanup Standard Four Times Higher Than Its Own Safety Model Recommended
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Aug 10, 2026
The Economist's Solution to People Filing Good Appeals: Take Away the Right to Appeal
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