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AOL announced that it will discontinue its dial-up internet service next month,
marking the end of a 34-year offering that is synonymous with the early days of the internet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-i…

AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.

This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding and Early Closure of State Fair
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Billy Preston:
🎵 Nothing From Nothing
#BillyPreston
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-nothing-from-nothing-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n9QhVJS3XSjSc9kNJNEIU

A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

Marc Benioff says President Trump is "doing a great job" and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send National Guard to San Francisco
Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…

Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Shooting Spread Rapidly on Social Media
First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the "who's up, who's down" part of Silicon Valley culture (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/technology/tbpn-silicon-valley.ht…

How ‘TBPN’ Became Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.

Hands-on with Alexa : fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0…

Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now?
It took Amazon several years to overcome technical hurdles as it remade its voice assistant with new artificial intelligence technology.

CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technol

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Kalshi raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140 countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from $300M in 2024 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/dealb…

Kalshi, a Fast-Growing Prediction Market, Raises New Funds
The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence.