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Russia is losing a huge amount of human capital as war drags on, one think-tank chair warns.
  • Russia's economic decline is still in the early stages, according to a London-based think tank.
  • Talk of Russia's resilience ignores deep-seated issues in Moscow's finances.
  • The nation is losing a huge amount of human capital as war in Ukraine drags on.

Russia's economy has


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The Playdate console has been tough to get a hold of since being released back in 2022, as pre-orders have vastly outnumbered current orders. This has led to lengthy waiting periods when placing an order for the crank-adjacent portable. That all changes today, as the manufacturer has announced the console is available for immediate shipment upon purchase.

Playdate also passed a significant



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A fan is held down by a police officer at the Phoenix Open.
A man dressed as William Wallace was brought down by police after he flashed the crowd.

The sunburned man with an FTX hat and a Topo Chico strawberry guava hard seltzer in each hand was disappointed. “He’s not naked,” he said to no one in particular, with open disgust. “No hog.”

Before him and 20,000 others in the stadium, a shirtless man had jumped from the stands and was


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The “P” in HIPAA doesn’t stand for privacy. It’s one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for portability — it’s called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act —and describes how information can be transferred between providers. With misinterpretations of HIPAA starting with just its



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US Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton don't see eye to eye on foreign aid.
  • The senior-most US senator from Texas is in an online spat with state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
  • Paxton took umbrage Tuesday morning to Sen. John Cornyn's supporting vote on a recent foreign aid bill. 
  • The two have beefed for years, at least in part

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Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth time how you like your emails formatted and which of those “fun things to do this weekend” you’ve already done six times. OpenAI is trying to fix that and personalize its own bot in a big way. It’s rolling out “memory” for ChatGPT, which will



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Some imaginative and resourceful game preservationists have reverse-engineered a long-lost F-Zero game from the mid-'90s. Eurogamer reports that faithful recreations of two BS F-Zero Grand Prix games, broadcast exclusively for Nintendo’s long-defunct Satellaview satellite gaming extension for the Super Famicom, are now available to play for free as add-ons for the original ROMs.

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The Sims 4 is adding vitiligo in a free update, allowing players to create Sims with the skin condition. The new patch is available right now, in case you need an excuse to boot up the popular life simulator and thoroughly tank your productivity.

Announced today, The Sims 4's new update enables players to give their Sims vitiligo patches in its Create-a-Sim character creator. There are multiple



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With Every Noise at Once no longer updating, finding new music directly on Spotify has become a farce. | Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge

Spotify sucks at new music discovery. That’s not exactly a hot take considering how long users have been complaining about it over the years, but it used to be much easier to forgive when alternative services like Pandora and SoundCloud co