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OpenAI News Jul 17 Score 0.9396872231481482

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 18 Score 0.8980265037037036

Claude make Fable 5 permanent

Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage c

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 18 Score 0.8971265037037036

nascheme/quixote

nascheme/quixote A certain vintage if Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago . The oldest commit in that repo is from 21 years ago, and that was the initial import of Quixote 2.4 f

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Schneier on Security Jul 17 Score 0.8830655518518518

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach

Lots of articles about this . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Foreign Policy Jul 17 Score 0.879157348148148

The Battle for Borsch

Ukraine is using the beet-based soup to fortify national identity in the face of Russian aggression.

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Foreign Policy Jul 17 Score 0.879019848148148

The Soccer Surveillance State

How the United States used the World Cup as a testing ground for policing technologies.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 17 Score 0.8722172106481481

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. The post Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind first appeared on Quan

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 17 Score 0.8709061333333332

Quoting Kimi K3

Is there something I can actually help you with today? — Kimi K3 , after refusing to leak its system prompt Tags: kimi , ai-personality , generative-ai , ai , llms

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 17 Score 0.8683311333333332

LLM cliché highlighter

Tool: LLM cliché highlighter I got frustrated reading yet another article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable 5 vibe code up this app for highlighting ten common patterns tha

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Schneier on Security Jul 17 Score 0.8664192555555554

Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System

Really interesting piece of cryptographic history : In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the "Bayley papers"—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheet

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Krebs on Security Jul 14 Score 0.8353178847222223

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last mont

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.8246871365740741

Fine, electric mountain bikes don’t suck

Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun! My attitude adjustment came a few wee

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BBC News — World Jul 18 Score 0.8208031898148149

US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night

The US command says it is conducting more strikes to degrade Iran's armed forces, as Iran reports explosions near the Strait of Hormuz.

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The Guardian — World Jul 17 Score 0.810484175925926

Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara cleared to travel to US

Whereabouts of artist imprisoned after 2021 protests had been unknown following end of his prison term in July Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a prominent Cuban dissident artist whose whereabouts remained unknown after his prison sentence ended last week, has bee

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The Verge Jul 17 Score 0.8099588958333334

Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce from the US market after cyclosporiasis outbreak

Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it's "voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the US market." Reuters reports that, according to a source, Taylor Farms told cu

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BleepingComputer Jul 17 Score 0.8076281092592593

Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims

Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics business, while also investigating a separate claim that attackers breached its L

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The Guardian — World Jul 17 Score 0.8072420462962964

More Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds US midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east

109 million people face another day of poor air quality as smoke from blazes in Ontario drifts over the US Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tens of millions of Americans are enduring another day of smoky skies , irritated eyes and bad air qual

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The Verge Jul 17 Score 0.8067954699074075

Shark's versatile ChillPill cooling system is back to its best price

Portable fans are one of the easiest ways to stay cool during the summer, and you don't have to spend much to find a decent one. If you're looking for something more versatile, though, Shark's ChillPill Personal Fan and Cooling System combines a rechargeable f

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The Guardian — World Jul 17 Score 0.8066434351851852

CDC and FDA link lettuce at Taco Bell in five states to cyclospora outbreak

FDA investigation identified a single supplier of the lettuce, but federal warnings did not name the company Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served by Taco Bell locations across five US states as a source of the widespread outbreak

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The Verge Jul 17 Score 0.8056454699074075

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary

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The Verge Jul 17 Score 0.8050954699074074

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says his 30-day warranty is all about trust

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says buyers of its new e-paper smartwatches should know what they're signing up for and trust Pebble to make things right if they run into issues, despite the short warranty. "I think the most important thing is trust," Migicovsk

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War on the Rocks Jul 17 Score 0.8022021222222223

The Fedorov Dismissal: On Trust, Technology, and Turnover

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members.Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how U

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Wired Jul 17 Score 0.8016098398148149

‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously

For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend.

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War on the Rocks Jul 17 Score 0.800544251851852

The Fedorov Dismissal: On Trust, Technology, and Turnover

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary from across the political spectrum.Every Monday, War on the Rocks members get a curated selection of op-eds and editorials from Ukrainian-language media to understand how Ukrainians themse

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BleepingComputer Jul 17 Score 0.7963586648148149

Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding

Residential proxies are no longer the silver bullet they once were for carding. Flare explains why cybercriminals increasingly seek "clean" residential proxies and combine them with browser fingerprints, device profiles, and other identity signals to evade mod

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MIT Technology Review Jul 17 Score 0.793298176388889

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China's latest AI leap

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Than

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BleepingComputer Jul 17 Score 0.791506812962963

New Windows LegacyHive zero-day gives hackers admin privileges

A security researcher using the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle has released a Windows zero-day exploit dubbed LegacyHive that allows attackers to escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jul 17 Score 0.7880203986111112

There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.

Perimenopause has entered the chat. Perimenopause—and its better-known relative, menopause—used to be considered taboo. Not anymore, thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers. Perhaps it’s my age, but these days, both my algorithm and

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MIT Technology Review Jul 17 Score 0.7879518800925926

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major str

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Schneier on Security Jul 14 Score 0.7548211069444444

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA,

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 18 Score 0.7460042717592592

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.

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NASA News Jul 17 Score 0.7365915064814815

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pus

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NASA News Jul 17 Score 0.7355887287037037

The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches

Description This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smallest crescent at the center of the of th

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 17 Score 0.7335977902777778

The Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me'

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

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The Hacker News Jul 17 Score 0.7335808421296296

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

Updated July 18, 2026: the two flaws now carry CVE IDs, the full mechanism has been published, a persistent-object-cache condition has surfaced, and a working proof-of-concept is public. The story below reflects all of it. An anonymous HTTP request can run cod

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NASA News Jul 17 Score 0.7330660435185186

Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm

In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow status within a cohort of astronauts, and discuss progress of r

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NASA News Jul 17 Score 0.7323257657407407

NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.  The Ames Facilities Support Service

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The Hacker News Jul 17 Score 0.7319340828703703

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no a

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NASA News Jul 17 Score 0.7315035435185185

NASA's Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

This composite image, released on July 9, 2026, shows the region around a pulsar – a neutron star with a strong magnetic field that spins incredibly fast – within the Lighthouse nebula. The image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in pur

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Dark Reading Jul 17 Score 0.7313872189814815

Inc Ransomware Exploits SonicWall SMA Zero-Days

When chained together, the two vulnerabilities allow threat actors to gain root-level capabilities on SonicWall's mobile access appliances.

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The Hacker News Jul 17 Score 0.7295442680555555

Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack. The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of

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MIT News — AI Jul 17 Score 0.7270483611111112

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

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The Hacker News Jul 17 Score 0.7266979717592592

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the imag

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New Scientist Jul 17 Score 0.7260004157407407

Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key

An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we lose when we over-rely on AI

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GitHub Blog Jul 17 Score 0.7259863773148149

The cost of saying yes has changed

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era. The post The cost of saying yes has changed appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Dark Reading Jul 17 Score 0.7258872189814815

The Real AI Threat Is Blind Trust

AI models left to both interpret and execute commands eliminate critical cybersecurity oversight.

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The Hacker News Jul 17 Score 0.7257780643518519

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog (aka APT-Q-

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InfoQ Jul 17 Score 0.7180200972222223

Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI

A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native ecosystem that already powers modern distributed applicatio

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New Scientist Jul 17 Score 0.7146869898148148

Why a Ukrainian cruise missile is flying with hobby drone hardware

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing how cheap technology is making military hardware accessible to all

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InfoQ Jul 17 Score 0.7146867638888889

How Uber Builds Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters

Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation and its own isolation-group system, which relies on the Odin container orchestration platform. This way, it mainta

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 17 Score 0.7081581462962963

Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D

A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of light-producing material. Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.

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Hacker News Jul 18 Score 0.7080536916666665

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 17 Score 0.7011280537037037

This sugar-coated therapy boosted survival against deadly brain cancer by 50% in mice

A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma’s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier. Researchers used sugar-coated nanoparticles to ferry genetic instructions that restore a key tumor-suppressing protein directly into brain c

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Lobsters Jul 17 Score 0.6957189694444443

Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp

@matheusmoreira ( blog ) built lone lisp directly on Linux system calls. In this interview, he shares his knowledge of C and the Linux Kernel. How did you get into computing originally? What was your path before discovering Lisp etc.? I've always liked compute

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Nautilus Jul 17 Score 0.6905206342592591

The Warrior Life of Ancient Egyptian Princesses

These weren’t your traditional Disney princesses The post The Warrior Life of Ancient Egyptian Princesses appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 17 Score 0.6871862759259258

13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform , where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we’re sharing 13 demos that walk you through what Agent Platform can do. Each one teaches a concept, a pattern, or an architectu

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 17 Score 0.6871862759259258

Level Up Your Column-level Security: Using IAM Data Governance Tags in BigQuery

Many BigQuery customers rely on policy tags for protecting their sensitive information in BigQuery. Policy tags were the go-to solution for applying column-level access controls, allowing only users with the right permission to view sensitive columns like pers

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 17 Score 0.6871862759259258

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C

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Google AI Blog Jul 14 Score 0.6796871648148148

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation

Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.

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CNCF Blog Jul 17 Score 0.6788534087962962

Flipkart and LitmusChaos at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: A recap

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 brought the cloud native community to Mumbai on June 18-19. For LitmusChaos, this was not just another conference. It was one of our most significant events to date. We walked away...

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 17 Score 0.675908498148148

Guide to AI Tokenomics: Eleven Principles for Token Efficient Software Engineering

Optimizing token consumption is key to keeping AI coding assistants fast and accurate. You might not be writing every line of code any more, but now you’re responsible for directing those coding assistants to focus on getting the most out of each token. Contex

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Microsoft Research Blog Jul 13 Score 0.6396869870370371

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCr

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Latent Space Jul 14 Score 0.6178570736111111

[AINews] not much happened today

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

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