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23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and its CEO has stepped down. (Tech Crunch)

Not at all unexpected given the way things have been going for the formerly high-flying DNA dating site lately.

Ex-CEO Anne Wojcicki - yes, the sister of Susan who ran YouTube for years - is planning to make a bid for the remains. The company was once valued at $6 billion but its current market cap is less than 1% of that.

Rob Bonta, California's Attorney General, recommended users delete their data now. (New York Post / MSN)

For once, he's not wrong.

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If you can't find an RTX 5090 for sale, you can get a customised 48GB RTX 4090 model from China for about $3400. (WCCFTech)

Way overpriced, but what are you going to do?
AI coding assistants could get overwritten by infected rules files. (SC World)

The rules file would look perfectly innocent through the use of invisible Unicode characters, but would tell the AI to leak your passwords onto the internet and have its way with your pets.

I've described Unicode before as a semantic superfund site. I stand by that.
Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? (The Verge) (archive site)

Well, if you're a terrorist-loving communist with a sub-zero IQ, no. You should stay at home, and stew in your own inferiority.

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