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Sources: Russia paused parts of a surveillance system protecting Putin after Israel used AI on footage from Iran's traffic cameras to locate Ayatollah Khamenei (Financial Times)

Traffic cameras + AI = dead supreme leader. Russia immediately paused its own surveillance protecting Putin. The rules of state security just changed forever.

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articleProPublica
What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks

ProPublica traced the genetic fingerprints of America's measles strains and mapped exactly how outbreaks connect. Disease forensics at its sharpest.

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articleIgerman
Dopamine Fracking

A brilliant metaphor: apps are fracking your dopamine — extracting diminishing returns through increasingly extreme content. 658 HN points say this one hit a nerve.

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articleScience
New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections

Hepatitis B has resisted a cure for decades. A new drug just 'functionally cured' many infections in trials. 300 million people worldwide could benefit.

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articleMarginal Revolution
New paper on the iPhone and fertility

US fertility dropped 22% starting in 2007. Not the economy, not contraception — a new paper makes the case it was the iPhone. The data is surprisingly compelling.

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