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    NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft discovered a “super-Jupiter” with a new method.

    By looking through data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), researchers uncovered a planet through microlensing for the first time — a concept theorized by Einstein that picks up on planets as their gravity warps space-time.

    Though the ESA’s now-retired Gaia telescope first discovered hints of the planet in 2023, TESS’s data revealed a planet that’s 1.6 times Jupiter’s mass and almost 40,000 light-years away from Earth.

    An artist’s depiction of the “super Jupiter,” Gaia23bra b.
    An artist’s depiction of the “super Jupiter,” Gaia23bra b.
    Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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    Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for season 2.

    One Piece, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Beef, and The Night Agent have experienced big season 2 slumps, with some losing up to 70 percent of their audience, according to Bloomberg.

    Netflix is reportedly trying to figure out the reason for the dip, which The Guardian has linked to the streamer’s binge-release model and a focus on subscriber growth. What do you think is contributing to the dropoff?

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    Anthropic signs 20-year lease agreement for an AI data center in Kentucky.

    TeraWulf, the crypto mining company turned AI infrastructure provider, expects to earn $19 billion in revenue from the agreement, according to an announcement on Monday. The Hawesville, KY data center will come online with an “initial capacity” in the second half of 2027 before ramping up to 401 megawatts of power delivery in 2028.

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    Cloudflare is cracking down on “multi-purpose” crawlers.

    Starting September 15th, Cloudflare will block bots that scrape ad-supported websites for search indexing and AI training at the same time. The goal is to encourage AI companies to separate their crawlers for different purposes, giving publishers more control over which ones to allow into their websites.

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    The TV Time app is shutting down after 15 years.

    The app, which allows you to track the shows and movies you’re watching, will no longer be available starting July 15th. In an update on its support page, TV Time’s developers say operating the free app “was no longer sustainable,” and that “there was not enough demand for a paid app.”

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    Another alleged Scattered Spider member has been arrested.

    19-year-old Peter Stokes was arrested in Finland and extradited to the US to face federal conspiracy charges related to the Scattered Spider hacking group. Stokes is accused of working with co-conspirators to breach a luxury jewelry retailer and demand an $8 million ransom.

    Last month, two Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty to breaching London’s transportation system in 2024.

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    Apple’s email-hiding feature is reportedly exposing real email addresses.

    Tyler Murphy, the co-founder of EasyOptOuts, tells 404 Media that he notified Apple about a bug in its Hide My Email feature more than a year ago, but it’s reportedly still not fixed. The vulnerability allows someone to obtain a person’s real email through the fake one generated by Apple’s tool, 404 Media reports.