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    As requested: comment counts on the homepage for quickposts.

    (And regular posts.) They’re right over there on the left for quickposts, and under the headline for regular posts. We’ve been slowly iterating our redesign for a while now — most of the work has gone into our fancy new live StoryStream feeds, but we’re coming back to the homepage now and I’m excited for you all to see what’s coming next.

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    God that’s just a big silly wiper.

    You know how Steve Jobs initially responded to iPhone 4 antenna issues with “just avoid holding it in this way”? That, but for rain.

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    You can say blue bubble bullying isn’t real... but it’s real.

    Even if you’re in the NBA. I think this is the third or fourth story like this we’ve heard from pro athletes, actually?

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    Nilay Patel
    The “AI Hub” Discord server comes under fire from the RIAA.

    The server, which has more than 142,000 members, includes voice models for popular artists — and those voice models may or may not contain the underlying training data used to make them. (You know: songs.) That’s a pretty straightforward copyright claim to make, but we’re headed directly towards the RIAA saying voice models are infringement no matter what. It’s a laser bong, baby.

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    Nilay Patel
    Hey, Microsoft paid attention to Skype!

    I just opened Skype to appear on CNBC (they’ll take basically any videocall feed, and I think Skype’s video quality looks the best on TV) and, well, Microsoft’s shoved Bing AI in it. No one is safe.

    A box showing that Bing has been added to the Skype app.
    You can run but you can’t hide
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    How much do ink refills on the printer truck cost?

    This is so silly and I am in love.

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    Nilay Patel
    Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been taking lessons from Elon Musk’s “violent changes” at Twitter.

    In an interview with NBC News Huffman says “my takeaway from Twitter and Elon at Twitter is reaffirming that we can build a really good business in this space at our scale.” More:

    “As a company smaller than theirs, sub-$1 billion in revenue, I used to look at Twitter and say, ‘Well, why can’t they break even at 4 or 5 billion in revenue? What about their business do we not understand?’ Because I think we should be able to do that quite handsomely,” he said.

    “And then I think one of the non-obvious things that Elon showed is what I was hoping would be true, which is: You can run a company with that many users in the ads business and break even with a lot fewer people,” Huffman said.

    “They had to do some pretty violent changes and violent surgery to get there,” he adds. Well then! Buckle up, Redditors.

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    Welcome to the Peacock Theater in Peacock Plaza, please acknowledge Peacock.

    The Microsoft Theater and Xbox Plaza in LA are being renamed the Peacock Theater and Peacock Plaza as of July 11, in a “groundbreaking partnership.” Here is a rendering of the new branding on the theater, which Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services enthusiasts might note is located right next door to the Crypto.com Arena. [Businesswire via NBC LA]

    A rendering of the Peacock Theater and Peacock Plaza.
    Peacock.