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A wave of new gay dating apps is positioning itself as a privacy-first alternative to Grindr, and the timing is deliberate. As trust in major platforms erodes, these community-powered apps are betting that users will trade convenience for better data protections and a sense of ownership over their own information.
On the stranger and more delightful end of the spectrum, a developer has built a working six-five-oh-two processor emulator entirely in Markdown, executed inside a large language model. It runs at roughly one instruction per second, which is extraordinarily slow, but that almost entirely misses the point. It is a fascinating proof that LLMs can simulate stateful computation in ways nobody quite anticipated.
And if you have ever cringed your way through LinkedIn, there is now a newsletter for that feeling. PeakedIn curates the platform's most self-congratulatory and frankly bewildering posts into a weekly digest of five, delivered every Saturday. Users can even nominate posts themselves, which raises the wonderful possibility that featured subjects will respond by announcing they are thrilled to have been included.
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