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The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality - Ars Technica Added: Aug 28, 2025

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

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AI assistants don’t have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.
China's 'Darwin Monkey' is the world's largest brain-inspired supercomputer | Live Science Added: Aug 28, 2025

China's 'Darwin Monkey' is the world's largest brain-inspired supercomputer

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Darwin Monkey or 'Wukong' features over 2 billion artificial neurons and more than 100 billion synapses — similar to the neural structure of a macaque.
Were Our Ancestors More Like Gorillas Than Humans? New Study Reveals Shocking Size Gap Added: Aug 28, 2025

Were Our Ancestors More Like Gorillas Than Humans? New Study Reveals Shocking Size Gap

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Fossils reveal extreme sexual dimorphism in early hominins. The findings reshape views of their social behavior. A recent study has revealed that males of some of humanity’s earliest ancestors were much larger than their female counterparts. This marked difference in body size, found in both Aust
New easy ways to create and edit videos with gen AI in Google Vids | Google Workspace Blog Added: Aug 28, 2025

New easy ways to create and edit videos with gen AI in Google Vids | Google Workspace Blog

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Create polished videos in Google Vids with new gen AI features like image-to-video, AI avatars, and more.
Google Workspace announces new gen AI features and no-cost option for Vids Added: Aug 28, 2025

New gen AI features — and a new, no-cost option — are coming to Vids.

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Today, we’re bringing more generative AI tools to Google Vids with an all-new experience that lets you turn images into short videos, powered by Veo 3. Paid Google Works…
Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at Mid-City Steel - YouTube Added: Aug 28, 2025

Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at Mid-City Steel

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RFK Jr.: An Apple a Day Is a Good Prescription - WSJ Added: Aug 28, 2025
Ultra-processed foods fuel American health crisis nationwide, CDC finds | Fox News Added: Aug 28, 2025

Agriculture is the answer to America’s junk food crisis

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New CDC study shows majority of Americans consume ultra-processed foods as primary calorie source, prompting calls for agricultural solutions to health crisis.
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt - YouTube Added: Aug 28, 2025

Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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The White House
Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives Added: Aug 28, 2025

Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’?

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Researchers are developing software entirely through natural language conversations with advanced large language models. The trend is transforming how research gets done—but it also presents new…
With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse - Ars Technica Added: Aug 28, 2025

With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

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The company’s workhorse continues its stellar performance.
Amelia Maya on X: "🚨 Huge news from Scott Bessent. 🚨 Trump is rolling out a $600 BILLION plan that could double wages… And trigger the biggest wealth transfer in American history. This isn’t speculation — it’s already underway. Here’s what every American worker should know: 🧵👇 https://t.co/R9o52wfDBP" / X Added: Aug 28, 2025

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Amelia Maya on X: "Elite MIT researchers recently made a chilling discovery. They scanned the brains of 54 people during a routine writing exercise. But when they revisited those scans just four months later, the results left them stunned—and alarmed. The culprit wasn’t smartphones. It wasn’t https://t.co/bhhiODMIX4" / X Added: Aug 28, 2025

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Transgender Gunman Kills Two Children in Minneapolis School Attack / X Added: Aug 28, 2025

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U.S. Politics Alert on X: "🆕 @robertkennedyjr has started following @rt_com https://t.co/rG8Im1CNdD" / X Added: Aug 28, 2025

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Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues | TechCrunch Added: Aug 28, 2025

Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues | TechCrunch

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Nvidia's revenue hit $46.7 billion in the second quarter, a 56% increase compared to the same period last year.
Trans Shooter Targets Catholic Kids In Mass Shooting, Leftists Reject Prayers | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Aug 28, 2025

Trans Shooter Targets Catholic Kids In Mass Shooting, Leftists Reject Prayers | Timcast IRL

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Comet 3I/ATLAS Appears To Be Backwards, Its “Tail” Is Pointing Towards The Sun | IFLScience Added: Aug 27, 2025

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Looks Back-To-Front, With Dust Shooting Toward The Sun

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The fastest interstellar object continues to be bizarre; is it rotating weirdly or is something off about its surface?

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known and fastest interstellar object to fly across the Solar System, is at it again. The latest oddity shown by this comet is how it is spewing dust. As they get closer to the Sun, comets typically release a tail of gas and dust and a second tail of ions. Comet 3I’s tail is still pretty weak – understandable since it’s still pretty far away – but it is spewing a lot of dust. However, this ejecta is not being released behind it as it goes, but in the direction of the Sun. Comets are icy, made up of frozen gas, rock, and dust, hence their nickname "dirty snowballs". As they get closer to the Sun, their surface begins to sublimate – going from solid to gas – and form the coma, the fuzzy atmosphere around the comet nucleus. A nucleus as small as a neighborhood can make a coma larger than Earth. It is the solar wind that shapes the tail, with dust and gas usually becoming the primary tail, the curved one, and the straighter one is the ion tail, formed by glowing ionized gas. A sunward tail or anti-tail is rare, though not unheard of, and is a layer of debris left behind by the comet that appears pointed at the Sun. What’s happening to Comet 3I/ATLAS has more to do with its true nature than any possible anti-tail or sunward tail shenanigans. In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, astronomers using Hubble reveal the comet seems to be experiencing a lot of dusty sublimation on the Sun side, but this disappears on the night side. This is creating a distinct release of stuff on the sunny side. There are two leading explanations for this. It could be possible that the comet is spinning with a pole pointing at the Sun, so the night side is never getting any light. The alternative is that its surface has been dramatically weathered. As we covered in an exclusive feature, the comet is likely significantly older than the Solar System, which means it has spent several billion years being bombarded with cosmic rays. Over time, this process has stripped the comet of surface hydrogen, making it more difficult to create a long, beautiful tail, as we have seen from Solar System comets. The comet was discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), and is just the third interstellar object ever observed after ’Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and Comet 2I/Borisov, discovered in 2019. From the get-go, Comet 3I/ATLAS looked different. It was twice as fast as the previous two, reaching 58 kilometers (35 miles) per second. It might be a bit bigger, too. Comet 3I/ATLAS will get as close as 210 million kilometers (130 million miles) from the Sun, far beyond the orbit of Earth, on October 30, 2025. The interstellar interloper will be visible from Earth until September, then it will be behind the Sun from our point of view. It should then be back being visible in December to finish the year. The study is available on the arXiv.
NotebookLM YouTube Turbo: Game-Changing Chrome Extension << Android :: Gadget Hacks Added: Aug 27, 2025

NotebookLM YouTube Turbo: Game-Changing Chrome Extension

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Let me tell you something: I've been using NotebookLM since its early days, mainly for document analysis and research. But when it came to YouTube videos?...
Who is the Minneapolis school shooter? Robin Westman identified as sick obsession with child killers is revealed Added: Aug 27, 2025

What we know about Minneapolis Catholic church shooter Robin Westman

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Robin Westman, 23, shot through stained glass windows at children sitting on the pews inside Annunciation Catholic School's church Wednesday morning.
Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis: What we know about suspect | Fox News Added: Aug 27, 2025

Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis: What we know about suspect | Fox News
A DNA Test Told A Man He Was More Neanderthal Than Almost Anyone Alive, And His Response Was Absolutely Priceless » TwistedSifter Added: Aug 27, 2025

A DNA Test Told A Man He Was More Neanderthal Than Almost Anyone Alive, And His Response Was Absolutely Priceless

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Not everyone can say they carry a piece of ancient history with them every day.
Deep-pocketed GOP donor launches 'misleading' mailers into Calif. Added: Aug 27, 2025

Deep-pocketed Republican donor launches 'misleading' mailers into Calif.

Site: SFGATE

"You guys in CA need to be fighting that."

Last week, scores of California households received a stark 8-by-11-inch flyer in the mail that declared, “We cannot save democracy by burning it down.” The mailer was sent out after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that his proposal to redistrict California along partisan lines is headed to voters this November. But while the mailers, bankrolled by a major Bay Area donor to the Republic Party, were supposed to dissuade voters from approving the new congressional map, they included some misquotes that only led to more confusion. The mailers were paid for by Protect Voters First, a campaign committee funded by Charles Munger Jr., a physicist who lives in Palo Alto and is the son of Warren Buffett’s late business partner. They urged voters to vote “no” on Proposition 50, the ballot measure for Newsom’s redistricting plan. The four-page mailer also had a quote from Gloria Chun Hoo, the president of the League of Women Voters of California, plastered on the front page: “Let’s protect the integrity of our democratic process and reject the dangerous idea of mid-cycle redistricting.” The League of Women Voters, a leading good government group, immediately denied any involvement with Munger’s campaign. “You may have received a mailer from ‘Protect Voters First’ about the redistricting ballot initiative this November. By naming our organization and quoting Gloria Chun Hoo, the mailer wrongly implies that the League of Women Voters of California is part of their coalition and endorses the information contained in the flyer,” the organization said in a statement on Aug. 21. “This implication is not correct—we are not part of that coalition. The League of Women Voters of California did not authorize this action.” A small attribution under the Hoo quote on the Protect Voters First flyer noted it had come from the Sacramento Bee. Hoo penned an op-ed for the paper that was published July 30, but it did not mention the Protect Voters First coalition. Darius Kemp, the executive director of Common Cause, another good government group, said he was also quoted out of context. The flyer quoted him as saying “Point blank, this is a dangerous move” and defending independent redistricting as a system that works better. When reached for comment by SFGATE, Kemp referred to a news release issued by Common Cause on Aug. 22 that said, “Our position on mid-cycle redistricting is clear — we will not oppose mid-cycle redistricting efforts in states that meet our fairness criteria.” Common Cause was initially critical of Newsom’s gerrymandering idea but later clarified its position before the mailers were sent out, saying in an Aug. 12 statement that the organization recognizes California’s effort as a “counterbalancing” measure in response to moves by Republicans in Texas. The organization has since said that the proposed new map for California meets its “fairness criteria.” While it’s still early days, it will be a two-month sprint for the “yes” and “no” campaigns to bring in millions of dollars — much of which will fund television ads and mailers like these that are targeted to sway undecided voters. The national opposition campaign is led by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is recruiting national donors to contribute to the Stop Sacramento’s Power Grab committee, according to Politico. He is reportedly aiming to bring in upward of $100 million. Protect Voters First has already dumped $10 million toward the “no” effort. Meanwhile, Newsom’s campaign committee, called the Election Rigging Response Act, has already brought in over $11 million to support the redrawing of California’s map. So far, it’s not clear what impact Protect Voters First’s flyers will have. What is clear is that they’ve confused voters. Even with the clarifying statements from Hoo and Kemp, some people online raised questions about whether those clarifications would reach enough voters. Right after the flyers went out, Reddit sleuths were seeking answers about who was behind the effort. One poster called the flyer “misleading s—t,” while another dug deeper: “went to the website listed at the bottom. in small letters at the bottom of the webpage is the name of the sponsor of this whole thing: Charles Munger Jr. So googled him: He donates millions to Republican CA candidates. SO, you guys in CA need to be fighting that. This Munger guy has very deep pockets and is obviously trying to get people to oppose the CA redistricting.” Amy Thoma Tan, a spokesperson for Protect Voters First, maintained that those quotes were taken directly from newspaper op-eds but did not directly respond to claims that they mislead voters into thinking these organizations support Munger’s coalition specifically. She also did not specify how many households were targeted. “The mailers were sent to Californians, therefore focused on fighting the gerrymandering happening here. Our coalition opposes gerrymandering in all states,” Tan told SFGATE. — 'There's a lot of anger': California's conservative corners turn on Trump— Beloved Calif. radio station bracing for 'devastating' Trump cuts— A California city tried to triple in size. Then came the rebellion.— One of Calif.'s most watched House races is about to get more interesting
A Palo Alto scientist's $10M plan to kill Calif. redistricting Added: Aug 27, 2025

A Palo Alto scientist's $10M plan to kill Calif. redistricting

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Charles Munger Jr., a Palo Alto physicist, put $10 million toward opposing Prop. 50.

An effort to oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting ballot measure is ramping up, and a seemingly unlikely figure has emerged as the top fundraiser. Charles Munger Jr., a Palo Alto scientist and the heir of the former vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, one of Warren Buffett’s longtime business partners, is back in politics after being incognito for almost a decade. Munger, a massive Republican Party donor in the past, has mostly laid low since 2016. Yet according to financial filings posted on the California secretary of state’s website, Munger has already dumped $10 million into the campaign committee for Protect Voters First, the group founded by Munger to oppose Newsom’s redistricting proposal. “Charles Munger passed a number of meaningful reforms in California and has said that he will vigorously defend them. He believes that citizens should draw lines, not politicians. He opposes this attempt to take that right away,” Amy Thoma Tan, a spokesperson for Protect Voters First, wrote in an email to SFGATE. Previous reports say Munger plans to contribute $20 million more, but Tan did not confirm that figure. Newsom, after backing from the Legislature, officially announced last week that Proposition 50 will be on the Nov. 4 ballot. He first floated the redistricting idea in mid-July, which he billed as fighting back against Republican redistricting plans in Texas, Florida and Missouri. It soon escalated to a full-fledged proposal to draft a new version of the congressional map for California voters to decide on. The proposed map, which was released to the public Aug. 18, was carved out in such a way that would spread out Republican voters across five key Republican districts, diluting the competition in those races and likely making for an easy Democratic win in next year’s midterm elections. Newsom said if voters approve the new map on Nov. 4, those five seats could be the determining factor in whether the Democrats win back the House. Local | There's a mansion hidden directly under the Bay BridgeTravel | A Calif. beach so breathtaking homeowners fought to keep it privateLocal | The world's last lost tourist thought Maine was San FranciscoHistory | Why a wealthy banker blasted a huge hole in a Bay Area cliff Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here. In 2005, Munger gave his first political contribution: $100,000 to support four ballot measures led by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He then went on to bankroll two more that supported Schwarzenegger’s push for independent redistricting commissions. Over the next decade, he spent some time as the Santa Clara County Republican Party chairman and helped bankroll the Republican Party’s comeback, financially supporting various Republican-led efforts while backing the at-times unsuccessful campaigns for lesser-known moderate candidates for state office. He was also praised by Harmeet Dhillon, now assistant attorney general for the Donald Trump administration, who credited him with saving the Republican Party, the Los Angeles Times reported. Munger has branded himself as a supporter of good government reforms, but his donation trail has largely leaned conservative. He has been linked to donating to various conservative social causes, including First Resort, which funded crisis pregnancy centers; the Christian Legal Society; and Campus Crusade for Christ, now known as Cru in the U.S., an organization that opposes homosexuality and promotes conversion therapy. Jodi Hicks, the CEO of Planned Parenthood, sounded the alarm on Munger’s “history of giving to organizations that push anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ beliefs and policies” in a statement to SFGATE. Hicks said Californians deserve to know his record, calling those donations “most certainly troubling.” Kevin Spillane, a longtime Republican strategist in California, told SFGATE that Munger is “at his heart, a political and government reformer.” When Schwarzenegger introduced anti-gerrymandering ballot measures in 2008 and 2010, Munger put in millions toward the cause. Both ballot measures passed and led to the state installing an independent redistricting committee to draw its congressional lines. At the time, Schwarzenegger said he supported the efforts to eliminate political bias in the redistricting process. (District lines are typically evaluated every 10 years to coincide with new demographic information from the decennial census.) When redistricting plans began growing legs in California earlier this month, Schwarzenegger waded into the recent fray, posting a picture of himself lifting weights with the caption, “I’m getting ready for the gerrymandering battle.” Daniel Ketchell, a spokesperson for Schwarzenegger, told SFGATE that the former governor and Munger are not working together in any capacity in the opposition campaign. “Arnold is working on his own as someone who has fought gerrymandering across the country for 20 years, starting here in California,” Ketchell said in a text message. Schwarzenegger, who served as California governor from 2003 to 2011, also seemingly reentered the political spotlight solely to speak out against Newsom’s ballot measure. Newsom, during a morning news conference last Friday, seemed unfazed by the opposition from Schwarzenegger. He told a reporter who inquired about their relationship: “We have more areas of agreement than disagreement.” As for Munger, his spokesperson painted the funding push as a passion project. “Charles has been out of politics for 10 years. He has always said he will vigorously defend the reforms he has helped pass,” Tan said to SFGATE. Meanwhile, former Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy is separately leading the national campaign effort, saying he plans to fundraise a whopping $100 million against Newsom’s ballot measure, as reported by Politico in mid-August. Newsom and California Democrats now have less than 80 days to convince voters to redraw congressional districts along partisan lines. There has already been upward of $11 million contributed to the Yes on Prop. 50 campaign. Among those donations are $1 million from Bill Bloomfield, a longtime Democratic donor; $3 million from the California Teachers Association; $3 million from the House Majority PAC, which helps elect Democrats nationwide; and $2 million from one of Newsom’s old campaign committees. The rest of the contributions came in the form of smaller online donations, including from the mother of Google co-founder Larry Page. — 'There's a lot of anger': California's conservative corners turn on Trump— Beloved Calif. radio station bracing for 'devastating' Trump cuts— A California city tried to triple in size. Then came the rebellion.— One of Calif.'s most watched House races is about to get more interesting
Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin Added: Aug 27, 2025

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin

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For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.
Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight Added: Aug 27, 2025

Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight

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SpaceX completed its latest Starship flight without a catastrophic error, but the craft suffered unexpected damage.
Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed - Google Developers Blog Added: Aug 27, 2025

Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed

Starting today, Gemini CLI is integrated with Zed, providing a fast, responsive, and seamless AI experience for enhanced productivity.
With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection | TechCrunch Added: Aug 27, 2025

With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection | TechCrunch

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SpaceX proves it can fly through failures on Starship’s tenth test flight.
Wimpy Weak Men and "Egalitarian" Socialism - The Mamdani Effect (THE SAAD TRUTH_1883) - YouTube Added: Aug 27, 2025

Wimpy Weak Men and "Egalitarian" Socialism - The Mamdani Effect (THE SAAD TRUTH_1883)

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Red-Haired Fat German White Women Are Assaulting One-Legged Swimmers of Color (THE SAAD TRUTH_1881) - YouTube Added: Aug 27, 2025

Red-Haired Fat German White Women Are Assaulting One-Legged Swimmers of Color (THE SAAD TRUTH_1881)

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First Lady Melania Trump: Presidential AI Challenge - YouTube Added: Aug 27, 2025

First Lady Melania Trump: Presidential AI Challenge

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Victor Davis Hanson: How Left-Wing Ideology Fuels Crime and Chaos - YouTube Added: Aug 27, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Disturbing Defense of Violent Criminals

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“Crime apologist” is not a strong enough term to describe the hysteria and vitriol that’s infected the modern-day Left. For the sake of ideology, left-wing l...
Victor Davis Hanson: Why America’s Natural Ally, India, Is Pulling Closer to Russia and China - YouTube Added: Aug 27, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson: Why America’s Natural Ally, India, Is Pulling Closer to Russia and China

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This is the most popular AI app - and you might be surprised by the runner-up | ZDNET Added: Aug 27, 2025

This is the most popular AI app - and you might be surprised by the runner-up

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Andreessen Horowitz's Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps shows which apps are ahead - and which are falling behind.
What's next for SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket after Flight 10 success? | Space Added: Aug 27, 2025

What's next for SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket after Flight 10 success?

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SpaceX is thinking even bigger with its megarocket.
SpaceX Starship Flight 10 was so successful, it's breaking the anti-Musk narrative Added: Aug 27, 2025

SpaceX Starship Flight 10 was so successful, it's breaking the anti-Musk narrative

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SpaceX stated that Flight 10 successfully provided valuable data by stressing the limits of Starship’s capabilities.
Elon Musk on X: "It’s a good model, sir" / X Added: Aug 27, 2025

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