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- The SaaS debt trap
Wall Street spent the week arguing about whether AI is slowing down. The other bubble is what the SaaS incumbents did when their multiples collapsed.
- Chappell Roan’s Long-Running Smash Becomes A Bestseller Again
Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” returns to three sales charts and reaches 100 weeks on the Official Singles Downloads ranking.
- Two major Puerto Rico newspapers are going digital-only as the industry sheds 270,000 jobs in 20 years
El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora will print their final editions this week as shrinking ad revenue and changing reader habits reshape news.
- ‘The kids just aren’t drinking as much’: California’s wine country is drowning in unwanted grapes
U.S. wine sales have fallen 23% since 2020, forcing growers to rip out vineyards and leave healthy grapes on the vine.
- Wealthy students are 13x more likely to ace the SAT. The test turns 100 this year
The exam has shifted from a 315-question, 97-minute paper test to a two-hour digital format, but wealth gaps in scoring persist.
Technology
- Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.
- Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.
- Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent
Trump adopts Scalia’s ire for feds protecting populations of endangered animals.
- Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers…
- Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem
Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.
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