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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.

...so the malware would finally shut up and run

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world):
After you jump into the barrel…

LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets

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Customize and extend Claude Code's behavior by registering shell commands

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A novel data structure has been invented four times now, with three different names. We think that's a good sign.

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