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Robotaxi Expansion Takes the Scenic Route, Salesforce Finds a New Supply Chain

Waymo and Toyota plan tests in Japan, while Salesforce agrees to buy a defense logistics startup.

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Waymo and Toyota Give the Robotaxi Revolution a 2027 Departure Time

Waymo and Toyota plan to begin testing autonomous Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles in Japan in 2027, extending a partnership that began with a preliminary agreement in April 2025. The companies also plan later deployments in the United Kingdom and other right-hand-drive markets. Toyota will manufacture the vehicles for the partnership at its Takaoka plant. The bZ4X is based on the e-TNGA platform Toyota developed with Subaru. For Waymo, the plan takes its self-driving technology into a new market using a vehicle made by one of the world's largest automakers. For Toyota, it puts its electric vehicle at the center of an autonomous fleet test. The geography is a useful reminder that a robotaxi cannot expand simply by changing the destination in an app. Vehicles, road layouts and local rules all matter, and the companies have placed Japan before the other markets in their plans. The timetable also gives the word revolution a notably patient air: testing begins next year, with further deployment planned in the years that follow. The steering wheel may already be on the appropriate side for those markets, but the software still has to earn its place on the road. Even the most ambitious chauffeur has to start with a route.

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Salesforce Finds a New Kind of Pipeline in Military Logistics

Salesforce has agreed to acquire Rune Technologies, an AI logistics startup serving the US military, for a reported $375 million in cash and stock. Resilience Media reported the price, and the deal would add Rune's supply forecasting and field logistics tools to Salesforce's defense business. The acquisition extends Missionforce, the Salesforce unit serving defense and national security agencies. Salesforce said in a blog post that the business had grown 80% year over year since its launch last year, helped in part by a 10-year, $5.6 billion Army contract. Its plan is to bring Rune's frontline logistics data into a platform that has also handled back-office planning. The deal gives a company famous for tracking customer relationships a new kind of relationship to manage: the one between a military operation and the supplies it needs. Forecasting remains the familiar theme, but the consequences of a late delivery are rather different from an overdue sales report. For Salesforce, the appeal is a defense market with substantial contracts and a use for the data tools it already sells. For Rune, the buyer brings a much larger platform. The sales pipeline has acquired a supply pipeline, and both now fit comfortably in the same corporate presentation.

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Meta's Discreet Glasses Attract Attention, Reddit Builds a Welcome Wall

Senators seek privacy answers from Meta, while Reddit plans to require logins for browsing.

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Meta's Glasses Perfect the Art of Being Noticed by Senators

US senators have asked Meta how it is addressing serious privacy risks associated with its AI glasses. Their questions put a familiar tension in wearable technology back on the table: features designed to make a device convenient for its owner can also raise questions for people nearby. Smart glasses can put cameras, microphones and an assistant into a form that looks much less conspicuous than a phone held in front of someone's face. That can make everyday use feel easier for the wearer. It can also leave bystanders wondering what a device is collecting and what safeguards apply. The senators' request asks Meta to explain its approach to those risks. It is a request for an account of the company's protections, not a finding that any particular wearer has misused a pair of glasses. The distinction matters for a product category that depends on fitting into ordinary public life. Meta's sales pitch benefits when the hardware fades into the background. Its privacy explanation has the opposite task: making the limits visible enough that other people can understand them. The company has built a device intended to keep users looking up. Now lawmakers would like it to look closely at who else is in the frame.

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Reddit Protects the Open Internet With a Sign-In Sheet

Reddit plans to require users to log in before browsing, ending the site's long practice of letting visitors read posts and discussions without an account. CEO Steve Huffman said a key reason for the change is to curb unauthorized scraping and automated traffic. The shift would affect people who arrive from a search engine to read a single answer as well as those who regularly browse without signing in. For roughly two decades, Huffman said, nearly all of Reddit had been accessible to logged-out visitors. He acknowledged that the change was significant for a platform associated with the open internet. A login requirement gives Reddit another way to manage access to material that outside systems may collect. It also asks ordinary visitors to create or use an account before they can see conversations that were previously open to a passing glance. Whether the measure curbs scraping as intended remains to be seen. The platform's dilemma is that the same easy access that made its discussions useful also made them easy to collect at scale. Reddit is now treating the casual visitor and the industrial scraper to the same first instruction: please identify yourself. The library has not closed, but the reading room has acquired a reception desk.

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Nissan Puts Gas Behind the Electric Feeling, Applebee's Puts a Password in the App

The 2027 Rogue Hybrid uses Nissan's e-Power system, and a researcher finds an exposed restaurant database credential.

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Nissan's Electric-Like Rogue Keeps a Gas Engine Behind the Curtain

Nissan has retuned its e-Power series hybrid system for American roads in the 2027 Rogue Hybrid, offering an electric-style drive without a charging plug. The gasoline engine generates electricity, while an electric motor drives the wheels. That arrangement separates the driver's experience from the source of the energy. The motor provides the propulsion, but the vehicle still relies on gasoline. Drivers do not need to find a charger, and they also do not get a car that can dispense with fuel stops. Nissan is presenting a middle path between a conventional gasoline vehicle and a plug-in electric one. The distinction is particularly relevant for people interested in the feel of an electric motor but unwilling or unable to plug in regularly. It is also a neat piece of automotive stagecraft: the electric motor gets the leading role, while the engine works backstage to keep the performance going. The Rogue's design does not make the gasoline disappear. It changes how the engine's energy reaches the road. That is a substantial engineering choice, and a useful reminder that a smooth electric drive and an electric-only energy source are not the same thing. Nissan has found a way to give the charger the day off while keeping the gas station on the itinerary.

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Applebee's Gives Its Database Password a Table in the App

Applebee's exposed customers' personal data by leaving a database password in its app, TechCrunch reported. A security researcher found the hardcoded credential, which allowed unrestricted access to customer information. The problem was not a password carefully hidden behind a difficult login. It was a credential placed inside software distributed to users. An app can be examined, so a secret embedded in it is not protected merely because it is out of sight during an ordinary order. For customers, the attraction of a restaurant app is supposed to be convenience. The information involved is personal data, not an extra side dish that diners knowingly ordered for public inspection. The report highlights the gap between an easy customer experience and the security work needed behind it. Hardcoded credentials also make an uncomfortable product feature: they can give anyone who finds them the same access the app was meant to have. That is a generous interpretation of hospitality, but a poor way to handle a database. Applebee's may be in the business of inviting people in, yet a customer database needs a more selective host. The app made the entrance convenient enough that the password itself was already waiting inside.

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Linux Finds an Uninvited Root User, Akai Invites Everyone to Modify the Music

Researchers demonstrate a kernel exploit, while Akai plans to open-source software for its teased MPC Sample Key.

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Linux Researchers Find a Door That Opens Straight to Root

Anthropic security researchers have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that can allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP listeners, according to BleepingComputer. Multipath TCP allows a connection to use more than one network path. On an affected server, the vulnerability puts a powerful level of access within reach without requiring the attacker to log in first. Root is the system's top administrative account, so access at that level can carry consequences well beyond an ordinary user account. The reported exploit concerns servers running MPTCP listeners, not every Linux system simply by virtue of running Linux. That qualification is important for administrators assessing their exposure and planning a response. The researchers' demonstration also establishes an exploit, rather than proving that every affected server has already been attacked. The technical contrast is awkward: a feature designed to give network connections more than one path has produced a route to the most privileged account. Administrators are left with the familiar task of checking which services are exposed and following available security updates. The kernel is supposed to be the part of the system that enforces boundaries. In this case, the boundary needs some attention before the guest list becomes a root access list.

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Akai Offers Modders the Software Before It Offers a Price

Akai has teased its MPC Sample Key and says it plans to open-source the device's software, inviting the modding community to experiment with it. The company has not announced a launch date or a price, according to The Verge. That puts the software invitation ahead of two facts most buyers normally want before deciding whether a gadget belongs in their studio. The Verge also received exclusive images of the device after Akai teased it on Instagram. For now, the public picture is a new music product with an unusually explicit welcome for outside developers, but without a published timetable or price tag. Open-source software can give technically minded musicians and developers a way to examine and change a product's code. What they will actually build, and how the finished hardware will work in practice, remains to be seen. The company's stated plan is an invitation, not a guarantee of a particular community project. The marketing has nevertheless identified an audience that enjoys taking instruments apart conceptually as well as playing them. Akai is offering that audience room to tinker before answering the more traditional question of what the instrument costs. The modders can start imagining features, while everyone else waits to modify the household budget.

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AI Spending Meets the Market's Calculator, Antibiotic Seekers Meet a Plot Problem

Technology shares fell as investors assessed AI costs, and a study examined people who misrepresented symptoms to obtain antibiotics.

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AI's Expensive Growth Story Meets Investors' Actual Arithmetic

US technology stocks fell sharply as investors weighed the cost of artificial intelligence development against its potential returns. The Nasdaq opened at its lowest level in more than two months, and Intel shares continued to fall, according to the BBC. The selling came as AI spending approached $1 trillion, a scale that has made the relationship between investment and eventual revenue a central market question. Companies are committing large sums to the infrastructure and technology needed to build and run AI systems. Investors must assess not only what those systems might do, but when the money spent on them might produce an adequate return. That calculation is less glamorous than a product demonstration, but it becomes hard to avoid when the sums are this large. An impressive technology can still raise difficult questions about pricing, competition and the cost of building it. Falling shares show investors reassessing those prospects, not a final verdict on the technology itself. For executives, spending can signal that a company intends to compete. For shareholders, the same figure is also a bill that needs a business case. The industry has become very good at making AI sound like the future. The market would like a somewhat clearer idea of which future quarter pays for it.

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Antibiotic Seekers Rewrite Their Symptoms but Miss the Drug's Role

More than a quarter of people reported lying to obtain antibiotics in a study covered by Ars Technica. The reported fabrications still pointed to infections that antibiotics do not treat, according to the report. Antibiotics act against bacteria, not viruses. That makes the study's finding an awkward mismatch between the desired medicine and the symptoms people said they invented. A more dramatic account is not necessarily an account that supports the treatment someone is trying to obtain. The reporting concerns what participants said about their behavior, rather than a finding that every request for antibiotics is dishonest. It also does not establish that everyone who misrepresented symptoms received a prescription. The specific result is narrower and stranger: the invented stories often failed to make the medical case their authors apparently wanted to make. The incentive is understandable as a story about people seeking a particular remedy, but the improvisation runs into a basic biological limit. Bacteria and viruses do not change roles because the patient gives a more persuasive performance. Clinicians must assess symptoms and decide what treatment is appropriate. In the study, some would-be scriptwriters appear to have given them a narrative with the wrong ending. The prescription pad, it turns out, is not obliged to follow the plot.

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Bluesky Sorts the Complaints, an AI Law Firm Bids on an Old Name

A beta inbox organizes moderation information, while Crosby makes an offer for Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

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Bluesky Gives Moderation Its Own Inbox and the Internet More Filing Space

Bluesky has added a dedicated moderation inbox in beta, intended to make it easier to keep track of reports and account strikes. The feature collects moderation information in one place rather than leaving users to piece together scattered updates. The change addresses a practical problem on a social platform: reports and enforcement notices are easier to follow when they have a recognizable home. A dedicated inbox can help people find the status of issues and see account-related actions without treating every notification as a scavenger hunt. The beta label also means the feature is still being tested. An organized place for reports does not by itself establish how quickly each report will be reviewed or what decision will follow. It does, however, give moderation activity a more visible address inside the service. That is a modest but telling product choice. Social networks compete to make posting feel effortless, then need tools to make the consequences of some posts manageable. An inbox is not as flashy as a new feed, but it is a reasonable place to put the paperwork that follows one. Bluesky has made a room for the complaints. The next challenge is keeping the room useful when the internet remembers where to find it.

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Crosby Offers Weil a Software-Era Suitor for Its White-Shoe Name

AI law firm Crosby has bid on Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the famed Wall Street practice whose disintegration has drawn attention across the legal industry, TechCrunch reported. The bid puts a software-focused firm into a story about one of the profession's best-known traditional names. The offer is a bid, not a completed acquisition. Its significance lies in the contrast between an established legal brand and a prospective buyer associated with AI. It also gives the profession a concrete example of how newer firms may seek to position themselves alongside institutions built over many years. For lawyers and clients, the important questions would include what any eventual arrangement means for the practice and its work. Those answers cannot be settled simply by announcing an offer. A famous name has value, but an offer for a firm is not the same thing as a finished plan for its future. The setting is almost too convenient for a legal drama: a prestigious Wall Street practice in turmoil and a buyer arriving with a distinctly modern identity. The legal industry has spent years debating what software might change. Now one AI firm is making its case in the language the business already understands: a bid for a seat at the table.

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Google's Laptop Looks Ready for Work, Its Software Requests More Time

Early Googlebook coverage praises hardware but finds software limitations, and XREAL introduces wired Android XR glasses.

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Googlebook's Hardware Arrives Dressed for Work, Its Software Is Still Getting Ready

Googlebooks have arrived as a new laptop platform with promising initial hardware, but Googlebook OS still needs substantial work, according to Engadget's early assessment. The contrast gives Google an attractive physical machine and a harder software task. A laptop has to do more than look and feel good on a desk. Its operating system determines how people find applications, manage tasks and fit the device into routines they already have. Strong hardware can make that experience pleasant, but it cannot by itself settle every question about the software. The early assessment is therefore a mixed one rather than a simple endorsement or dismissal. Google's platform has a physical foundation worth noticing, while the operating system has more to prove. That leaves prospective users weighing what the device does today against the possibility of improvements later. The stakes are familiar for any company introducing a computing platform. A polished exterior can attract attention, but the daily work happens inside the interface. Users discover the difference when they stop admiring the machine and start asking it to do ordinary things. Google has provided the laptop equivalent of a well-furnished office. The remaining question is whether the office systems are ready when everyone arrives on Monday.

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XREAL's Vision of Untethered Computing Includes a Wire

XREAL has launched AURA, wired augmented reality glasses powered by Google's Android XR platform. The glasses feature transparent Micro-OLED displays, a 70-degree field of view, Gemini AI integration and a Snapdragon Reality Elite processor. The product brings apps, entertainment and an assistant into a wearable display, with Android XR providing access to familiar mobile software as well as experiences designed for extended reality. The transparent displays are intended to place digital content in the wearer's view rather than simply replacing the surroundings with an opaque screen. The wire is an especially visible part of the proposition. Wearable computing often promises to free people from the need to hold a screen, and AURA takes that promise in a literal but not entirely cordless direction. The display can move onto the user's face while the connection remains part of the experience. The specifications give prospective users a sense of the hardware, but their practical value depends on the applications and the way people use them. A wide field of view and an assistant make for an ambitious list of features; they do not automatically decide whether a pair of glasses belongs in someone's daily routine. XREAL's future is wearable, transparent and powered by a cable. At least one piece of the arrangement remains reassuringly easy to see.

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Mars Sends a Rock Without a Return Label, Satlyt Tests the Orbital Server Room

A rare meteorite offers a look at ancient Martian crust, while Satlyt tests technology for space-based computing.

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Mars Outsources Sample Delivery to a Rock and Several Billion Years

A meteorite found in the Sahara is a rare piece of Mars' ancient crust, giving scientists material with which to study the planet's early geology. The rock offers a direct sample from Mars without requiring a spacecraft to bring that particular piece back to Earth. Martian meteorites are valuable because they provide physical material that researchers can examine in laboratories. A sample of ancient crust can help scientists investigate the planet's history in a way that complements observations made by spacecraft. The Sahara discovery is notable for the kind of Martian material it represents, not merely for its long journey. The route is an accidental answer to a very expensive logistics problem. Space missions must plan how to reach a target, collect material and return it. A meteorite reaches Earth by a very different process, leaving researchers to identify and study what arrived. That does not make a desert rock a substitute for every planned mission. A deliberately collected sample can answer questions tied to a known place and collection process. The meteorite instead offers the opportunity created by a rare object that happened to land here. Mars has supplied a piece of its own history, with no tracking number and no appointment at the receiving desk. Scientists get the enjoyable part of opening the package, followed by the much longer work of understanding its contents.

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Satlyt Gives the Server Room an Orbital Address, Pending Further Tests

Satlyt has completed a successful test that brings it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers, TechCrunch reported. The test is a step toward the company's goal, rather than the launch of a completed network of orbital data centers. The idea applies computing infrastructure to spacecraft instead of keeping every operation in a conventional facility on the ground. Satellites already operate in an environment where communications and hardware are central concerns. Satlyt's ambition is to make that hardware part of a virtual data center. A successful test gives the company evidence of progress, but the report does not establish that a full commercial system is operating. Building toward a service in space involves a different set of practical constraints from installing a server rack in a building. The distance alone makes the phrase on-site maintenance sound unusually optimistic. The proposal also gives the familiar corporate search for data-center space a much larger map. Instead of debating where to put another server room, Satlyt is exploring whether some computing can happen aboard spacecraft already designed to orbit Earth. For now, the result belongs in the progress column, not the finished-product column. The server room has a promising new address in mind, although the commute remains a serious consideration.

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AI Plans Dinner, Tape Stores the Future and Starbucks Studies a Familiar Face

Zest launches a reservation agent, Fujifilm plans more tape output, and Starbucks explores personalized menus.

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Zest Gives the Dinner Committee a Bot and a Voting Procedure

Zest has launched an AI agent that finds restaurants and books reservations over text. It combines group members' tastes, puts options to a vote and makes the reservation once the group has chosen. The service targets a stubborn coordination problem: several people want dinner, but nobody wants to be responsible for choosing the restaurant. A text-based assistant offers to gather preferences and turn the resulting discussion into a decision without requiring the group to conduct the entire negotiation by hand. The vote is the key comic detail. A casual evening out now has a formal mechanism for resolving the phrase "anywhere is fine." The agent can organize the choices and handle the booking, although it cannot make every diner equally enthusiastic about the result. Zest is selling convenience at the point where social planning becomes administrative work. The group still supplies its tastes and chooses; the software gets the job of putting the meeting on the calendar.

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Fujifilm's AI Storage Plan Brings Magnetic Tape Back to the Future

Fujifilm plans to increase tape production fivefold as AI drives demand for data archiving. Magnetic tape remains useful because it can store large amounts of data at low cost and can be kept offline, according to Ars Technica. The plan is an expansion target, not a claim that output has already reached five times its current level. It reflects a storage market in which the newest computing systems still need places to keep large quantities of information for the long term. Tape is not a substitute for every kind of fast, readily accessible storage. Its appeal lies in a different job: holding archives economically, including copies that need not remain connected to a network. That offline quality can be useful for security. The contrast is hard to resist. An industry selling the most advanced digital tools is helping revive demand for a storage format with a long history. The future keeps arriving, then asking where the cartridges are.

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Starbucks Considers a Drive-Thru Menu That Knows Its Regulars

Starbucks is exploring personalized digital menus that could recognize participating customers as they arrive at a drive-thru. CEO Brian Niccol described the idea on an earnings call, along with making payment more effortless. The concept is a possibility under exploration, not a system the company has said is already operating at every location. It would give the familiar menu board a more individual role, presenting choices to a customer who has agreed to participate rather than showing every driver precisely the same display. The potential attraction is convenience: a regular customer might reach a decision and pay with less friction. The business attraction is a chance to tailor what appears at the point of purchase. Both depend on customers accepting the recognition involved. A drive-thru has always offered the small drama of choosing quickly while someone waits behind you. Starbucks is considering a menu that joins the conversation before you have even asked for coffee.

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Apple Experiments, Rivian Talks Autonomy and DoorDash Meets Its Robot Customers

A gadget roundup, a driving-system test, a simpler television and a small count of agent orders close the edition.

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Apple Lets Its Polished Gadgets Show Their Experimental Seams

Apple is in a period of gadget experimentation, with more iPhone screens, a touchscreen MacBook and a HomeView that runs CarPlay apps, according to The Verge. The results are not always perfect, but the range of ideas marks a lively stretch for a company associated with polished products. The contrast is entertaining: Apple's famous finish is sharing the stage with devices that invite more questions about what a phone, computer or home display should be. Even a company built on refinement occasionally has to let the experiment out of the lab.

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Rivian Gives Autonomy the Microphone While the R2 Awaits Its Turn

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe devoted more of an hourlong earnings call to the company's unproven autonomous driving ambitions than to the R2 SUV production ramp, The Verge reported. A key test is due later this year, when Rivian plans to roll out a point-to-point hands-free driving feature. The R2 remains an important vehicle, while the autonomy feature still has to demonstrate itself. For now, the company's future driver has enjoyed a prominent place in the presentation, even as the actual SUV has production work to do.

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Vizio's TV Courts Viewers Who Want the Screen Without the Ceremony

Vizio's Mini LED Quantum TV offers an alternative to the usual smart-TV routine by letting buyers go straight to the HDMI ports, The Verge reported. The model was discounted at Walmart. The appeal is a simpler path to viewing for people wary of built-in platforms, frequent updates and privacy concerns. Buyers who want streaming can connect their own device. In a market where a television can ask for an account before showing a movie, Vizio's pitch gives the screen permission to be a screen.

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DoorDash's AI Customers Place Several Hundred Orders, Not a Banquet

DoorDash says it has received several hundred orders from AI agents and is open to working with third-party agent makers. The number gives a concrete, modest measure of activity for a proposed new way to order delivery. Software agents could become another channel between a hungry customer and a restaurant, but several hundred orders are an early count rather than proof of a mass migration. The future of dinner has found the order button. For now, it is still a relatively short line.

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