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AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-thirsty-for-power/

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

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Meta’s Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

wired.com/story/metas-muse-is-better-at-surveilling-than-helping-me/

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

bell.bz/youll-miss-publishers-when-theyre-gone/

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication […]

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Cyberpunk 2077: Dark Future Is An Entirely New Experience

screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-dark-future-mod-overhaul/

Discover the gritty reality of Night City with Cyberpunk 2077: Dark Future mod, adding shocking new survival mechanics.

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California may stop enforcing net neutrality in exchange for $1.9B in US grants

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/california-may-gut-state-net-neutrality-law-to-comply-with-trump-admin-demand/

Trump admin. broadband grants forbid states from enforcing net neutrality laws.

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Weird little guys of FOSS

drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

Alex is a prominent figure in the nostr community, and an antagonist on FOSS social media platforms generally.

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Don't be nice

roe.dev/blog/dont-be-nice

Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.

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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/sep/18/map-cartographers-western-bias-mercator-equal-earth

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.04PH.pdq6bm7mIAz1&smid=url-share

The online gambling giant was spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year on promotional incentives: “Free” betting money advertised through emails and phone alerts.

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The border-busting birth of Punjabi country music

cnn.com/2026/09/19/entertainment/punjabi-country-music-cec

The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots. But as artists Assassyn and Jaggseer have discovered, the two cultures aren’t so different.

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Sizzled Scallion Rice With Sardines Recipe

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026440-sizzled-scallion-rice-with-sardines

This sardine rice recipe unites some likely kitchen inhabitants, such as onions, garlic and leftover rice, to make a quick, allium-perfumed weeknight dinner Since fat is an excellent courier for flavor, giving the olive oil time with the aromatics and sardines ensures a satisfying amount of each ingredient's fragrance and flavor throughout the rice Is it fried rice

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How Healthy Are Sardines?

nytimes.com/2026/09/14/well/eat/sardines-health-benefits-recipes.html

They have a perceived “ick factor,” said Celine Beitchman, the director of nutrition education and a chef instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, but in reality they are “convenient, super nutrient-dense, budget friendly and neutral tasting.

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Are You Eating Enough Fiber? Here’s How Much You Need and Easy Ways to Get More

nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/15/well/eat/how-much-fiber-do-you-need.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

Most people in the United States aren’t. Here’s how to work more into your diet.

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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

ericwbailey.website/published/css-tricks-could-be-a-co-op/

The web will calcify without voices sharing what they know.

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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/fcc-lets-paramount-sell-49-5-equity-stake-to-saudi-arabia-uae-and-qatar/

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers

cybersecuritynews.com/arch-linux-aur-packages-compromised/

A massive supply chain attack targeting the Arch User Repository (AUR) has compromised more than 400 community-maintained packages, with attackers injecting malicious build scripts designed to deploy credential-stealing malware and rootkit-style payloads on affected Linux systems.

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I Still Built It

blog.ewancroft.uk/3mvthjqe7mc2f?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=publish&utm_content=did%3Aplc%3Aofrbh253gwicbkc5nktqepol%2F3mvthjwkyws2x

if an LLM wrote a significant amount of the implementation, apparently the human directing it no longer counts.

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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?

nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/europe/campaign-for-north-africa-game.html

And there is one particularly notorious war game from 1979, the Campaign for North Africa, a board game so detailed, complex and cumbersome to play that it is thought that no one has ever actually finished it (including its creator).

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Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant: Court

lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/

The Trump administration won a substantial victory in a Fourth Amendment fight on Thursday as a federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion.

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NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

gothamist.com/news/nyu-langone-strikes-deal-with-trump-doj-to-end-gender-affirming-care-for-minors

The hospital system will pay $8.5 million, similar to the “monetary penalty” paid by Mount Sinai earlier this month.

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Mischief & Craft

matthenry.fyi/

A blog about front-end web development and whatever else I feel like writing about

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Hulu's Queasy Thriller Furious Wants Our Hands At Abusers' Throats

aftermath.site/hulu-furious-the-work/

The hit crime thriller rages against the powerful men who use their power to build staggering empires of abuse, and what it might take to bring them down.

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I Think The Military Commissary’s Freezers Were Hacked

signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3d5

The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour

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Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House

nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/media/trump-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house-ban.html

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Mr. Trump’s post.

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Orville Peck drops the mask on Mule

pastemagazine.com/music/orville-peck/orville-peck-mule-review

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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The TikTok tradwife tainted by an Andrew Tate connection

salon.com/2026/09/18/the-tiktok-tradwife-tainted-by-an-andrew-tate-connection/

Savanna Stone says women shouldn't vote. A YouTube doc reveals who was really behind her rise

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Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House

nbcnews.com/business/media/trump-bans-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house-rcna598609?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

The president posted to his Truth Social account that he had banned the news organizations “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and threatened to ban other outlets.

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But we need your help.

kapow.works/handbook

Kat Abughazaleh tried something different.

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A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?

nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/ai-software-coding-apps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.nAh4.9lnuKWCc1cvl

It isn’t just apps. Software in general — everything made of code — is suddenly available in huge, heaping quantities.

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DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks

keith.is/post/digitalocean-and-css-tricks

A week and a bit on UpCloud, deleting my DigitalOcean account after more than 10 years, and what DigitalOcean is doing to CSS-Tricks, one of the best places on the whole internet.