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And btw, that's why I wanted Chris Lydon to do interviews with people in his audience who are tripping out on all the new power they're getting from AI. How is it augmenting their work? I know Chris well enough that he probably thinks it's not for him, too technical -- but th...

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I love this piece about Anthony Edwards and how the OKC's guard against him by double-teaming, so he can't have the ball, and that allows them to steal the ball more often from other Minnesotan ball-handlers, and also limits Edwards opportunities to shoot, but it does make it...

WIRED
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Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her

According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

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Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'

Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'

Judd Stone resigned after admitting to the statements, a letter circulated at the Texas Attorney General's office states.

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It’s A Great Time To Be A Pathetic Loser

It’s A Great Time To Be A Pathetic Loser
Donald Trump released yet another deranged statement on Tuesday, demanding that a transgender high school student be barred from participating in the California state track and field championships, which are scheduled to be held this weekend in Clovis, Calif. The inane thoug...

WIRED
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'Grand Theft Auto' Publisher Swaps DEI for 'Diversity of Thought' in Annual Report

Take-Two’s latest 10-K report has removed any mention of supporting social justice and LGBT+ rights, as more industries fall in line with President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda.

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Bono was great on Jimmy Kimmel last night. I was lucky enough to see his show a few years ago, but still excited to watch the filmed version when it drops on Friday. And hints at a new U2 album! 🎶

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This is probably a dumb, self-inflicted privacy leak, but as an experiment I asked ChatGPT to look at the last 5 months of bank transactions. No major surprises: we spend too much on eating out, cell phone plans, and streaming services.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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City Politics: An ICE Arrest; Cuomo's Nursing Home Legacy; The Campaign Money Trail

Elizabeth Kim, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, and Brigid Bergin, senior political correspondent for WNYC and Gothamist, talk about the latest news from the campaign trail, including Adrienne Adams' criticism of Cuomo on COVID, Eric Adams' statements related to ICE's arrest of a student, and more.


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Why Mobile App Reliability Is So Complicated

Apps on a smartphone

Mobile development doesn’t get enough credit. While web and backend engineers often benefit from relatively standardized environments, mobile developers face

The post Why Mobile App Reliability Is So Complicated appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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The Best E-Readers, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

These WIRED-tested ebook readers let you take your library anywhere.

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The Champagne Socialist And The Espresso Martini Capitalist

The Champagne Socialist And The Espresso Martini Capitalist

Junior high is tough for everyone. Shifting friendships! Being stuck somewhere between childhood and adolescence! All those hormones! If you’re lucky, you don’t also have to manage a parent who thinks they can backseat-drive you through all the challenges that come with being 13. 

This week, we’re off to a prestigious private school in the West Village, where our friend-of-a-friend Ellen will have to figure out how involved she wants to get in her daughter’s 8th-grade fundraising competition. Unfortunately, it seems like Ellen’s mom-nemesis, Hazel, has no intention of playing by the rules. Would it be moral to just let Hazel get away with that? 

The Every Podcast
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GitHub CEO on the AI Coding Arms Race: One Agent, 150M+ Devs | Thomas Dohmke

GitHub Copilot has 15 million users—more than Cursor and Windsurf combined. So why does it feel like they're losing the AI coding race? Last week at Microsoft Build, I interviewed the CEO of GitHub Thomas Dohmke to find out.  I wanted to know: Is their huge existing user...

The Every Podcast
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GitHub CEO on the AI Coding Arms Race: One Agent, 150M+ Devs

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GitHub Copilot has 15 million users—more than Cursor and Windsurf combined. So why does it feel like they're losing the AI coding race? Last week at Microsoft Build, I interviewed the CEO of GitHub Thomas Dohmke to find out. I wanted to know: Is their huge existing user ba...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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'Bad Vibes' at the Supreme Court

Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan and a former Supreme Court clerk, co-host of the podcast "Strict Scrutiny" and the author of Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025), offers her take on the current Supreme Court, the major decisions coming this term and why she says it's running as “no law, just vibes.”


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#171 – Felix Arntz on How Speculative Loading Is Speeding Up Your WordPress Website

On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz who discusses speculative loading, a new WordPress 6.8 feature designed to make websites faster by preloading pages before users navigate to them. Felix explains how it works, why WordPress uses a conservative default setting for broad...

WIRED
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All the Top Features in MacOS Sequoia

MacOS 15.5 is here. Here’s what's new and how to install macOS Sequoia.

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The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern internet. You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my s...

McSweeney’s
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The Blockbuster Manifesto: How to Stop Writing Boring Poems

STOP WRITING POEMS THAT ARE ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE. HOW DARE YOU ASK ME TO READ A POEM THAT IS JUST ABOUT A TIME THAT YOU WERE ANGRY, SAD, OR HAPPY. YOU ARE NOT THAT INTERESTING. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THOSE POEMS. “Plum Poem” Once, I looked in the fridge, And I saw that ...

McSweeney’s
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Reviews of New Food: Skittles POP’d Freeze Dried Candy

Why would a fifty-five-year-old man try such a thing as Skittles POP’d Freeze Dried Candy, you might ask. I’ll tell you why. The grocery store was out of Nerds Very Berry Gummy Clusters, and a fiend needs his fix. We are in the midst of something like a golden age of candy t...