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For years, a powerful farm industry group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.

Great post from David Smith about his latest hiking trip:

What I kept coming back to was that in order to have a true “Adventure”, there has to be a high degree of likelihood that you won’t complete it as planned. If the outcome is all but a foregone conclusion when you begin, then you aren’t exploring, you aren’t finding the edges of your abilities.

I also love what has become his yearly routine of taking time away to reflect in the weeks leading up to WWDC.

In today’s data-driven world, time series information flows constantly from countless sources: Internet of Things (IoT) devices, system metrics, financial

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This year's WNYC Health Convening with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation continues with a look at the current state of cancer research in the United States. Sudip Parikh, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin

Each year the news division hosts the WNYC Health Convening with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as an opportunity for healthcare experts and practitioners to inform WNYC's health reporting. This year, as part of our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter and co-editor of The Cancer History Project, discusses the century of cancer treatment advancements and how the U.S. government played a major part in funding the science for treatment, early detection and prevention.

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Engineers often feel a lot of ownership over the code they write. That’s understandable: it’s partially their creation, and it’s also their workspace, so they have a direct interest in it being a nice place to work in.

The VC model of technology cannot allow for the joyful technology artist. Joyful artistic technology is humane, useful, interesting, accomplished and occasionally it may be profitable and world-changing. It is not something that will ever be produced by AI, nor can it be produced by the apparent inhumane factory conditions that big tech firms desire to turn their programming operations into.

Speaking of spam, I’m starting to get a lot more emails from people wanting to invest in or buy Micro.blog. Not sure what changed or whether these are sincere. I used to respond to these kind of emails, now have to ignore them.

“Just do it,” is the advice of Sam Altman for enterprise leaders wondering how to get their organizations started down

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It’s 1994. Nike, whose golden goose has put down the basketball and picked up the baseball bat, is trying to figure out what to do with one of the brightest young talents in the NBA. His name is Penny Hardaway. His game is silky smooth, his shot is effortless, and he glides ...

After a transgender high school athlete won two events at last weekend's California track and field championships, President Donald Trump has threatened to defund the state. Katie Barnes, ESPN senior writer covering the intersection of sports and gender, and author of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates (St. Martin's Press, 2023), discusses the controversy surrounding trans women in competitive sports, fact-checks ideas the broader public holds about fairness and gender in athletics, and talks about current rules various leagues already set in place to ensure equity and inclusion. 

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The promise of microservices is tantalizing — independent deployments, team autonomy and rapid releases. Yet after working with hundreds of

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Our first impression of the Switch 2 launch title is that it marks a strong start for Nintendo’s new era.

The list of playable characters in the Switch 2’s premiere game has expanded to more than 50—including birds, plants, and other players without hands or feet.

Republican lawmakers in Texas have long blocked heat illness prevention legislation and other mandates. During the record-breaking summer heat wave of 2023, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the so-called “Death Star” bill, banning many local ordinances, including those p...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. More than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity currently under development in the U.S. would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy […]

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In the heart of Silicon Valley, tech titans are unleashing an unprecedented $320 billion AI infrastructure spending spree for 2025

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PHILADELPHIA — The Benham Brothers think they are very funny and very smart. They are 50-year-old tall, blonde, identical twins who have a series of scripted jokes that mostly amount to calling each other stupid and effeminate. They are not pastors, which is maybe why they a...

Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.