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6 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2025): Tested and Reviewed

Headphone jacks are endangered, but they’re not gone. Here are our favorite smartphones that still let you plug and play.

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How Frontier Firms Are Revolutionizing DevOps With AI Agents

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Imagine a workplace where you’re not toggling between tabs, copy-pasting updates, or waiting on Slack pings. Instead, you direct a

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Anne Sturdivant

Very sad to hear that Anne Sturdivant has passed away. If you were active on Micro.blog over the last couple of years, you may have read her blog or been part of conversations with her. Her username around the web was @anniegreens. I spent some time this morning browsing her...

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WordLand v0.5.15 is out.

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Roku Streaming Stick Plus Review: Cheap, Simple, and Pretty

This cheap little dongle is the perfect way to get better apps on your smart TV.

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An Open Letter to Everyone Telling My Daughters They Can Be Anything They Want

Dear Everyone Telling My Daughters They Can Be Anything They Want, Please stop. I agree with you in spirit, but telling my five and four-year-old daughters they can be anything they want only gets their hopes up, which you’re forcing me to dash. I’m already the bad guy at be...

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Reviews of New Food: Utz Lemonade Potato Chips

Remember the summertime barbecues of childhood? Sunshine, sprinklers, the slurred speech of day-drunk parents? When, as kids, we’d eat potato chips and, alternately, drink lemonade? Delicious, but so inefficient. With a chip in one hand and a lemonade in the other, how did w...

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Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker

Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker

It’s a legal requirement for data brokers to register in the state of California. ARC, the airlines-owned data broker that has been selling your flight information to the government for years, only just registered after being contacted by the office of Senator Ron Wyden.

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'My Bad:' Babyface Vance Meme Creator On Norwegian Tourist's Detainment

'My Bad:' Babyface Vance Meme Creator On Norwegian Tourist's Detainment

404 Media spoke to Dave McNamee, the original creator of the babyface Vance meme, about free speech, our rights, and how it feels to see the thing you created being blamed for someone's denial of entry to the U.S.

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The Politics Of Fear Don’t Work Against A Candidate Who Isn’t Scared

The Politics Of Fear Don’t Work Against A Candidate Who Isn’t Scared
If there is one takeaway from Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, it's that there is no one takeaway. The democratic socialist and his wide-ranging canvassing team built a coalition that brought in voters of all backgrounds, l...

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Anthros Chair V2 Review: Surprisingly Great

This might be the most supportive office chair I've ever sat on.

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A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families

A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families

An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."

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Bernie Sanders asks what the Democrats should learn from Mr. Z's victory in the NYC primary this week. Here's what I say. Forget about ever rising from the ashes of what remains of the party. Right now, the issue is how to defend the city from the coming war with the US government. They're already holding the current mayor hostage. This will be worse than 9-11 and Covid. We have no leadership. We're totally fucked, what the Democratic Party does or doesn't do, at this point, simply doesn't matter.

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10 Perks Prime Members Can Snag Before Prime Day (2025)

From free Audible trials to savings on food and fuel, these Prime-exclusive promotions are worth it.

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Tovala Meal Kit and Oven Review (2025): We're Nearing Robot Chef

Tovala's steam-enabled Pro is a powerful toaster oven that doubles as a prepared meal kit. It has some quirks, but the meals are tasty.

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How We Built Our AI Email Assistant: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Cora

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You don’t need to handle your inbox anymore. It’s Cora’s job now.  Cora is the AI chief of staff we built for your email at Every. It’s been in private beta for the last 6 months and currently manages email for 2,500 beta users—and today we’re making it available for a...

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Grafana’s CTO on the State of the Observability Market 

SEATTLE — Observability continues to see a trend of a number of new players entering the market, while in-use adopters

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Texas Lawmakers Want More Control of the Tesla Robotaxis on Their Roads

WIRED spoke to Texas State Senator Sarah Eckhardt, who represents part of the area in Austin served by Tesla’s new and limited robotaxi service.

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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

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Breaking Down the Massive Cuts to Science Funding

In the months since taking office, President Trump has made billions of dollars in cuts to scientific research, essentially saying science has become too woke. Emily Anthes, a science reporter at The New York Times, explains what is being cut and how much the world of scienc...