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All the President’s Men is a great movie. Sometimes I think about one particular line from it. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are feeling so much pressure to get the story right, attacked by the Nixon administration and questioned inside the Washington Post, because of all ...

In just three hours, water levels in Central Texas rose over 30 feet, surprising local communities that say they had little time to prepare and no warning. What ensued was one of the most destructive floods the region has seen in decades.

Colby Itkowitz speaks with extreme weather reporter Brianna Sacks about what made the floods in Texas so catastrophic, why local communities were caught off guard, and how these floods have impacted the summer camp culture in Central Texas.

Today’s show was produced by Arjun Singh, with help from Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick, with help from Laura Benshoff. It was mixed by Sean Carter. 

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On his first day at Databricks in 2013, Michael Armbrust — employee No. 9, — began coding Spark SQL. Twelve years

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I wrote this early this morning as a test post for my WordLand site. Happy to report that my linkblog routine is back to normal. I really shook things up there, and it probably wasn't a great time investment. I had been using a custom front-end to FeedLand, which has a buil...

A longish thread that probably isn't going anywhere. My final thoughts, cc'd here to get on the record. anyway it's feeling like a lost cause. to be really blunt, i don't think AP or ATP are the answer. and i also don't care so much about this style of conversation. and i ...

More than $160 million in crypto is riding on the definition of 'suit.'

If Zohran Mamdani does the inevitable and becomes mayor, and if he avoids deportation for committing the most tell-tale sign of a communist—using your hands to eat chicken over rice—New Yorkers might experience a cultural shift not seen since Jay-Z and Alicia Keys convinced ...

Rebecca Rubin, reporting for Variety: When it comes to Apple’s biggest films, F1: The Movie has officially moved to pole position. I will allow this pun. F1 has generated $293 million at the global box office after 10 days of release, overtaking the entire theatric...

It can be hard to catch a nap while traveling, but these pillows can help.

I can see the argument that Apple’s answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users”. But I can’t see the argument that the answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users, but only if they’re trying to buy in-app content or subscriptions, but not confusing at all if they’re trying to buy, say, movie tickets.”

Being able to read others’ code is essential for maintaining, improving and collaborating on any meaningful software project. It’s rare

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These WIRED-tested AC units have been lodged into our windows and cooling our homes for months, if not years.

Paige Lakovic heard the meow first. She'd headed over to Section 103 before the Toledo Mud Hens' game last Thursday. Staffers had been alerted: There was a cat in the seating area. Lakovic was out to find it, but the frightened kitty had already moved. But a little mew was all she needed to suss out his location.

"He was so small," she says. "He really looked like a bunny … I was trying to get a look at him first before I just grabbed him. But I waited a little too long and he ran down the entire row. So I had to chase him down, and then I just kind of grabbed a scruff." Lakovic, the media production coordinator for the Mud Hens, brought him back to the press box and put him in a corrugated box.

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BROOKLYN — The first year, they wrestled in a tub of lube. The second year, it was crushed tomatoes and cooked noodles. The third? Baked beans. But the first I saw of the Twinks vs. Dolls Olympics was that one Instagram story screenshot: a couple dozen people crowded into the backyard of the Brooklyn bar Singers surrounding a smaller circle of smoke-clouded contestants huffing back those darts as fast as they could. “Twinks vs dolls cigarette race,” the text read. That image’s Twitter virality catapulted the first annual Twinks vs. Dolls Olympics, a decidedly offline affair, into something much grander.

There’s undeniable tech momentum in business today. Frequent breakthroughs in large language models, automation, and generative artificial intelligence are enabling

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