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15 Best Tablets (2025), Tested and Reviewed

We’ve tested all the top slates, from Apple’s iPads to Android and Windows devices, and rounded up our favorites.

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Best 5 Prime Day Kitchen Deals (2025): Breville, Ooni, Oxo

Treat yourself to good taste this summer with Amazon Prime Day deals on WIRED's favorite espresso machine, air fryer, low-cost grinder, and more.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Kraft Trims Snowflake Bill with AI App to Fine-Tune Queries

How do you make the most of your deployments? By optimizing the heck out of query executions and data warehouse

The post Kraft Trims Snowflake Bill with AI App to Fine-Tune Queries appeared first on The New Stack.

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New thread on Mastodon: OK, i give up for now on getting a team of nerds together to build a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub along the lines of what Automattic has done to bridge WordPress to ActivityPub.

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The Floodwaters Are Rising

The Floodwaters Are Rising
It's easy to forget that God's covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again ... however. "Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life," the Bible says He said. But He never promised that He wouldn't let the fl...

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This is what the web feels like

Yesterday I wondered if the open web is a lost cause. A few minutes later, I saw my name in a tweet on Bluesky from Aram Zucker-Scharff. In it was a message that can be summarized as follows -- don't give up yet Dave. AZS has a linkblog which he calls an amplifeed. Same thi...

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The topology of social networks

I wrote this on Bluesky this morning. Most of what passes for discourse on platforms like Bluesky amounts to spam and abuse. Makes expensive moderation necessary and who’s going to pay for that on an open system. It’s why this approach can’t lead anywhere but to yet another...

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Sal from Blueberries for Sal Breaks Her Silence

Thank you for coming to my press conference. Many people describe the Caldecott Honor–winning tome by Robert McCloskey, which recounts my harrowing tale, with words like “precious” and “adorable.” Truth is, inadvertently switching places with a bear cub and almost being rais...

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Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon

LLMs don’t read the danger in requests if you use enough big words.

WIRED
Text • Boutayna Chokrane

How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

Welcome to the Wild West of online beauty shopping. Here’s how not to get scammed.

WIRED
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Nothing Phone (3) Review: The Designer Phone

Nothing's latest flagship phone may not be the best value, but it certainly has charm.

WIRED
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22 Best MacBook Accessories (2025), Tested and Reviewed

From charging adapters to external monitors, we’ve gathered the essential peripherals for your MacBook.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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No Disruption: How Quesma Rewrites the Data Migration Playbook

Ask a data team what they would do if they could rebuild their infrastructure from scratch, and it’s a pretty

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Context Engineering: Going Beyond Prompt Engineering and RAG

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The initial wave of large language model (LLM) development centered on prompt engineering – carefully crafting the right question or

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The Texas Observer
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In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health

The first data center in the Stargate project—a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank—is being built in a surprising location: Abilene.  The data center is set to cost $1.1 billion, and, to hear local officials say it, Abilene and its 130,000 residents have just struck gold. “It will […]

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WIRED
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5 Best Prime Day Pet Deals on Amazon (2025)

Amazon Prime Day has expanded to four days. From automatic litter boxes to at-home DNA test kits, these are the best pet-related deals we've found.

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5 Prime Day Kindle Deals (Plus Amazon Echo Devices)

Amazon’s biannual sale event is the best time to shop for a Kindle e-reader, Echo speaker, and many more of Amazon’s own devices.

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5 Best Prime Day Fitness Tracker Deals and Smart Ring Sales (2025)

It's summer and we're ready to run around like crazy. These deals on fitness trackers and smart rings—like the Oura Ring—will help you do that.

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

The National Academy for AI Instruction will make artificial intelligence training accessible to educators across the country, according to leaked details.

WIRED
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Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2025: MacBooks, Chromebooks, and More

We've tested just about every laptop you'd want to buy, and these are the best deals we've found for Amazon Prime Day.