Get ready for a few hard right turns.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Tesla EVs
WIRED
• Jeremy White
Get ready for a few hard right turns.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
I didn’t sign up for the Trump Mobile cellphone plan. I still haven’t received my gold plated Trump phone. But the company just charged my credit card again.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

After Intel replaced him as CEO last December, Pat Gelsinger posted a message on X saying he would pray and
The post Former Intel CEO’s New AI Benchmark Focuses on Human Flourishing appeared first on The New Stack.
Seeing random Grok screenshots — not just the racist tweets, all the other craziness too — makes me appreciate how much that serious companies like OpenAI and Anthropic must actually work on alignment and guardrails. Grok seems imbued with a “personality” that is out of control.
Useful report from the Social Web Foundation after a privacy forum in Norway. From the first bullet point of next actions:
Create standard metadata fields within ActivityPub to indicate content visibility, consent preferences, and sharing restrictions across servers.
There is a tension in the fediverse between consent and the open web. It’s difficult to balance both ideals without over-complicating everything. Look at how confusing private mentions in Mastodon are.
McSweeney’s
• Andreas Trolf

ClickOps is a disgrace. As a community, we should ban it. And that should be obvious to anyone who’s serious
The post ClickOps Is a Disgrace appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
These Amazon Prime Day phone deals make it a smart time to upgrade, whether you're eyeing a new Pixel, OnePlus, or Samsung.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
The brand's second high-performance EV can hit 160 mph yet aims to be as at home on urban streets as the track. Whether you engage its sci-fi soundscape or artificial combustion cacophony is up to you.
WIRED
• Joe Ray
I asked an AI-powered recipe generator to make some menus. It didn’t tell me to put glue in my guacamole, but the results didn’t come close to besting recipes written by professionals.
WIRED
• Ryan Flinn
Patients and doctors are turning to AI for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, often with stellar results, but problems arise when experts and algorithms disagree.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
In this episode of Dev Pulse, hosts chat with Jason Cosper about the challenges and humor in infrastructure, consulting rates, communication, and the evolving role of AI in tech work and workflows.
WIRED
• Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
WIRED
• Fernanda González
The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this complex disease will likely need multiple complementary treatments.
WIRED
• Simon Hill
WIRED's favorite Wi-Fi 7 mesh system from Netgear is on sale for Amazon Prime Day.
WIRED
• Matt Reynolds
A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.
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Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
As AI advances, WordPress must choose between cloud-based tools or local agent workflows. Emerging protocols allow dynamic communication, influencing automation, privacy, and the future control of web content management.
WIRED
• Paresh Dave
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.