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Bare metal for the last decade has offered a performance edge when running Kubernetes and container infrastructure compared to containers

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Quick notes on WordLand v0.5.21. Complete notes to come.

Tweaked a few things with the new “Archive with months” Micro.blog plug-in. Pretty happy with it. Might still integrate search as an option later.

Donald Trump was good friends with the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for many years, the New York Times reported over the weekend, a friendship that included Trump hosting Epstein at "raucous parties with cheerleaders and models." The Times wrote that one "woman has said that Mr. Trump groped her when Mr. Epstein brought her to Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet him." Also: "Another accuser recalled being eyed by Mr. Trump during a brief encounter in Mr. Epstein’s office, and claimed that Mr. Epstein had told Mr. Trump at the time that 'she’s not for you.'"

Furthermore, the Times wrote:

The thing that the New York Yankees are doing is not sign-stealing. For one thing, it is entirely independent of the communications of their opponents, which raises it entirely above the board, according to both the rules and the traditions of baseball. For another, professi...

Whether it’s for training or for inference, data is the bedrock of AI applications. Today, inference workloads get the most

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Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC and Gothamist newsroom, talks about the latest conflict over a bike lane in Brooklyn, plus why Congressman Jerrold Nadler got into a heated back-and-forth with the US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over subway crime.

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Brian Stelter, chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide, lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter and the author of several books, including Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for America (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), offers analysis of all the big media stories, including the defunding of NPR and PBS, CBS's cancellation of Stephen Colbert's top-rated late night show, the latest on Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA, and relatedly, President Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal.

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Surveys show more women than men are working remotely when they are giving the chance. Te-Ping Chen, Wall Street Journal work and work culture reporter, talks about why that is, and how it might be holding women back in the workplace. 

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After following vibe coding’s rapid rise as the top software development trend, I decided to use it to build a

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I'm doing a complicated corner-turn with WordLand and managed to F it up. There's a buggy version of the software running at wordland.social this morning. I'm working as fast as I can to get a good release working in its place, in the meantime, it's not good for very much. Still diggin. As they say. :-)

CARCASSONNE, France — It is hard to know what is going on in the Tour de France, even if your job is to work on the Tour de France. The end of every stage includes a familiar ritual, with team employees and journalists gathering around phones and tablets, squinting into the ...

Have you been counting down the days until our Monday crossword? This week’s puzzle was constructed by Daniel Hrynick and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Dan lives in Winnipeg, where he works as a laborer for Public Works. A commenter on his previous puzzle mentioned that they were disappointed that the clue for MOOG referenced the synthesizers and not Andy Moog. That comment was on his mind when he clued 1-Across in this puzzle.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE. Note that our submissions are closed through July 31. 

Carmel Swann moved to Texas in June 2021 looking for a fresh start and a chance to leave bad decisions behind. But, within weeks, she was in the Harris County Jail after an altercation with the man she’d moved in with. Then, she discovered she was pregnant from a prior relationship. She began working on […]

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ChatGPT agent looks impressive. I’m noticing a pattern when these kind of new tools come out, where initially I’m not sure what to do with them. This example from Federico Viticci is great, though: I asked ChatGPT agent to process hundreds of issues of MacStories Weekly on ...

This is the third part of a series. Read also:  Driving Platform Adoption: The Missed Opportunity of Marketing Driving Platform

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Craving carb-y comfort? We picked our favorite outdoor ovens for backyards, countertops, or camping.

Everything about the NFL Players Association sludgeslide seems so predestined and unavoidable. The usual predicament has been made worse by disgraced former union chief Lloyd Howell getting confused about what side he works for and former president J.C. Tretter misunderstand...

In tests involving the Prisoner's Dilemma, researchers found that Google’s Gemini is “strategically ruthless,” while OpenAI is collaborative to a “catastrophic” degree.