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Spain Won An Ugly Game Thanks To Moments Of Splendor

Spain Won An Ugly Game Thanks To Moments Of Splendor

It's exceedingly rare to see a side enter an international tournament and manage to play its best, most aesthetically pleasing soccer for the entire month-long affair. It does happen—the Spanish men absolutely steamrolled Euro 2012, and the USWNT did the same at the 2019 World Cup—but more often than not, exhaustion, nerves, and tough matchups will force a team to win ugly on the way to the trophy. In Wednesday's Euro 2025 semifinal against Germany, Spain won ugly, as ugly as I've seen during the team's ongoing run of dominance, though La Roja did manage to sneak some real transcendence into a long and draining night in Zurich.

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Text • Fernanda González

The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet.

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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.

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Text • Advait Patel

Docker’s Biggest Security Threat: How Python Stops Container Attacks

Docker containers simplify deployment, making the process hassle-free. However, security remains a critical issue. An attacker can exploit vulnerabilities within

The post Docker’s Biggest Security Threat: How Python Stops Container Attacks appeared first on The New Stack.

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Text • Kelsey McKinney

How Do I Find A Non-Fiction Book I Won’t Hate?

How Do I Find A Non-Fiction Book I Won’t Hate?

Welcome to Ask The Book Doctor, a recurring series about books and reading them.

It can be nice to have a solid brand. For example, I always order the same drinks at the bar, so if I am running late, and I ask someone to order for me, I always get what I want, because I always want the same thing. But because I am consistent, people sometimes freak out when I choose something else. A week or so ago, I ordered a different drink at the bar, and everyone acted like I had two heads! The expectations people have of what I like, then, are determining the kinds of recommendations and information people give to me. No one told me the fancy little whiskey cocktail was so good, because no one thought I would want it!

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★ ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive

To maintain anonymity and store zero user data, there is and can be no web app version of ICEBlock. There is and can be no Android version. Only iOS supports the security and privacy features for ICEBlock to offer what it does, the way it does.

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Floodplains Belong to the Rivers

I’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. The bottom line is—we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change […]

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Text • Andy Greenberg

A Premium Luggage Service's Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats

Security flaws in Airportr, a door-to-door luggage checking service used by 10 airlines, let hackers access user data and even gain privileges that would have let them redirect or steal luggage.

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Text • Matthew Gault

Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games

Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games

The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.

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Enormous piles of money just sound crazy. Google spending $85 billion on capital expenditures this year, or about double what Twitter was sold for. Those AI data centers aren’t going to build themselves! Meanwhile, the scale of the OpenAI’s infrastructure in Abilene is starting to come into focus.

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Text • David Gilbert

An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US

A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He's now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

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The NYPD's Crackdown on Cyclists

WNYC/Gothamist reporters Stephen Nessen and Paige Oamek talk about the NYPD enforcement push against cyclists violating traffic rules, where the most summonses are issued and why violations often require trips to court.

 


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Text • Lauren Goode

Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves

One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection.

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How Elicitation in MCP Brings Human-in-the-Loop to AI Tools

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has transformed how AI systems connect to external services. Yet, until recently, those interactions remained

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Text • Verity Burns

No, of Course You Can't Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

A promo video of the new brick-built Nintendo collaboration has some people confused as to what your $60 will buy you.

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BTW, this business with Trump and the Fed is almost exactly what I wanted Obama to do with Garland when McConnell refused to hold hearings. Walk him over to the Supreme Court, unlock his office, swear him in and get back to work. Sometimes you just do it. The Dems weren't pragmatic that way.

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Upgraded to the latest Tahoe beta and now a couple of apps seem to be confused. Nova thinks it’s expired. I have an older serial number, but they should work forever just without updates. I think something might be weird with the system keychain.

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Text • Tom Ley

Pat McAfee Declares Himself A “Girl Dad” In Apology To Harassed College Student

Pat McAfee Declares Himself A “Girl Dad” In Apology To Harassed College Student

Pat McAfee ended his daily ESPN show on Wednesday by finally addressing the role he played in ruining a college student's reputation. To nobody's surprise, he was extremely annoying about it.

Back in February, McAfee used his show to amplify a rumor about Ole Miss student Mary Kate Cornett having an affair with her boyfriend's dad. The rumor had already gone viral on social media, with Cornett's name attached, and McAfee's decision to discuss it on air—during an interview with NFL insider Adam Schefter, of all people—made things much worse for her. Cornett's phone number was posted online, her mother's house was swatted, and she received so many threats that she had to switch to online courses and move into emergency housing.

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LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.

WIRED
Text • Scott Gilbertson

Zenbivy Light Bed Review: Still the Best Backcountry Sleep System

The revamped Zenbivy Light Bed still uses the company’s clever quilt-and-sheet sleeping system, but sheds some ounces for ultralight backpackers.