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Our Plan for Peace Was Simple: Kill Everyone

We didn’t always have a straightforward strategy for peacekeeping. Our top brass spent day and night working it out. We ordered lunch for the office and called to say we’d be home late or not at all. We assumed the remedy we were searching for would be full of complexities—m...

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New David Frum show video just posted: Ukraine won't surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1b_TPgODKg&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1

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Confronting AI’s Next Big Challenge: Inference Compute

Sid Sheth, founder and CEO of d-Matrix, argues that inference is anything but one-size-fits-all in this New Stack Makers podcast episode.

The computing demands of training AI models may get a lot of the attention from the tech industry — just

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How to Write for Busy Readers: Why Less Is More with Todd Rogers

What if the secret to effective communication isn't adding more—but cutting ruthlessly? Harvard behavioral scientist Todd Rogers joins Guy to reveal the counterintuitive science behind writing that actually gets read. From his groundbreaking research on voter engagement to r...

WIRED
Text • Boutayna Chokrane

How Much Protein You Really Need, According to the Experts (2025)

Protein is having a moment—but most of us were never short on it to begin with.

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@thehubcanada.bsky.social dialogue about the enduring power of the ancient myth: a sinless sufferer tormented by demonic Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDIfRRHzvI

Platformer Supports Webmention Valid
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OpenAI returns to open weights

OpenAI returns to open weights

An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?

WIRED
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Totem Compass Review: Find Your Friends, No Reception Required

Stuck at a festival with no reception? To find your group, just look down.

WIRED
Text • Gretchen Rundorff

See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10, but will be best viewed later in the month. Here's everything you need to know to see it at its best.

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Stack Overflow on Snowflake Cortex: Answers Without Attitude

For years, developers would go to Stack Overflow to ask and answer technical questions, and the site built up a

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WIRED
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16 Best Electric Bikes of 2025, Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking

We tested the best electric bikes in every category, from commuters and mountain bikes to foldables and cruisers.

WIRED
Text • Joel Khalili

Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs

When US president Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes in April, he set in motion a seven-day rush to bring goods into the country. Bitcoin miners elbowed their way to the front of the queue.

WIRED
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Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations.

WIRED
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Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.

WIRED
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The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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More Money Was Supposed to Help Poor Kids. So Why Didn’t It?

For many, the logic seemed unassailable: Giving poor families money would measurably improve the lives of their children. And so a few years ago, social scientists set out to test whether that assumption was right. The results of the experiment have shocked them.Guest: Jason...

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Nick Heer blogging about the Ghost 6.0 release:

If Ghost added MarsEdit support, I would be awful tempted to switch from WordPress.

Probably not going to happen. People have asked for it. Ghost has oddly never cared about open APIs until recently, with ActivityPub, and even that was years after everyone else added support for it.

If you want the most support for lots of APIs and publishing from different apps, there are only two suitable platforms: WordPress and Micro.blog.

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Ukraine Won’t Surrender

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about the crumbling of U.S. support for Ukraine under President Donald Trump. He lays out how the Trump administration has slowed the flow of weapons to Ukraine, undermined sanctions on Ru...

WIRED
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Police Report: Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking

President Donald Trump shared a photo of the DOGE staffer after the alleged attack and threatened to "federalize" Washington, DC. WIRED obtained the police report.

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Google’s Gemini CLI Agent Comes to GitHub

Google Cloud advertising on the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Gemini CLI, ‘s open source AI agent that developers access from the terminal and that competes with the likes of

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