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Luke and Jonathan recap Season 9 of Crossword, preview Season 10, and share their thoughts on what they’re looking forward to over the next 6 months of WordPress. No cricket is discussed, but a recurring pun does make an appearance.

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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

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Good post from A New Social about the difference between bridging and cross-posting. The illustrations really help too.

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Perspective: I view WordPress as if it's my own product.

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Snake-in-the-Box Problem

Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

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I added two new subscription lists to lists.opml.org and it's better organized and more concise.

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A Brian Lehrer segment on specialized high schools in NYC. I went to one of them, signed up for the test mostly to get out of school for a day, and got in. Back in those days (the early 70s) no one studied for the test as far as I know. It has become very competitive and there's an issue of the racial makeup of the student body. As always Lehrer does a great podcast.

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Not much time to blog today, might have a podcast later. In the meantime I did a search of Daytona for object database, a term that goes back to the early days and makes for an interesting browse, at least for me.

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ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm

ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm

MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.

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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.

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Cameron Brink Is Back And Ready To Swat

Cameron Brink Is Back And Ready To Swat
Oh yeah, Cameron Brink! The Los Angeles Sparks’ No. 2 pick in 2024 last played in the WNBA over a year ago, when she tore her ACL in the first quarter of a game against the Sun. There's not really a convenient time for a torn ACL, but the timing of this one was rough: The in...

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AI Agents Are the New APIs: Mashery Founder’s New Company

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If APIs were the connective tissue between different websites and apps during the Web 2.0 era, then AI agents are

The post AI Agents Are the New APIs: Mashery Founder’s New Company appeared first on The New Stack.

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Why Latency Is Quietly Breaking Enterprise AI at Scale

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As enterprises invest an ever-increasing percentage of their tech budget on AI, they expect it to deliver groundbreaking efficiencies and

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Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Dallas Cowboys

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Dallas Cowboys

Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: “I no longer want to be here.”

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

A federal jury found crypto developer Roman Storm guilty of operating an unlicensed crypto business, but cleared him of sanctions violations and deadlocked on a money laundering charge.

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Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

The US government conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models—and never published the results.

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Honey, I Have No Clue What You’re Talking About—I Did NOT Use AI to Write My Wedding Vows

Kasey — From the moment I first saw you, I knew my life was about to change. You were beautiful—also intelligent, funny, and kind. Not long after we met, I knew I wanted to spend my life with you. Let me know if you’d like these opening lines to be warmer or more emotional. ...

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What to Know About the Eating Disorder ARFID

ARFID is an eating disorder that often presents as extremely picky eating, but that can quickly turn serious. Caitlin Moscatello, author and contributor to New York Magazine, and William Sharp, director, Children’s Multidisciplinary Feeding Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; and associate Professor, Division of Autism and Related Disorders & Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, explain how to recognize signs and how treatment is evolving. 

 

 


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The Nihilistic War In Sudan

Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum says the scale of destruction is vast and, as the conflict rages, people are overwhelmed by chaos.

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OpenAI: ‘Introducing gpt-oss’

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OpenAI: We’re releasing gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. Available under the flexible Apache 2.0 license, these models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoni...