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McSweeney’s
• Gary Reddin
WIRED
• Kylie Robison
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.
Defector
• E.Y. Zhao
WIRED
• Megan Farokhmanesh
Discord users are already using video game characters to bypass the UK’s age-check laws. AI deepfakes could make things even more complicated.
WIRED
• Becky Ferreira
NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED.
The Texas Observer
• Ronak Desai
Even lifelong Texans may not have heard of my hometown of Lindale. With just under 5,000 people while I lived there, Lindale sits roughly 90 miles east of Dallas and bears many hallmarks of a small Texas town: more than three churches per square mile, roads dominated by trucks, and packed football stadiums on Friday […]
The post I Came from Rural Texas to Harvard’s MD-PhD program. Now, Trump Defunded that Program. appeared first on The Texas Observer.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

No team wants to take on a database migration. But many teams are migrating NoSQL databases to optimize performance at
The post What Matters Most for NoSQL Migrations appeared first on The New Stack.
Added a new reading goals bar to the top of Bookshelves in the Mac app. Love the way it turned out, with little progress indicators for the goal progress. Here’s a video:
Defector
• Lauren Theisen
How do you respond to a guy who's proven that he can crush your 103.9-mph fastball deep into left field for a four-bagger? Well, you don't throw him your 103.9-mph fastball; you dissolve him with your slider. That's how Mason Miller was able to begin his ninth-inning save on Wednesday night.
The Padres' big deadline add from not-Oakland was in the news for the wrong reason after Tuesday's game, when Diamondbacks DH Lourdes Gurriel Jr. tied the score in the eighth by making Miller's flameball the fastest pitch ever homered on (probably ever, but at least since they started keeping track of those things in 2008). San Diego recovered to win in extra innings, but it was hard to forget the fact that Miller's searing heat had been made to look so vincible.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson

The data serialization language used to deploy and run Kubernetes has gotten an overhaul. The upcoming 1.34 release of Kubernetes
The post Kubernetes Is Getting a Better YAML appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
While it’s not as revolutionary as the Framework Laptop, the Framework Desktop manages to combine a worthwhile balance of performance, upgradability, and size.
WIRED
• Louise Matsakis
China demonstrates how manipulating economic data can ultimately erode government credibility.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (D-AD36), the Democratic nominee for mayor, makes his pitch to voters as he runs for mayor of New York City.
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Dia adds $20/month subscription, with plans for other tiers later. I like Dia even without the AI features. Most people are not going to pay for either ChatGPT or Claude and a web browser. Wishing them luck because it is a nice browser.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.
Odd to see a Tim Hortons in Texas. ☕️
WIRED
• Eric Berger, Ars Technica
In the face of budget cuts, NASA has issued a new directive on how it will procure replacements for the International Space Station.
WIRED
• Christopher Null
These WIRED-tested and audiologist-approved devices will help you hear sounds more clearly. Never miss out on a dinner conversation again.