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Only ’90s Kids Will Understand This Dead Language Found Scrawled in Blood on the Wall of a Taco Bell Bathroom

Remember Ecto Cooler? IT remembers you. IT remembers every dark day you spent hiding in your room. All the hours listening to NSYNC while you carved the names of dead gods into your Trapper Keeper. IT knows your flesh, your sins, your AOL user ID. No, not that one. The one y...

WIRED
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Is Here

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.

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Sweating Through The Existential Angst Of A Las Vegas Table Tennis Tournament

Sweating Through The Existential Angst Of A Las Vegas Table Tennis Tournament
LAS VEGAS — From July 3-13, World Table Tennis staged a Grand Smash tournament in Las Vegas for the first time. Like the Grand Slams of tennis, the Grand Smashes sit atop WTT’s tournament hierarchy, and with $1.55 million in prizes and main draws of 64 top players, the Smash...

WIRED
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Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

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
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Why the US Is Racing to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

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
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I Came from Rural Texas to Harvard’s MD-PhD program. Now, Trump Defunded that Program.

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 […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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What Matters Most for NoSQL Migrations

Silhouette of masses great egrets flying in the sunset sky to illustrate migration concept.

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.

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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
Text • Lauren Theisen

Better Not Guess Wrong Against Mason Miller

Better Not Guess Wrong Against Mason Miller

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.

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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

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
Text • Joab Jackson

Kubernetes Is Getting a Better YAML

The data serialization language used to deploy and run Kubernetes has gotten an overhaul. The upcoming 1.34 release of Kubernetes

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WIRED
Text • Luke Larsen

Framework Desktop Review: A Delightful Surprise

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
Text • Louise Matsakis

Trump Is Undermining Trust in Official Economic Statistics. China Shows Where That Path Can Lead

China demonstrates how manipulating economic data can ultimately erode government credibility.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Zohran Mamdani

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.

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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org

More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org

The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.

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Odd to see a Tim Hortons in Texas. ☕️

WIRED
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NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations

In the face of budget cuts, NASA has issued a new directive on how it will procure replacements for the International Space Station.

WIRED
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The Best Hearing Aids of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

These WIRED-tested and audiologist-approved devices will help you hear sounds more clearly. Never miss out on a dinner conversation again.