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The pressure is escalating on President Trump and Republicans to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Survivors of Epstein’s sex trafficking spoke out on Wednesday, and one of them, Haley Robson, directly took on Trump in a very powerful way. She denounced him f...

From an AI-driven robot vacuum to self-emptying stations for its next-gen stick vacuums, Dyson’s lineup will never be the same. You’ll have to wait until 2026 to get your hands on most of it, though.

SEASON 4 EPISODE 10: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump ain't dead, and neither is his cover-up of the Epstein Files. The TRUMPStein Files. And if you gave him a script and told him what to do to RE-IGNITE the Trumpstein Tire Fire every time...

Lab Notes 009: thinking about how Leaflet can play nicely with other apps and lexicons for longform publishing, for the good of the atproto ecosystem [reply to "The Lexicon Interop Problem"]

New status and notifications when emails are blocked due to content auditing.

If you’re on the iOS 26 beta and use Micro.blog, you may want to try switching to our TestFlight beta. It is updated with very minimal Liquid Glass support. Nothing drastic, most of the app is going to stay flat and non-squishy.

There are many levels to the excellent Scott Alexander satire of God, Iblis (Islamic word for devil), and Dwarkesh Patel, one of the best new podcasters of this era. There are people who have gone their whole lives without realizing that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and the ABC Song are all … Continue reading God & Devil Debate HI →

Sounds like things are moving forward on a possible Gemini-powered Siri. Mark Gurman reports on an agreement between Google and Apple for testing, and a bunch more about Apple’s plans and new Siri architecture:

Apple is rebuilding Siri around three core components: a planner, the search systems for the web and devices, and a summarizer. The planner interprets voice or text input and decides how to respond; the search system scans the web or user data; and the summarizer pulls it all together into an answer.

Thought about burning an expedited review request with Apple. It has been many years since I asked for one. But also, reviews are consistently 24 hours, so don’t want to risk making things worse than just waiting.

A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim.

We look at the stormy tenure of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg discusses how RFK Jr.'s cuts to government staff and expert groups will impact everyday Americans. A vaccine skeptic, Kennedy fired the CDC director last week. 

Also, John Powers reviews the Prime Video thriller series Butterfly, starring Daniel Dae Kim.  

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Character.AI became one of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence apps by letting tens of millions of users, many in their teens, text and talk to chatbot versions of celebrities and fictional characters. But conversation with these seemingly friendly chatbots can easily veer into topics unsafe for minors.

Host Colby Itkowitz talks to tech culture reporter Nitasha Tiku about this new world of AI chatbots, and why parents and advocates are raising concerns. 

Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy, with help from Sabby Robinson. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter.

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Exploring more powerful Shadow DOM composition using manual slot assignment.

Nobody won Stage 11 of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday in Bilbao, as race organizers chose to neutralize the stage due to huge groups of anti-genocide protestors at the finish line. Thousands gathered and waved Palestinian flags in in protest of the inclusion of second-tier team Israel–Premier Tech (IPT), and as Jonas Vingegaard and Tom Pidcock were riding toward town, organizers said over race radio that the stage would be neutralized three kilometers out "due to some incidents at the finish line."

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Since 2019, fans have eagerly awaited Team Cherry’s next game, which is out this week. In the meantime, they got creative.

It’s great that you want your developers to be productive. They want this, too. What I struggle to understand in

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These days, it seems like the only qualification someone needs to opine on what’s best for our nation’s schools is their own dimly remembered time as a student. Combine that with volatile, emotionally charged topics like politics and religion, and suddenly, everyone’s an exp...

Your smart home devices generate vast amounts of scattered data. This tutorial will show you how to centralize this data

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