OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.
Defector
• Tom Scocca
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter.
Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people—"three male terrorists killed in action" was how he put it. By "terrorists," the president meant nothing more than that he claimed the three people were smuggling drugs; by "in action," he meant that they were traveling in a boat in the Caribbean when a U.S. military aircraft hunted them down and killed them.
Tracks at North Lamar and Airport Blvd. 🚂
ChatGPT is great at SVG. Describe the icon you want and in a few iterations you have it, even if it's not in Font Awesome. I would have killed to have this a few years ago, before FA came out. This is the best of both -- use FA if they have the right icon, design your own if they don't. It also makes me think that now perhaps SVG-based user interfaces are within the realm of possibility. CSS is no way to design UIs. I have a podcast in the pipe about this. If you want to know what I mean, look at the docs for QuickDraw.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Dario Esposito

As organizations scale and adopt more DevOps and cloud native technologies, developers often struggle to navigate the fragmented ecosystem of
The post Internal Developer Portal vs. Platform: What’s the Difference? appeared first on The New Stack.
Defector
• Drew Magary
Three years of painstaking roster-building by the Minnesota Vikings needed less than 24 hours to be blown apart. Go back to last week and Minnesota’s newly christened starting QB, J.J. McCarthy, appeared ready to fulfill his destiny as this franchise’s long-awaited savior after engineering a 21-point fourth quarter explosion in a comeback win at Soldier Field. A few days later, his fiancée gave birth to their first child, a boy. A few days after that, he made his formal debut at the Vikings home stadium on Sunday Night Football against the Falcons. The crowd was poised to detonate. Some Vikings fans had been waiting decades for this moment. Here’s what they got instead:
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a report on the state of children's health. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, talks about the details of the report and where it fits into the Trump administration's MAHA initiative.
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Now would be a good time for everyone to watch this movie. This is where we are now. It's not in the future. Getting this info will help. Spread the word. Download a copy too. It's a great movie.
The Texas Observer
• Reality Winner
The following is excerpted from I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir, out September 16 from Spiegel & Grau. It is reprinted with permission of the publisher, © 2025. It began like any other day. I woke around 4:30 a.m., took Mickey outside for a few minutes, and, no later than 5:30, drove to work […]
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Using the new hidden=until-found attribute-value combo as a progressive enhancement to make your existing collapsible sections searchable.
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• Patrick Redford
McSweeney’s
• Dan Kennedy
McSweeney’s
• Lisa Borders
WIRED
• Parker Hall
Got gunky earbuds or over-ears? Here is how to clean them without ruining them.
WIRED
• Jacob Roach
Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.
Defector
• David Roth
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs so American buyers won't buy their products.
WIRED
• Lisa Wood Shapiro
No chimney? No problem. LED and gel fuel fireplaces are excellent alternatives for those who can’t or don’t want to burn wood. We tried one of each to see which method is best.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
WordPress Playground revolutionizes web development by providing a browser-based platform for learning and experimentation, making it accessible globally, particularly for users in resource-limited areas.