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ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification

ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification

OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.

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How Do You Stop A Serial Killer?

How Do You Stop A Serial Killer?

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.

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Tracks at North Lamar and Airport Blvd. 🚂

Railroad tracks stretch into the distance, flanked by greenery and utility poles, under a clear blue sky.

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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.

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Internal Developer Portal vs. Platform: What’s the Difference?

Futuristic illustration of a portal.

As organizations scale and adopt more DevOps and cloud native technologies, developers often struggle to navigate the fragmented ecosystem of

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J.J. McCarthy Awful, Then A Hero, Then A Father, Then Awful Again, Then A Bust, Now Hurt

J.J. McCarthy Awful, Then A Hero, Then A Father, Then Awful Again, Then A Bust, Now Hurt

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:

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Inside RFK Jr's MAHA Report on Childhood Health

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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To people who read my blog. If you have a quick thought about something you read here, it's ok if you send me an email. It should be short and not personal, if it adds some info or perspective that might be interesting, or if you just agree feverishly (not so much if you disa...

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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.

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‘I Am Not Your Enemy’

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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A Dissection Of The Kawhi Leonard Scandal, With Noah Kulwin

A Dissection Of The Kawhi Leonard Scandal, With Noah Kulwin
One strange reaction to the ongoing story of Kawhi Leonard's strange no-show contract with the bizarre and now-failed startup Aspiration and whether or not that represents salary cap circumvention has been bafflement that Pablo Torre, and not one of the more sourced-up NBA r...

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Gen-X Man Attends Oasis Reunion Concert

So, I’m the same age as Noel and Liam. And they’ll make $50 million each by the end of the tour. Goddammit, I don’t have enough saved. Nowhere near enough saved. I like this song, but can you imagine if you really did live forever? They’d be fine. I wouldn’t. I’d have to fig...

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An Excerpt from Lisa Borders’s New Novel, Last Night at the Disco

- - - In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s. Decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her ...

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How to Clean AirPods (and Other Earbuds)

Got gunky earbuds or over-ears? Here is how to clean them without ruining them.

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5 Best VPN Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

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How To Go To A Mets Game

How To Go To A Mets Game
QUEENS — My nephew is still learning how to watch the Mets, and it is with roughly equal amounts of pride and dismay that I can report he seems to be picking it up pretty well. It took years, and a decent number of previous trips to the ballpark that were in retrospect trans...

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$2,000 Shipping: International Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing With American Tariffs

$2,000 Shipping: International Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing With American Tariffs

Some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs so American buyers won't buy their products.

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The Best Ventless Fireplaces for Cozy Vibes (2025)

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.

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How WordPress Playground Is Opening Doors to Inclusive Learning Everywhere

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.