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As the U.S. government shutdown enters its second day, Democrats are trying to underline that the growing political fight is all about the rising cost of health care. The New York Times journalists Margot Sanger-Katz and Shane Goldmacher explain why the Democrats are betting...

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unleashed a strange Truth Social rant declaring straight out that farmers are getting hurt because China is not buying soybeans. Of course, Trump’s own trade wars are the reason for this, so he in effect admitted that his own po...

These finger vibrators come with an earbud-like rechargeable case, but a few too many flaws ruin the fun idea.

SEASON 4 EPISODE 20: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT:  “The President is unhinged. He is Unwell. The President is Unwell.” Representative Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania with perhaps the most important eleven words in the past decade, perhap...

We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but Democrats are dangerously close to keeping health insurance costs from spiking. We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government. We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdow...

Had no idea about this secret album from Mariah Carey, produced with her friend Clarissa Dane. Gina Trapani blogs:

To blow off steam, she writes a grunge rock album inspired by alt-rock bands like Garbage, Hole, and Sleater-Kinney. She records it at night with the band after the Daydream sessions, channeling her frustrations into the music, and picks the most perfect name for such a project: Someone’s Ugly Daughter.

Love this. 🎶

Danger Gently is the name of the band I occasionally get a seat in here in lovely Bend, Oregon. We played at the High Desert Museum the other week for their “Art in the West” event. We play at The Cellar every Wednesday night (I make it to as many as I can). Here’s a […]

Listening to today's David Frum podcast, from a journalist who says he reps the facts-only brand of journalism. He says his guest invented podcasting in 2014, about 14 years after we started it. He then says that anyone in tech in the late 1990s made hundreds of millions of...

‘I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AIdog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances.’

The effects of the government shutdown – which started early Wednesday morning – are already being felt. Some national parks are closed, federal job training is suspended, and large swaths of the federal workforce have been furloughed. One major debate led to the shutdown: a fundamental disagreement over health care policy.

Today on Post Reports, national health reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham joins host Elahe Izadi to break down the ins and outs of the health care policy fight that Democrats used to force a government shutdown. 

Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. with help from Lucas Trevor. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks also to Fenit Nirappil.

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Sometimes the battle for open source and freedom can take on very prosaic and practical terms, but the wins can benefit everybody. To give an example: In Beeper we need more memory for showing notifications, because we support end-to-end encryption for networks like Signal, but Apple’s default was to only give 15 megabytes — barely … Continue reading Fight For Open →

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

This week's episode of Nothing But Respect is in fact two episodes, because what was initially planned as two half-sized chats blossomed into two full-size chats, and Harry and I wanted to make sure both guests stood out. The first episode, with Maitreyi Anantharaman, concerns the state of the WNBA playoffs, and while there is some now-dated Fever–Aces chat, I think that stuff is, A) good, and B) not that dated. Also the rest of it is really good, and it functions as a backdoor look at basically every Aussie in the league besides Ezi.

The second episode, with playwright Max Wolf Friedlich of JOB fame, concerns the psychic state of Knicks fandom, why it feels so great to root for bad teams, and his recent essay in i-D about working on the team that runs Lil Miquella, a bizarre AI influencer project that was ahead of its time (derogatory).

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens, with the same time parameters as the professional-grade bakers competing on the show.

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Vibe coding — using AI to generate code using natural language prompts — has captured plenty of attention this year.

The post How To Use Vibe Coding Safely in the Enterprise appeared first on The New Stack.

At a a recent online conference, I said that we can “change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed.” I was talking about media — images, video, audio. We can make it much easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real. There’s work to do, but it’s straightforward stuff and we could get there soon. Here’s how

Hours after Napheesa Collier made a thorough, spectacular argument in favor of the idea that women should be paid to play basketball, the Las Vegas Aces and Indiana Fever supported their colleague's assertions by contesting one of the best and gnarliest games of the WNBA pla...

Ninja Cafe Luxe Premier and Breville Barista Express are the two best-selling espresso machines on Amazon. Each is $100 off.