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There’s not necessarily any new info in this article in The New Yorker about AI data centers, but it does illustrate the scale. Also enjoyed the anecdote about a farmer using Claude.

Behind a fence, and past several vehicle checkpoints, the campus was a spacious expanse of nothing, except for one corner, which was populated by a row of numbered sheds. The sheds were white, narrow, tall, and several football fields in length; they reminded me of the livestock barns I visited as a child at the Minnesota State Fair.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Public Education in New Jersey

Jessie Gómez, reporter at Chalkbeat Newark covering Newark Public Schools, discusses the New Jersey gubernatorial candidates' visions for public education in the state—and how they intend to fund the schools.


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Lily Allen Takes The “Fuck It” Approach To A Breakup Album

Lily Allen Takes The “Fuck It” Approach To A Breakup Album
All couples in love are alike; each shattered couple, however, has been shattered in its own way. When you fall in love with someone, your friends tolerate you talking about them and fawning over them. But when someone fucks you over—when they break your heart—we want the de...

WIRED
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A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Beyond Speed: Why Your Next App Must Be Multi-Architecture

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Cloud native was once about packaging applications into containers and deploying them fast. Today, it’s about supporting everything from microservices

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CarPlay Seems Essential for Rental Fleets

joe-steel.com/2025-10-22-Why-GM-Will-Give-You-Gemini-But-Not-CarPlay.html

Joe Rosensteel: I have no plan to purchase a GM vehicle, but I do rent cars. GM makes up a sizable portion of rental car fleets. At some point in the future those cars will no longer support CarPlay. I’m not going to sign up for a GM federated ID that stores my login cre...

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The Blue Jays Make The Dodgers Look Fake And Silly

The Blue Jays Make The Dodgers Look Fake And Silly
Wednesday night in Los Angeles it was finally the Blue Jays' turn to benefit from a historic performance. They'd lost Game 2 of this World Series to an unhittable Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who put together nine innings of dominance the likes of which, by at least one measure, had ...

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Beloved Grandmaster Dies Suddenly Amid Harassment Campaign By His Former Idol

Beloved Grandmaster Dies Suddenly Amid Harassment Campaign By His Former Idol
On Oct. 19, American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was found dead in his Charlotte, NC home. He was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday, and his death, which police say is being investigated as a possible overdose or suicide, has rocked the chess world. The U.S. Chess...

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NASA's Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.

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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

WIRED
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5 Best Smart Christmas Lights of 2025: From Twinkly to Govee

Control these smart lights with a voice command or a tap on your phone. Now that’s a Christmas miracle.

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Next.js in ChatGPT: Vercel Brings the Dynamic Web to AI Chat

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For Vercel’s Andrew Qu, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Apps platform presented a challenge. “ChatGPT initially designed their apps to be static

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No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

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1. When you sit with friends at a wobbly table, Simply rotate till it becomes stable. No need to find a wedge for one of its four feet. Math will ensure nothing spills while you eat. The Wobbly Table Theorem (Department of Mathematics, Harvard University). 2. David Ogilvy ch...

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14 Best Lego Gifts for Brick Builders (2025)

Your kids are only kids for so long, but love and Lego sets last forever. Here are our top picks for the Lego fan in your life.

WIRED
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If You Hated ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead

At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale.

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I’m Your Uploaded Bloodwork Results, and No, I Will Not Explain Myself to You

I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and left you with a tricolor bruise. I think it’s time you open me up, for inside, I have all the health-related answers you’re seeki...

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Episode 700 and The Biggest Lesson Learned With a Rebrand

As we hit 700 episodes, BobWP catches us up on the rebrand.

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‘Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology’

mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

Tom Ellison, at McSweeney’s:

How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.

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Addressing 3 Failure Points of Multiregion Incident Response

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When organizations expand globally and deploy services across multiple cloud regions, managing incidents becomes exponentially more complex. In theory, multiregion

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