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After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today we're shining a spotlight on one of the most loathèd creepy-crawlers of all—the humble spider. You may fear them, what with their eight ...

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It is that time of year when college basketball programs fatten themselves up on inferior competition, which makes for a lot of games that can be safely ignored. But wait, before you skim over the box score from Notre Dame's 85–58 victory over Akron on Wednesday night, take a look at what Hannah Hidalgo did.

Are you ready to receive information that could potentially cause psychic damage? Hidalgo finished the game with 44 points, nine rebounds, and 16 steals. Sixteen steals! Against Division-I college basketball players! In just 28 minutes of floor time!

Neat cups at Communion Coffee with the Richardson water tower and skyline.

As SNAP recipients and many others struggle to afford the cost of food, Karen Yi, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering homelessness and poverty, and Joe Hong, investigative data reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, discuss their reporting on how grocery prices can vary between stores and neighborhoods and how grocery stores fared during the interruption of SNAP benefits. Plus, listeners share their observations of how food prices vary, and tips on how to save money on groceries.

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What if you could rewrite a beloved open source, battle-tested server from scratch, complete with a new test suite, in

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As promised here is another test post. I will now add another sentence to the post...

Via a DF reader, here’s a 20-second clip from the 1993 classic^* Demolition Man that exemplifies how today’s overly effusive, ever-affirming AI chatbots were presented as elements of a profoundly dystopic future by sci-fi writers just a few decades ago.

^*OK, OK — cult classic.

The new Nostr-based video app Devine also includes an archive of original Vine videos. Rabble spoke to TechCrunch about it:

“So basically, I’m like, can we do something that’s kind of nostalgic?” he told TechCrunch. “Can we do something that takes us back, that lets us see those old things, but also lets us see an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms, or you could choose who you follow, and it’s just your feed, and where you know that it’s a real person that recorded the video?”

Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition.

Senators, please get OUT of my uterus so my friend Brynn, who is almost finished with nursing school, can get in there STAT. My body doesn’t need to produce a child just because it can. Focus on other ways to ruin the country, and let Brynn and the internet give me Life of a...

The time? High summer. The place? Binghamton, New York. My husband and I were there for a two-week stint, and though we weren’t native to the place, we were growing restless. Our Airbnb seemed haunted, with its framed photos of people that looked like ghosts and a decorating...

Your AI success relies on your data. The more unified your data is across your organization, the more your AI

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You will probably see a series of test posts here, as the day goes on.

It doesn't look or feel quite like a OnePlus phone, but with battery life like this, who cares?

“I know you want there to be a master plan,” the kidnapping victim says to her captor. In Bugonia, the latest movie by Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone plays girlboss biotech CEO Michelle Fuller, and Jesse Plemons is Teddy Gatz, who works at a fulfillment center for Michelle’s A...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

Good morning. I like how things are going in FeedLand and WordLand today. The dots are starting to connect.

Unless your business was born out of a university machine learning (ML) department or conceived in the last three years,

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From long-lasting everyday staples to toe-friendly blister busters, here are the best WIRED-tested socks to tackle every run.