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Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help.

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OpenAI: Piloting Group Chats in ChatGPT

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OpenAI: To start a group chat tap the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When you add someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of your conversation as a new group chat so your original conversation stays separate. You can invite o...

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Text • John Gruber

Google Announces Private AI Compute

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Jay Yagnik, VP of AI innovation and research, on Google’s The Keyword blog: Private AI Compute is built on a multi-layered system that is designed from the ground up around core security and privacy principles: One integrated Google tech stack: Private AI Compute runs...

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Good interview at Wired with Fidji Simo. I didn’t know she had an illness that forces her to work remotely most of the time:

I care a lot as part of my own mission about everybody realizing their full potential. I want a world where health conditions don’t get in the way. Either because we can cure them or because companies accommodate them. We can have technologies that make it easier.

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Text • Dave McKenna

Conor Benn Avenges 35 Years Of Family Losses With Beatdown Of Chris Eubank Jr.

Conor Benn Avenges 35 Years Of Family Losses With Beatdown Of Chris Eubank Jr.
Conor Benn dominated familiar and familial foe Chris Eubank Jr. on Saturday in front of another sold out Tottenham Hotspur Stadium crowd in London. Seconds after the bell for the 12th and final round of the bout, Benn was being carried around the ring on the shoulders of his...

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Text • Dan Andrew

Automation Complacency Can Compound Vibe Coding Risks

Vibe coding collage

Let’s face it, vibe coding or using AI to assist with writing code, has already become a reality for many

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Cynthia Erivo's Road To 'Wicked'

Erivo speaks with Tonya Mosley about the parallels between her life and the experience of her ‘Wicked’ character, Elphaba. She also talks about singing as a child, using perfume to get into character, and why she shaved her head. Erivo's new memoir is called ‘Simply More: A Book for Anyone who Has Been Told They're Too Much.’



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I don’t think Disney live-action remakes really need to exist, but the new Moana could work well. Also, there are occasional new songs that I would love to see re-cut into the original animated versions: for Beauty and the Beast, take out Human Again and put in Evermore; for Aladdin, add Speechless.

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Text • Patrick Redford

A Brand-New Draymond Green Incident Cycle Has Arrived Right On Schedule

A Brand-New Draymond Green Incident Cycle Has Arrived Right On Schedule
Like the ebb and flow of the tides or the migratory patterns of seabirds, there is an almost pleasant regularity to the recurrence of the Draymond Green Incident. Not that the Incidents are ever pleasant themselves, merely that the metronomic reliability of Green expressing ...

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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

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Text • Franck Pachot

Why ‘Store Together, Access Together’ Matters for Your Database

Bowling shoes stored together in a cupboard.

When your application needs several pieces of data at once, the fastest approach is to read them from a single

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Text • Dan McQuade

The NFL Needs To Cool It With The Celebration Penalties

The NFL Needs To Cool It With The Celebration Penalties

It was a crucial situation in the NFL’s marquee game of the week. The Lions had been unable to do anything on offense, but their defense had played well enough to keep them within a score of the reigning Super Bowl champions. Then the Lions finally did it. They broke through with a big play. And then the refs called a bullshit penalty.

The worst call in the Eagles’ 16-9 win over the Lions wasn’t the pass interference call on Detroit CB Rock Ya-Sin that iced the game with two minutes left. And that was an awful call! Lions fans should spend all week whining about it on either Costa & Jansen with Heather or The Mike Valenti Show with Rico. It was such a bad call that my dad texted me that he agreed with Cris Collinsworth’s assessment that, if anything, it was offensive pass interference on AJ Brown.

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Zakiya Gibbons Goes Speed-Dating

Zakiya Gibbons Goes Speed-Dating
Before the pandemic, Zakiya Gibbons was everywhere, all the time. Whenever I saw her, she was on her way to another engagement she’d double stacked that day. She’s a people person. A textbook extrovert. But she lived alone during the pandemic, and like a lot of people, all t...

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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: October 2025: Atrocities 467-529

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to e...

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Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact

ATLANTA — Technology companies and developers are finally realizing that they’ll need to deal with the European Union’s (EU) Cyber

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The ROI of AI-Driven Security Automation: Metrics That Matter

AI isn’t just improving security operations; it’s fundamentally rewriting the rules of what’s possible. And that means the metrics we’ve

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Norway Is So Much More Than Just Erling Haaland

Norway Is So Much More Than Just Erling Haaland
As UEFA qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup come to a close this week, the quality of the automatically qualified teams is high. So far, England and France, two perennial tournament favorites, have won their groups handily—the former allowed zero goals in eight matches, and th...

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Text • Kathryn Xu

The Mariners Are Acting Like A Team That Wants To Win A World Series

The Mariners Are Acting Like A Team That Wants To Win A World Series
The comfort of rooting for a baseball team like the New York Yankees or Philadelphia Phillies is that even when they putter out of the playoffs in humiliating fashion, as they did this season, fans can still grasp a general idea of what next year will look like. The baseball...

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Working Families Party on Mamdani's Win; 2026 Midterms

Jasmine Gripper and Ana María Archila, New York Working Families Party co-directors, reflect on Mayor-elect Mamdani's win and the WFP role in the election, their policy priorities and next year's primaries.


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Text • Brad Bourque

Our Favorite Compact Soundbar Is $100 Off

This slim bar can slide under any TV, and has a surprisingly rich feature set for the price.