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Since starting his second term, President Trump has thrown the full weight of the federal government behind the denying the idea of transgender identity, and pushing to prevent trans minors from getting gender-affirming medical care. Two parents of a trans child discuss faci...

The maker of the eCoffee Energyband says it electrically stimulates your nerves to keep you alert. Researchers are skeptical, and critics see it as a way for China’s bosses to keep workers productive.

On Thursday, President Trump called for the execution of a number of members of the opposition party. This came after Democratic lawmakers released a powerful video informing military and intelligence officials that they are not obliged to carry out illegal orders ...

At WordCamp Europe, BobWP and Nathan cooked up "The Shit Show" podcast, discussing everything from penguins to soap. Tune in for quirky insights and Nathan’s endless droning.

How bad are things for the Republican Party, and are Democrats taking advantage? Trygve Olson joins Joe Trippi today to discuss how the Epstein files are impacting polls, especially with independents. Why does Trgyve think the public is being gaslit by Trump, especially aging adults. Then, Joe and Trygve break down how AI is impacting entry-level jobs - and how you can use AI to empower yourself. Do the downsides outweigh the upsides?

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While there is much to celebrate in WordPress sometimes we must also mourn. In a horribly tragic incident, Zeel Thakkar, a WordPress contributor and Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship 2025 recipient, passed away on stage at WordCamp Surat. WordCamp Asia has written a beautiful memorial to her. She will be forever on our Remembers page.

Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that

The post GitHub and Microsoft Use AI To Fix Security Debt Crisis appeared first on The New Stack.

His new push for a state moratorium on AI regulation has the right talking like effective altruists. PLUS: the EU backtracks on AI and privacy, and Grok loves Elon

Raining finally. The new tree is getting a much-needed soak. I decided a few days ago to go camping tomorrow… Looks like it might clear up at least for a day. 🌧️

The Steve Jobs Archive: To mark Toy Story’s 30th anniversary, we’re sharing a never-before-seen interview with Steve from November 22, 1996 — exactly one year after the film debuted in theaters. Toy Story was the world’s first entirely computer-animated feature-length f...

Google’s latest AI image model is vastly better than the previous release at generating text in images. You can expect companies to go buck wild with this update.

A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

Microsoft announced its Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL in preview at the company’s Ignite conference this week. With this new offering,

The post Microsoft’s Azure HorizonDB Takes on Aurora, AlloyDB appeared first on The New Stack.

Making social networking more like email.

A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”

At this month’s Web AI summit, the primary focus was client-side AI in the browser — but we also heard

The post Google’s Web AI Playbook: The Paved Road vs. the Open Field appeared first on The New Stack.

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids explored poverty in the United States as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Born Poor tells the stories of the same children, now grown, chronicling their lives from childhood to the present day. The 90-minute documentary follows Kaylie, Johnny and Brittany across three chapters of their lives as they grow from kids to teenagers to adults, trying to pursue their dreams while dealing with an economy where they face more obstacles than opportunities — and trying to overcome the grinding poverty that shaped their childhoods.

The Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) today launched Olmo 3, the latest in its family of state-of-the-art, open source large

The post Ai2’s Olmo 3 Pushes the Envelope for Open Source LLM Performance appeared first on The New Stack.

You can now share deets (and other digital treats) across the mobile divide.