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Always Bring A Climbing Rope To The Party

Always Bring A Climbing Rope To The Party

What combination of ingredients might make for spectacular mess of a story? The 1970s? A big party in an industrial loft? What about a long rope, one kiloleter of lager, and the desire to make a gesture so grand it will impress the woman of your dreams. Get ready, y’all. We haven’t seen hijinks as misguided as these since the infamous night burger fiasco.

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again

Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again

Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.

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Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop?

People on a roller coaster.

A recent survey by JetBrains of more than 23,000 developers found that nearly half (49%) now use AI regularly for

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Text • Ray Ratto

John Harbaugh Is The Shiniest Pony On The NFL Coaching Carousel

John Harbaugh Is The Shiniest Pony On The NFL Coaching Carousel
The hours since John Harbaugh was binned in Baltimore have dragged comfortably into double digits and are easing towards actual days—not a long period of time by normal standards, but long enough that he has already been crowned the best available choice for whatever coachin...

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Venezuela Is the First Big Test for the Pentagon's Influencer Press Corps—and It's Failing

Mainstream reporters are out at the Pentagon, and right-wing influencers are in. The results are predictable, and oddly reminiscent of Iraq War-era warblogging.

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Remember when OG metadata was new? That was a long time ago. It's one of those things that's widely forgotten, but still widely in use.

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The way twitter-like services deal with OG metadata could use a re-think.

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#199 – Brian Coords on WooCommerce’s Challenges and Innovations in a Changing WordPress Landscape

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at WooCommerce, about his career path, WooCommerce’s recent rebranding, and its approach to developer relations. They discuss how WooCommerce balances its open source ethos, support challenges, and global reach, as well as the platform’s growing focus on AI and enhanced integration with WordPress Core. Brian also shares insights into upcoming features and the evolving landscape of e-commerce, emphasising WooCommerce’s adaptability and strong community connections. If you want to hear how WooCommerce and WordPress are responding to a rapidly changing tech environment, this episode is for you.

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AI in 2026: Reid Hoffman’s Predictions on Agents, Work, and Creation

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From cofounding LinkedIn to backing OpenAI early, Reid Hoffman is in the habit of being right about the future, so we wanted to know what he saw coming in 2026. In his third appearance on AI & I, Hoffman lays out his predictions for where AI will go in the 12 months ahea...

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2026 CSS wishlist

What I’d like to see prioritized for CSS in 2026, how those features will allow us to create better web-based design systems, and how they renew separation of concerns.

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What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse

What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse
Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the...

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Let’s Fucking GOOOOOOOOOO! (by Lockheed Martin)

“Shares in the world’s leading defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, rose 3.5 percent on the opening of trading as the market rushed to buy into defense stocks in the wake of recent events in Venezuela.” — The Motley Fool - - - Bro, bro, bo, bro, BRO—we are SO FUCKING BACK. W...

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Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.

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Hiroshi Tanahashi Leaves An Unfillable Void In Japanese Wrestling

Hiroshi Tanahashi Leaves An Unfillable Void In Japanese Wrestling

I had over a year to prepare for Hiroshi Tanahashi's retirement, yet during his final match on Sunday, I couldn't get myself to believe that his career was about to be over.

It's not that I'm unfamiliar with the concept of the big wrestling retirement show. In fact, the last few years have given fans a larger number than usual of these spectacular, supposedly definitive conclusions to legendary careers. Keiji Muto, Sting, and John Cena all starred in the exact kind of show that Tanahashi headlined in front of a sold-out Tokyo Dome this weekend. But Tanahashi was different, even at the end. And rather than write a permanent conclusion to his pro-wrestling tale, he stepped out of the ring at the Dome and right into the toughest challenge yet of his life in the business.

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The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers

The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers

We talk about the organization mapping America's AI data centers; Grok's AI breakdown; and how we bought 404media.com.

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Why Anointment Decides Who Really Rises, with Toby Stuart

What if success depends less on merit and more on the quiet transfer of status? In this episode, Guy Kawasaki interviews Toby Stuart, UC Berkeley Haas professor and leading expert on innovation and social networks, to break open the unseen systems that shape who rises and wh...

WIRED
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Home Pilates Equipment for Studio-Quality Workouts (2026)

Here’s everything that you should buy, skip, or splurge on for your at-home Pilates workout.

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The 2026 Battle for Control of Congress

This year, the 2026 midterm elections will decide which party controls Congress, and whether Republicans can hold on to every lever of influence in Washington. Annie Karni and Shane Goldmacher, who cover politics, discuss the opportunities and perils for both parties. Guest:...

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Trump’s Vile Attack on Mark Kelly Backfires as Harsh Retort Goes Viral

Last year, Senator Mark Kelly and five other Democrats posted a video with a stark message: Military service members and officials are not obliged to carry out illegal orders. This infuriated Donald Trump, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reprehensib...

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Inside the debate over AI consciousness

Inside the debate over AI consciousness

At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did