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Open Source Whamm: Use WebAssembly To Monitor and Fix Running Apps

Whamm is designed to allow users to instrument their WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications with a programming language or code, or

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Verizon’s Cell Network Is Down, and AT&T and T-Mobile Are Sassing Them About It

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Jacob Krol, reporting for Techradar: While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major outage occurring in October 2024, it seems that the popular United States wireless carrier is having some issues. So, if you’re on Verizon and seeing ‘SOS’ in place of network b...

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16 Part Epoxy

Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.

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How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent

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The ability to connect AI agents to external systems defines their practical utility. Without tools, an agent is limited to

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Neuroscientists Decipher Procrastination: A Brain Mechanism Explains Why People Leave Certain Tasks for Later

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Personal Letter to Rep. James Comer

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The letter speaks for itself, and is very much worth reading in full. I’ll quote only from the conclusion, which rhetorically feels very Bill: Continue to mislead Americans about what is truly at stake, and you will learn that Americans are better at finding the truth th...

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Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube

Lume Cube has a variety of marked down lighting products to help revamp your home office.

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Strange ‘Little Red Dots’ in Space Have a Mind-Boggling Explanation, Scientists Discover

Strange ‘Little Red Dots’ in Space Have a Mind-Boggling Explanation, Scientists Discover

Scientists have debated the origin of the dots for years. Now, researchers say they’re “cocoons” for the youngest black holes we’ve ever seen.

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There’s a major Verizon outage, still impacting us here in Austin. My phone is currently on SOS. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something on this scale before… Despite how much we gripe about cellular service, it’s actually very reliable.

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Gov. Hochul's 'State of the State' 2026

Jimmy Vielkind recaps the proposals in Gov. Hochul's "state of the state" address, where she focused on affordability, and offers analysis of the speech as the governor is running for re-election.


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Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go

Confession: My title is clickbait-y, this is really about building on the Unicode Character Database to support character-property regexp features in Quamina. Just halfway there, I’d already got to 775K lines of generated code so I abandoned that particular approach. Thus, this is about (among other things) avoiding those 1½M lines. And really only of interest to people whose pedantry includes some combination of Unicode, Go programming, and automaton wrangling. Oh, and GenAI, which (*gasp*) I think I should maybe have used

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The React Framework Face-Off: Which One Owns the Future?

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Frontend developer and educator Kent Dodds has some good news for frontend developers confused about which React-based framework to choose.

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The Blue Jackets Are The Fun Kind Of Bad Team

The Blue Jackets Are The Fun Kind Of Bad Team
The Columbus Blue Jackets play hockey like they're skating on some sort of ice treadmill: You see a lot of effort, but they don't actually go anywhere. This is a squad that always listens to those jamokes in the stands who yell shooooot, playing a fast and loose style that h...

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AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’

AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.

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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls

A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.

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Caught in the Middle: The New Role of Platform Teams

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Earlier this year, the platform team at a global bank introduced a new workflow for developers to provision cloud environments

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We Support Protesting Against Any Authoritarian Government Except Our Own

"President Trump called on Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against their government and warned that those responsible for killing demonstrators would ‘pay a big price.’” — New York Times “Donald Trump branded anti-ICE protests in Minnesota ‘fake riots,’ aired a crass ...

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Marco Rubio’s Shift From Trump Critic To Champion

Marco Rubio once called Trump a "con artist." He’s now among his most loyal defenders. New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins describes Secretary of State Rubio's character, political transformation and ambition. Filkins also spoke with Tonya Mosley  about Venezuela and what he thinks will happen next. 

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Stephen A. Smith Attributes Outstanding NFL Performance To The Late Charlie Kirk

Stephen A. Smith Attributes Outstanding NFL Performance To The Late Charlie Kirk
On Tuesday's edition of ESPN's First Take, Stephen A. Smith described a football game that could not have occurred in our earthly realm. "We saw Charlie Kirk catch eight receptions for 144 yards," he said. It's possible that Smith saw this in a vision, but "we" did not: The ...

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Why has no one modded an original iPod Shuffle to have a USB-C connector and a zillion gigs of storage? That combo would be an awesome offline gadget. Throw Bluetooth in there too while you’re at it.