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How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.

WIRED
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AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

The Texas Observer
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Uvalde Trial Raises Question of Whether Police Stop School Shootings

Earlier this month, a few dozen police officers, school district representatives, and one pro-Trump candidate for Congress crowded together in a room above the cafeteria at Samuel V. Champion High School in Boerne. School was cancelled for the day, but there was activity in the hallways, which was being shown on large TV screens at […]

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I, Don Quixote, Vow to Conquer Greenland

“In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump…touched on his desire to obtain Greenland from Denmark…, America’s contribution to Nato, and wind energy in China.” —BBC - - - Fellow knights, I have traveled a gre...

Defector
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Gavin Newsom Has Nothing To Offer

Gavin Newsom Has Nothing To Offer
In California, a proposed law drafted by organized labor would impose a one-time tax on all the state's billionaires, equal to some portion of their total worth. Those whose net worth exceeds $1.1 billion would pay around five percent; five percent of $1.1 billion is $55 mil...

Defector
Text • Ray Ratto

Manchester United Wants To Get Into The Docuseries Business

Manchester United Wants To Get Into The Docuseries Business
Two noteworthy developments in British entertainment were announced yesterday. One was about a much discussed cooking show, and the other about a much discussed soccer team, and so by definition infinitely more tedious. The cooking show is The Great British Bake Off, t...

WIRED
Text • Brad Bourque

One of Our Favorite Smart Plugs for Apple Users Is $15 Off

The Meross smart plug mini boasts excellent compatibility and slim construction.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Helping NYC's Restaurants and Bars Survive a Tough Business

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, talks about an executive order issued by Mayor Mamdani that aims to lower fees for small businesses in the city and more priorities for his group, which looks out for the interests of NYC's restaurants and bars.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why agentic LLM systems fail: Control, cost, and reliability

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In the past few years, agentic AI systems like AutoGPT, BabyAGI and others have demonstrated, through prompting, that large language

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Defector
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Terry Pegula Is A Big Disgrace And An Even Bigger Fucking Loser

Terry Pegula Is A Big Disgrace And An Even Bigger Fucking Loser
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. It’s typical of the Buffalo...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Your Misunderstood Places

As we study up on Greenland, we invite listeners to share what's misunderstood about where they're from.


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WIRED
Text • Maddy Varner

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS  and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Richard MacManus

Why platform companies keep buying frontend framework teams

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Late last week, the global cloud platform Cloudflare acquired the company behind Astro, one of the leading frontend frameworks. This

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Defector
Text • Samer Kalaf

NFL Sends Mixed Signals In Its Stance On Genocide

NFL Sends Mixed Signals In Its Stance On Genocide
After a 30-6 playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair appeared in an ESPN postgame interview and drew national attention for the message written on his eye black: "Stop the Genocide." He had expected a fine for the customized access...

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Listening to the Open AI podcast, of course it’s marketing, but something that Vinod Khosla said struck me. Essentially the AI bubble is in the stock market, not in real use. Some companies will fail, but usage is not going to go down, just as the internet kept growing through the dot-com bubble.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Why the West-Park Church Wants to Sell Its Historic Building

Roger Leaf, chair of the West Park Administrative Commission, responds to public calls for preservation and offers his perspective on why the Landmarks Preservation Commission should approve a claim of hardship for the West-Park Presbyterian Church. The hardship claim would allow the church's stewards to sell the dilapidated Upper West Side building they cannot afford to maintain.


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I usually give AI little coding tasks. Go off and fix this one thing, make this small tweak, add this one feature that I will review. Today I had it help with something bigger. I iterated on the plan, then it worked for 30 minutes. Pretty incredible.

Defector
Text • Patrick Redford

Learner Tien Is The Brightest Pupil

Learner Tien Is The Brightest Pupil
You will notice the announcer of the following highlight reel continually returns to one word to describe Learner Tien's performance against Alexander Shevchenko in the second round of the Australian Open: control. The 20-year-old American tidily dispatched Shevchenko in two...

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The Scale of ICE Protests in Minnesota

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Margaret Killjoy, in a thread on Bluesky (via Kottke): I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the news calling Portland a “war zone” or...

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Aliens and Angel Numbers: Creators Worry Porn Platform ManyVids Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

Aliens and Angel Numbers: Creators Worry Porn Platform ManyVids Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

“Ethical dilemmas about AI aside, the posts are completely disconnected with ManyVids as a site,” one ManyVids content creator told 404 Media.