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Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake

In this episode of TNS Makers, Junping (JP) Du, founder and CEO of Datastrato, argues that this must change as AI fundamentally alters how data and metadata are consumed, governed, and understood.

In the new world of agentic AI, the discussion has revolved around data: governance, storage, and compute. But what about

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Text • Arjun Iyer

Ramp’s Inspect shows closed-loop AI agents are software’s future

Roller coaster

The recent release of the background coding agent Inspect by Ramp’s engineering team serves as a definitive proof point that

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WIRED
Text • Jason Parham

AI-Generated Anti-ICE Videos Are Getting the Fanfic Treatment

Across Instagram and Facebook, AI-generated videos show people of color putting ICE agents in their place. Are they cathartic or just adding to a stew of misinformation?

WIRED
Text • Joel Khalili

A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI

As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mimic the human brain.

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Yesterday I reported that I had remapped pagepark.scripting.com to the github repo for pagepark. But then later in the day it stopped doing that. Why? I have no clue. I moved it to another server and now it works.

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Text • Jason Koebler

Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree

Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree

Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine asked the inspector general of the DHS about a host of surveillance technologies, including Flock, mobile phone spyware, and location data.

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The best description for the web I've ever heard is small pieces loosely joined. That really gets to the essence of it. The pieces stand on their own, up to a point, when they are joined to other pieces. And you can un-join and re-join them. I see a lot of things that say they're part of the web than can't do the arbitrary joining that's central to what the web is.

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The great thing about the OG Web was that you could have an idea one day, have it deployed two days later, with a really ugly table-based UI, and everyone would know about it within a few hours. Then the reviews would come out, and a few hours later we'd know if it stuck or didn't.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@STPo/115977879479030822

Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?

WIRED
Text • Brad Bourque

Our Favorite Open Earbuds Are $60 Off

The Anker Soundcore Aeroclip boast great sound without cutting you off from the outside world.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

How AI is Changing Medicine

Lloyd Minor, M.D., dean of Stanford University School of Medicine and VP of medical affairs at Stanford University, talks about the big changes artificial intelligence is bringing to research and health care, especially related to cancer and chronic diseases, and shares how Stanford is training physicians to use AI.


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Text • Ibrahim Kamal

Prompting vs. RAG vs. fine-tuning: Why it’s not a ladder

A fork in a hiking path.

Teams usually assume there’s a straightforward progression from prompt engineering through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to fine-tuning (the last rung on

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WIRED
Text • John Publius

ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

McSweeney’s
Text • Hannah Roberts

Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself on Zillow

After a decade on dating apps, I’ve decided to enter a different market. This is why I’m listing myself on Zillow until I find a good match—which, to my understanding, will be about forty-eight hours. I realize that my late-’80s construction might not land me in the “trendin...

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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

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As all our former allies pay homage to Xi in Beijing, I was thinking well at the least the whole world speaks our language, and that'll take a few generations to change, but then I realized I bet the Chinese have been preparing for this, and of course they have.

WIRED
Text • Andy Greenberg

An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company's stuffed animals.

The Texas Observer
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Country’s Largest Air Pollution Permit Issued to Power Plant for Data Centers in West Texas, Developer Says

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Texas’ environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields […]

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Mark your calendar: Local News Day is 9 April

It’s no secret that newspapers across the country exist in a fragile ecosystem. Automattic has long supported journalism and local media with investments in publications and platforms like Longreads, The Atavist, and Newspack. We believe that local news still matters—and now more than ever. That’s why we’re sponsoring Local News Day on April 9, 2026. — Support Journalism with […]

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Nostalgia for 2016?

Nostalgia for 2016 is a trend on social media this month, so we ask our listeners to reflect on the recent past. Are you nostalgic for 2016?


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