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Text • Vittoria Elliott

Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs

“I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user.

Defector
Text • Owen Lewis

A Pure Tennis Boy

A Pure Tennis Boy
MELBOURNE — “I just want him to be a pure tennis boy,” the journalist behind me said to their neighbor as we waited for Carlos Alcaraz to come to the main interview room. They were saying how they hoped well-paying exhibitions wouldn’t distract the world No. 1 from his main ...

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Automattic shipped a WordPress plugin that adds a source:markdown element to a WordPress feed. This is very cool. We're going to add this to the feed for daveverse site.

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Text • Becky Ferreira

Scientists Keep Discovering Mysterious Ancient Tunnels Across Europe

The discovery of a Medieval tunnel built within a prehistoric burial ground adds to the mystery of hundreds of underground passages without a known purpose.

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Audio • WNYC

Why Masking ICE Agents Matters

Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about what it means for accountability when ICE agents are allowed to be masked.

=>"The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks" (The Atlantic, 2/2/26)


 


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Text • Joel Khalili

A New Mistral AI Model's Ultra-Fast Translation Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money

“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.

WIRED
Text • Adrienne So

Best Laptop Backpacks We’ve Tried and Tested (2026)

Whether you’re biking to the office or schlepping a camera to a shoot, a laptop bag is your constant companion. These WIRED-reviewed packs do the job.

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We need a short name for ChatGPT-like product. If I want to make a general statement about products in the category, there is, as far as I know, no word to use. Same with Twitter and tweet, so I call them twitter-like products and use tweet for posts to any twitter-like product. The whole idea of a different name (like toot, skeet) for each service is linguistic travesty. Anyway, ChatGPT-like is also an unacceptable term. If it had a fun name like OurMind -- then OurMind-like would work. If only William Safire were here.

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Text • B. Cameron Gain

The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust

ClickHouse’s decision to shift parts of its codebase to Rust is a perfect storm: the convergence of a wildly popular

The post The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust appeared first on The New Stack.

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Text • Nathan Wrigley

#203 – Miriam Schwab on Elementor’s Decade of Growth and the Future With AI

In this episode, Miriam Schwab discusses her journey in the WordPress space, from running an agency to founding Strattic, which was later acquired by Elementor. Now serving as Elementor’s Head of WordPress, she shares insights on Elementor’s growth, their careful approach to major updates, and their deep dive into AI innovation, including tools like Angie and Site Planner. The conversation also explores AI’s impact on WordPress, plugin development, support, and accessibility, highlighting an exciting future for the platform as it embraces new technologies. For those interested in how AI is shaping the future of WordPress, Elementor’s strategy, and the evolving roles of creators within this ecosystem, this episode is for you.

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This Anthropic post is pretty much what I would write too, as a reaction to ads coming in OpenAI. I actually do believe OpenAI when they say they won’t let ads influence answers, but people are going to think that anyway. People still think Instagram uses the phone’s microphone to listen randomly!

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Text • Mychal Denzel Smith

I Thoroughly Enjoyed Watching Michael Rapaport Eat Shit On ‘The Traitors’

I Thoroughly Enjoyed Watching Michael Rapaport Eat Shit On ‘The Traitors’
As the parent of a toddler, my TV watching habits have lately tended more toward Peppa Pig and Ms. Rachel than Heated Rivalry or The Pitt. I would like to keep abreast of whatever the internet is buzzing about, but when my child finally gets to sleep at the end of the day, I...

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Text • Joseph Cox

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.

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Text • Joseph Cox

Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.

McSweeney’s
Text • Talia Argondezzi

There Is Limited Money in Our Big, Beautiful Budget, So We Need to Spend as Much of It as Possible to Keep Ruining Immigrants’ Lives

“The $170 billion price tag for immigration enforcement eclipses other law enforcement expenditures at the federal, state, and local level…. The law substantially increases funds for deportations without providing any money to make the system more fair or functional.” — The ...

WIRED
Text • Ryan Waniata

What Is RGB LED TV? Everything You Need to Know About This Next-Gen TV Tech In 2026

With incredible colors, brightness, and contrast, RGB backlighting is the technology that will drive the next 10 years of innovation in televisions and displays.

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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Building What Lasts: Brad Feld on Trust, Mentorship, and Long-Term Thinking

What does it really mean to give without keeping score? Brad Feld has built a career by answering that question differently than almost anyone in venture capital. In this episode of Remarkable People, Guy Kawasaki sits down with Brad to unpack the philosophy behind his new b...

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Audio • Bob Dunn

Navigating Tech Shifts, Expanding Your Developer Toolkit

Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander discuss winter challenges, work-life balance, and AI’s impact on coding. They emphasize the importance of diversifying skills and adapting to tech changes for career longevity.

WIRED
Text • Molly Higgins

Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

Instead of using AI as a coach, our AI chatbots just began talking to each other, as we became human facilitators for an AI love story. Now that's what I call dystopian.

WIRED
Text • Boutayna Chokrane

Alpine Skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

From maple syrup packets to a latex pillow, these are his personal essentials that bring a taste of Vermont to Milan.