WIRED
• Maddy Varner
Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.
Defector
• Kathryn Xu
Lately my MacBook Pro has been burning through its battery really quickly. I picked up Apple’s 40W / 60W charger. It’s not a lot of power but I like the size to always have something with me when I’m out of the house.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions. “From this point on, for as long as we exist, we might be asking AIs what comes next. We won’t always understand how they arrived at their predictions.”
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
Sleeping cleans your brain. Research suggests that zoning out, daydreaming, and being bored can perform a similar function without the need for deep sleep. So put down that phone occasionally and let your brain chill for a bit.
Tags: neuroscience · science · sleep · video
Imagine you could use an operating system that’s as easy as ChromeOS, while also being as powerful as Linux. What
The post Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Brian Barrett
People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it's ICE.
Defector
• Brandy Jensen
In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still terrorizing communities, kidnapping people off the streets, and destroying property in Minnesota. “The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance.”
WIRED
• Will Knight
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
McSweeney’s
• Ji Y. Son
Fontemon is the world’s first video game in a font. “The entire game is enclosed in fontemon.otf, no javascript, no html, all font.”
British journalist Vicky Ward first profiled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 for Vanity Fair. The experience was so alarming and stressful that she went into labor with her twins at 30 weeks, two months early. More than 20 years later, Ward, still following the case, talks with Tonya Mosley about the fallout from the millions of publicly released documents, and why this story took so long to come out.
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