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Alexa+ and Kindle Scribe Now Work Together With ‘Send to Alexa’

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps.

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I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups

Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.

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The Secret Plan to End U.S. Climate Regulations

The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the United...

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Many Adjustable Bed Frames Have a “Zero Gravity” Feature. I Tried It for a Week

I decided to try my adjustable bed frame’s “zero gravity” feature for a week. I wouldn’t do it again.

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The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning

As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

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Trump Threat to Rig 2026 Darkens amid Damning News on FBI Georgia Raid

President Trump is tacitly threatening to interfere in the 2026 elections. He’s urged Republicans to “nationalize” them and recently said he regrets not seizing voting machines in 2020. Last month the FBI seized ballot boxes in Fulton County, Ge...

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Scripting News: Thursday, February 12, 2026

Thursday, February 12, 2026 I understood the web because I understood Unix and missed it. # If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker versi...

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TRUMP JUST TRIED ANOTHER COUP. IT FAILED. FOR NOW. - 2.12.26

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 58: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has attempted another coup. You may have missed it. Trump and Jeanine Pirro with the acquiescence of the hapless Speaker of the House and Porn Monitor attempted another coup: Attempted ...

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Coding agents as the new compilers

In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation over time. Usually, only a small percentage of coders still work on the lower layers of the stack that used to be the space where everyone was working. I’ve been coding long e...

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Two Non-fiction Books Touching on Evolutionary Biology

Travel brings up amazing contrasts. Sometimes you are eating croissants on a high-speed train zooming through Europe. Sometimes you sipping wine in a huge metal tube flying over Greenland's icecaps....

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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

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Together is our message

When “together” is your message, we’re on the same team.

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Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team

Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist

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You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job

Matan-Paul Shetrit, Director of Product Management at Writer, argues that people must take responsibility for how they use AI in this episode of The New Stack Agents.

Matan-Paul Shetrit puts it bluntly: “If you generate slop, I’m not blaming the AI, I’m blaming you.” As Director of

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Great minds think alike? My WordPress take on Markdown for Agents

Today, Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents, a feature that automatically converts HTML to markdown at the edge when AI agents request it. Reading their ann

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Something Big

Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren’t paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If … Continue reading Something Big

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Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing New Fans to Hockey. Does the Sport Deserve Them?

Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men's hockey's lack of support for LGBTQ+ players and fans is notable.

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Mark Gurman reports that the new Siri is delayed again, from iOS 26.4 next month to 26.5 or later:

As recently as late 2025, internal versions of the new Siri were so sluggish that people involved in development believed the company would need to delay the introduction by months.

Apple is very set in their old processes and release cycles. But OpenAI ships major new features multiple times a month. I don’t see how Apple can be competitive in AI unless they rethink how they work and release software.

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I got the Day One printed journal in the mail. Opted for a boring cover, just wanted to see how everything looks. Love that they provide this service.