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Chosen by War: The Rise of Iran’s New Supreme Leader

At the heart of the Iranian regime’s defiant stance toward the United States and Israel in the war is Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader and a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s longtime ruler. Farnaz Fassihi, who covers Iran for The New York Times, discusses ...

WIRED
Text • Dario d’Elia

Should You Leave Your Phone Charging Overnight?

It used to be common wisdom that leaving your phone charging overnight degrades the battery. But handset design has evolved to mitigate the harm caused by constant charging.

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

Connecting Decentralized Social Networks and Rethinking Interoperability

In this chat, Matthias and Ryan dive into Ryan's journey building tools like Bridgy to connect decentralized networks, emphasizing the importance of interoperability and community in the open web.

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Trump Erupts in Fury as Damning Leaks on Botching of War Hit Him Hard

Over the weekend, Donald Trump unleashed two crazed tirades at the media over Iran. In one, he angrily accused news organizations of rooting for the United States to “lose the war.” In another, he openly urged his Federal Communications Commission chair t...

WIRED
Text • Molly Higgins

Sam's Club Coupons and Deals: Save up to 60% in March 2026

Save on bulk groceries, household essentials, and electronics with a verified Sam's Club promo code or membership discount.

WIRED
Text • Boutayna Chokrane

Dermstore Promo Codes and Deals: Save Up to 25%

Score major savings on premium skincare, hair care, and cosmetics with these verified Dermstore discount codes and rewards offers.

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Text • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, March 16, 2026

Monday, March 16, 2026 Thinking about the SAVE Act, 60 Minutes should do a segment on what you have to go through to get a birth certificate in any random state. It's a lot of work, I've had to do it twice in the last few years. You'd have to be a pretty committed voter to ...

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Rotational Gravity

I don't get it. The peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for.

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Text • Casey Newton

Why Meta is retreating from encryption

Why Meta is retreating from encryption

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore

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Rename metadata keys in bulk

"First name" and "first_name", together at last

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Text • Matthew Gault

CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

BuzzMachine
Text • Jeff Jarvis

Habermas and his coffeehouses

Jürgen Habermas has died. In memory of the great philosophical provocateur, is a section of my book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, grappling with his idea of the public sphere and the coffeehouse. Writing and conversation came together in a new institution built for the purpose: the coffeehouse. There, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in England, varied […]

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Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow .

Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow.

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Inkwell for Mac

Last we shipped Inkwell, our new feed reader for Micro.blog. Today I’m releasing a native Mac app for Inkwell.

You can download Inkwell directly here.

I also recorded a 3-minute video demo of the Mac app. That’s the best way to understand the app. I’ll be updating documentation and other things soon.

WIRED
Text • Molly Higgins

File Your Taxes With TurboTax Full Service Now Before Prices Go Up

Procrastinators get penalized. File your taxes through TurboTax before March 18 for $150.

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Text • Molly White

Issue 102 – The public will pay

Issue 102 – The public will pay

Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Nvidia brings together AI labs to build the next generation of open base models

Nvidia on Monday announced the Nemotron Coalition at its GTC conference. This new coalition of AI labs will pool expertise,

The post Nvidia brings together AI labs to build the next generation of open base models appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open

The post Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
Text • Ryan Waniata

What's New in the AirPods Max 2? Breaking Down Apple's Headphone Update

Apple's premium over-ears finally have a proper successor, but after five years of waiting, it's hard not to wonder: "Is that it?"