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Alisha Wainwright is an actress, science communicator and the host of When Science Finds A Way – a podcast where she speaks with scientists, innovators and diverse communities. Her mission is to build trust in science by listening to diverse voices and telling stories that connect science to people’s everyday experiences. In her opinion, science […]

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

For the first time in six years, I have closets. At the Brooklyn apartment I just moved out of, all available evidence points to them just screwing up the blueprint. My bedroom was twice the height of a normal bedroom, and there's no reason why they shouldn't have extended ...

This weekend, history repeated itself on the unnecessarily pyrotechnic stage of Eurovision as singers from Israel and another country waited to hear which would be crowned the winner of the increasingly contentious song contest. In the end, the Bulgarian banger "Bangaranga" ...

Short answer: no one yet. Chennedy Carter has been everything the Las Vegas Aces imagined she could be when they signed the 27-year-old guard to a one-year deal this offseason, a signing that marked her return to the WNBA after a 2025 spent playing in China and Mexico. In Ca...

Late in Monday night's Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, a beleaguered Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dribbled tentatively into the mouth of San Antonio's defensive zone. That zone had been total hell for the two-time reigning MVP. Now, with the Thunder down four points insi...

It is a perfectly reasonable assessment of the Montreal Canadiens that they are recipients of a long and lingering tongue kiss from the gods. It is equally rational to remind Habs fans in their moment of glorious triumph that the gods are treacherously profligate trollops wh...

Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from your keyboard experience. “Break all the rules. You’re designing for the audience of one.”

The attorney for Nikko D’Ambrosio, who tried and failed to sue women for posting about him in an “Are We Dating the Same Guy” Facebook group, has apparently been using AI to file non-existent citations, according to a judge.

I’ve been downloading public-domain books for a project, and many of them are kindof bad OCR scans. A lot of the work I was doing was in Claude Code. I created a skill where it would look online for the text I’m seeking and download it into a sources folder with a certain naming convention. […]

I’ve been downloading public-domain books for a project, and many of them are kindof bad OCR scans. A lot of the work I was doing was in Claude Code. I created a skill where it would look online for the text I’m seeking and download it into a sources folder with a certain naming convention. […]

- - - McSweeney’s and Broadway Video present the official over-six-hundred-page comprehensive companion book to IFC’s Documentary Now!, made with the assistance of series directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono and including new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer P...

The job, which is associated with the Zuckerberg family office, is located in Kauai, Hawaii, where the Meta CEO owns a massive compound.

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise. The Pudding analyzed 200,000 similes from popular fiction. “The clichés are obvious, marked by a single tall spike that overshadows the others.”

Steve Yegge, a longtime software engineer and blogger who spent the best part of two decades at Amazon and Google,

The post Steve Yegge’s AI agent orchestration project Gas Town comes to the cloud — and brings the Wasteland with it  appeared first on The New Stack.

A year ago, Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy says, VPs of infrastructure didn’t think “agentic AI” and “infrastructure” belonged in the

The post Pulumi bets infrastructure’s next decade belongs to AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

If you’re looking for summer plans, we have great news: there are always opportunities to volunteer with the Data Rescue Project! Whether you’re newer to the DRP, a veteran looking for a refresher, or just want to hang out with some fellow data nerds for a

Opus 4.6 is much smarter than the other one. It feels like I'm working with someone from Bronx Science. I had been using Sonnet 4.6, which I switched to after reading somewhere that it costs less and it's usually every bit as good as newer models. I would never work with Son...

Someday you're going to tell your kids that we once used a social network that limited your writing to 500 characters and didn't allow styling, links or titles. What was it called Daddy? Bluesky. And people thought it was great. Why? They might have been taking drugs.

The Coyl uses a coil design for the power cable, keeping it neat and taut between the desk and the wall. And instead of relying on boring levers to adjust the height, it has a nifty rotary dial.