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Dries Buytaert says you have to grow the ecosystem, not just yourself.

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Jannik Sinner Gets Too Close To The Sun, Falls Early In French Open

Jannik Sinner Gets Too Close To The Sun, Falls Early In French Open
Going into Roland-Garros, there was clear consensus: The greatest threat to Jannik Sinner was the Sun itself. It's the type of snappy one-liner that gets slung on the TV broadcast a dozen times a day, but it wound up prescient as the No. 1 seed melted down Thursday in a ...

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The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...

The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’. “The energy required to deceive is unsustainable. Reality is relentless. The tyrant who chooses to fight it is doomed.”

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James Wood Will Mightily Thwap The Baseball In Whichever Direction He Pleases

James Wood Will Mightily Thwap The Baseball In Whichever Direction He Pleases
James Wood is a pretty good leadoff hitter. Rookie Nationals manager Blake Butera, a disturbingly young fellow who looks like he should be one of the nine guys in this video, moved Wood to the top of Washington's lineup back in the spring, gradually swapping the places o...

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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are

The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.

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Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best...

Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of energy gets freed up for living, instead of being spent on wondering about how to live”.

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What It Takes to Build an Incorruptible Company

What It Takes to Build an Incorruptible Company

Silicon Valley taught founders how to move fast, scale quickly, and dominate markets.

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Hands-On Apple 233: Apple Watch Customization

Most Apple Watch users never bother to customize the screen they check dozens of times a day. This episode shows how a quick face makeover can actually streamline your routines and keep you focused. Customizing Apple Watch faces using the Watch app on iPhone How to switc...

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Panic announces Transmit 6: Here's everything that's new

Panic has announced Transmit 6, a major upgrade to its file transfer app after years in maintenance mode. It features a redesigned interface, persistent activity view, the return of Transmit Disk for mounting remote shares in Finder, scheduled syncs, and a faster sync engine.

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The New York Jets Will Now Try Being “AI-First”

The New York Jets Will Now Try Being “AI-First”
The New York Jets have been pretty uniformly terrible on the field under the ownership of Woody Johnson, but the organization has lately been recognized as an innovative and industry-leading presence in integrating video game rankings and loutish patrician antics into its fr...

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After 40 Years, The Guys Who Made ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Are Almost Famous

After 40 Years, The Guys Who Made ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Are Almost Famous
Don’t tell Jeff Krulik he’s famous, especially if anybody's around. “I’ll be with somebody and they’ll say to somebody, ‘Hey, this is the guy who made Heavy Metal Parking Lot!” Krulik said. “And I know what’s coming next: A blank stare." "It's humbling,&q...

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The Canadiens Have A Weird Fetish For Not Shooting The Puck And They’re Making It Everybody’s Problem

The Canadiens Have A Weird Fetish For Not Shooting The Puck And They’re Making It Everybody’s Problem
The Montreal Canadiens have chosen an odd and ill-advised moment to test out a new, advanced, and almost transcendental hockey analytics notion. Either that, or the Carolina Hurricanes are putting together the first five-game sweep in history. Either way, we're getting ...

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iOS Today 804: iMessage Apps

Why do iMessage apps feel like a forgotten experiment, and what buried gems are still hiding behind that plus button? Dan Moren joins the show to unpack which built-in features now outshine their third-party predecessors and what that says about Apple's approach to messagin...

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Why OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams

Companies adding AI to their products often think that a powerful model is the key to successful integration. This assumption

The post Why OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams appeared first on The New Stack.

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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

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The Sun Is Undergoing a Mysterious Change and Nobody Knows Why

The Sun Is Undergoing a Mysterious Change and Nobody Knows Why

Astronomers discovered that magnetic activity in the Sun is being squeezed into a more tightly confined area under its surface, which has implications for space weather forecasts and heliophysics.

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‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription

‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription

On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?

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The States and Redistricting

After the Supreme Court decision that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Daniel Squadron, co-founder of The States Project, former New York State senator and author of the forthcoming book The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union (Zando, 2026), talks about the interplay between state legislatures and the redistricting fights happening now.

Photo: Oliver Larkin, Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s 23rd district, speaks during an emergency town hall that he held to address Florida Republicans’ newly approved congressional redistricting map (seen on wall) on May 04, 2026 in Coral Springs, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)


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NYS Finally Has a Budget

Albany lawmakers finally passed the state budget, eight weeks late. Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on the key provisions in the deal.

Photo: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani testifies at the 2026 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing in Albany on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. (Photo by Michael Appleton courtesy of the Mayoral Photo Office)


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Is ICE Racially Profiling Latino New Yorkers?

An investigation by The CITY, built from a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits filed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, found that of the 430 street arrests it documented across the New York City area, more than 93% targeted Latinos -- far out of proportion to the...