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The AI cost crisis finally has a watchdog — just not the companies causing it

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It’s no secret that AI is becoming enterprises’ biggest and least understood technology expense, and for many companies, the spending

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Apple design and balance

David Smith blogs about his Apple-inspired ideals for development and design: If you are always striving towards improving quality you will eventually end up with a surplus of user expectation. In my experience this surplus is incredibly precarious because once you are bett...

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Despite being under Republican control, the House just defied President Trump on the Iran war.

No amount of lying or bullying by the White House can make Americans forget we're paying for a senseless war.

Now even some GOP Members of Congress are recognizing they ultimately answer to us - not him.

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No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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AI has a communication problem

Artificial Intelligence, though more than a half-century old as a technology, has occupied front-of-mind cultural consciousness for only a few years, since ChatGPT. Yet AI is already profoundly disliked and distrusted in both media meme and apparently in public opinion. The techlash against the internet and then social media took at least two decades to ferment, while […]

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Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to...

Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to construct a historical NBA roster capable of achieving a perfect undefeated season.” You get to “draft” 5 players from randomly chosen teams & decades, then that team plays a simulated season.

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Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976)

In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at The Kitchen in NYC; you can watch the entire show recorded from two angles in this video. The band had formed the year before and was more than a year away from recording and releasing their debut album.

It’s a great insight as to what these early Talking Heads shows were like, and with it also being in color, being good quality, and having two angles for most of the show, this is a must-watch.

The band played for about 90 minutes (2 sets plus an encore), working through tracks like Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, and Love → Building On Fire. (via open culture)

Tags: David Byrne · music · Talking Heads · video

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How to get operational data off the factory floor without creating an IT breach

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Informational and operational technology data have long been treated as separate domains. But AI changed the game. Today, you need

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Why CPUs still matter in the age of AI agents

When the conversation turns to AI infrastructure, it almost always lands on GPUs and TPUs. The New Stack sat down

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Indiana Fever Revoke Beat Writer’s Press Credentials Over Caitlin Clark Injury Report

Indiana Fever Revoke Beat Writer’s Press Credentials Over Caitlin Clark Injury Report
The Indiana Fever have revoked media credentials from longtime Indiana basketball reporter Scott Agness, he said Tuesday in a post on his website Fieldhouse Files. The team's public relations staff told him the decision was due to "the spread of inaccurate and unsubstan...

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Jo Adell Traverses The Entirety Of The Fielding Experience

Jo Adell Traverses The Entirety Of The Fielding Experience
Two months ago, Angel in the outfield Jo Adell robbed three home runs in a single game, in what I'm sure will stand up as the best defensive performance of the season. Last night, he made an error that forced me to question if those incredible catches were all just a dream. ...

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(Podcast) Clockwise 659: Use Your Meaty Stuff

WWDC expectations, how we squeeze more life out of older gadgets, our search engine habits, and the next craft projects tech will help us with.…

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Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show. Here’s the catch: “Each episode Tommy welcomes mystery guests and interviews them without any preparation or knowledge of who will be joining him until they meet in studio.”

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Marta Kostyuk Will Not Break

Marta Kostyuk Will Not Break
The morning of her first round-match at Roland-Garros, Marta Kostyuk learned that a Russian missile attack had killed four people in her native Kyiv, Ukraine, dangerously near her parents' house. "Most of the morning I felt sick …if it was 100 metres closer, I probably would...

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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.

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Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.

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Windows Weekly 986: Liminal AI

Build 2026 is underway in San Francisco this week, and it started with a big, overly-long keynote as always. And Computex is this week, too. There's a lot going on, and some of it is fascinating. Plus, WWDC is next week because you cannot relax. Also, Microsoft GA's WinApp ...

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Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS....

Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS. “Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing.”