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The Dutch Style Of Pickup Soccer And A Dog Named Jeff, With Leander Schaerlaeckens

The Dutch Style Of Pickup Soccer And A Dog Named Jeff, With Leander Schaerlaeckens
It's not the sort of anxiety that haunts you, or maybe it just rates below too many of my other haunting anxieties to register. But as a non-soccer person, the quadrennial arrival of the World Cup has a peculiar and not altogether unpleasant anxiety about it; a bunch of stuf...

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Google Gemma 4 12B nearly matches 26B benchmarks — and runs on your laptop

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Google has introduced Gemma 4 12B, a new model designed to bring high-performance, multi-modal intelligence to standard laptops. Small enough

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Snowflake thinks it knows what’s really slowing developers down

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Ready or not, the agentic enterprise is here, and the key to enabling it efficiently is being debated from various

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

Autonomous agents have met their biggest challenge yet: The database.

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As large language models evolve from mere chatbots into autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting, they are beginning

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WIRED
Text • Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

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The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks...

The official trailer for season three of Silo. Looks like we finally get some origin story stuff (well, more than a brief scene at least).

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Why agentic AI makes the ops platform the most important layer in the enterprise

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The biggest obstacle to enterprise AI isn’t models, data science talent, or even infrastructure.  It’s operations. Across today’s enterprises, hybrid

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WIRED
Text • Brian Kahn

Phoebe Bridgers Ditched the Internet to Hype Up Her New Music. It’s Working

The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.

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Make It Nice: Bathrooms, Backyards, And DIY Ambitions

Make It Nice: Bathrooms, Backyards, And DIY Ambitions
Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today we have a bathroom color dilemma, a backyard makeover, and someone wondering if they’re DIYing too close to the sun. GB asks:  I own an older townhouse type of condo in the southeast. ...

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On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place ....

On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place. “The bulldozer effortlessly demolished cars and buildings, including the home of a former mayor, the office of a newspaper that had sided against him in an editorial…”

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Home Theater Geeks 534: The Van Cave Theater

This month's featured home theater is astounding in its extensive planning and execution. Owner Robert Vanman went all out on an uncompromising 13.7.8 audio system and 194" screen in a room-within-a-room-within-a-room. Scott Wilkinson talks with Robert about his amazing the...

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Text • Todd R. Weiss

How to dramatically improve enterprise security alert tuning to battle cyberattacks

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The number of incoming IT security alerts arriving at enterprise security operations centers (SOCs) today is staggering, with one IT

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases

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The promise of fully autonomous systems — databases that manage, heal, and optimize themselves amid rapidly increasing data stores —

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Text • Mary Branscombe

How to secure Kubernetes in the age of AI workloads

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Securing Kubernetes has always been complex — spanning access control, image vulnerabilities, secrets management, and networking. AI workloads make it

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Can James Talarico Do Better than Beto? 

Rock band logos stickered the walls and railings in the dim light of the Paper Tiger, the grungy San Antonio venue with a 1,000-person capacity that was packed wall to wall for U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico last Friday evening.  It was night three of The People vs. Ken Paxton tour, as the Austin Democrat […]

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Expanding your social presence

Expanding your social presence

Connect more of your profiles to your publication, and bring your existing followers to Ghost

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I Can’t Fix Your Life; I’m Just a Bodega Cat Stretching

Hey, thanks for reaching out. I get that you are having an existential crisis of self, facing the realities of aging, and accepting your social and economic circumstances, but listen, there is nothing I can do; I’m just a cat stretching in a bodega. And no, it doesn’t matter...

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Engorged by Criticism

Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.

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Text • Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren

iOS Today 805: WWDC: What To Expect

With Apple pushing on-device AI and deep personal context, can they actually outmaneuver privacy concerns while matching Google's aggressive advancements? This episode breaks down the tension between convenience and user trust in the next wave of iOS. Smarter Siri rumors:...

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Why I Still Like the Internet via Gordon McLean

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The determination to move away from the addictive doom-scrolling of social media has given me pause, given me space to look around at how I use the internet and figure out where I get most value and where I WANT to get it from.