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LEGO Batman’s Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg

Cabel Sasser found a great easter egg in the new Lego Batman game. (Audio on!) For anyone who grew up with a Commodore 64, this is perfect nerd sniping. I transcribed the C64 BASIC code from Cabel’s video for you to try yourself. Just copy the code below and paste it into your emulator of […]

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Text • Boone Ashworth

Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App

The popular wildfire tracking app is adding flood monitoring to its platform. It’s the first new disaster alert on the service, with many more to come.

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Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile...

Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile of Steven Spielberg. “Spielberg has always known that his movies are attempts to understand his boyhood and his parents, to try to heal them through fiction and illuminate parts of himself.”

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Text • Anil Inamdar

For years, Apache Cassandra handed this work to your team — 6.0 takes it back

Minimalist illustration of two hands carefully balancing a stack of smooth stones in water, serving as a metaphor for data consistency and coordination in Apache Cassandra 6.0.

Apache Cassandra releases tend to be evaluated on roughly the same terms. What can it do now that it couldn’t

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“A dangerous combination”: The 2 factors that can “corrupt” AI agent workflows

Almost everyone’s workplace experience is now set to welcome AI-agent-driven actions through the applications we use daily, and this rapid evolution

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Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.

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I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

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Text • Matthew Gault

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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I have a playlist with a few movie soundtracks from Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Goran Bregović, and François De Roubaix. What does #Tidal think I should also put on the playlist? The Benny Hill theme, Inspector Gadget, and Mission: Impossible.

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Text • Pat Cassels

A Few Explanations Before I Give You Grays Sports Almanac

Today’s your lucky day, kid. I’m you from the future. I traveled back to 1955 to give you this sports almanac. It lists all the biggest sports events from now to the end of the century. All you have to do is bet on the winner, and you’ll never lose. You’re the fifth “me” I’v...

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Text • Tom Ley

Bari Weiss Even Worse At Her Job Than Previously Imagined

Bari Weiss Even Worse At Her Job Than Previously Imagined
Recently fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with The New York Times over the weekend for a lengthy interview about the end of his tenure at CBS News, which Bari Weiss has been speedily destroying with her incompetence. Pelley had a few things to say that co...

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At a New York prison, one writer reflects on the atmosphere as his favorite team seeks their first championship in 53 years.

“For more than 20 years,I served one of the most miserable sentences while rooting for one of the most miserable teams in sports.”
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Text • Darryl K. Taft

With Foundry, Microsoft bets the enterprise AI battle is about reliability, not capability

The agentic AI wave has produced no shortage of impressive demos. What it has produced less of is agents that

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Text • Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft unlocks Visual Studio for developers left behind by its own AI

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference last week to announce a series of updates to its flagship Visual Studio IDE

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How a Gun-Rights Extremist Could Soon Represent Uvalde in Congress

On May 24, 2022, a Border Patrol Tactical Unit fatally shot 18-year-old Salvador Ramos inside a classroom in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, 77 minutes after Ramos had entered the building to commit the third-deadliest school shooting in American history. Ramos, a former student at Robb, had purchased two high-powered rifles and hundreds of rounds […]

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Text • Luke Larsen

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x Review: The Best Laptop Under $1,000

Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 5x just might be the best laptop you can buy for $850. It's hard to find any major flaws, which is basically unheard of in a laptop at this price.

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Text • Ej Dickson

Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men

Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

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Apple WWDC 2026 Live Blog: All the Updates, as They Happen

Follow our WWDC 2026 live blog for all of the updates coming to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more.

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Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter

Earlier this year, the “Because I Got High” rapper went viral for winning a case against the cops. Now he’s crypto’s free-speech hero, even though he isn’t quite sure how the digital currency works.

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Text • Glenn Fleishman

High Performance mode allows sharing another Mac’s display as if your own

Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown

Apple’s built-in screen sharing support for Mac-to-Mac connections has always been a help for those of us with remote setups: headless Macs acting as servers, an office and home Mac, or the laziness of having Macs in different parts of your house you want to access without standing up.…