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Stunned. Seriously cannot believe it. I’m torn between wondering if maybe this just isn’t the Spurs’ year to also believing they can win the next three games. 🏀

The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.

Spurs usually start strong but this first quarter is especially good. Opening a 20-point lead early gets the crowd out of the game. Let’s go! Gotta hold on to it. 🏀

Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work. • Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption,...

Michael Tsai blogs about the EU not accepting Apple’s proposal for a Trusted Agent System that might take 18 months develop:

It’s not surprising that the EU would reject that proposal. The App Store doesn’t approve apps that flout the guidelines but promise to comply later. It doesn’t even entertain proposals of the form, “If I built this would it be approved?”

Podcasting is open and decentralized, built on an open protocol called RSS. That means it’s not owned by any of the centralized platforms (Apple, Spotify, YouTube, etc). Anyone can publish a podcast, any app can consume it, and no single company controls the ecosystem. That’s rare and valuable, and worth protecting. I’m one of the ... Inside the Podcast Standards Project

The White House’s Top Science Goal Is Ignorance. “The actions are seen as a deliberate attempt to stifle science and ignore the reality of climate change, in order to support the fossil-fuel industry and satisfy the climate denialism of Trump’s base.”

I (Evan) will be at DWeb Camp Berlin this year. DWeb camp is a 5-day camping event in a forest near Berlin, where decentralized web hackers and advocates from around the world convene to discuss the state of the Web. I’ll be there hacking on ActivityPub implementations and meeting interesting people. If you’re coming to […]

“Defenders cannot afford to take weeks to patch,” one Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official warned on Wednesday.

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

Oof, what a beauty. In the 1960s, four Porsche 912s were customized for use as police cars in Japan. This one, which was used in Kanagawa until 1973, is the only one left standing (and even it needed restoration). This Japanese police 912 served in Kanagawa Prefecture fro...

two of my favorite internet people chat about ranking their biggest worries, publicly navigating illness, and organic produce

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Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized. SEO (and Google’s embrace of it) has spent the last 25 years ruining the internet and search results. Now it’s GEO’s turn (generative-engine optimization).

Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ

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Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

extremely dystopian, unsurprisingly started by a memecoin trading platform

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"Accept it. Accept it. It’s an uncontrollable. You cannot change it. Get over it. Get on with it."

Emma Hayes's words may have aspired to equanimity, but her tone betrayed her. Coming off a 2-1 loss to Brazil in São Paolo—the first of two consecutive friendlies played on the Brazilians' turf—the U.S. Women's National Team coach kept coming back to her refrain: the raucous crowds, their opponent's physicality, the officials' (in)competence, and the late start time for Tuesday's match were things the U.S. couldn't control, so best not to dwell on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cPuocsk9BI

I’m home after two and a half days down in the South Bay for WWDC.…

Josh Moyer remembers the exact moment he decided he needed to unionize. Moyer is a senior reporter for the Centre Daily Times, a newspaper in State College, PA, and for months he had been concerned about a new AI tool being rolled out in his newsroom. McClatchy, the Centre Daily Times’ parent company, had chosen...