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Remembering the nation's 'Lost Founder'

Jesse Wegman talks to Dave Davies about James Wilson. A brilliant lawyer who helped craft the U.S. Constitution, Wilson lived a colorful life and died as a Supreme Court justice on the run from the law and creditors. Also, David Bianculli reviews the Prime Video series 'Spider-Noir.'

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Our War Against the Romulans Was an Overwhelming Success

“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” — President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post. - - - Citizens of the United Federation of Planets, as Starfleet’s Commander in Chief, I am pleased to announce: The war against the Romula...

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Video • Stephen Wolfram

Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionality

June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica. Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language. It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be more to add. But it’s like the typical arc of intellectual history: the more one’s figured out, the further one can see, and the more one becomes able to do. And for all of us working on it, it’s been a very satisfying process: year after year building an ever taller tower of ideas and technology, with which we can reach ever further—today to all the functionality of Version 15.

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Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...

Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number of Spielberg Faces.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion. Can it fix Musk’s coding division?

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Today it was announced SpaceX will buy Anysphere, Inc., maker of AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion.  The news

The post SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion. Can it fix Musk’s coding division? appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation

Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.

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Stop Merely Pointing at Ideas

Nori said my zettelkasten notes look more like mini-essays. First, I dismissed this idea as just a gut reaction to the length and thoroughness of my notes compared to the typically presented notes in the Zettelkasten world. However, the notion stuck with me, and I came to t...

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Automata, Built For Comfort or Speed

It’s been a while. February was the last entry in this Quamina Diary; I never stopped working on it but there hasn’t been much blogworthy. This piece offers a progress update for those who’ve been entertained by Quamina, and also a pleasing (well, to me anyhow) dip into finite-automata theory and practice. With numbers and graphs and a bluesman!

WIRED
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‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

Defector
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The Original ‘Hockey Night In Canada’ Takes Its Dying Breath

The Original ‘Hockey Night In Canada’ Takes Its Dying Breath
For nearly as long as Canadian homes have had televisions, hockey fans have been able to spend their Saturday nights watching the country's teams on the public broadcast channel CBC. Initially a branding for CBC's radio coverage of the NHL, Hockey Night In Canada debuted on ...

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The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map

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People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels

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WIRED
Text • Simon Hill

Nimble’s New Modular Power Bank Can Be Shared With a Friend

Nimble’s thoughtfully designed SharePower is a modular power bank you can share with a friend.

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Walter White’s Big Hat

In this modified scene from Breaking Bad, Walter White’s hat grows in proportion to his ego. YT commenter: “He was just brimming with confidence.” Could be time for a BB rewatch. (via @ernie.tedium.co)

Tags: Breaking Bad · remix · TV · video

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It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests

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the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches

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WIRED
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The Future of Home

How we live now is defined by unprecedented forces. In this special issue, WIRED and Architectural Digest help you understand what home will look like tomorrow—and beyond.

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Substack is launching a sponsorship program

On Monday, Substack announced a framework for a native sponsorship program, along with “Creator Kits” to help Substack users build media kits for potential brand partners. (It’s also hired its first head of brand sponsorships, Axios reported.) These tools will make it easier for writers to increase their revenue while continuing to build their subscription...

WIRED
Text • Fred A. Bernstein

One Climate Change Innovation: Just Look Up

To build one family’s dream house on a flood-prone Mississippi bayou, AD100 architect Tom Kundig decided the sky’s the limit.

Defector
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Iran Forced Out Of U.S. Immediately After Playing Best Match Of World Cup

Iran Forced Out Of U.S. Immediately After Playing Best Match Of World Cup
For many players, just lacing up the boots and throwing on the national team jersey for a World Cup match marks the pinnacle of their career. Even in an expanded tournament field of 48 teams, the percentage of the population that gets to say they played in a World Cup is ast...

Remarkable People
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

Why We Choose What We Choose with Emily Falk

This week, we’re revisiting a conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on decision-making and behavior change…Emily Falk!

WIRED
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You Can Finally Buy Snap’s New AR Specs—for $2,150

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel lays out the company’s vision for its augmented-reality smart glasses, arriving later this year.