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The Best July 4 Grill and Griddle Deals: Weber, Traeger, Recteq

Fourth of July weekend is the last great grill and griddle sale of the summer, including $250 off my favorite pellet smoker.

Tedium
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Bring Back Crappy Forums

Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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The Stainless Steel Rat

When I was a kid, I loved the Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison. The main character of the series is James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” di Griz, a master thief turned elite police agent in an interstellar civilization in the distant future. The first several books of th...

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“What is the terminal?”

In his keynote talk at the first Perl conference, Larry Wall couldn’t get the Windows computer on the podium to behave. So he SSH’d into his own machine and said, with relief and joy: “Home sweet home”. Three decades on, software developers still live in the terminal, now more than ever as coding agents dethrone … Continue reading “What is the terminal?”

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Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here

Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here

How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.

Letters from an American
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Birthright Citizenship

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Mexico’s Victory Over Ecuador Made the Ground Shake. Was It an Artificial Earthquake?

Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual vibrations that were detected by seismic warning systems.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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OpenClaw’s new app doesn’t run AI on your phone. That’s the whole point.

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OpenClaw finally dropped its iOS and Android apps this week, meaning you can now ditch the Telegram and WhatsApp methods

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SCOTUS is so corrupt that it operates in secret. Punish it

SCOTUS is so corrupt that it operates in secret. Punish it

No democracy can endure when justices are untouchable.

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Subaru’s new EVs are already outselling the Solterra

Just months after arriving at dealerships, Subaru’s new electric SUVs are outselling the Solterra.

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Three cheers for Barbara!

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The United States Capitol building is seen in Washington D.C., United States, on December 9, 2025

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Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure

Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure

The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated.

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Kempower + PowerUp kick off a 12-site EV fast charging rollout

Kempower and charge point operator PowerUp America have opened a new public DC fast charging station in Manchester, Kentucky – the first of 12 charging projects the companies are building together in the Southeast.

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Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding...

Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”. And: “Haaland can call to mind a shark circling dark waters.”

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A thought for people who think the US can't be fixed. I've seen very strange things happen, like all of a sudden people figure it out and boom next thing you know they're the NBA Champions. It wasn't exactly sudden, but the last leg of was. A gestalt. Now two leaders figure out how to lead. The thing about each of those people is determination, and a belief they were right, and they went right up to the edge and fought. I think the country would unite behind such a leader.

The Overlook
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Hunter-Tannersville Students Share Title Role in “Matilda the Musical”

Two Hunter-Tannersville students will share the title role in “Matilda the Musical,” which opens Thursday, July 2, at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville. The musical, based on the 1988 Roald Dahl novel, will be staged at 6 p.m. Thursday, followed by performances at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday, July 3, and a […]

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Cordyceps flaw pattern is more proof CI/CD is part of the attack surface

On June 24, research from Novee Security was released, reporting a CI/CD weakness that could enable anyone with an unauthenticated

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Cloudflare wants to build the economic layer of the AI web

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AI has changed the web right before our eyes. With Google’s AI Overviews doing the heavy lifting, publications that once

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Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.

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Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

Reading sad things about journalism — newspapers, especially — has been a big part of my job for almost two decades. On Monday, I came across such a story that seemed to be getting traction on social media. According to the link aggregator Sill, 18 people I follow on Bluesky had shared a link to...