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Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

Former Republican insider Reed Galen watched the GOP dismiss its voters until Donald Trump remade the party. He says Democratic leaders are making the same mistake.

Spanish renewable energy and electricity giant Iberdrola is constructing its first battery energy storage project in the US as utilities race to add more storage to strengthen the grid.

The IONIQ 3 is a high-tech, fully electric hatch that the US will miss out on. It can drive over 300 miles on a single charge and is Hyundai’s first vehicle in Europe to use its new Pleos Connect infotainment system.

62 years ago today, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law because people refused to back down. That same energy is needed now.

As voting rights are under attack, we cannot afford to be complacent.

We must keep fighting until every voice is heard and every vote counts. We are not letting up.

Cyberattacks used to be the biggest security issue surrounding AI infrastructure, but that could be changing. A recent cargo theft

The post The $1.3 million theft that exposed AI’s blind spot appeared first on The New Stack.

Microsoft’s latest AI services announcement suggests the era of standardizing on a single model may be ending. This week, the

The post Microsoft just admitted its biggest AI mistake — and spent $2.5 billion fixing it appeared first on The New Stack.

Godot Engine, the open-source alternative to game engines such as Unity, is rewriting its contribution policy to bar most AI-generated

The post “AI contributions are demoralizing”: Godot bans coding agents to save its mentoring model appeared first on The New Stack.

Previously, most rapes could not be prosecuted after the state’s 15-year deadline, even if a DNA match was found.

A 2025 WBUR-ProPublica investigation tracked one woman’s fight for justice after police missed the deadline to prosecute her rapist: https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA

NEW: Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rape-statute-limitations-dna-evidence-massachusetts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA

At the moment I am writing this, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed.

I thought I looked badass walking the dog this morning, but then I got in the car, glanced at myself in the rearview mirror and saw the front brim of my hat was pushed up the entire time. So instead of looking badass, I looked like a simple country cousin from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Also, I was wearing black socks with shorts.

“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer.

A little bummed that OpenAI is retiring Pulse. It felt like magic. But also it must’ve been burning through tokens way beyond the benefit, and personally I went from reading it every day to only skimming it every couple days. Maybe ChatGPT scheduled tasks can be good enough.

Moment Energy has officially opened what it says is the world’s largest second-life EV battery factory, bringing new battery energy storage manufacturing capacity online just six weeks after announcing the project.

Michael Tsai blogging about Apple’s private email relay:

The main problem I have with Hide My Email is that some customers use it and then have no way to look up their purchase info via e-mail because they don’t know which address they used.

Yep. Apple needs a simpler way to see all your email addresses, like a table of all the service names and each email address. No one knows how to dig into iOS Settings to find it. (Although on the iOS 27 beta it’s less buried than it used to be.)

How should we remember Trump once he leaves the White House? Medieval Venice offers one answer for what to do with Trump’s image and name that he’s plastered everywhere. “There are certainly odd historical parallels between an 80-year-old leader attempting to take over a republic because he felt personally insulted and our current political situation.” By David M. Perry at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

On the back of the Commerce Department’s incredibly stupid move to ban Polestar from selling EVs in the US, the Polestar 4 is now nearly the cheapest EV in America after a $25k discount, and the Polestar 3 has a pretty great discount applied too.

As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, readers picking up a copy of their local paper this weekend might expect photos of fireworks or July Fourth celebrations to dominate the […]

The post Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page profile of chairman and billionaire David Hoffmann this weekend appeared first on Poynter.