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The Beeline Imagine how attractive these flowers would look if you were a bee. According to the invaluable Plantnet app, it’s Verbascum chaixii ViLL. Which is ‘Nettle leaved Mullein’ to the rest of us. Quote of the Day ”The only … Continue reading →

Polls say Americans support protecting DACA recipients from deportation. Now some are being detained.

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Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spect...

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.

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and mo...

EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support ...

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

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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

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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.