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Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

State agency's delay could mean free robotaxi rides in company’s new Ojai vehicle for a few months.

SCOTUSblog
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Who is the Supreme Court’s most “ideological” justice? And does that question even make sense?

Pulsifer v. US
Pulsifer v. US

Defector
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The Bears Wouldn’t Be The First NFL Team In Hammond, Indiana

The Bears Wouldn’t Be The First NFL Team In Hammond, Indiana
The Chicago Bears are one of the most storied franchises in the NFL. One of just two charter members of the league still playing today (the other being the Cardinals, a somewhat less-storied franchise), the Bears have had a lengthy and stalwart kinship with the City of Big S...

McSweeney’s
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Tom Waits White Noise Sound Options

Rumble of freight trains at dusk

Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard

Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time

Hailstorm on roof of jalopy

Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire

Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953

Time

One-eared mule eating oats out of rusted Radio Flyer wagon

Footsteps, size ten wingtips, left heel worn down

Fly ricocheting against Greyhound bus window in August

Third-to-last unfiltered Chesterfield being drawn from pack

Musical saw practicing scales in abandoned Viennese opera house

Resigned exhalation of dishwater blonde sipping rotgut from chipped dimestore mug while hounds from the farm over the hill next grieve passing hours that slip away like clouds skulking over the rotted face of the moon

Carny coughing into red bandana

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Text • Jason Kottke

XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If...

XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If someone hasn’t done one already, I’d guess at least one person is working on a playable Football Chess game rn.)

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Agentic AI in observability: accelerating root cause analysis

"OTel, Elastic Collaborate to Make Observability More Accessible" featured image

The growing development, promise, and use of generative AI and agentic AI continue to drive dramatic change in the IT

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Emmanuel Akita

The “silent hallucination” loop: how our autonomous data pipeline poisoned its own vector store

Abstract digital glitch art with distorted geometric diamond patterns on a black background, evoking an AI hallucination loop or system data corruption.

Nothing matches the dread of checking a perfectly green observability dashboard with sub-100ms latency, right before an enterprise client emails

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Paul Sawers

“The Switzerland of AI”: OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation

Illustrated Swiss flag — a white cross on a red waving flag,

OpenClaw has undoubtedly been one of the big AI success stories of 2026, an example of how far an open-source

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Ars Technica
Text • Eric Berger

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

"I think it's fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this."

Silver Bulletin
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How popular is Donald Trump?

How popular is Donald Trump?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.

Silver Bulletin
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Who’s ahead on the generic congressional ballot?

Who’s ahead on the generic congressional ballot?

Our constantly-updating tracker of polls for the most important indicator in the race for Congress.

Silver Bulletin
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How popular is the Iran War?

How popular is the Iran War?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for the ongoing conflict.

WIRED
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WIRED World Fair

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No, Mark Rutte Has No Self Respect When It Comes To Trump

Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte was confronted with being a toady and having no "self respect" when it comes to Donald Trump by the Danish press and he failed to refute those accusations. Rutte has publicly taken every insult, every threat, every rambling unhinged dia...

SCOTUSblog
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Trump wants court to rehear birthright citizenship case

Carved details along top of Supreme Court building are pictured
Carved details along top of Supreme Court building are pictured

Plus, a brief overview of our term-in-review event.

The San Francisco Standard
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Wild history and wild parrots at Frida Kahlo’s former Telegraph Hill home, asking $8M

Famous former residents are only part of the story behind this irreplaceable cliffside apartment building

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Samhita Krishnan

Inside xAI: 100-hour weeks, boardrooms named ‘Judgment Day,’ and a culture of fear 

A former employee of Elon Musk’s AI company opens up about the grueling work environment — and why he still misses it.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Jennifer Wadsworth

Surgeons face higher infertility rates. UC may make it even harder to have babies

For women who train as surgeons, infertility is a known occupational risk. A fight over who pays for it is now coming to a head at UC hospitals.

The San Francisco Standard
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The No. 4 draft pick offers the Giants hope. They won’t be so fortunate next year

No matter how many games Buster Posey’s team loses in 2026, the franchise won’t have the chance to secure a top-nine selection in 2027.

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Paul Cézanne, Rocks in the Forest, 1890s #europeanart #themet