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Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. The answer is yes — introducing rss.chat! And here’s a Day 0 screen shot. The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment. I started this project in April, a […]

A Hudson Valley man is accused of murdering his mother, a beloved figure who was a disability advocate. Continue reading…

Five men allegedly thought they were meeting children in the Hudson Valley, but investigators were waiting instead. Continue reading…

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.

The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

“‘Iran has never won a war and never lost a negotiation,’ tweeted Donald Trump in 2020. He had just ordered the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Al Quds,” the Financial Times reports. “Now it seems like Trump has forgotten his aphorism. Six years later, Iran has survived the recent war with America and […]

Agentic systems usually have two jobs: Build context, then use that context to produce an answer or action. Many failures

The post Why retrieval quality is becoming the defining challenge in AI agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack.

Mayor Mamdani plays Mario Kart and chats about making New York City's buses faster

Barges at Le Roche Guyon, 1865 #camillepissarro #realism

Without superstar Napheesa Collier, Cheryl Reeve's 16-6 squad is digging deep and benefitting from breakout rookie Olivia Miles.

The owner of Blue Star Farms in Columbia County has been found guilty on animal neglect charges stemming from a 2024 investigation that uncovered horses living in poor conditions. Continue reading…

Norway's charmed and charming run to the World Cup quarterfinals has been a good time all around. Erling Haaland is probably the most lovingly memed man on Earth at the moment, and with good reason. The Norwegians are getting really into cowboy fashion. It's all very fun. Th...

GAVARNIE-GÉDRE, France — Millions of people travel to the Tour de France every year, almost all of them on purpose. This is the story of three people who did so by accident. While waiting for the riders to make their way up to Gavarnie-Gédre for the finish of Stage 6, I too...

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today we have a balcony makeover, thoughts on washable rugs, and a plea to please, please not use contact paper on your countertops! Jessica asks: By NYC standards my balcony is HUGE (11' x 5') b...