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It’s been quite a day. At the end, rss.chat is a thing.

More new stuff tomorrow.

Claude is a great freaking partner.

Local news was a space seemingly insulated from political polarization. That's changing.

Back in May, OpenAI was rattling its saber about thinking about talking to lawyers about possibly considering a lawsuit against Apple for not treating it right when it came to ChatGPT integration.…

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.

The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands even though Musk himself concedes Grok is not as good as its rivals.

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design. He departed the company in February 2024 to work with Jony Ive. Chang Liu, meanwhil...

Victor Wembanyama in a post on X:

Spurs family, I’m here to stay.
Whatever it takes🖤

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Trump's DOJ has suddenly dropped a major anti-corruption case targeting a $722 million crypto Ponzi scheme.

Just 13% of Political Wire readers got all the answers right on the weekly news quiz.  How will you do? Take the quiz to find out. The quiz is using my own custom software. Let me know what you like and don’t like.

Graham Platner sent a letter officially dropping out of the U.S. Senate race in Maine.

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

Opening a conversation with the wedge had a flaw: a reply might already be sitting in the timeline as its own post, so expanding its parent put the same words on screen twice. Now, when replies open under a post, any of them that were standing in the timeline fold into the conversation — every post appears exactly once. Close the wedge and they return to their places. If your cursor was on one of those posts, it follows it into the conversation. (Theme v0.5.316.)

Dave opened a conversation, read it, and then couldn't see how to get back — the wedge that opens a thread goes light once it's open, and light means "nothing to see here." His instinct was the Home button, and it was disabled. That instinct is now the design: whenever a conversation is open in the timeline, Home lights up, and clicking it closes everything and returns you to the top — the same fresh timeline Home has always meant. (Theme v0.5.317.)