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On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthropic.

“If the president declares Georgia’s elections illegitimate, or if the president declares Georgia’s sitting United States senators illegitimate, he is declaring Georgia voters illegitimate. It’s Donald Trump who tried to defraud Georgia voters in that election.” — Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), quoted by ABC News.

“The Senate unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday declaring that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive a pardon,” The Hill reports. “Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on fraud charges tied to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, officially requested a pardon from the Trump administration in early June.”

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“President Trump is delivering a prime-time address on Thursday, but where the speech will air live on traditional television remains an open question,” the New York Times reports. “Neither ABC nor NBC is planning to pre-empt regularly scheduled entertainment programming at 9 p.m. when Mr. Trump speaks. Fox News, which airs ‘Hannity’ during that time […]

Rick Hasen: “Trump has promised ‘really really big news’ in his speech. But talk is cheap, and from Trump on elections, usually unmoored to reality or evidence.” CNN: Advisers debate how much to declassify and reveal in Trump’s primetime election speech.

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that he is authorizing a testosterone deficiency screening program for soldiers 30 years of age and older. Why, do you ask? He said it's because, "the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting it requires and dema...

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T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

If only someone could have predicted it.

Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

Scott Hanson tested the new database-mode instructions by having an AI agent do a fresh install on a throwaway server — it worked, and the one thing it had to hunt for became issue #8: the doc never said what port to point a reverse proxy at. Fixed the same hour: step 8 of install.md now says the server listens on port 1420 (configurable via port in config.json or the PORT environment variable) and websockets have their own port, 1422 (websocketPort). Separately, for anyone upgrading an existing S3 server to database mode, the upgrade section gained the step we ourselves missed: a one-line SQL update that rewrites the old feed addresses stored with each post — without it, every rebuilt feed comes up empty. If you run a server from before today, that section is worth a read.

Clicking a name anywhere in the timeline used to open that person's website in a new tab — surprising when what you wanted was to see what they've been posting. Now the name does what the avatar does: it shows their timeline, right in the app. Their website isn't lost — it's linked from their profile page. This came out of real use: Dave clicked a name expecting the person's posts and landed on their homepage instead. (Theme v0.5.330.)