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Travel is great but when you are home you don’t have to deal with automated soap dispensers so that’s a plus.

There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.

Speaking of dickovers, here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic: Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining. Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marketplace exchange in which...

On Friday, Anthropic launched Opus 5, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model. Arriving just two months after Opus 4.8

The post Opus 5 costs a third of the price — and that’s actually the problem appeared first on The New Stack.

The Journal has an article today about the increasing unreality of the strategy, if one can call it that, the...

What makes fires tick?

The Pentagon's casualty website listed 18 American troops killed in the Iran war on Wednesday — by Thursday, that number had dropped to 14. We can't imagine why. According to three officials who spoke anonymously about internal discussions, the change came down to the admin...

Questions facing Berkeley residents in 2026 include whether to double the soda tax, increase sales taxes and pay new parcel taxes to support the arts and create a public bank.

A high-profile steakhouse in New York served its last customer after nearly 100 years. Continue reading…

On the Terrace, 1874 #morisot #impressionism

Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces, 1938 #salvadordali #dali

They're part of a broader effort to salt the earth of public trust.

On Thursday, the conclusion of the 2026 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix came in a high-energy awards ceremony. However just days prior, 39 teams from around the world descended upon Brainerd, Minnesota for the event, which for many was a high-stakes do-or-die moment for the opportunity to qualify and compete in the 2026 Electrek American Solar Challenge cross-country event.

Here are the results from the final day Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and which teams will be moving on to the American Solar Challenge (ASC).

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032.

PLUS: I’ll be joining “The Jim Acosta Show” at 4 pm ET today

We need a lot more businesses to sue. This administration needs to listen to the courts. Two small businesses sued the Trump administration over its latest round of global tariffs, launching another legal challenge that could redefine the limits of Trump’s authority to wage a global trade war.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to share a public letter backing frontier open-weight models. Signed

The post Jensen Huang made his first X post. He used it to lobby Washington about open-weight AI. appeared first on The New Stack.

LeBron James is going to the Philadelphia 76ers. He made the right choice, the team will already be disrupted by a big trade, and probably an upgrade, and maybe LeBron can even have a place to start.

Is the EX50 the name of Volvo’s next electric vehicle? A new trademark was filed, and all signs point to it becoming a production model soon.