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Texas Republican Is Under House Ethics Investigation

“The House Ethics Committee said in a statement Monday it is investigating Rep. Lance Gooden, a four-term Texas Republican,” Politico reports. “It’s unclear what the committee is probing, but the Office of Congressional Conduct, an independent investigative branch of the House, sent over findings regarding Gooden to the committee on June 10.”

Political Wire
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Two Wars Converge in the Caspian Sea

“Ukrainian drones have hit military-supply lines connecting Russia and Iran through the Caspian Sea, exploiting a new front in two increasingly intertwined wars,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Text • Charlie Gillmer

A Golf Idiot Reviews Minnesota’s Hot-as-Hell 3M Open

A Golf Idiot Reviews Minnesota’s Hot-as-Hell 3M Open

No easier way to see Scottie Scheffler in Blaine.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Traci Taylor

CDC Numbers Show Big Gaps in NY County Cancer Rates

CDC data shows a surprising gap in cancer rates across New York State, with some areas seeing far higher numbers than others. Continue reading…

Ars Technica
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5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

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Saudis Blame Iran-Backed Militias Based in Iraq for Drone Attacks (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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🎁 Kritiek op techboetes nergens op gebaseerd (fd.nl)

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Opinion | Mamdani’s Antisemitic Smoke Signals (wsj.com)

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‘Band on the Run’ Review: An Army Far From Home (wsj.com)

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Cuba, Lacking Fuel, Relies on Ingenuity to Defy Trump’s Blockade (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Is the Scarecrow of Oz a Conscious Being? (ms32-23594.medium.com)

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France and Spain Wildfires Are the New Reality (bloomberg.com)

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Musk’s SpaceX tumbles back to Earth, dragging Tesla stock down with it (wapo.st)

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AI Finding Twice as Many Cyber Flaws in 2026 as It Did in 2025 (bloomberg.com)

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Will Joel Ward become the NHL’s second Black head coach? His peers have ‘no doubt’ (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A desert town may run out of water. Others could face the same fate. (wapo.st)

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Meinung: »Neuromancer«: Wer verstehen will, was Elon Musk nicht versteht, muss dieses Buch lesen – Kolumne (spiegel.de)

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“ Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns...

“Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype’s ligature substitution does the rest.”

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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The 24-hour experiment that helped Anthropic find its identity

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If you’re building traditional software, you write the product requirements document. If you’re building frontier AI, you run an evaluation.

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it

Conceptual illustration of a small businesswoman opening a red door in a massive, towering wall, representing developers finding a way through the CI pipeline bottleneck and the complexity of AI coding agent validation.

Moonshot AI has released the open weights for Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, giving developers access to one of the

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