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“Boeing spent another quarter in the red as it poured more resources into developing new presidential jets and accelerating production of commercial planes,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The U.S. manufacturer said fast-tracking work on the modified 747-8 jets that will some day serve as Air Force One will cost an additional $280 million, the […]

MCP 2026-07-28 shipped today, and the headline change is a stateless core: no more initialize handshake, no more sessions. That's the exact shape I built joost.blog's MCP endpoint in back in May, when it was a tolerated corner of the spec rather than the spec itself. Here's what changed in my hand-rolled endpoint, why most of an MCP server on a static site can now be CDN, and why my agent skills now ship over MCP too.

Pacing the Frontier, signed by employees of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other labs.

To realize AI’s potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight.

Foothills of the singularity.

eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.

“We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two."

A new way to say you mean so much to me...

President Trump’s net approval rating has fallen to a record-low 25 points underwater, with just 35% approving of his job performance and 60% disapproving, The Economist reports. 

“Former President Barack Obama will hold a fund-raiser in late August for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a fresh sign that Democrats intend to continue their aggressive push to gerrymander congressional districts ahead of the 2028 election,” the New York Times reports.

“Democrats across the country agree that their new primary map will redraw the road to their party’s 2028 presidential nomination. But, as they look to what’s widely expected to be a crowded and competitive contest, no one is quite sure what turns it will take,” the New York Times reports. “Instead of Iowa and New […]

“The Pentagon is taking steps to rename a South Carolina military base after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham,” NOTUS reports.

“A thief scammed the cash-strapped Democratic National Committee out of nearly $29,000 last year, according to interviews with committee officials and previously unreported federal records,” NOTUS reports. “In February 2025, an unknown party sent a fraudulent email to a committee staffer pretending to be Chairman Ken Martin, a DNC official familiar with the matter confirmed […]