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Judge: DOJ Undid Its Attempt To Bully Portland Police Because AG Harmeet Dhillon Tweeted Thru It

There are several layers of bullshit in operation here, so we’ll walk through it all. But keep in mind the only reason this is all being exposed is because Trump administration officials feel they’re more obligated to “own the libs” than actually do their damn jobs. Last October, “conservative influencer” Nick Sortor was arrested by […]

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New reporting reveals Trump overruled his own agencies to deny disaster aid to 4 Democrat-led states.

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There’s Big News In Necks

There’s Big News In Necks
If you are anything like me, you probably have a neck—a neck you take for granted. Maybe you do not think often about having a neck, given said neck's relatively unobtrusive placement below your head and out of your line of sight. Maybe you are trying to look at your neck ri...

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Developers using Fable seem to often get downgraded because of false positives on cybersecurity or biology questions, but I’ve never seen that on GPT-5.6 Sol until today. Trying to find vulnerabilities in my own code. Fascinating and annoying.

Screenshot of Codex error due to content restrictions related to cybersecurity.

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Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

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New York’s Parasitic Diarrhea Outbreak May Spread Beyond Lettuce

U.S. health experts are warning Americans that the cyclosporiasis outbreak is not under control and urging caution for many more products. Continue reading…

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Pastebot 3

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New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps — Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for years now I’ve chosen to use ...

The GitHub Blog
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Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast

Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project.

The post Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Unilever Raises Outlook After Quarterly Sales Volume Growth Hits 16-year High (wsj.com)

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Rates of High Blood Pressure Are Rising in Pregnant Women, Study Finds (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Europe’s fires are just the start (economist.com)

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Restaurant Review: Marcel in New York (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A Backlash Against Anthropic Is Brewing in Silicon Valley (wsj.com)

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ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government. (inquirer.com)

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The Christian Right’s Toxic Obsession with Other People’s Families (medium.com)

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The incalculable impacts of Trump’s attack on TPS | Jenice Armstrong (inquirer.com)

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Abhängigkeit von China: Handelskrieg mit China? »Die Waffen liegen auf dem Tisch« (zeit.de)

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A desert town may run out of water. Others could face the same fate. (share.inquirer.com)

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Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...

Participants in a recently published study spoke 28% fewer words per day in 2019 than they did in 2005. (People are spending more time alone and more time digitally communicating.)

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The AI “vibe shift”: Why NanoClaw and Echo have teamed up to stop the next Hugging Face Breach

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Gavriel Cohen describes this moment in four words.  “There’s been a clear vibe shift,” the NanoClaw co-founder and CEO tells

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