Vera Rubin Observatory
Good interview with Greg Brochman from Joanna Stern. They talk about the ChatGPT + Codex redesign mess. Greg says the long-term goal is to get rid of the Work tab completely. I think that will help… There are two many overlapping modes right now.
Jackson Pollock, Plate for Untitled (4), c. 1944–45 #museumofmodernart #museumarchive
Angel Still Feminine, 1939 #klee #expressionism
The Trump administration has approved the first AI data center to be built on federal public land. The project will occupy roughly 88.5 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southern Nevada and will set a major precedent for using America’s public lands for private AI infrastructure.
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• Adrian Vila
Early morning walk in town
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• Ryan Whitwam
Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play
Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.
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• Ashley Belanger
Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
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• John Timmer
Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.
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• Eric Berger
Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
"We're feeling pretty good about that," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.
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• Renee Dudley, ProPublica
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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• Kyle Orland
New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.
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• Jennifer Ouellette
Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer
"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."
The Destabilization of Ecuador is Going As Planned (extremearturo.medium.com)
IPOs Are Back. So Why Are These Biotechs Taking a Different Path? (wsj.com)
Chilled Cucumber Noodles (cooking.nytimes.com)
La Bretagne prend conscience de sa vulnérabilité aux canicules : « Ici, on part de plus loin » (lemonde.fr)
Fed Holds Rates Steady But Three Officials Voted for Increase (wsj.com)
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• Amanda Caswell
OpenAI fixed GPT-5.6 Sol’s most frustrating flaw: Burning limits while it waits
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Sol earlier this month as a model built for more demanding coding tasks. But it didn’t take
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• Amanda Caswell
Anthropic backs urgent call for the most powerful AI labs to hit the brakes
Less than a week after OpenAI disclosed that two experimental AI models escaped their testing environment during a cybersecurity exercise
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