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See the heat: An infrared imaging system that outputs in color

See the heat: An infrared imaging system that outputs in color

Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.

The City Reporter
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New York Sues Prediction Market Firm Kalshi, Alleging ‘Illegal Gambling Operation’

State Attorney General Letitia James speaks at the Brooklyn Democratic Gala in Red Hook,

This story was produced as part of a partnership between The City Reporter and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued prediction market Kalshi in state court on Friday, alleging that the company runs an “illegal gambling operation” without proper state licenses. James’ lawsuit comes amid […]

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Fox: 75% of Americans now feel negatively about the economy

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Small Horse Study, 1905 #impressionism #franzmarc

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Triumphal Arch #postimpressionism #cortes

Data Rescue Project Supports Webmention
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Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst

Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst

Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.

We are so

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Ukraine’s Strike on Iranian Ship Shows How Two Wars Could Spiral (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Adam O’Neal Resigns as Washington Post Opinion Editor (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Companies Rush to Close Daring Deals Under Trump (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart (wsj.com)

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Ars Technica
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China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs

China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs

Look at chemistry of batteries and motors shows big opportunity for recycling.

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Trump is holding a Cabinet meeting and talking about how much the January 6 insurrectionists suffered after their attack on the Capitol. It’s odd because he’s speaking as though he had no role in what happened. He claimed many of them died by suicide and suggested what they did was innocent.

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A senior Trump official is being investigated for assault after being accused of "forcefully pushing" a colleague and threatening to "beat the fuck out of" him.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Counterfeit Designer Goods Found at Deli

Nearly $119,000 worth of name-brand goods, none of them real — that's what state police say they walked out of a South Street market in Newburgh carrying. Continue reading…

Defector
Text • Israel Daramola

Tony Romo On Leave From CBS After Drunk Driving Arrest

Tony Romo On Leave From CBS After Drunk Driving Arrest

On Friday, CBS Sports announced that NFL analyst Tony Romo is on leave "until further notice," following his arrest in Milwaukee last week for Operating While Intoxicated.

https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/2083211920094466188?s=46

Romo was given three citations from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office after a traffic stop on July 23, when police spotted him driving on the highway, passing cars in a lane he shouldn't have been in. In the bodycam footage of the arrest, a glassy-eyed Romo can be seen failing field sobriety tests, despite him treating them like he was at the combine or something. He refused a breathalyzer, though an open container of alcohol was found inside his car, according to police. Romo has a court appearance scheduled for Sept. 21.

Schneier on Security
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Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection

The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5 (2.6%), making...

Platformonomics
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Platformonomics TGIF #136: July 31, 2026

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email The Q2 CAPEX numbers are here, the Q2 CAPEX numbers are here! My Writing Follow the CAPEX: Q2 2026 Scoreboard Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft spent almost […]

Political Wire
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A Tragedy in Iran Might Persuade Hegseth to Change Course

The Atlantic: “When President Trump plucked Pete Hegseth from Fox News to be his secretary of defense, Pentagon officials scrambled to get with their new boss’s pugnacious program: Lethality and battlefield swagger were in; ‘wokeness’ and operational restraint were out.” “Hegseth’s subsequent purge at the Defense Department included the dramatic downsizing of staff dedicated to […]

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Free Online Tools — Browser-Based | ToolSura ToolSura puts 80+ everyday tools in your browser — convert files, edit PDFs, clean up text, and decode developer formats instantly. Most tools run entirely on your device, so your files never leave your device. [ 📌tdjones ] Free Online CSV Tools — Viewer, Editor & Converter | CSVTool.io 60 free CSV tools in one place: open CSV files in a fast spreadsheet-style viewer, edit and clean data, convert CSV to Excel, JSON, SQL, XML, TSV, and more, or join, pivot, split, and compare files. Everything runs in your browser — files are never uploaded. [ 📌fileformat ]

Defector
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Kody Clemens Achieves The Ultimate Ultimate Grand Slam

Kody Clemens Achieves The Ultimate Ultimate Grand Slam
Some time ago, if you asked me for an example of the most romantic, childhood dream–ass achievement for a baseball player, I probably would have pointed to Bryson Stott's home run against the Miami Marlins in the 2023 NL Wild Card series: a first-pitch grand slam with the cr...