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“The Senate’s stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown Oct. 1 has cleared the first procedural hurdle, putting it on track for passage before lawmakers leave for the August recess,” Politico reports. “Senators voted 89-4 to advance the measure, which would fund federal agencies through Dec. 11 at current levels, with some exceptions.” New York […]

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?

My TV these days is deeply middle-aged. Reruns of Buffy, Stargate, Grimm, The Mentalist, Justified, Inspector Morse and the occasional Golden Girls episode. Last night, we watched the series finale of Grantchester.

I think maybe the only new show we’re currently watching is “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is essentially a reboot of a TV series that debuted midway through the Johnson Administration.

My TV these days is deeply middle-aged. Reruns of Buffy, Stargate, Grimm, The Mentalist, Justified, Inspector Morse and the occasional Golden Girls episode. Last night, we watched the series finale of Grantchester.

I think maybe the only new show we’re currently watching is “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is essentially a reboot of a TV series that debuted midway through the Johnson Administration.

After winning an NBA title with the New York Knicks, Brown took in practice Monday in Santa Clara and broke down the team huddle.

Ignudo, 1509 #highrenaissance #michelangelo

Court documents revealing that President Donald Trump was de-banked after a money laundering probe have been linked to a reinvigorated effort to protect him from prosecution by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Capital One's July 31 filing marked the first time a b...

The fight between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is about far more than one Senate seat. It's a battle over who controls the Democratic Party—and whose interests it serves.

We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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The first principle in my proposed Universal Moral Core (UMC) is as follows: Grow knowledge as the source of technological and moral progress. Before diving into all parts of this principle and its implications, let me relate it upfront to the Kantian separation between moral norms (values) and epistemic norms (knowledge). My principle is about a necessary condition for progress. This doesn’t mean that individuals have to acquire specific knowledge to act in a moral way. Instead it does imply...

Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to block Minnesota’s anti-nudify app law. As we tried to explain, even if you (reasonably, understandably) dislike both Elon and “nudify” apps, there were real problems with the Minnesota law. In particular, it was not narrowly tailored to just target […]

REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one.

They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones don’t convert every endpoint into a tool, they design around what the agent’s trying to accomplish.

Shipping that server also means shipping OAuth 2.1 with scoped tokens. WorkOS AuthKit already speaks that spec, so you skip building an auth provider on top.

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“House Democrats are privately mulling whether to force a vote to expel Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) from Congress over domestic abuse allegations, which he denies,” Axios reports. “While it is rare for a House member to be forcibly ousted, the mere threat of expulsion has been enough to precipitate multiple resignations this year.” CNN: Trump […]

“The U.S. Treasury Department was sued by a nonprofit group claiming the government is improperly withholding legal settlements that the Trump administration could use to cover payouts to pardoned Jan. 6 defendants and other supporters of the president,” Bloomberg reports.