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Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.

A major new lawsuit claims millions of families' personal information could be shared in ways New York says violate federal law. Continue reading…

Bloomberg Law reported Tuesday that FBI Director Kash Patel is “planning to shrink his legal advisory office,” the FBI Office of General Counsel. Those are the folks whose job it is to keep Patel from carrying out corrupt and/or illegal activities. Or, as Bloomberg put it, ...

Less authoritarian politics, more prepubescent politics, but with the same results.

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

Meta is asking thousands of its software engineers to help train its internal AI coding tools by simply fixing code,

The post The 800 mistakes that could reshape Meta’s AI coding strategy appeared first on The New Stack.

Leah Stokes: “Joe Biden’s signature climate law was not just about climate. The Inflation Reduction Act was also a big bet on a particular theory of politics: Pass a law that creates factories and good-paying jobs in communities across the country, and voters will reward you at the ballot box. Such a law might even […]

“This will be the first election cycle where AI is both a dominant policy debate — and a widely deployed political weapon,” Axios reports. “AI allows both candidates and bad actors to persuade and perplex with unprecedented speed, scale and precision in our elections. Watch what works, as those same techniques will likely be used […]

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Queen of Hearts, 1943 #americanart #willemdekooning

The Entombment, 1507 #hieronymusbosch #bosch

They say writing can be a good outlet for grief, but feelings might get complicated when the person you’re grieving was supposed to co-author the book you’re writing. Despite author Griffin Barber’s deep, personal loss of his mentor and friend Eric Flint, he managed to complete 1637: Pilgrim’s Passage in a way that would make them […]

Do you remember the video I posted last summer of YouTuber Benn Jordan where he “uploaded a picture of a bird to a bird and then downloaded the bird picture from the bird”? So cool. Jordan is back with more data encoding tricks in his latest video, There Are Files Stored in ...

Portugal, August 2026.

I had missed that mastodon.cloud is shutting down. While its active user base has been shrinking, it still has a lot of total users and millions of posts. There’s still no way to migrate posts between Mastodon servers. (Mastodon posts → Micro.blog and some other fediverse servers works.)

In tennis, it can be pleasant to play under the flag of an underrepresented country with a large diaspora. Essentially, you have a network of sleeper cells who can be activated all over the world. They are extremely willing to spend money to come watch you play, and extremel...

“Missouri residents overwhelmingly defeated a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to eliminate state income tax and replace it with higher sales taxes, breaking with other Republican-led states that have slashed income tax,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The lopsided vote against the Republican-backed measure—83.3% opposed versus 16.7% in favor—came after heavy messaging from […]

Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the Amazon rainforest was home to a “sprawling ancient civilization much bigger than researchers expected” (possibly up to 3 million people around 100-300 CE).

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.