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Humiliated Trump Demands Jail For People Who Exposed His Weapons Shortage

The Trump administration's response to reports that the U.S. is running low on pinpoint missiles arrived right on schedule: deny everything, then threaten prison time for whoever leaked it. Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social to insist the U.S. has "massive amounts" of mun...

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Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that.

AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent

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Many Hats

I just finished recording an episode of The TPM Social Club with Josh Kovensky. We had an awesome conversation with...

Ars Technica
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Large genome models used to design new viruses

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

Political Wire
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Third Party and Independent Candidates to Watch

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Political Wire
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Mitch McConnell Says He’s Been Discharged From Rehab

“Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that he has been discharged from a rehabilitation center, nearly two months after he was hospitalized,” CBS News reports.

Political Wire
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GOP Senators Come Out Against Max Miller

“Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) called for embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) to drop his reelection bid amid allegations from his ex-wife that he abused her and their young daughter,” Mediaite reports. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) called Miller a ‘degenerate sociopath’ in a statement urging him to exit the race released shortly before Husted’s comments.”

Electrek
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This 1.5 MW electric truck charger just cleared a key US hurdle

Portuguese EV charging company i-charging has cleared a key hurdle for bringing its 1.5-megawatt (MW) electric truck charger to the US and Canada.

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Parkway, 1914 #augustmacke #expressionism

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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U.S. News Ranks The Best Regional Hospitals In New York

U.S. News has revealed the best hospital in every region across New York State, including in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

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RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

Tedium
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The Earnest Era Ends

When we lost Glen Hansard last week, his work still fresh and lively, it was a reminder that the world has changed more than we think it has.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors

Abstract digital artwork resembling a glitching computer interface, with fragmented windows and overlapping shapes in red, pink, yellow and blue.

Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario

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The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next.

3D isometric illustration of a developer sitting safely behind a brick firewall with a laptop, while glowing data lines bypass the wall through a narrow slot, exposing the connection to large, spiked malware threats hovering outside.

Microsoft spent the first phase of the AI coding boom pushing its engineers to use the tools. Now it wants

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more

Doist CTO Gonçalo Silva doesn’t pretend to know where AI is headed. The pace of change has made it harder

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Political Wire
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Trump Grows Angry Over Reports On Depleted Munitions

“President Donald Trump has privately complained in recent days that disclosures on the dwindling U.S. munitions stockpile make the United States look weak at a critical juncture, senior U.S. officials said, as he repeatedly threatens additional military action to try and motivate Iran to agree to a deal,” CNN reports.

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‘The Cat Is My Customer’: Defying the Odds, St. Paul’s 35-Year-Old Cat Furniture Shop to Triple in Size

‘The Cat Is My Customer’: Defying the Odds, St. Paul’s 35-Year-Old Cat Furniture Shop to Triple in Size

‘I wanted to have a cat furniture superstore, and I’ve finally achieved it,’ owner Darryl Michaelson beams. 

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The Movies Have Gone to… the Cats???

The Movies Have Gone to… the Cats???

Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...

Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying video game called Sopwith, which was never supposed to be released to the public (an event that the game’s creator didn’t learn about until years later).

Political Wire
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Senate Eyes Deal to Leave for Recess

“The Senate is searching for a deal to speed up consideration of a number of priorities as a handful of outstanding issues, including on funding the government and confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, stand between them and their August recess,” CBS News reports.