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'Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives,' Wladimir Klitschko wrote after Panettiere's death. Continue reading…

OpenAI has adopted a less-than-straightforward stance with regards to open-weight AI models, both raising alarms over powerful Chinese releases while

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I wanted to thank Sen. Bill Cassidy for throwing away any shred of dignity he had left after approving RFK Jr as HHS Secretary by voting to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General. His performance on Meet the Press was a train wreck. Kristen Welker is asking questions tha...

For a long time I have considered the beginning of this blog a post on February 3, 2002. But a few days ago I came across a calendar entry showing July 10, 1997, as the day I registered the domain … Continue reading →

Ride1Up’s Portola has been one of those e-bikes that make a lot of sense on paper: a compact folding design, useful cargo capability, and the kind of pricing that helped Ride1Up build its reputation for high-value e-bikes in the first place.

Einride is putting 500 Tesla Semis on US roads, the largest commitment to Tesla’s electric truck that anyone has made public.

That will takes the Swedish freight company from roughly 250 deployed electric trucks to about 750. First deliveries start next month, with the rest arriving in phases over 24 months.

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John Gruber follows up on a number of issues around watermarking. On what to even do with detection tools:

There cannot exist a single detector for all LLMs. And even if you find out that it says it’s a match, that an email or blog post or Slack message was very likely generated by, say, Claude, what are you going to do? March into your colleague’s office and tell them you caught them?

Watermarking critiques are compelling because there are multiple points against it. Worse quality (maybe), false positives with quoted or lightly edited text (likely), centralized control of keys (yes).

It’s hard in the moment to know when to stand up to bullies and when to let it go. Glad to see Disney pushing back against Trump’s FCC.

A new ranking of the best states for swingers has New York in the Top 10. Continue reading…