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“Work to correct the cracking and flaking liner at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is underway, weeks after the government dropped charges against people accused of vandalizing the pool, citing instead the ‘botched’ renovation efforts,” the Washington Post reports.

Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on that?” with something a bit more nuanced. As someone who believes the discussion about AI could use a lot more nuance, I’m all for the […]

Plus orgs react to making the DHS surveillance list, teens prank a republican, and a big thanks from us in today's Flyover news roundup.

A win! A federal judge blocked a land exchange that would have cleared the way for a controversial road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, protecting one of the country’s vast and ecologically important wild areas. Thank you, Judge Sharon L. Gleason!

US healthcare is broken. Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.

Tanks with defensive tech for shooting down drones are still proving vulnerable.

Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple, the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and security related. Back i...

“With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock,” the New York Times reports. “He has enlisted a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible. This week, there […]

“The Trump administration is still eyeing additional economic measures against Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated announcements would come this week,” Semafor reports. Said one official: “There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and months ahead. While he has been consistent in saying he prefers a diplomatic solution, he […]

“The popular former Ukrainian defense minister, whose firing by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy triggered nationwide protests, strongly hinted at his political ambitions with a late-night video calling for wartime elections,” Bloomberg reports.

A promised fix to the district’s enrollment system was due this year. It stalled — and families are still paying for it.

Catching up on news from D23. Cartoon Brew has a rundown of some of the theme park changes coming up. The first Lion King ride will be in Disneyland Paris… A little surprised they never built that in Animal Kingdom.

I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the dial to over to https://listen.reclaimed.tech/summer-camp and tune in. […]

A burner phone, practice runs, and fake alibis. Prosecutors say this was one of the most carefully planned murders they had seen in the region. Continue reading…

The Hudson Valley is mourning the loss of one of its own and her childhood home is back on the market for $3.6 million. Continue reading…

‘Laying the Breadcrumbs’ Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and to Gen. Dan Caine,...

Oops! All segments! This week we’ve got Snell Talk (tea), Upstream (Apple TV), Lawyer Up (regulations), Rumor Roundup (new iPhones), The Betails (final betas?), and Ask Upgrade!…

Humans have been fascinated by robots for as long as the idea of a machine with a heart has existed. Hugo award-winning author James Patrick Kelly is no exception, evidenced by his newest collection of short stories all about robots and AI. He even threw in two brand new pieces just for The Book of Bots, […]

This is a wild story: The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands. “I realized I’m in the middle of a pedophile operation that has been run out of the N.I.H. by a Nobel laureate for thirty years.”

"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."