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The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs.

I tested the top-of-the-line Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni window-cleaning robot on my Victorian home, and it was an unmitigated disaster.

Data and finance professionals are competing in Excel obstacle courses—amassing huge followings and keeping the Microsoft program relevant.

The replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.

The Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Neo are both premium-feeling laptops with only 8 GB of RAM. Which $700 laptop is the better buy?

The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.

“Preston Harp, the brother of President Donald Trump’s close aide Natalie Harp, issued a message to his sister on CNN while denying a ‘physical attraction’ toward the president,” Mediaite reports. Said Preston Harp about his sister: “Well, my mom raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things, that […]

“The Iran war — defined by fits and starts and strain on America’s military — will hit the half-year mark next week with both Washington and Tehran betting they can outlast one another,” Axios reports. “The war’s length is pushing once-niche national-security issues — munitions levels, defense contracting, at-sea replenishment — into everyday conversation.”

“The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is on the hunt for mobile radars that can track ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles from remote outposts where few troops are stationed,” Axios reports. “Static sensors and established bases are easy targets.” “Iran in recent months has targeted both, including an RTX-made AN/TPY-2 radar in Jordan.”

AI infrastructure platform company TrueFoundry has launched its open source agent harness TrueForge. The technology is directly billed as an

The post An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched appeared first on The New Stack.

Chinese frontier model outfit Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a model hewn from the same codebase as its predecessor GLM-5.2,

The post An industrial-scale distillation of models, or subtle benchmaxxing: What developers really think of GLM-5.3 appeared first on The New Stack.

"When wildfires approach, moving cattle to safety means managing their fear and instincts. Here’s how it’s done in B.C.’s Nicola Valley."

“The only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the Pacific departed Asia through Singapore last week en route to the Middle East, marking the latest step in a steady drawdown of American military assets across the region,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “An armada of naval forces, alongside a constellation of air-defense and missile capabilities, has […]

“The United Arab Emirates said it is halting all trade and financial transactions with Iran, increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic, soon after accusing Iran of launching ballistic missiles toward the Emirates,” the New York Times reports.

EDNC US Attorney Ellis Boyle claims that Jim Comey's fictional character who engaged in stochastic terrorism is more dangerous than Jack Posobiec, who elicited real-life stochastic terrorism in Pizzagate.

The post Ellis Boyle Thinks Fictional Stochastic Terrorism Is More Dangerous Than Actual Stochastic Terrorism appeared first on emptywheel.

“Florida is known for hurricanes and so the DSA is a disaster area in Florida — and there’s no federal reimbursement coming to help these people.” — Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), quoted by Politico.

“She never takes a day off, not even on Sunday. She works out of the Oval Office and she’s got a regular seat on Marine One. She texts with world leaders on the president’s behalf. She stays up late with him drafting social media posts,” the New York Times reports. “She rarely speaks on camera […]

Politico: “Taken together, the results show Democratic and Republican voters in solidly red Florida are hungry for change amid dissatisfaction with the economy, an ongoing war in Iran and restlessness over the status quo.”

There are more of these Vichy Dems around than most people realize — mercenaries who believe in nothing but their next paycheck. Source: Mediaite Michael LaRosa, a former press secretary for former First Lady Jill Biden, deleted his X account on Monday after a rocky perfor...

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro suffered another courtroom setback when Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh freed a WWII Memorial vandalism suspect over prosecutors' objections. Melissa Farris, 41, was released Monday and ordered to return to Kentucky under court supervisio...