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Victor Marx was deep in the jungle and crippled by a fever when he was attacked.  The self-described “high-risk missionary”...

Chris Wright on meeting JD Vance: "I had quite an impression when we first dialogued"

Reading the Star Trek fan forums, I see that most fans hate, hate hate this week’s episode. I liked it, but did not love it. A pleasant 53 minutes. Nice to see Rachel Harris — I’m a fan of that actress. The season continues to advance Spock and La’an’s story arcs. On the dow...

“When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full of NES cartridges…” How 97 Copies of an Unreleased Version of Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt Were Discovered in a Wisconsin Warehouse.

This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying:

The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside.

Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E. coli bacteria—the models generated about 700,000 potential designs, of which the researchers picked 285 that looked most promising.

The researchers then synthesised new DNA molecules using those designs and inserted them into E. coli bacteria, before waiting to see if viable bacteriophages would emerge...

A great way to learn about what software is being developed for RSS is to follow AboutRSS on GitHub: https://github.com/AboutRSS Once you do that, subscribe to your own private Atom feed of the repositories you follow. It's a bit tricky to find yours, but if you visit https://github.com/ while logged in, view the HTML source, and search for 'priavte.atom'. You'll see activity for everybody you follow, including what they star (that's how I know what AboutRSS is interested in).

Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.

Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Los Angeles Chargers.

https://twitter.com/ChargersCountry/status/2086143238252183978

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.

It's almost fall! School is back in session and football is just about back. The 2026 college football season will be here next week, and the sport is as chaotic as ever. NIL money is flying, coaches are forever off their rockers, and the NCAA is holding on for dear life to a system that is crumbling in real time. The offseason has provided its own drama, in between transfer portal chicanery and recruiting violations. In the run-up to Week 0, we wanted to go over some of our favorite stories of the offseason, as a sort of pre-preview of things to know about and keep an eye on ahead of the upcoming season.

Lane Kiffin Watch

Anthro Energy has broken ground on a first-of-its-kind US battery materials factory in Louisville, Kentucky, with enough planned annual output to support up to 25 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of lithium-ion batteries.

The new episodes are arriving before the end of the year! Continue reading…

Hayden Panettiere would have turned 37 years old on Friday (Aug. 21). Continue reading…

Natalie Harp is a weird woman with a sick obsession. She has a bunny-boiling, fatal attraction, Jodi Arias-level of fixation, and God-level adulation for Donald Trump. It is, honestly, scary. Who is she? She is a former OAN reporter who falsely credits Donald Trump with sa...

The left-handed prospect threw two scoreless innings Wednesday in his MLB debut against the Guardians.

One in five Berkeley adults will be 65 or older by 2030. Amid talk of a loneliness epidemic nationally, we asked five local seniors how they navigate life and about their concerns for the future.

Anthropic launched a new Browser Use tool that gives Claude a structured view of a web page in addition to

The post Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser appeared first on The New Stack.

The Trump administration has dramatically ramped up the sale of America’s federally protected wild horses, and a NYT investigation found that some are ending up in the slaughter pipeline.

The BLM rounds up wild mustangs from public lands and places them up for adoption or sale.

I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the same way I don’t read about new washing m...

Earlier this week, Gigi and I signed the Statement on Superintelligence and explained our rationale. Today the promised follow up post with a concrete proposal for a plan. There is a unique moment of opportunity for a negotiated AI slowdown with China with limits on how many GW of additional data centers can be built. Recursive self improvement, which is the next step in the race, is heavily dependent on massive capacity additions, so that even such a coarse agreement would provide a signific...

Gigi and I have signed the Statement on Superintelligence, which calls for a pause on the development of superintelligence. This blog post lays out our rationale for doing so now after having previously held off on supporting other “pause AI” appeals. We have a broad set of initiatives in the Hudson Valley and beyond aimed at securing human thriving in the AI age. These include a basic income pilot, various steward ownership projects, and a community learning center. Two preconditions appear,...