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Hull City Drags Red Devils Right Back To Hell

Hull City Drags Red Devils Right Back To Hell
As a soccer fan, one of the best things you can do for your physical and mental well-being is to studiously avoid overreacting to results early in the season. Especially for the big teams, and especially especially coming off of a summer international tournament, the first f...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Something Massive Coming To Newburgh, New York: Who’s Moving In?

That enormous new logistics facility near I-84 is almost ready. But what's going to move in? Continue reading…

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Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails. Oh good more spam. Though the text messages are worse than the email nowadays.

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
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A drone guided entirely by AI killed three Ukranians. By Andrew E. Kramer with visuals by Nicole Tung at The New York Times.

McSweeney’s
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Our University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge

Welcome to the university of the future. Our new digital-forward brand of education requires no books, no paper, and, best of all, no human knowledge. The customers—I mean, Young Learning Partners—simply pay their tuition and begin their virtual journey: two entire weeks’ wo...

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Mayor Mamdani announced Renew Crews to repair New York City playgrounds:

"No longer will New Yorkers have to wait months for city government to fix their parks ... This kind of efficiency is long overdue"

The San Francisco Standard
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Kawakami: Jed York’s 49ers regime will never be the same — the beginning of the end?

There’s no clear way for the 49ers to speak on the owner’s arrest because York has been the personification of how the team does business.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Esther I, II, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger

Ars Technica
Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Anthropic’s Playground vs. OpenAI’s: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent

Empty playground at night with a slide and tall poles illuminated by a sweeping pink light trail.

On August 18, Anthropic replaced its Workbench, the prompt-testing tool in its developer Console, with Playground. Anthropic did more than

The post Anthropic’s Playground vs. OpenAI’s: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent appeared first on The New Stack.

News – The White House
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Presidential Message on National Park Week

America’s vast and wondrous national parks stand at the heart of our story, preserving the lands our ancestors cherished and the unmatched splendor of a continent like no other.  During National Park Week, we celebrate the rich cultural heritage, grandeur, and exceptionalism found in the more than 400 national parks and monuments across our land. […]

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News – The White House
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Operation Economic Outcast: Total Isolation of the Iranian Regime

Today, the Trump Administration unleashed Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining economic lifeline sustaining the Islamic Republic of Iran. After President Trump and the overwhelming might of the U.S. military dismantled Iran’s military capabilities and crippled its nuclear program, America is entering the endgame with the single greatest financial offensive ever […]

The post Operation Economic Outcast: Total Isolation of the Iranian Regime appeared first on The White House.

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App Report: Easy listening, easier reading

We’ve got a pair of apps that help you get a little reading done, albeit with two different approaches. Still, whether you prefer having someone else read the articles to you or if you just prefer a cleaner feed of articles, there’s something for everyone in this week’s App Report.…

Political Wire
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Public Approval of Iran War at Lowest Level Ever

“U.S. public approval of the war with ​Iran fell to its lowest level since the ​conflict’s early days, helping to hold President Donald Trump’s ⁠popularity at a record low,” according to a new Reuters/Ipsos ​poll. “The four-day poll showed just 31% ​of Americans support U.S. military action against Iran, down from 37% in a March […]

Political Wire
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Bessent’s Deficit Plan Faces Resistance

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised deficit reduction plan due in the coming days will plow headlong into a stark reality: there is no sign the Republican-controlled Congress is going to make any net budget cuts this year,” Bloomberg reports. “House and Senate Republicans earlier this summer dropped plans to make hundreds of billions of dollars […]

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Text Watermarking

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the GenAI giants “watermarking” their output, which to say inserting data so you can tell that it’s been generated by ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or whatever. The technology for watermarking images is as old as dirt, works as advertised, and doesn’t affect image quality. What’s new and controversial is a claim that they can watermark text output cheaply, simply, and without harming the quality of the text

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Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores

Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores

"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Ashley Belanger

Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate

F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate

Formula 1 returned from its summer break with this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix.

Ars Technica - All content
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Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy.