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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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'Best Medicine' Season 2 Sneak Peek Shows Off the Hudson Valley

Best Medicine season 2 has been seen filming across the Hudson Valley this summer. Now, we're getting a sneak peek at season 2 with a newly released trailer. Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Upstate New York Sheriff’s Deputy Suspended After Death of K-9

An Upstate New York sheriff’s deputy has been suspended without pay following the death of one of the department’s K-9 officers. Continue reading…

McSweeney’s
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I’ll Give You Fifteen Thousand Dollars to Stop Asking Me to Go Hiking

Hey, Maya — First off, congratulations on becoming an “outdoors person.” Three years ago, you thought mosquitoes were government drones. Now you own boots with names like “Expedition Carbon Ultra GTX.” People change. I’m happy for you. Which is why I’d like to offer you fift...

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Apple unveils M6, M5 Ultra chips and updates its desktop Macs

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In a bit of a late-August surprise while the world awaits word on the next generation of iPhones, on Tuesday Apple announced two new processors, the M5 Ultra and M6, which help power new iterations of its Mac Studio and Mac mini desktop computers.…

emptywheel
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Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind Minnesota’s Fabricated Cases

A single Homeland Security Investigations Agent, Richard Berger, wrote the affidavit behind two dozen of the cases that have collapsed in Minnesota.

The post Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind Minnesota’s Fabricated Cases appeared first on emptywheel.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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“You can rent a feature, but you can’t rent a foundation”: why MotherDuck bought the startup already powering its data pipelines

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What do you do when a technology you’ve become dependent on belongs to someone else? You buy the startup behind

The post “You can rent a feature, but you can’t rent a foundation”: why MotherDuck bought the startup already powering its data pipelines appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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AI agents are spreading fast. Their rules are still catching up.

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AI agents are already inside the enterprise, but the rules for controlling them haven’t caught up yet. Some 86% of

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WIRED
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Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Specs, Price, Release Date

Apple’s Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been tough to buy for months, but updated versions have arrived. Both include new chips optimized for AI, with the M6 Mac Mini getting a $200 price bump.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Trump To Canada: Nice Lake, Shame If Something Happened To Its Name

Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to say that the United States is seriously considering renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” citing deteriorating relations with the Canadian province of Ontario. He suggested the name change could happen because he does not expect the U.S. to continue doing much business with Ontario.

In other words: Apparently, when the trade relationship goes south, the lake gets a new name. It appears that Ontario Premier Doug Ford telling Trump to "kiss my ass" didn't go down well with the fragile President.

Our "deal-maker" President failed to secure a deal with Canada, so he's being mean to a lake. Who could have predicted this!?

Trump was roasted on social media.

He's out of ideas pic.twitter.com/zgsTXpMEXD

— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 25, 2026

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Longreads
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I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp

"It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit."

Amazon News
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Inside the grocery operation Amazon built to be pickier than you

From cherry taste tests to banana ripening rooms, here’s what happens before your Amazon groceries reach your door.

Scripting News Valid
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New podcast, hear how my Frontier project is working out. Not entirely smooth sailing, but I'm pretty sure we're going all the way. By then I will have forgotten what a heavy lift it was. This is meant to preserve some of that feeling. Don't worry I don't cry.

Political Wire
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Trump’s Iran ‘D-Day’ Leaves Sanctions Hammer Hanging

“President Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ for Iran came and went Monday with little of the shock or awe it promised, amounting instead to yet another extended ultimatum,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: Operation Economic Outcast will unfold not like the Allied invasion of Normandy, but as a sweeping, slow-burn sanctions campaign that could eventually lock Iran’s […]

Political Wire
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China Warns U.S. Over Iran Sanctions

“Xi Jinping’s government is sending a message of defiance to Donald Trump over China’s economic ties with Iran,” Bloomberg reports. “Hours after the U.S. sanctioned dozens of Chinese entities and threatened to target an unspecified ‘major financial institution’ for its dealings with Tehran, Beijing responded by saying its relationship with Iran ‘should not be disrupted […]

Political Wire
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Trump’s Beef Import Plan Fuels Conspiracy Theories

“Two recent reports — one regarding President Donald Trump’s plan to import beef to reduce skyrocketing prices and another exposing the federal government’s role in allowing wild horses to be sold for slaughter — are fueling internet theories that horse meat is being sold to the United States for consumption,” NewsNation reports.

Political Wire
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Trump Floats Renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’

“President Trump floated the possibility of rebranding Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America,’ in a shot across the bow against Canada’s most populous province — whose premier threatened to cut off electricity and minerals to the U.S,” the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of […]

Scripting News podcast
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The story of Frontier is not over, amazingly

As before I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes, from its point of view. I added links. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen to the podcast, not edited or changed in any way by AI. :-) Dave hadn't recorded a podcast in a while, and this one is...

Techdirt
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More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster

Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational opportunity to break up one of the more glaring examples of modern monopoly power. Quite a curious choice for a Trump-addled party that spent all last election […]

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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'Embarrassed' National Guard Troops Deployed In D.C. Say Trump 'Exploited' Them

Members of the US National Guard who have been forced to deploy and remain in Washington, D.C., under President Donald Trump's insane orders are now beginning to publicly speak out about how "embarrassed" they are to have taken part in Trump's utilization of US troops again...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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'Loser!' Ontario Leader Burns Down Trump As 'King Of Bankruptcies' Amid Trade War

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tore into President Donald Trump on Monday as a bully, a dictator, and a man unfit to give lessons on economics. Ford unloaded at a press conference in Hamilton after Trump's Monday announcement of 50% tariffs on Canadian autos and steel — the...