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It's nearly impossible to relay a single fact about former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott that does not stop an unfamiliar recipient dead in their tracks. For example: She was suspended from baseball in 1993 for the repeated use of racial slurs, which included referrin...

Trump has started another stupid trade war with his constant punching bag, Canada. The country is sick of this idiot's constant whining buffoonery over nonsensical problems that revolve around his diseased narcissism. The Wall Street Journal feels the same. President Trum...

AI-assisted development has made it easier to generate frontend code quickly. A developer can ask for a form, a dashboard widget, a settings page, or a modal flow and get a working first draft in seconds. That speed is useful, especially when teams are moving through routine UI work. But speed creates a problem that’s […]

Top HHS official: Zero Americans this year have died of measles

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If you already read my “What Is the Point of the DMA?” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but here’s the kicker:

The GDPR went into effect 10 years ago. By their inaction, they obviously think it’s working just fine. I think they look at the situation and realize, with satisfaction, that every time any website presents a cookie-permission dickover, that dickover effectively has a “Brought to you by the European Commission” badge on it. They were here, they did something, and everyone around the world sees the fruits of the GDPR cookie regulations every time they open their web browser. Job well done.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Students in Houston and Las Vegas returned to school on Aug. 10. In Los Angeles, kids went back on Aug. 12, and Miami’s students started the following day. Students returned Monday in Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver. But in New York City, students in the nation’s largest school […]

The post NYC Families Struggle With Late-Summer Childcare Due to Later School Year Start appeared first on The City Reporter.

John Singer Sargent, Studies of a Male Nude, 19th-20th century #johnsingersargent

Security teams are discovering that the most capable AI models cost too much to run on routine, high-volume work, and

The post Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability. appeared first on The New Stack.

Perplexity, in partnership with Nvidia, has taken Computer, its agentic AI assistant, and brought it to the desktop in the

The post Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it appeared first on The New Stack.

The Apple II makes its public debut at a landmark event in the history of personal computers, and Steve Jobs truly comes into his own.…

Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It’s an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock.…

We travel to the summer of 1976, as Apple travels to Atlantic City for a computer trade show, the Apple II begins to form, and the fellowship between the two Steves shows signs of breaking.…

We take you back to 1976 and recount Steve Jobs’s numerous attempts to sell Apple or, at the very least, get someone to make an investment in the fledgling company.…

Apple emerged from the unique environment of the Santa Clara valley suburbs of the ’70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders and some surprising help they got along the way.…

“Jimmy Kimmel has spent years openly wondering when he might be ready to leave late night. These days, though, he says he’s finding more reasons to stay,” Late Nighter reports.

Here is RFK Jr telling a crowd in Lancaster, PA that the cure for measles is "chicken soup"

(2 people in Lancaster, PA just died from measles)

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Holy moly. A maxed out Mac Studio is $18k. If you wanted a nice Mac with lots of RAM, you missed the window. 💰

I’m still amazed that AI prompts like this work. We’ve barely scratched the surface of what is possible.

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Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius, a self-described “petrol head” who once ran AMG, says driving an electric AMG with a simulated V8 turned him into “a born-again Christian.”

The comments, made in a new interview, are Mercedes’ clearest pitch yet that enthusiasts, not just early adopters, are supposed to love its next wave of EVs.