Maybe.
The Editorial Board
• John Stoehr
America is lawless. Are Dems ready to get tough on crime?
The Editorial Board
• John Stoehr
Maybe.
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“President Trump said Wednesday that he believes Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but badly wounded from a February airstrike — dismissing speculation that he is secretly dead despite being unseen throughout the U.S.-Israeli war with his country,” the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “He was very seriously wounded, but I don’t think […]

Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served
The post Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Molly Taft
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn.
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
"Most" Xbox One and Series games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for security risks.
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• Dave Winer
Tim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80.
Updated cross-posting to support Bluesky’s new limit of 10-minute videos, for Micro.blog Studio subscribers.
Released an updated Mac app with faster uploads loading and other fixes.
Brooke Rollins refuses to answer which countries the U.S. is importing beef from
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
A new Texas Southern University poll of the Texas Senate race finds James Talarico (D) with a solid lead over Ken Paxton (R) in three congressional districts that President Donald Trump carried by double digits. And don’t miss the new Polling Dashboard for the latest.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday he was going to keep a piece of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom as a paperweight ‘after we all blow it up,'” Fox News reports. Said Krasner: “In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces. And […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles said he plans to ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Maine polling stations this election season,” NOTUS reports. “If Charles succeeds, the move could validate long-held fears by many in the Democratic Party that President Donald Trump could use immigration […]
Electrek
• Fred Lambert

Tesla owners used to hide the fact that they were abusing Full Self-Driving. Now they film it, add a caption, and post it for the algorithm.
Sleeping at highway speed, gaming with a controller, watching live TV, answering emails on a laptop — a whole genre of “look what my Tesla lets me get away with” content has taken over Instagram, TikTok, and X, and almost every clip in it shows a driver doing something that is flatly illegal in the country where it was filmed.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was interviewed on Spectrum News: REPORTER: Which countries are we importing the beef from? ROLLINS: I will be very transparent, I am actually not part of those conversations. I am not sure.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal this week, a purpose-built agentic AI solution to automate legal workflows, including contract
The post Google’s new legal AI exposes a bigger battle over the enterprise stack appeared first on The New Stack.
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• Frederic Lardinois

Ox-alpha, the stealth model that quickly became the most popular model on OpenRouter in the last few days, is actually
The post Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash is cheap, good, and served on Chinese chips appeared first on The New Stack.
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