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Text • Cyrus Farivar

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Jon Brodkin

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Beth Mole

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

Electrek
Text • Peter Johnson

Genesis is no longer a dark horse in the luxury space, and the GV90 proves it

The GV90 is peak SUV luxury, complete with lavish features, coach doors, and every bell and whistle. Genesis is growing faster than any luxury marque to date, but this is just the start.

links.daveverse.org
Text • Dave Winer

Brent Simmons has the big bugs fixed in Net News Wire, and is thinking about new features.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Bobby Welber

Hudson Valley Burger King Disappears, Reopens With New Name

Talk about a fast-food plot twist. A longtime Hudson Valley Burger King has suddenly dropped the famous branding and reopened under a completely different name. Continue reading…

Techdirt
Text • Tim Cushing

ICE Tries, Fails To Illegally Raid An Immigration Law Office; Settles For Empty Threats Instead

The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the interloping […]

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI’s Astra can do a researcher’s week of work. That’s the problem.

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OpenAI’s unreleased foundation model, codenamed Astra, is already working directly inside the company’s internal codebase, taking on experimental work that

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Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Waffle House Teleporter Still On the Trump Payroll

“Gregg Phillips, an election denier who once claimed he teleported to a Waffle House, says he is still working in the Trump administration, after he was reportedly removed from his influential role overseeing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s emergency response efforts in June,” Wired reports.

Longreads
Text • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Yarddogs of Northwest Arkansas

"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Billy Dukes

Dolly Parton Songs That Sound Different Now

These five Dolly Parton songs may never sound the same. Continue reading…

News – The White House
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure America’s Bulk-Power System

SECURING AMERICA’S BULK-POWER SYSTEM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect the security, integrity, and reliability of bulk-power system electric equipment used in the United States, particularly from interference by foreign actors. PREVENTING FOREIGN ACTORS FROM CRIPPLING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: President Trump is taking steps to eliminate supply chain vulnerabilities while ensuring abundant, reliable electricity. SECURING […]

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News – The White House
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Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby determine and order: Section […]

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WIRED
Text • David Gilbert

Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll

In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a Trump fixer.

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

POSIWID: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does

Wikipedia: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer, who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”...

The GitHub Blog
Text • Christopher Harrison

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage

Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.

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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Billy Dukes

How Dolly Parton Went Pop and Struck Country Gold

It's an all-time classic. Continue reading…

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Rachel Campos-Duffy: When our third daughter went to college, we gave her a list of schools we approved of and she picked from the list

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Will Kelly

Observability has a data problem. AI is about to make it worse.

Parallel orange lines form a flowing wave across a dark purple background.

Observability is entering a new phase now that OpenTelemetry has standardized instrumentation for data collection. Unfortunately, the observability industry still

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