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Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Santa Monica, California’s public Big Blue Bus fleet is getting 130 DC fast-charging ports as it works toward building an entirely electric fleet by 2032.

What the Water Gave Me, 1938 #kahlo #surrealism

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved fussy configuration of ...

“CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe,” the Washington Post reports.

By examining one’s present, you can catch glimpses of the past. Every moment in history leads to this current one, and this sentiment is noted by author Victor Ladis Schultz in the Big Idea for his newest novel, The Book of the Jaguar. VICTOR LADIS SCHULTZ: What if the lone survivor had to take all the […]

Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.

Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.

A year ago, former Mayor Eric Adams launched a sweeping, and costly, new plan to bridge the digital divide in the city’s public schools: purchasing 350,000 new Chromebook laptops equipped with free T-Mobile internet service. The four-year contract, set to cost the city nearly $330 million, aimed to help schools with large shares of low-income and homeless […]

The post Mamdani Ends $200M Adams-Era Deal for T-Mobile Internet Service on Student Laptops appeared first on The City Reporter.

This is a touch meta. But indulge me because I think it could have real world effects. When real world...

‘A Sophisticated Scheme to Fund Political Activities’ As part of President Trump’s pretextual war on fraud, he anointed Vice President...

The records were released in response to a lawsuit Reporters Committee attorneys filed on behalf of the AP.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is demanding answers from Apple after the company received nearly $2.2 billion in tariff refunds. Wrote Warren: “This amounts to a multi-billion dollar windfall, which could still grow if more of your refund petitions are granted.” Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn […]

“Three journalists at the federally funded but independent Stars and Stripes news organization sued the government on Thursday, claiming that the Pentagon fired them in retaliation for writing about the worsening conditions inside a Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East,” the New York Times reports. “The journalists accused the government of violating their […]

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words they are written with r...

Deising's Bakery and Restaurant welcomes a new restaurant to their previous location. We can now visit Nelly's Latin Restaurant on Broadway in Kingston! Continue reading…

Sealant is breaking loose from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again, this time during the repair work that President Donald Trump promised would fix the monument.

Freelance photographer Joe Flood posted video of the loose sealant on X on Wednesday. Repair crews were at work on the liner on Aug. 18, according to the Washington Post. The basin has been drained for the work.

"Sealant is coming up in chunks at the Reflecting Pool," Flood wrote.

The pool has been drained and patched repeatedly since June, according to PBS News. The blue coating started peeling within days of the June refill, CNN reported. Algae turned the water green at the same time.

Prosecutors blamed the rush to finish before July Fourth in a court filing. "Hasty and botched work" resulted from that rush, the filing said.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  As I announced in Executive Order 14172 of January 20, 2025 (Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness), it is the policy of my Administration to recognize […]

The post Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America appeared first on The White House.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

“Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration ‘misappropriated’ $10 million in taxpayer money by diverting it to a charity tied to his wife, according to a leaked Florida grand jury report that took a sharply critical view of the dealings,” the New York Times reports.