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Donald Trump has no idea what he's doing

Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America.’ I explain Trump’s petty idiocy, and why MAGA will be swept away in 67 days:The Warning with Steve Schmidt is a reader-supported publication.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant.

Abstract maze

A command as ordinary as git diff can become a problem for an AI coding agent once a variable gets

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”

Alibaba this week unveiled Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model.  Hot on the heels of Qwen 3.8 Max, which

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers

Earlier in August, Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab behind the viral ox-alpha model that turned out to be GLM-5.3-Flash, launched

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Bloomberg: Another affordability concern—the trade war is back on with Canada. Cars, lumber, and paper are expected to get a lot more expensive.

Electrek
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Hyundai is launching a new electric SUV that will sit above the IONIQ 5

Hyundai has several new electric SUVs coming, including a new global D-segment SUV positioned slightly above the IONIQ 5.

Fresh Air
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Remembering Tim Curry

Actor Tim Curry, best-known for playing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died this week at age 80. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2005 about finding the character’s look and voice. 

Also, actor Rhea Seehorn has been nominated for an Emmy for her leading role in the sci-fi series Pluribus. She spoke with Terry about that series and Better Call Saul. 


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Political Wire
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Milo Yiannopoulos in ICE Custody

“Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody,” CBS News reports.

Political Wire
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Jasmine Crockett Won’t Be Campaigning for Talarico

“As primaries wrap up, most Democratic candidates who battled it out in intense nominating contests have come out in full force to support their party’s nominees as they try to regain control of the Senate,” the Washington Post reports. “But there’s one notable exception: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D).” “Crockett, who has repeatedly declined to endorse […]

Political Wire
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Trump Won’t Mark 9/11 at Ground Zero

“President Trump is not planning to attend a ceremony in Manhattan for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in part because he wanted to deliver a speech and the annual event has long barred remarks,” the New York Times reports. New York Magazine: Trump snubs 9/11 ceremony because he […]

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Cledus T. Judd's Ella Langley Tribute Draws Criticism

Cledus T. Judd says Sony Music New York is making him take down his Ella Langley tribute. Continue reading…

WIRED
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Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

Political Wire
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Hegseth Weighs Summoning Top Military Leaders Again

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering inviting hundreds of senior military personnel back for an address at Marine Corps Base Quantico this year, where he delivered his ‘no more beardos’ speech last fall,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Last September, Hegseth ordered all of the country’s generals and admirals to gather at Quantico on short […]

Defector
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There Is Only One Lesson Of Red Vienna

There Is Only One Lesson Of Red Vienna
Two things are true about me: I hate rich people and I love architecture. These days, that presents a terrible contradiction because only the extremely rich are able to finance the perpetuation of architectural production, whether in the form of new and interesting houses or...

WBUR News
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How farmers could influence midterm elections

Recent polling shows American farmers are increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration's policies.

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How culture spawned gunfighting in post-Civil War America

The gunfighter has been a legend in American culture for well over a century.

WBUR News
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New research examines biological causes of profound autism

Researchers have mapped around 100 varied genes associated with profound autism to a smaller set of biological pathways.

WBUR News
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He lost his daughter to a faulty guardrail. He wants you to know it could happen to anyone

Guardrails, the silver barriers at the edge of the road, are intended to minimize the damage in the event of a crash. But many are faulty and deadly.

WBUR News
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Why Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is causing problems for Democrats this week

Why Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is causing problems for Democrats this week

Left-wing commentator Hasan Piker's views on Israel are complicating things for Democrats in tight midterm races.

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'Lanterns' on HBO is not just another superhero show, NPR's TV critic says

The series is basked on DC Comics' "Green Lantern."