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Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.

WIRED
Text • Alexis Berger

The Best Label Makers (2026): Brother, Niimbot, Dymo

Experience the oddly satisfying joy of labeling bins, drawers, and more with the best Bluetooth and traditional label makers.

WIRED
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How to Escape Group Chat Hell

Young adults are in more group chats than ever—sometimes more than 20 at a time. Here’s how to tame the chat madness.

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Maple leaf high ground

Maple leaf high ground

Brigadier General John Buford looked up and saw the high ground.

Ars Technica
Text • Paresh Dave, WIRED.com

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

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Cosmic Composition, 1919 #klee #paulklee

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

The 2032 Social Security Deadline Looms

“Social Security’s looming insolvency is the country’s most foreseeable problem, a blaring demographic siren threatening automatic benefit cuts in 2032. Congress is trying to work up the nerve to solve it,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Discussions on the government’s largest program accelerated this summer with actuarial warnings, hearings and scattered bipartisan efforts. Lawmakers on […]

Political Wire
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Postal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From Voting by Mail

“Voting by mail would become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of millions of Americans if the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to implement a restrictive rule governing mail voting that President Trump has demanded,” the New York Times reports. “The effects would likely be greater for Democratic voters, who vote by mail […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Military Leaders Warn Hegseth Against Extending Iran War

“Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief,” the Washington Post reports. ”The warnings — detailed for Hegseth by […]

Political Wire
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Mike Lindell’s Bid for Recount Rejected

“MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota,” NBC News reports. “The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Ed Markey Defends Transgender Athletes in Primary Race

“Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts might be the only high-profile Democrat in America eagerly campaigning as a supporter of transgender rights,” the New York Times reports. “Even as many other top Democrats have grown cagey on the issue, Mr. Markey is offering a passionate defense of transgender athletes as he runs in a primary contest […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court

“President Trump’s Justice Department had a problem. Judge after judge was rejecting its demands that hospitals across the country turn over internal records of transgender care provided to children,” the New York Times reports. “By the end of April, federal judges in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Seattle had either quashed or substantially pared […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Canada and Iran Defy Trump Economic Offensives

New York Magazine: “n terms of their relations with the U.S. Canada, and Iran have very little in common. One is America’s closest neighbor and second-largest trade partner, sharing the world’s longest international border, extensive economic and cultural ties, and a long history of friendly cooperation. The other has been a U.S. adversary for nearly […]

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Who Will Rule the 2026 U.S. Open?

The U.S. Open, the final tournament of the tennis season, is getting underway. The world’s best players are heading to the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y., to battle it out for the chance to play a championship match at Arthur Ashe Stadium, t...

Seth's Blog
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Taking a shot/wasting a slot

The first day of classes, some students slouch in the back row, unprepared and uninterested. Some are up front, eager and ready. But it’s only the morning of the first day–these attitudes aren’t related to the teacher. It’s a pattern, one that is the result of culture, systems and personality. Many of these students have […]

WIRED
Text • Jorge Garay

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe.

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Crucifixion, 1540 #michelangelo #highrenaissance

TorrentFreak
Text • Ernesto Van der Sar

ACE Targets Dozens of Streaming Pirates Through Cloudflare and Discord Subpoenas

Through the Motion Picture Association, anti-piracy coalition ACE has requested two DMCA subpoenas at California federal courts. One covers 49 Cloudflare-fronted domains including Miruro.to and Aniworld.to, while the other targets two Discord servers. How effective the requests will be is hard to say, but both Discord servers have already been deleted.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

TorrentFreak
Text • Ernesto Van der Sar

ACE Targets Dozens of Streaming Pirates Through Cloudflare and Discord Subpoenas

Through the Motion Picture Association, anti-piracy coalition ACE has requested two DMCA subpoenas at California federal courts. One covers 49 Cloudflare-fronted domains including Miruro.to and Aniworld.to, while the other targets two Discord servers. How effective the requests will be is hard to say, but both Discord servers have already been deleted.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.