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The game starts as a reheated Witcher 3, but evolves into something much more focused.

These WIRED-tested indoor and outdoor air quality monitors give you insights into your home’s air quality, warn of potentially harmful pollutant levels, and help keep tabs on your environment.

According to new documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, an undergraduate working with DOGE requested that his work for HUD count towards his University of Chicago degree.

Sometime in the next few months, Anthropic is supposed to send me a check. Around $9,000 for me, about the same for my longtime coauthor Jenny Greene, and roughly $18,000 for O’Reilly, our publisher. The reason is that pirated copies of the books Jenny and I wrote, along with a huge amount of other people’s […]

Preparing for a post-Trump internet.

This episode is on “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, and is the third part of a trilogy following the episodes on the GTOs and Frank Zappa. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on “The Tra-La-La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) by the Banana Splits.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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A new Nexstar Media/Emerson College Polling poll in Iowa finds Ashley Hinson (R) leading Josh Turek (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 50% to 45%. Iowa Senate Race Ashley Hinson (R) 50%   Josh Turek (D) 45%   Nexstar Media/Emerson College Polling poll

A Hudson Valley man is facing a murder charge for the death of a 33-year-old woman. The tragic event happened not far from a murder suicide that took place just over a week ago, which police believe was also the result of domestic violence. Continue reading…

A new Nexstar Media/Emerson College Polling poll in Iowa finds Rob Sand (D) leading Zach Lahn (R) in the governor’s race, 49% to 46%. Iowa Governor’s Race Rob Sand (D) 49%   Zach Lahn (R) 46%   Nexstar Media/Emerson College Polling poll

“Oil prices are heading back toward $100 a barrel, and, perhaps more crucially, the price of diesel fuel futures is now sitting at an all-time high,” Axios reports. “Investors are starting to recognize that higher oil prices from the Iran war aren’t something they can continue to ignore.”

“President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to hit the campaign trail for Republican candidates in 35 races this fall in the lead-up to the November midterm elections,” NBC News reports. Said Trump: “I’m going to take the final 30 days, and maybe a little bit more than that, because it’s all about 35 races. I’m going […]

“The Pentagon on Wednesday issued clinical guidelines establishing a new mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for active-duty and reserve service members ages 30 and up,” Fox News reports.

“Nine weeks before the midterms, House Republicans aren’t holding back their criticism of the president’s latest tariff moves,” Semafor reports. “In a closed-door meeting on Wednesday with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Republican Study Committee members were ‘freewheeling in their expressions,’ one Republican lawmaker said.”

Trump and Bessent tried to betray Ukraine. Now they don’t have any cards.

Common sense is of no help in studying reality at the atomic scale.

WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  A longtime East Village resident woke early Saturday morning to find an intruder in the bedroom of her apartment near Seventh Street and Avenue B. The man had entered through an open fire-escape window, she said, and was standing a...

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AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.

E-bike theft is one of those problems where a good lock is only half the battle. Since no physical lock can ever give you a 100% guarantee of safety, if a thief actually gets away with your bike, knowing where it went can suddenly become a lot more important.

Now connected e-bike specialist Comodule has unveiled its latest solution, known as Astra, and one of its most interesting tricks is the ability to keep tracking an e-bike for up to 12 months – even when the bike is sitting in storage.

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