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Public health officials have issued a warning to doctors after identifying five rabid bats so far this year.

Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: The New England Patriots, who are just outside of the frame here. I swear it.

Elon Musk has publicly expressed his belief that Jews are not white.

In response to a Xitter poll asking if Jews are white, Musk seemed enthusiastic to let the public know he doesn’t think so. He even offered up scientific-sounding mumbo jumbo to back up his antisemitism. “I’ve met so many people who look extremely European in every way and tell me they’re Jewish,” he said in his three-paragraph response. “Well, maybe there are a few OG ‘Jewish ACTG’ sequences in there somewhere, but clearly not many! Where is the list of these ACTG sequences?”

When enterprise AI applications scale, they inevitably hit a wall. For many engineering teams this wall is initially diagnosed as

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We instrumented the full path from pod creation to first inference response on a GPU node running a 70B-class model.

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Equinor’s largest US battery energy storage project to date is now operating in South Texas, adding 100 megawatts (MW) of flexible capacity to the state’s fast-growing power grid.

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Insect-inspired "sparse coding" does fast learning, avoids catastrophic forgetting.

Vance: Clearly, Ted Cruz is a very authentic and likable guy

Just for members: The latest Inside Elections. This issue includes a big picture update on the fight for Congress with two months to go before Election Day, as well as individual updates and polling in dozens of districts and states and rating changes in more than 10 races. Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive […]

The Mercedes EQA, Hyundai IONIQ 5, and BMW i4 hold onto their battery health better than any other electric car, according to the largest independent study of used-EV batteries ever run.

That’s the ranking that falls out of 500,000-plus battery tests published by Austrian diagnostics firm AVILOO, which measured 20 popular EVs at up to 150,000 km (93,000 miles) of use.

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Q: How concerned should Americans be about Iranian cyberattacks?

Vance: We're concerned about everything

Q: Will you endorse John Thune to be the GOP leader in the new Congress?

Vance: It's not my business

Q: Will the Iran war be over by the midterms?

Vance: Well, I wouldn't call it a war

Q: Are you concerned that Republican candidates are not planning to attend the midterm convention?

Vance: No, that doesn't concern me

Vance on data centers: "Follow the president's lead"

Recently I completed in my first game jam, where people complete games within a strict time limit to a certain theme. inkJam is one such jam for games writing in...

Carrie Underwood remembers Dolly Parton as more than a musical legend, but as someone who showed the world how to stay gracious no matter what. Continue reading…

Paul Greengrass’ new film, The Uprising, stars Andrew Garfield as a 14th-century peasant who, in the wake of the Plague, leads a revolt against the king. It's a history Greengrass grew up learning, and now sees parallels with Covid and Jan 6th. “People were left numb, and then this gathering rage …defenseless, and then suddenly you had this enormous rebellion,” he tells Tonya Mosley. Greengrass also reflects on his movie United 93, 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new drama Filipiñana. 


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Jessica Gould, education reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the newly announced NYC AI policy for schools, plus other back-to-school issues.

Photo: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels announce a moratorium on student-facing generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in schools. Brooklyn STEAM Center. Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

 

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Gloria Steinem died yesterday at age 92. Carolyn Maloney, former Manhattan congresswoman, president of the NYS chapter of the National Organization for Women and founder of Sign4ERA reflects on the feminist icon's life and legacy, and talks about the work they did together on the Equal Rights Amendment.

photo: Gloria Steinem attends Equality Now 30th Anniversary Gala at Guastavino's on November 15, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

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