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The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.

We are rolling out some security improvements to OAuth and scopes, for both official apps and third-party apps. I don’t expect things to break, but if anyone notices a problem, please email us. The help page about auth has also been updated.

Photo by Stacie Joy from Wednesday  Reporting by SJ  Multiple NYPD sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, provided additional details about the extensive police response late Wednesday afternoon at Most Holy Redeemer Church on Third St...

Earlier this week, a home solar shopper took to Reddit looking for a home solar panel + home backu battery system that could intelligently manage solar and grid power, auto switch in a power outage, and accept ICE generator input in a prolonged grid power failure. I reached out to some home energy experts to get them an answer.

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Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 this week, calling it “our most advanced model for coding and knowledge work.”  There was

The post Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart. appeared first on The New Stack.

Basic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) follows a straightforward pattern. A user asks a question, the system finds relevant content in a

The post Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence appeared first on The New Stack.

Here is some stuff I’ve noticed, thought about, or wrapped up, while ending a summer of travel and work (the order is random):

Rebuilding is brutally expensive in Los Angeles’s burnt-out neighborhoods, so instead homeowners are reviving the lost art of house-moving, transporting historic homes across town to be installed on lots that were recently made vacant by wildfires. Nicola Twilley at The New ...

“A Kentucky judge ordered former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to serve 60 days in jail without bond on a contempt charge out of Jefferson County,” WDRB reports.

Seems entirely appropriate to me. Source: New York Times Republicans eager to find out more about the party’s first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas next week got a surprise this week: a website that initially purported to be the Republican National Committee’s off...

“Republicans’ confidence in the economy has plummeted over the last six months at a pace unseen since Covid — reminiscent of the declines during the global financial crisis nearly two decades ago,” Axios reports. “Usually, the president’s party is upbeat about the economy, while the party out of power is far more downcast. What’s striking […]

“Donald Trump’s attempts to limit mail-in voting are causing chaos for electoral officials across the U.S. as the first mail ballots are sent out ahead of November’s critical midterm elections,” the Financial Times reports.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Kremlin troops not to fire on Kyiv for three days as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner prepare to visit,” Bloomberg reports. The Guardian: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner land in Moscow aiming to revive Ukraine talks.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Eagle Claw and Bean Necklace, (1934) #museumofmodernart #museumarchive

I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is that they are popping up suggestions about things you can do in realtime, like smart queries in a feed reader, which as far as I know is still uncharted […]

I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is that they are popping up suggestions about things you can do in realtime, like smart queries in a feed reader, which as far as I know is still uncharted ...

Marco Arment blogs about his old neighbors and the divisive nature of our current political environment:

If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my “side” considers unacceptable and unforgivable, should I be able to have dinner at their house, shovel their snow, or even greet them outside?

Really good post.

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Photo: Higher-than-normal sea surfaces (red) are visible in the central and eastern Pacific on June 8, 2026, a few days before El Niño was declared. (NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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“President Trump is hitting the campaign trail and doing the last thing many Republicans want: making the 59 days to the Nov. 3 midterms a referendum on him,” Axios reports. “At the same time, they know it’s inevitable.” “Most Republicans are too scared to bluntly tell Trump how unpopular he is. And Trump wants an […]

“President Donald Trump’s fervent support for artificial intelligence data centers has put him at odds with voters who increasingly oppose them and comes despite direct warnings that his stance threatens to deepen Republicans’ peril in the November midterm elections,” Bloomberg reports. “Over the past few months, political strategists have warned administration officials they were in […]