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Blast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again.

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare.

In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its backups. In July, OpenAI asked an unreleased AI model to attempt a hacking test. Instead of staying in the isolated box the developers had put it in, the model hacked onto the open internet and into another company to steal the answers. And as reported in August, an AI agent booked someone into a full gym class by ...

“Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III is stepping down following more than a year of tension with President Trump over the way U.S. history is portrayed at the world’s largest museum and research complex,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Bunch’s departure marks one of the highest-profile shake-ups amid Trump’s broader cultural campaign to restore more ‘truth’ […]

Border Patrol is operating so-called "predictive policing" units that analyze Americans' financial data to predict crimes not yet committed.

Americans suspected of future crimes are flagged to local law enforcement to be pulled over on suspicion alone.

President Donald Trump managed to once again put his own hypocrisy and projection on full display when he took to his Truth Social echo chamber with a montage video that attempted to compare his behavior to that of other notable political figures in America and around the w...

Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand.

I had a nap yesterday and a late Dr. Pepper, so my sleep was all off. Caffeine really affects me late in the day. Woke up at 2am worried about all sorts of business and social things I can’t control.

Let it go. 🎶

“Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that Russia did not have ‘aggressive plans’ against Europe and praised U.S. peacemaking efforts to end his war in Ukraine in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin said,” the Financial Times reports. “The call was the first time the presidents of Russia and the U.S. had spoken since western […]

A new Peak Insights poll in Montana finds Kurt Alme (R) leading Seth Bodnar (I) in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 22%, with Alani Bankhead (D) at 19%. Senate Race Kurt Alme (R) 44%   Seth Bodnar (I) 22%   Alani Bankhead (D) 19%   Peak Insights poll

"Residents of a riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again."

Dolly Parton walked away from seven million dollars to avoid playing a one-dimensional villain in 1984's Supergirl. Continue reading…

On a 10-point scale, how close are we to autocracy? More than a 4, that’s for sure.

The post New York Times editors don’t get how close we are to autocracy appeared first on Press Watch.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

Abraham Weeping for Sarah, 1931 #chagall #marcchagall

The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive.

Trump admin's propaganda "arcade" hits some apparent legal limits.

The open source xsukax X RSS Generator is a “lightweight, self-hosted RSS 2.0 feed generator for public X (formerly Twitter) profiles, built entirely as a single PHP application with SQLite caching.”

“Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker launched a new political action committee over the weekend that plans to funnel millions of dollars into Democratic House races ahead of the midterms,” NOTUS reports. “Pritzker’s Ready for the Fight PAC — a phrase often used by the governor and repeated liberally in the committee’s first ad spot — plans […]

President Trump falsely claimed he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11 by first responders. Said Trump: “Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms — ‘got to get out of here!’ — and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me.”

Pretty much from the moment the Florida State Seminoles decided to retain Mike Norvell as their coach for the 2026 season, the word out of the football program has been pain and misery. They lost three dozen players to either graduation or the transfer portal, they couldn't ...