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The Biggest Education Questions Facing NYC Mayor Mamdani As School Starts

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks alongside Gov. Kathy Hochul at the Garden School in Jackson Heights about extending 100,000 3-K offers,

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. On Thursday, New York City’s public schools will begin the first full school year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His signature initiative will provide free childcare to about 2,000 2-year-olds — the initial phase of his ambitious promise to create a universal program. New York City is […]

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Electrek
Text • Peter Johnson

Kia reveals EV3 lease offer for $349 a month, but there’s a catch

The EV3 is now on sale as Kia’s most affordable electric vehicle, starting at $29,890. So, how much does it cost to lease?

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Joost.blog
Text • Joost de Valk

Why XML sitemaps are losing their pretty view

Your XML sitemap still helps search engines find your pages. The thing going away is the browser feature that makes it look pretty.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“Six tools, one harness”: Salesforce loops together a six-pack of favorites

Salesforce introduced its Salesforce Enterprise AI Harness on Thursday as a formalized amalgamation of the AI harness concepts and infrastructure

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Meredith Shubel

“Valuable warning shots”: How Anthropic now views Claude’s cyber incidents

This week, Anthropic acknowledged that the three cyber incidents it disclosed this summer weren’t just the result of a misconfigured

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Amanda Caswell

Shopify spent years on React Native — then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks

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In 2020, Shopify made a bet that resonated across the developer world by writing mobile code once in React Native

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Meredith Shubel

GPT Images 2.5 promises edits that leave the rest of your image alone

When OpenAI launched GPT Images 2.5 this week, the company promised better results for a common editing task: changing one

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The Lever Supports Webmention
Text • Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine

 The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine

A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.

History Facts
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The Strange Origins of Common Food Superstitions

Humans are superstitious creatures by nature, with many strange habits that seem entirely illogical. We avoid walking under ladders or opening umbrellas indoors in fear of bad luck. We knock on wood to prevent disappointment. We shun the number 13 and we can’t quite decide w...

History Facts
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What Did People Use for IDs Before Photos?

In a world without cameras, biometric databases, or even consistent spelling, identifying individuals could be quite a complex challenge. Before photography helped fix identity to an image, societies developed a range of creative methods to determine who someone was — a task...

History Facts
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What Was America’s First Suburb?

When you think of the origins of American suburbia, the name Levittown may spring to mind. A symbol of post-World War II optimism and domestic comfort, this Long Island development, constructed between 1947 and 1951, is often credited as America’s first modern suburb. Yet Le...

History Facts
Text • Darren Orf

In WWI, France started to build a fake Paris to confuse German bombers.

As an increasing number of attacks came from German planes, Parisians decided to take drastic action.

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History Facts
Text • Michael Nordine

Mary Poppins’ ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by the polio vaccine.

When inspiration strikes, you have to just go with it — no matter how unexpected the circumstances.

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History Facts
Text • Sarah Anne Lloyd

The Greek philosopher Pythagoras was terrified of beans.

The philosopher strictly forbade his followers, the Pythagoreans, from coming into contact with them.

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History Facts
Text • Nicole Villeneuve

Apple pie isn’t from America.

The classic treat actually originated across the ocean, in 14th-century England.

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The Big Idea: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Some people climb the ladder to success, leaving others behind as they ascend the rungs alone, while others focus of strengthening the foundational base. And when they do move up, they turn back around and extend a hand to the others, lifting everyone with them. This literary loyalty to peers is essential, and something author […]

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Jillian D’Onfro

Former owner of downtown’s dead mall just sold two other buildings at a huge discount

First Westfield lost the San Francisco Centre. Now it has offloaded two nearby properties. 

News – The White House
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S. 858 Signed into Law

On Thursday, September 10, 2026, the President signed into law: S. 858, the ” Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act,” which authorizes the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation to establish a commemorative work on the National Mall to honor the extraordinary acts of valor, selfless service, and sacrifice displayed by […]

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Electrek
Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla Cybertruck Powershare finally backs up homes with a Powerwall 3

Tesla’s Cybertruck Powershare feature can now back up your home at the same time as a Powerwall 3, the company announced Thursday. Run together, the truck and the battery add more than three days of backup power, which Tesla says is the equivalent of nine extra Powerwalls.

It’s a feature Tesla first promised for 2025, and it’s showing up nearly two years after Cybertruck deliveries began. But it finally closes one of Powershare’s most annoying gaps.

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Carl K. Thompson said the Alaska corrections system did not help him find relief from his throbbing tooth. Then he killed himself.
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