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The NBA season is one week away, and there's one game I can't stop thinking about. On Nov. 2, Kawhi Leonard's Toronto Raptors will travel to Los Angeles to play the Clippers, his former team and the subject of the NBA's harshest-ever punishment over the cap shenanigans they ...

BMW’s entry-level EV was spotted testing with a Neue Klasse design that looks more like the new iX3, just smaller.

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The Rehearsal, 1877 #impressionism #degas

Modular painting with four panels, #1, 1969 #roylichtenstein #abstractart

Chuck Klosterman’s most recent book, “Rock*,” imagines an alternate history of 20th Century music where the Beatles fade into obscurity and Velvet Underground became the biggest mainstream rock band in history. The Velvet Underground are “kind of ground zero” for the idea th...

It seems Miss Natalie has been slacking in the fact-checking department, as the president just reposted a positively glowing endorsement of himself from world-renowned actor Denzel Washington, and as it turns out, it's a big, fat piece of FAKE NEWS. In the early hours of Mo...

As Medicare for All experiences a resurgence, Democratic corporatists are undermining the momentum by pushing bandaid solutions that carve out room for private insurers.

For roughly $825, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes that runs an AI

The post Anthropic’s red team ran AI on 15 cheap TV boxes. Then the math got unsettling. appeared first on The New Stack.

Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation. “My laptop has been dead for about 6 years. I don’t know where my charger is.” There’s an accompanying Rolling Stone cover story.

The post EVENT: How to Vet a Public School Like a Reporter appeared first on The City Reporter.

First Lady Melania Trump launched her 2027 Presidential Super Intelligence (SI) Challenge and established a new First Lady Seal of AI Readiness—inviting K-12 students, educators, and schools across America to participate in the nationwide initiative. “America’s next groundbreaking idea is already sitting in a classroom,” said Mrs. Trump. “We must give our children the knowledge, […]

The post First Lady Melania Trump Launches 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and Establishes First Lady Seal of SI Readiness appeared first on The White House.

One of Harmeet Dhillon's prosecutors decided to make stupid, false claims about where the media campaign regarding the Cities Church case came from. That should shift the focus to the egregious things she said while prosecutors reporting her were presenting this case to the grand jury.

The post Ned Hedley Invites a Discussion about Harmeet Dhillon’s Egregious Misconduct appeared first on emptywheel.

In today’s episode of “wtf,” we have a jury deciding a local blogger is a criminal because a local politician didn’t appreciate being sent a Shrek bereft of clothes to his cell phone. Morgan Trau of the Ohio Capital Journal has the (pathetic) details on this particular miscarriage of justice. An Ohio political blogger let […]

Who needs modern dating gameshows when you could be a lowly peasant girl enrolled in looking for love at the behest of your king? Author Madame McCoy is here today with her debut novel, Henriette, which is only book one in her brand new series, The King’s Daughters. MADAME McCOY: Whatever readers! Shamelessly, Madame has induced […]

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. New York will participate in the new federal scholarship tax credit in hopes of generating millions in new dollars for public school students, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday. Hochul becomes the second Democrat — following Colorado Gov. Jared Polis — to voluntarily opt […]

The post New York Is Opting Into Federal Private School Choice Program, Hochul Says appeared first on The City Reporter.

BYD’s latest flagship EV, the Great Han, is now on sale in China, starting at about $35,000 with a CLTC range of over 1,000 km (621 miles).

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One thing people have asked me over the last month is whether #SWF will be organising the Social Web Devroom at #FOSDEM2027 . The answer is: fingers crossed! We submitted the application to manage the devroom ahead of the October 4 deadline. We haven’t heard back yet; the announcements are scheduled for October 20, about […]

On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of

The post Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit appeared first on The New Stack.

A year ago, I said you'd see meaningful changes in how Jetpack looks, feels, and communicates its value. Here's my honest look at how that went, and what's next.