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The San Francisco Standard
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What Nancy Pelosi’s midterms calendar says about her parting legacy

The former House speaker has been crisscrossing the country to stump for Democrats in the midterms, despite stepping down from leadership in late 2023.

The San Francisco Standard
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SF’s biggest Thai debut of the year is also its biggest letdown

The Bangkok chef behind two Michelin-starred restaurants opened Saam in SoMa with big ambitions. But high prices and underwhelming dishes make for a disappointing debut.

The San Francisco Standard
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‘I would do it again’: Man stabbed on Muni for protecting women has no regrets

Bobby Meza tried to stop an alleged sexual battery on Muni, then got slashed with a knife, then jailed. He says he’d do it all again.

The San Francisco Standard
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SFPD’s new drone rules ban mass surveillance. Critics say they’re too vague

The policies approved by the Police Commission bar monitoring protests, for example, but there are many ways police can still watch.

The San Francisco Standard
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‘Ballhalla’ was almost an afterthought. Now it’s the Valkyries’ feared Finals fortress

The Chase Center nickname now stands for one of the most distinctive home-court advantages in basketball.

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Trump’s two-front war: a deal with Putin, a citizenship fight with Omar

Trump’s two-front war: a deal with Putin, a citizenship fight with Omar

PLUS: “Dead Air:” Five day bender TODAY at 12 pm ET

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DeepSeek Sells Wishes for 20 Cents

DeepSeek Sells Wishes for 20 Cents

Plus: Anthropic Pulled Up the Ladder, OpenAI Copied Meta's Ad Machine

Techdirt
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Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack

Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading the instructions (see: Muse’s rough last few weeks), it didn’t go well. Mac soon found […]

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Last morning on the train, along Lake Erie. 🚂

Amazon News Valid
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Watch the trailer for ‘Drive – The Pretenders,’ coming to Prime Video October 28

The movie, inspired by the hit novel 'Drive,' follows a mechanic who fakes an engagement to a scandalous racing star—with a passion that could destroy them both.

Amazon News Valid
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Amazon opens its AWS Trainium AI chips to every PyTorch developer, no rewrite needed

TorchNeuron lets developers run their existing AI code on AWS Trainium chips with virtually no changes, reducing the friction to adopting new hardware.

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Amazon invests in nuclear energy project targeting nearly 1 gigawatt of carbon-free energy for Indiana

Amazon, X-energy, and AEP are collaborating to explore building small modular reactors in Indiana that would add carbon-free power to the regional grid.

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Study of battles on horseback, 1504 #davinci #highrenaissance

xkcd.com
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Fusion Device

I don't see why people have trouble doing this at room temperature. Using hot rivets would honestly have been MORE work.

WIRED
Text • Katie Drummond

Nathan Fielder’s Surprise Call From Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Trust You’

The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.

Ars Technica
Text • Tim Stevens

DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to

DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to

A primer on the joys and pains of building your own head-mounted display.

Ars Technica
Text • Jeremy Hsu

Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.

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Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Tom Homan Shares the Omar Plan

Homan States Explicitly That Denaturalization is an Option On Saturday, Tom Homan, President Trump’s “Border Czar,” made explicit what had...

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'Frenzied' Guilfoyle Made Pathetic Call To Whiskey Pete As Everything Went To Hell

According to a rather embarrassing new report from The Daily Mail, Kimberly Guilfoyle spent her final days as a Trump Administration official making pathetic, "frenzied" phone calls to pretty much every high-profile person she could think of in an equally desperate and path...