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Apartment and condo residents could get more places to plug in their EVs without their buildings needing a costly electrical upgrade. LAZ Parking and EverCharge are launching a charging service that shares available power among vehicles – an approach the companies say can support up to five times as many charging ports on the same power supply.

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Dan Sullivan pitched OpenAI and Microsoft on building data centers in Alaska.

Sullivan holds $5 million in stock in a company linked to data center construction.

Edgar Degas, After the Bath (large version), 1891-1892 #museumarchive #clevelandartmuseum

The Descent towards Sodom, 1931 #naïveart #marcchagall

Swing voters are furious about something most people can barely name: surveillance pricing.

Weeks before the midterms, the Democratic establishment is insisting their party must stand against the public’s policy demands.

The GOP’s Mike Rogers curiously joins other Democrats on a “pro-democracy” flyer distributed in Michigan.

Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander’s landmark book, A Pattern Language (Bookshop), which anyone interested in building anything should at least have paged through once in their life,¹ and how his work inspired not only object oriented programming and the invention of wikis, but also SimCity and The Sims.

1. The Timeless Way of Building is shorter, less dense, and perhaps a better introduction to Alexander’s ideas about patterns. ↩

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Impressive benchmark results should make it easy for engineers to select the right open model for the outcome they are

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Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.

OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.

Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.

A demo of error-corrected qubits shows big reductions in errors as they grow.

Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.