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One interesting dimension of the “Wedgewood Polls” story I discussed last night is that Republican leaders are latching on to...

Abdul El-Sayed on "MAGA bingo":

The thing about MAGA is whenever they're talking, they are trying to distract you. Every time you hear one of those buzzwords, just remember: When they're distracting you, they're also trying to pick your pocket.

Trump did release someone in exchange for Stephen Hubbard today. On the same day Trump betrayed Ukraine on a call with Putin, he ensured Mikhail Zvinchuk would go free.

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Abdul El-Sayed's debate opener:

I'm running because it shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that your money's going to spent on you and your kids rather than dropping bombs on somebody else's.

The iPhone Duo reviews are in, the internet has problems and X still sucks.…

🔥 This is fine. Everything is fine. ☕🐘 October 21, 2026: It’s a big day for security patches across open source. Here’s what you need to know, straight from the projects: 🐘 PHP: Two critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.2). Update ...

More than three dozen Republicans and Democrats across the country have received envelopes containing white powder.

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

Rio Tinto wants to put Australia’s cheap midday electricity to work at its Yarwun alumina refinery – by storing it in hot bricks and using that heat battery to make steam after the sun sets.

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PHP powers roughly 70% of the world’s websites, according to Wiz Research, so a flaw in its core engine affects

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Tesla said today it will sell Cybercab to consumers by the end of this year, raising questions of what end users would do with a vehicle with no steering wheel and no self-driving software.

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Someone is impersonating a transgender rights group in Texas as early voting begins. This raises serious concerns about an attempt to interfere with the election through deception.

Tesla now says unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It’s the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade.

But there’s a catch. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call today, AI chief Ashok Elluswamy described it as owners adding their own vehicles to Tesla’s managed Robotaxi fleet, not owners getting a car that drives them anywhere they want to go.

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After 16 years in a redwood midcentury in Clarendon Heights, San Francisco’s best-known designer is moving across the city.

Ex-FCC chairs say Brendan Carr aims to scare broadcasters into self-censorship.

Sen. Ted Cruz used unfounded rumors, unprovable assertions, and racist innuendo to unequivocally claim that Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and that, if elected to the US Senate would share classified information with terrorists. Cruz' racist and Islam...

Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.

Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrunk in Q3 2026.