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• Heather
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef:
"Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
WIRED
• Zoë Schiffer
The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we're all missing
We can't have nice things, but at least we can get trailers for them.
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Tesla now says it needs its own maps for FSD after years of dismissing maps

Tesla says it’s building its own maps to fix some of the most common problems with its “Full Self-Driving” system, including reading speed limits, parking, and choosing routes. The company’s head of AI described the effort on Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call.
It’s a notable shift for a company whose CEO spent years arguing that self-driving systems relying on maps are brittle. And it shows Tesla’s fleet is now doing the same job Waymo’s cars do: mapping the roads so the self-driving system knows what it can’t reliably figure out on its own.
Tesla fans argue that Waymo’s approach differs because it creates HD maps with lidar, but ultimately both are creating their own maps; if your argument is that Tesla’s maps are less well-defined and needed for driving for different reasons than Waymo’s, you don’t really have an argument.
more…Mayor Mamdani celebrates the first day of school at Little Apple Daycare, New York City's first free daycare for municipal employees.
McSweeney’s
• Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
While I Oppose Sauron, I Would Rather Mordor Win Than Be Held Hostage by the Ents
Ars Technica - All content
• Jennifer Ouellette
Meet the 2026 winner of Nikon's Small World photomicrography contest
Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.
Ars Technica - All content
• Beth Mole
"Disillusioned" MAHA leader quits as Trump admin's food agenda spoils: Report
The departure comes amid turmoil in Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement.
Ars Technica - All content
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Electric or gas? BMW goes both ways with new 2027 X5 and iX5.
460 kW charging and 450 miles of range are among the reasons the EV is the one to get.
Ars Technica - All content
• Ryan Whitwam
Samsung all but confirms iPhone Duo is goosing Galaxy Z8 sales
Searches for Samsung foldables just happened to skyrocket following iPhone Duo unveiling.
Ars Technica - All content
• Stephen Clark
US official: Russia's stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon
The Russian official who called commercial satellites "legitimate targets" now says concerns are "unfounded."
RFK Jr asks Cheryl Hines to keep steak bites and sauerkraut in her purse for him
Cheryl Hines: RFK will catch me eating potato chips and he'll say, 'Are you going to do this in front of me?'
Ars Technica
• Jennifer Ouellette
Meet the 2026 winner of Nikon's Small World photomicrography contest
Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.
Ars Technica
• Beth Mole
"Disillusioned" MAHA leader quits as Trump admin's food agenda spoils: Report
The departure comes amid turmoil in Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement.
EV Grieve
• Unknown
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black takes over Tompkins Square Park Saturday
Sacha Chua
• Sacha Chua
Dictating blog posts into Emacs
I’m trying to decide if I can throw a mention of Y2K into a report without explaining it. Millennials were in their teens during the remediation and Gen Z were in preschool.
ServiceNow cuts network incidents 90% with HPE Mist AI
ServiceNow’s network team used to spend 2,000 to 3,000 hours a year patching the network. Now it’s fewer than 60. After moving its network operations to Juniper Networks Mist AI, now part of HPE ServiceNow cut incident volume 90%, and the network team didn’t grow even as the company did.
Coming up: a 100% autonomous network by 2028. ServiceNow’s Sajeev Nair says the way to get there is to hand control to the AI a step at a time.
My latest on Fierce Network from Nair’s fireside chat with HPE’s Rami Rahim at HPE’s Networking Investor Day.
