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Creating a new personal website in 2026 is certainly a choice. The commercial web is a disaster of privacy invasion, pop up annoyances, and ads that drown out content. Most social media is a dumpster fire best left in the rearview. Bots outnumber people while siphoning up ev...

If any artist could capture joy in a bottle, it would be Maira Kalman.

The post The Daily Heller: Start This Week With a Little Joy appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

Interesting research:

TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model’s weights, and that removing the model’s CCP alignment removes it.

• One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app “for a US defense contractor” instead of “for a Chinese defense contractor”, and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked. ...

If the stakes are high enough and the duration you need to keep it together is short enough, can you control your response? Because if we can do it then, we can learn to do it now. Acknowledging that it’s a choice is difficult, because choices come with responsibility. “I’m not a patient person,” is […]

John Singer Sargent, Photograph of "La Carmencita", c. 1890 - 1891 #johnsingersargent #museumarchive

With Election Day approaching, New York employees may be entitled to two hours off with pay. Continue reading…

The LG B6 has deep and rich blacks and a low price tag, but midrange performance elsewhere.

Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?

Dramatic lighting and fog make this countertop fruiting chamber a conversation starter. The mushrooms are pretty good too.

Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents.

The Steam Frame’s promise of greatness for stand-alone and streaming VR gaming doesn’t quite connect.

Coyotec is bilingual, swears, and tells listeners how to defend themselves against ICE. Its popularity comes as more broadcasters are experimenting with artificial personalities.

Meta informed the U.S. Trade Representative that it built an AI tool to predict whether a live stream is a pirated sports broadcast. The tool is featured in Meta’s rebuttal to this year’s “notorious markets” submissions, which also lists restrictions on Facebook Live. Cloud storage platform Mega, meanwhile, rejects piracy accusations in its rebuttal but acknowledges that its repeat infringer system didn't work properly for months.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

The midterms are shaping up to be the most expensive election cycle in history as campaigns pour huge sums into the ads voters see virtually everywhere. Today, Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, breaks down how Democrats are tying Re...

Donald Trump seethed wildly at NBC reporter Monica Alba after she asked him tough questions about his support for that vile ad attacking Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton for supposedly lying about her past. Alba pointed out that Acton’s childhood involved “serious sexu...

Will New York be on its own when disaster strikes? That may be the future after the next Superstorm Sandy or Hurricane Ida, according to recent remarks from the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Administrator Cameron Hamilton. At an annual meeting for state emergency managers on Tuesday, Hamilton indicated FEMA would shift financial […]

The post FEMA Soon Won’t Help States With Disaster Relief. For NY, That Means a Loss of Billions. appeared first on The City Reporter.

Sunnyside Yard burst into the headlines in February when Mayor Zohran Mamdani went to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, armed with a mock Daily News front page that read “Trump to City: Let’s Build” and a pitch that the two of them could erect an enormous housing project over the Queens railyard. Trump, the […]

The post The High Cost of Mamdani’s Sunnyside Yard Gambit With Trump appeared first on The City Reporter.

A Peacock, 1906 #jeanmetzinger #divisionism

Amflow, the electric bicycle brand that burst onto the scene with some of the most powerful and lightweight electric mountain bikes on the market, is expanding its lineup with two major releases. The company has announced global availability of its new Amflow TL Carbon, while also bringing its removable-battery Amflow PR Carbon series to the US for the first time.

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Meta informed the U.S. Trade Representative that it built an AI tool to predict whether a live stream is a pirated sports broadcast. The tool is featured in Meta’s rebuttal to this year’s “notorious markets” submissions, which also lists restrictions on Facebook Live. Cloud storage platform Mega, meanwhile, rejects piracy accusations in its rebuttal but acknowledges that its repeat infringer system didn't work properly for months.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.