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Musk Falsely Claims His Traitorous Meddling In Ukraine Is Somehow Anti-War

Last week Elon Musk arbitrarily started throttling the LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellite connections of Ukraine’s military, preventing it from engaging in offensive and defensive operations. The decision blindsided the White House, caused significant financial and operational headaches for Ukraine, and created no shortage of bipartisan backlash. After spending a week blaming one another, both the […]

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WIRED
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AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience

As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

WIRED
Text • Meghan Bartels

NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How

Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.

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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 People

Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 People

Plus: Anthropic's IPO Is an $800 Billion Lease, Meta Can't Wait for Its Own Stock

Longreads
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Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana’s Data Centers

"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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One pod, one node: The architecture behind serverless Kubernetes on AWS

Abstract digital render of curving metallic structures representing isolated serverless Kubernetes architecture on AWS Fargate

A pod-level walkthrough of admission routing, dedicated scheduling, and network isolation, no worker nodes required Serverless Kubernetes changes who manages

The post One pod, one node: The architecture behind serverless Kubernetes on AWS appeared first on The New Stack.

Paul Krugman
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Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Problems

Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Problems

As the midterms loom, he’s finally admitting the obvious

emptywheel
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FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Hearsay Witness in the Floris Case

The original affidavit charging Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides relied on undisclosed hearsay to present misleading claims that the Hunter Biden trial team made. So FBI found a new charge and a new affiant to try to clean up their misrepresentation to a judge.

The post FBI Agent Byron Militello Gets Cold Feet on His Hearsay Witness in the Floris Case appeared first on emptywheel.

Poynter
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Buried in Trump’s 1,300-word Bill Maher rant was some news about the press

President Donald Trump loves Truth Social. He loves to go on diatribes blasting his supposed enemies, many of whom are in the media. Hardly a day goes by when Trump […]

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Poynter
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How to navigate a toxic newsroom — and know when it’s time to leave

Newsrooms, like many workplaces, have a history of tolerating abuse and mistreatment. Some cases involve serious allegations of misconduct. Journalists who sexually harass their colleagues. Managers who police the hair […]

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Poynter
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Poynter announces 2026 Power of Diverse Voices cohort, celebrating 10 years of amplified opinion writing

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (October 27, 2026) — The Poynter Institute has selected 16 journalists and storytellers for the 2026 Power of Diverse Voices workshop, an intensive four-day program that helps […]

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Poynter
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Voting machines are ‘flipping’ votes? Here’s what’s actually happening

Claims about voting machines swapping or “flipping” voters’ choices are again going viral as early voting continues during the 2026 midterm elections. The claims have surfaced in multiple states. “There […]

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Schneier on Security
Text • Bruce Schneier

Hiding Capabilities in AI Models

Interesting research: “AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities” Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assu...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Police Increasing Patrols Across New York Ahead of Halloween

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is directing New York State Police and local law enforcement agencies to increase patrols across the state through Halloween as police target impaired, distracted, and reckless drivers. Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Just How Safe Is Metro-North? New Crime Numbers Reveal the Answer

Hudson Valley residents who take Metro-North to New York City may be surprised to learn how safe their commute actually is. Continue reading…

WBUR News
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State police union slams Minogue quid pro quo claim on social media

State police union slams Minogue quid pro quo claim on social media

Republican gubernatorial nominee Mike Minogue raised allegations about the State Police union's endorsement of Gov. Maura Healey — which the union rejected as "categorically false" and the Healey campaign called "an unhinged rant."

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Israel's election and what it means for U.S. support

Israel goes to the polls in a razor-close election. What the results will mean for the trajectory of the war with Iran, ongoing conflict in Gaza and the West Bank and the future of U.S.-Israel relations.

WBUR News
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Mass. agrees to pay $10 million settlement in the death of 14-year-old David Almond

Mass. agrees to pay $10 million settlement in the death of 14-year-old David Almond

The settlement agreement was announced six years to the day after 14-year-old died of starvation and neglect after being found in a Fall River apartment. His death prompted an "incredibly damning" report and "sweeping changes" at agencies serving children.

WBUR News
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How seabirds help coral reefs thrive

Some of the healthiest coral reefs in the world are in the Pacific Ocean. One of the secrets to their success comes from something unexpected: seabirds.