Ars Technica
• Nick Indge
The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.
Whatever
• Athena Scalzi
Bursts of inspiration are all a writer can ever hope for, but how do you flesh that inspiration out into a coherent story? Not just coherent, but a good story. Author Sharon Shinn shares some of her personal experience with this topic in the Big Idea for her newest collections of short stories and poems, Tropes: […]
Sacha Chua
• Sacha Chua
blog - aows
• Adrian Vila
blog - aows
• Adrian Vila
I spend one day photographing beautiful Bandon, Oregon, and I get all kind of weather: wind, fog, rain, clouds and sun. Lovely.
“I can’t imagine ever officially ‘retiring’. I’ll always and forever be an actor.” — Patrick Stewart, July 2026
He’ll be in Avengers: Doomsday.
Trump's $5 million gold refurbishing is now melting off the horse statues in Washington, D.C.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
Zeldman: The Day the Focus Died.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Conover Kennard
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
bsky.app/profile/status.archiveofourown.org/post/3myzstnmohf2o
how stressful, hopefully there’s no permanent data loss
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Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
• Steve Schmidt
More than 39 million Americans have already voted early in the midterms.
WIRED
• Kate Knibbs
The company says an unnamed third-party provider was compromised. Trading has resumed, and Polymarket says affected traders will be made whole.
Stunned hearing about Patrick Stewart. What an incredible actor. This is going to hit hard for so many fans… There was no one like him. Rest in peace.
Ars Technica
• Jon Brodkin
Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.
A major data leak has exposed records for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including ICE personnel and investigators tied to undercover operations.
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Rivian has started delivering the first major hardware upgrade to its electric van since production began in 2021: a bigger LFP battery pack good for 30% more range, and a new dual-motor AWD version.
The company confirmed in its Q3 2026 shareholder presentation that deliveries of the new variants began in early October. That’s the first real spec bump for a van that has been stuck at about 160 miles of rated range for years.
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