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Thursday May 29, 2025. 11:25 PM
Nicole Hollander, who previously slept in Twitter’s offices while assisting Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, appears to be stepping away from a key role in the General Services Administration.
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It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…
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An anonymous reader shares a report: China's Ministry of Commerce is meeting with some of the country's biggest automakers to discuss whether the industry is using a loophole to mask weakening sales. Reuters adds: It comes after Great Wall Motor's Chairman Wei Jianjun said...
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RFK Jr's 'Make America Healthy Again' report appears to be riddled with AI hallucinations. Karoline Leavitt calls them 'formatting issues.' Found to contain citations that do not exist, and other telltale signs of AI all over RFK Jr's touted 'MAHA' report, the White House...
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TL;DR: Streamline your workflow when you use SwifDoo PDF Pro, on sale for $29.97 now. I used to audibly sigh when I received a document if I saw that it was in a PDF format. I would try to avoid them as much as possible, but with many businesses going paperless, PDFs are...
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If you wanted to target the guns as an Imperial Super Star Destroyer bombards a planet, you are in luck. In all of my Star Wars adventure dreams, I do not recall targeting the guns for a Super Star Destroyer, but someone wanted the experience. — Read the rest The post...
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As of this writing, 5,546 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel repository for the 6.16 release. This is a bit less than half of the total commits for 6.15, so the merge window is well on its way. Read on for our summary of the first half of the 6.16 ...
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When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”
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Engineering the Impossible shares the history and future plans for New York's years empty Flat Iron building. I had several meetings in the Flatiron Building back in the early 2000s. It was another old building that wasn't very comfortable but had a lot of charm. — Read...
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India faces a paradoxical climate challenge that requires embracing air conditioning despite the environmental costs, according to analysis of the country's warming patterns and pollution crisis. While the past decade marked India's warmest on record, the nation has warmed...
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OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely tells WIRED his new platform, Subs, will help creators earn more money, using long-form video, video calls, and a suite of AI features.
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A Congressperson from Florida claims Congress will cut funding for the Washington DC Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) if it isn't renamed WMAGA (Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access) and called the Trump Train. I do not want to ride the Trump Train. — Read the rest ...
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House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.…
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The US says it will “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas and has paused interviews for all student visa applicants. Experts warn the moves could weaken American leadership in STEM.
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DevNull127 writes: Stack Overflow will test paying experts to answer questions. That's one of many radical experiments they're now trying to stave off an AI-induced death spiral. Questions and answers to the site have plummeted more than 90% since April of 2020. So here's...
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My friend Dug North, who wrote a lot of excellent how-to articles for me when I was editing Make magazine, has a YouTube channel where he make things from old books and magazines. In a recent video, Dug built a tin can steam engine from a 1963 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. ...
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Dutch consumers of Haribo's Happy Cola F!ZZ are checking production codes to see if they got a bag of 'cannabis contaminated' candy. While only three bags of this candy have been identified, Haribo has recalled its production across the Netherlands. Unless the factory also...
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18F says the whole thing was political Former employees of the US government's 18F tech modernization team have filed an appeal of their termination, arguing that the DOGE-led shuttering of their entire unit was illegal.…
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Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is warning that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years -- and overall unemployment potentially spiking between 10 and 20% during that period. The prediction comes as new data from...
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The Atlantic's Benjamin Wallace reports on the world of extreme privacy consultants — people who help clients vanish from the digital landscape. The piece focuses on Alec Harris, CEO of HavenX, whose own privacy measures include 191 virtual debit cards, multiple phone...
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