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Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
The Verge

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who'd lost his legs while fighting the T… more…

From Tea Leaves to AI: Why Today's High-Tech Predictions Are So Dangerous
CNET

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. more…

Before sci-fi was everywhere, this pioneering magazine championed 'scientifiction'
NPR

The name didn't stick. The fan communities did. more…

The 5 best Nicholas Sparks books — and 5 you can skip
Business Insider

Who doesn't love Nicholas Sparks books? "The Notebook," "Dear John," and "A Walk To Remember" are among his best. more…

How OpenClaw turned into China's next big thing
Business Insider

Install queues. Side hustles. Stock bets. This is the rise of China's AI agent economy. more…

Here's what David Ellison told Paramount employees after WBD shareholders approved the merger
Business Insider

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison sent a memo to employees celebrating the news that Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approved the merger. more…

Elon Musk says government checks for all wouldn't spike inflation. Economist Steve Hanke says that's not guaranteed.
Business Insider

Elon Musk says government checks for all could offset AI job losses without causing inflation. "Money Doctor" Steve Hanke said that might not be true. more…

Ukraine teamed up its sea and interceptor drones for the first time to down a Russian Shahed
Business Insider

The new tactic, carried out by the 412th Nemesis Brigade, could help Ukraine form an additional air defense layer in the Black Sea. more…

The Apple products that define Tim Cook's era
Business Insider

Apple is getting a new CEO. Under Tim Cook's leadership, the company has launched game-changing products and some notable misses. more…

Nara Smith in Target? The tradwife economy is going mainstream.
Business Insider

The "tradwife" influencers Nara Smith and Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm are breaking out of their digital niche. more…

Vampire Survivors Studio Is Developing And Planning Over 15 Games
Kotaku

Poncle is opening studios in Japan and Italy with small teams to help build its ambitious future more…

Square Enix’s Koji Fox Criticized For Using AI Art During Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest Panel
Kotaku

The long-serving Square Enix localizer and lyricist revealed that the Final Fantasy maker's CEO "has been keen on incorporating AI tools into our daily work" more…

EA Reportedly Wanted Alice: Madness Returns To Be “More Sexy,” So Its Developer Put Dildos On A Snail
Kotaku

Also Resident Evil Requiem is still killing it more…

Teaching assistant took indecent images of pupils
BBC News

Pamela Martin and Christopher O'Kane, from Scunthorpe, are jailed for a string of offences. more…

Kash Patel’s Implausible Lawsuit Against The Atlantic
The New Yorker

Fabio Bertoni on the legal hurdles facing the F.B.I. director Kash Patel in his defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for publishing a story about Patel’s alleged excessive drinking. more…

Return to ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ With an Astarion Prequel Book
Gizmodo.com

Penguin Random House is giving 'Baldur's Gate 3' a whole imprint to itself, where a cookbook and Astarion-focused novel await. more…

Yet Another ’30 Under 30′ Nominee Could Be Headed to Prison
Gizmodo.com

The Forbes-to-Fraud pipeline gets more jaw-dropping every year. more…

The Fake Radicals Stealing Lemons
The Atlantic

A New York Times podcast hosted Hasan Piker and a New Yorker staff writer for a discussion of lawbreaking, which they both endorsed as resistance to tyranny. more…

The Kash Patel Fallout
The Atlantic

An interview with staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick about her reporting more…

Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive
Millersbookreview.com

Let’s Explore a Little Math more…

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
Fsfe.org

A new FSFE report exposes how 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act have produced no concrete solutions by Apple, and how their declin... more…

Wikipedia's AI Policy
Wikipedia.org

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Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight
Deploy.live

I flew from London to Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas. Ten hours with no in-flight wifi. I used the time to test how far a modern MacBook can carry engineering work on local LLMs alone. Setup A week old MacBook Pro M5 Max, 128GB unified memory, 40-core GP… more…

The Last of the Lost Generation
Porticoquarterly.com

Malcolm Cowley was one of the most important literary critics and editors of the twentieth century. In a dozen books and over a thousand articles, he helped shape the canon… more…

Do I belong in tech anymore?
Ky.fyi

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. more…

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
Anchor.host

What would you do if your organization had used a domain name for 27 years, and the registrar holding the domain seized it without any advance warning? All more…

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
Substack.com

How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams more…

Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
Worseonpurpose.com

One company owns Brooks Brothers, Champion, Eddie Bauer, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and the licensing rights to Elvis's likeness. They don't make a single product themselves. more…

The Free Universal Construction Kit
Fffff.at

Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 … more…

This Earth Day, three experts share tips on how to feel hopeful about the environment
Scientific American

This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again more…

Texas Roadhouse Just Launched a Menu Best-Seller in Grocery Stores
Thekitchn.com

Creamy, with a kick. READ MORE... more…

The Creamy One-Pot Lemon Orzo So Easy, It Practically Cooks Itself
Thekitchn.com

The lemon and Parm work together to create the creamiest risotto-like pasta. READ MORE... more…

I'm Calling It: The Elden Ring Movie Will Live Up to the Mario Movies' Successes
CNET

The movie based on the FromSoftware game is now one of my most anticipated films. more…

Baldur's Gate 3 director reacts to Xbox Game Pass removing Call of Duty from day one access alongside price drop — "It is a good thing creatively"
Windows Central

Due to Microsoft's new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price drop, Call of Duty games won't come to it day one anymore — something that may benefit the series. more…

5 more AWESOME Xbox April indies: Take a break from getting beat up in Hades 2
Windows Central

Manage a bookshop or break out as a hit content creator in these newly released games brought to you by ID@Xbox. more…

This new camera captures what happens in a trillionth of a second
Science Daily

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough imaging method that can capture the hidden details of events unfolding in trillionths of a second. This new technique doesn’t just track how bright something is—it also reveals subtle structural changes that were previo… more…

I reviewed the Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim Ultra and it almost made me enjoy Windows again
MakeUseOf

This is one of the lightest notebook ever to exist, but it's flawed. more…

Why Google Has Changed & Who’s Really Paying for It
Leadershipinseo.com

Why Google is evolving into a more “engaging” platform, and what declining engagement from younger users means for search and publishers. The post Why Google Has Changed & Who’s Really Paying for It appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…

Does AI Actually Reward Quality Content?
Search Engine Journal

We keep reading that high quality content is important, but what actually is it? Research suggests the answer is not so clear cut. The post Does AI Actually Reward Quality Content? appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…

The Technical SEO Audit Needs A New Layer via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
Search Engine Journal

AI visibility now depends on crawl access, server-rendered content, semantic HTML, and machine-readable structure beyond Googlebot. The post The Technical SEO Audit Needs A New Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…

What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science
Nature.com

Funding worries and publishing trends loom large in the minds of scientists surveyed by Nature Index. more…

We need to talk about failure in science
Nature.com

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be. more…

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?
Nature.com

Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff. more…

Daily briefing: The heart’s pumping motion seems to keep cancer at bay
Nature.com

Hearts that didn’t beat were quickly overtaken by cancer cells in mice. Plus, huge octopuses might have ruled the ancient seas and how geopolitics is affecting huge health data sets. more…

Things No President Has Ever Had to Say on TV Before: “I’m Not a Pedophile.”
Jezebel

Leave it to President Trump to respond to an attacker by going on TV to announce "I'm not a rapist" and "I'm not a pedophile." more…

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary...
kottke.org

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see t more…

Localized Distribution In The AI Era: The DIRHAM Framework via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Search Engine Journal

Why traditional frameworks fall short, and how the DIRHAM framework helps marketers build trust, relevance, and measurable impact in today’s content ecosystem. The post Localized Distribution In The AI Era: The DIRHAM Framework appeared first on Search Engine… more…

You Can’t Vote Out Amazon Web Services: Fighting Internet Contracts One Library At A Time
Techdirt

For nearly twenty years, I’ve used Google Docs for most of my writing: class notes, personal notes, a novel in progress, research, activism, and my day job. It’s become an essential piece of infrastructure for me, an archive of my life and evolving interests.… more…

Self-Propagating Supply Chain Worm Hijacks npm Packages to Steal Developer Tokens
Internet

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurit… more…

Why Australian Musicians Are Flocking to Nashville
Rolling Stone

"Nashville felt like this magical place," says one Music City transplant from Down Under. "I couldn't believe that writing songs could be an actual job" more…

How Ibogaine Became the Darling of the Psychedelic Right
Rolling Stone

Texas is leading the charge to turn an African psychedelic into a life-saving drug. But will iboga’s historic stewards get a cut? more…

Paramount+: Das seht ihr im Mai
Caschys Blog

Paramount+ zeigt auch im Mai neue Inhalte, das ist allerdings recht überschaubar (immerhin läuft gerade die vierte Staffel von FROM). Ab dem 15. Mai startet Dutton Ranch, ein Ableger von Yellowstone. Die erste Staffel umfasst neun Episoden und begleitet Beth.… more…

designboom’s ultimate guide to the venice art biennale 2026
Designboom

designboom’s guide highlights the main exhibition, national pavilions, and must-see events surrounding the 61st international art exhibition. The post designboom’s ultimate guide to the venice art biennale 2026 appeared first on designboom | architecture & de… more…

The Fashion Brands That Don't Need Earth Day to Care
Highsnobiety

To celebrate Earth Day, we wanted to walk readers through a select few favorites from the roster of designers that go the extra mile in the name of the planet. more…

Varoufakis on Palantir, AI warfare, and the rise of tech lordism
Al Jazeera English

Yanis Varoufakis speaks to Redi Tlhabi about Palantir's new manifesto, AI weapons, and big tech's ideological drive. more…

Russian police raid book publisher accused of pushing ‘gay propaganda’
Al Jazeera English

Raid is part of Moscow's hardline social conservatism and clampdown on political life. more…

Warner Bros and Paramount merger could reshape US media landscape
Al Jazeera English

The deal faces regulatory scrutiny both for influence on media landscape, but also for foreign investments to fund it. more…

The magic of self-publishing and lo-fi production comes alive in Eloise Aitken’s printed matter
Itsnicethat.com

Using a cut-and-paste approach to image and type, the designer is inspired by radical print design and the early days of the Xerox. more…

Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is ramping things up, working on 15 new games and opening studios in Italy and Japan
Eurogamer.net

Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is expanding in a major way, opening two new offices in Japan and Italy. On top of that, it's working on 15 new games, some of them original works while others are IP collaborations. Read more more…

A look into EmDash CMS
Hongkiat.com

When Cloudflare announced EmDash CMS on April 1st, I thought it was a joke. But as I looked at the GitHub code, read Cloudflare’s announcement, and saw Matt Mullenweg’s response, I realized this isn’t just another CMS trying to beat WordPress. I think it’s an… more…

Daily Dice Of Drama: The Social Dilemma Game #005 (Apr 23, 2026)
Boredpanda.com

Face the world's messiest social dilemmas! Choose your path, roll the dice, and see if you’ve got the social skills to survive. Success or total fail? Play today’s new Dice of Drama scenario. Society more…

Xbox's new boss Asha Sharma refuses to rule out the return of exclusive games
Eurogamer.net

After publishing a company wide memo on her plans for Xbox earlier this week, freshly-minted Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has given a rare - if less than candid - interview, elaborating just a tad more on team green's future. Read more more…

Assassin's Creed actor Abubakar Salim jokingly warns Troy Baker about creating his own game studio: "Don't do it"
Eurogamer.net

With Mouse: P.I. for Hire out now and the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming next month, Troy Baker is the talk of the town again, and his comments regarding the potential creation of a studio and video game of his own are amo… more…

"You need a crystal ball really to predict any of this stuff" - an indie game health check with Hotline Miami and Enter the Gungeon's Devolver Digital
Eurogamer.net

A few steps from a soaking White City tube station stands the Wood Lane Generating Station. Old, aging brickwork, once one part of the buzzing backbone which powered the world around it. London has few uses for the place now, a giant multi-story mall shadows … more…

11 bit Studios is reimagining This War of Mine, and there's never been a more raw and relevant time for it
Eurogamer.net

Polish company 11 bit Studios is "reimaginging" the civilians-surviving-war game that first propelled it to global success: This War of Mine. This is apparently "not a standard remaster" but a game "designed from the ground up with a multi-year lifecycle". Re… more…

Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press
The Intercept

By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech. The post Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press appeared first on The Intercept. more…

What To Expect For ‘Heated Rivalry’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far
Deadline

There is still a long wait to be had for the highly anticipated second season of Heated Rivalry.When Season 1 of the Crave book adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series skated quietly ontoHBO Max Nov. 28, 2025, it quickly built momentum and became a p… more…

John Roberts embodies MAGA cowardice
Salon

The Supreme Court's shadow docket shows the conservative justices fear debate more…

Thiel-backed AI project to block bad press looks like a bust
Salon

Silicon Valley billionaires can't judge journalism if reporters refuse to buy in more…

Media Briefing: As traffic declines, publishers see gains in commerce conversions and CTR
Digiday

Publishers like Forbes and Apartment Therapy see growth in commerce business as audiences convert better despite shrinking traffic. more…

Ad Tech Briefing: The days of bloat are over, as efficiency drives ad tech’s C-suite exodus
Digiday

Last week saw several sub-scale M&A deals, with the retirement of Magnite's CFO capping a C-suite exodus; they're all a sign of the times. more…

Future of Marketing Briefing: In the age of AI, taste is the new competitive advantage
Digiday

in a world where the tools are everywhere and the output is indistinguishable, taste is the last thing that actually compounds. more…

NYPD union sues police watchdog for allegedly publishing unproven 'inflammatory' claims
Gothamist

An NYPD vehicle in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City in 2025. The union representing rank-and-file officers says the Civilian Complaint Review Board has damaged officers' reputation with allegations of sexual misconduc… more…

Liz Parker Launches IP Management & Advisory Company Parker Projects
Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Liz Parker, a 20-year veteran of publishing, media, and entertainment most recently at Verve, has launched Parker Projects, an IP management and advisory company that will rep a roster of authors and creators while advising companies and brands on … more…

The ultimate Emily Henry reading list: 5 must-read books for fans of ‘People We Meet on Vacation’
The Indian Express

From pragmatic protagonists to heartbreaking chemistry, Ria Jain explores the Henryverse titles making their way to our screens. more…

The Generation That Got Stuck in Lockdown
The New Republic

Andrew Martin’s characters tend to be overeducated and underemployed. Theoretically engaged in some kind of creative practice, they’re more likely to produce aspirations (“he would read and write more, lose some weight, buy better clothes, find a nicer apartm… more…

How the Tech World Turned Evil
The New Republic

I. That Antichrist Nonsense, ExplainedTwenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee i… more…

Iran War: Israel Strikes Lebanon, Trump’s Negotiations Rug Pull, the View from the UAE
Nakedcapitalism.com

Today's Iran War update includes Netanyahu ordering strikes on Lebanon, Trump rug pulling "negotiations" in Pakistan, the MSM publishing more bad war news for the US, and some takes from the UAE and Israel. more…

Coffee Break: Alzheimer’s Disease Still a Mystery and Books Worth Reading
Nakedcapitalism.com

Part the First: Anti-amyloid Antibodies and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).  A Cochrane review of monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid plaques in AD has found that these drugs have little to no effect on cognitive function of AD patients.  Cochrane reviews are, … more…

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Coliss.com

※本ページは、アフィリエイト広告を利用しています。 イラストでどうすれば望み通りの色にできるのか、質感を表現する光と影の使い方、色塗りの表現の幅を広げたい、そんな人にお勧めの一冊を紹介します。 色と光の仕組みを深く掘り下 […] more…

The Shifting Legal Landscape for Consensual Nonmonogamy
Psychology Today

What are people in consensually nonmonoagmous relationships doing to combat stigma and discrimination? Grassroots organizing! Their efforts are making headway in some localities. more…

Publishing a Quarto Blog: What I Learned Moving from Netlify to GitHub Pages
R-bloggers.com

1 Introduction Quarto makes it surprisingly easy to build a blog. You write your content, render it, and publish it. Everything works—until it doesn’t. Quarto has made it remarkably easy to create modern technical websites, blogs, books, ... Continue read… more…

The Official Baldur's Gate 3 Cookbook Sounds Like a Culinary Walkthrough of the Game
IGN

Includes 'romanceable' recipes for sharing. more…

Australian Government Demands to Know What Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, and Steam are Doing to Prevent Grooming, Radicalisation
IGN

Mandatory responses required. more…

PyCon: Asking the Key Questions: Q&A with the PyCon US 2026 keynote speakers: Rachell Calhoun and Tim Schilling
Blogspot.com

Welcome to our annual blog series where we're asking each of our PyConUS 2026 keynote speakers about their journey into tech, how excited th... more…

AI Is Rewriting the Rules of the $480 Billion Influence and Personal Branding Market
Jeffbullas.com

AI is making content a commodity. Identity is the moat. Learn how personal branding is changing and what it takes to stand out. The post AI Is Rewriting the Rules of the $480 Billion Influence and Personal Branding Market appeared first on jeffbullas.com. more…

ShinyHunters exposes data on Mytheresa, Zara, Carnival, 7-Eleven – over 40 organizations tied up in new data trove which will stay up 'indefinitely'
TechRadar

Some companies did not pay the ransom demand, and ShinyHunters responded by leaking the stolen files. more…

There's a sneaky way to watch London Marathon 2026 for FREE
TechRadar

Olympians, elite runners and casuals race London’s iconic 26.2-mile course — and you can watch it for free! more…

How to watch Virgin Island season 2 online from anywhere – stream the Channel 4 reality series
TechRadar

Channel 4's most talked-about intimacy series is back, and season 2 looks set to start the same conversations all over again. more…

10 fascinating facts about laser printers you probably didn't know
TechRadar

Never paid attention to the box in the corner of the office? Maybe it’s time to start – here are ten amazing facts about your laser printer. more…

How to watch Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr online from anywhere — it's *FREE*
TechRadar

Here's how to watch Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr online from anywhere in the world, completely FREE. more…

How to watch Australian Survivor: Redemption on 10Play (it's free)
TechRadar

Here's a round up of how to watch Australian Survivor: Redemption online, from anywhere and potentially free aside from the cost of a VPN. more…

There's a sneaky way to watch Half Man for free
TechRadar

Here's our guide on how to watch Half Man online for free from anywhere in the world. more…

How to watch Man City vs Southampton: Free Streams, TV Channels for FA Cup Semi-Final
TechRadar

All the ways to watch Man City vs Southampton live streams online and from anywhere, in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. more…

How to watch London Marathon 2026: Free Streams & TV Channels
TechRadar

All the ways to watch London Marathon 2026 live streams online – including for FREE – with Sebastian Sawe and Tigst Assefa defending their titles. more…

How to watch London Marathon 2026: Free Streams & TV Channels
TechRadar

All the ways to watch London Marathon 2026 live streams online – including for FREE – with Sebastian Sawe and Tigst Assefa defending their titles. more…

How to watch TSN outside Canada — stream online and from anywhere with a VPN
TechRadar

Here's how to watch TSN from outside Canada, and learn how to access streams from anywhere abroad with a VPN. more…

How to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026: Live stream cycling online from anywhere for FREE
TechRadar

All the ways to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026 live streams online and from anywhere, including for FREE, as favorite Tadej Pogačar goes for three in a row. more…

How to watch La Flèche Wallonne 2026: Free Streams and TV Channels for the UCI WorldTour Race
TechRadar

All the ways to watch 2026 La Flèche Wallonne live streams online and from anywhere, as the World Tour peloton lines up against one of its toughest foes, the infamous Mur de Huy. more…

How to watch The Traitors India online from anywhere — stream Karan Johar's celebrity edition now
TechRadar

BBC Three is bringing another international spin on one of TV's most addictive formats to UK screens this month. more…