Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary – reports
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U.S. budget deficit swells to almost $2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12% in a single year
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Oregon school shooter identified as 16-year-old whose mother purchased the gun he used.
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Amber Guyger, police officer who murdered black neighbor in his home, released from prison
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs moved to a new prison after reports of a luxury lifestyle behind bars
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Tesla Roadster
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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
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I Love Software Rendering
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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
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Waymo in Toronto
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How the Claude Code team does code review
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Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June
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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
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Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
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How They Got Duo Support in NetNewsWire
– From the NetNewsWire blog: The latest version of NetNewsWire for iOS supports iPhone
Duo, which is very much a novel iPhone with toolbars running up
the side and all kinds of behavior. How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app
us…
netnewswire.blog
★ Real Artists Ship, Tesla Edition
– If you think Musk is either completely legitimate and trustworthy or an utter fraud, you are wrong. He has led his companies to extraordinary accomplishments, *and* he has made promises based on complete bullshit. He is a shameless bullshitter who *…
daringfireball.net
Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
– From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound
truth to Pascal’s saying that every human has a god-shaped hole in
their heart, and it’s important to understand that many of these
f…
www.cbsnews.com
iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Launched, and Three Hours Later It’s Sold Out Through the End of January
– Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: If you were hoping to surprise someone with an iPhone Duo for
Christmas, you might be out of luck, as Apple’s online store in
the U.S. is already showing an estimated shipping date of January
25 for all configurations follo…
www.macrumors.com
★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
– At the old pre-June prices, you could buy a 128 GB Apple TV and a pair of HomePod Minis for $350 ($150 + $100 + $100). Four short months later, with today’s new models, that combination would cost $600 ($300 + $150 + $150).
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AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns
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Would you really give up ChatGPT to shut down data centers? Tech CEO highlights the hypocrisy of some AI critics
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Nasdaq sinks more than 2% as investors raise questions about AI debt
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Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity
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Ticket resale giants sue Washington DC over new law that caps scalper markups at 10%
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