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- Inverse Read
5 Years Ago, James Bond Pulled A Massive Course Correction — And Changed Pop Culture History
Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig's lack of chemistry is kind of the point. Let's talk about 'No Time to Die.'
Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
- Inverse Read
‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Is A Fantastical Mystery Box — And A Major Overcorrection
'Avatar: Seven Havens' is a promising fantasy epic... it just doesn't feel like Avatar.
- VentureBeat Read
Anthropic’s Cyber Mission starts with 6,157 findings reported, 516 patched
Anthropic’s dashboard shows 6,157 findings reported to open-source maintainers and 516 patched. Its Cyber Mission routes frontier models to 11 OT providers.
- VentureBeat Read
Why giving AI agents more compute isn’t enough—and what Meta proposes instead
Giving agents more compute doesn’t always improve results. Meta’s new framework helps them decide how to spend their budgets on productive work.
- VentureBeat Read
H-JEPA teaches world models to plan at multiple levels of abstraction
H-JEPA learns representations of the world at different timescales, enabling AI systems to break complex goals into smaller, more manageable planning tasks.
- Cracked: All Posts Read
‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ at New York Comic Con Recap: Crime-Fighters Cry Too
Dan Goor, Joe Lo Truglio, Melissa Fumero, and Stephanie Beatriz had NYCC in both kinds of tears
- All That's Interesting Read
The Controversial Life Of Robert Wagner And His Troubled Marriage To Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner’s wife, actress Natalie Wood, drowned under mysterious circumstances in November 1981.
No one wants to be “Data Center Dave”
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- All That's Interesting Read
Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years
Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as 6,000 years.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word. “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
- VentureBeat Read
Magnific One launches to give teams an image generator that avoids the ‘AI look’ and automatically upholds their brand kit
A system that centralizes those guidelines, identifies deviations and allows employees to correct the results could make AI generation more practical for campaigns requiring large numbers of creative assets.
- Jacobin Read
Trump’s Politicized Deportations Are Becoming the Global Norm
Given all the headlines about the US government trying to deport one or another migrant over their foreign policy views, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a uniquely Trumpian innovation. Sadly, as the recent developments out of Latvia show, it’s far from it.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying across the face of the moon.
Is this the cure for Alzheimer’s?
The videos are astonishing. In one scene, a senior Chinese woman appears lost in the wilderness of dementia, unable to answer basic questions; in the next, she seems to be lucidly chatting and shucking beans for dinner. By all appearances, years of cognitive decline had been rapidly reversed after the patient underwent an experimental new surgery.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable
Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
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Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”
- Jacobin Read
Where Are the Democratic Socialists of America Going?
The history of the American left is marked by imposing peaks and valleys. Over the last century and a half, organizations have sprung up and, often within a decade of their founding, become major institutions of US politics. They have typically declined nearly as quickly, with few sustaining their positions in American society longer than a decade or so.
- Jacobin Read
Under Trump Pressure, Bolivia Arrests Its Own Attorney General
Early last week, the Trump administration’s State Department announced visa restrictions on a group of Latin American officials it accused of corruption and of “undermining democratically-selected governments.” Of the twenty-one people it targeted in Bolivia, Washington chose to name only one: Bolivia’s sitting attorney general, Roger Mariaca.
- VentureBeat Read
Share of enterprises trusting AI agents to make production changes falls from 75% to 56% in latest VB Intelligence survey
Those findings suggest unresolved gaps in the systems enterprises rely on to judge agent reliability.
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