Politics
New estimates show the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund running dry in late 2032, meaning larger benefit reductions than earlier…
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№686 (page 20) · newest development 13h ago · 7 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“New warning: Social Security cuts will be larger than predicted, feds say”— NJcom (Flipboard/Mastodon repost), News aggregator social account · Mastodon · full quotes →
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World
UK foreign secretary condemns the Netanyahu government's conduct in Gaza and the West Bank while defending Labour's sanctions on Israeli…
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“But this cannot justify the suffering the Netanyahu government has inflicted in Gaza and the West Bank.”
— Ed Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary · Reddit · full quotes →
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AI
OpenAI says agents touched SEC and Census sites while a researcher found a failed attempt to hack the Education Department's civil rights…
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№688 (page 20) · newest development 12h ago · 5 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“As we previously announced, we're conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity and notifying organizations when we identify potential impacts to…”— OpenAI spokesperson · full quotes →
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Tech
A piece examining how AI agents are normalizing inexplicable software failures prompts disagreement over whether the tradeoffs are…
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“An algorithm doesn't have "confidence" in the way that a person has confidence, but as soon you put something with that name in front of a business person they…”— WorldMaker · full quotes →
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Business
Qatar pushes back gas shipment deadlines by another month, with Asian cargoes delayed into November and European ones into December.
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“Shipments to Asian buyers were canceled into November, European buyers into December”— @SStapczynski · full quotes →
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Culture
1d ago
The downtown Los Angeles institution, opened by Norm Langer's parents in 1947, earns the 2026 honor for its signature twice-baked rye and…
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№691 (page 20) · newest development 1d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“It doesn't happen without me. But it also doesn't happen without him.”— Norm Langer · full quotes →
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Sports
San Francisco's star left tackle was taken to the locker room on a cart during Sunday's game.
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“And now 49ers LT Trent Williams has been carted to the locker room.”— @AdamSchefter · full quotes →
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Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embarks on voter outreach across upstate New York ahead of midterms, with speculation about a presidential bid.
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№693 (page 20) · newest development 9h ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“I want to be very forthright: I've got our intention to transform the state of New York.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Representative · full quotes →
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World
A UAV hit the historic building in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district on Monday, sparking a fire and killing at least one person.
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“An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has crashed into a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, in the capital's city center. A fire has broken…”— Vitaliy Klitschko, Kyiv Mayor · Mastodon · full quotes →
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AI
D.C. Circuit rules 2-1 that the Pentagon can keep barring Anthropic from military contracts over its refusal to let Claude be used for…
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№695 (page 20) · newest development 3d ago · 174 pieces from 8 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“The Secretary raises the deeply sobering prospect of overly constrained AI models shutting down unexpectedly and thus causing important military operations to…”— Judge Gregory Katsas · full quotes →
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Tech
Google's security team deployed Gemini to translate legacy C dependencies into memory-safe Rust, starting with the giflib image library.
began Sep 24now
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“Google's security team developed a method to replace legacy C code in the giflib image-processing library with Rust, targeting inherent memory vulnerabilities.”— InfoQ · full quotes →
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Business
Treasury Secretary argues artificial intelligence and deregulation will help control inflation, signaling flexibility on interest rate…
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“Federal Reserve policymakers should keep an "open mind" on interest rates, arguing that productivity gains from artificial intelligence and deregulation will…”
— Scott Bessent · full quotes →
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Culture
A syndicated retrospective across Advance Local sites revisits the country music figures who died this year, without naming a new loss.
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№698 (page 20) · newest development 1d ago · 7 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“It has been a heartbreaking year for country music.”— Brian Linder / Cleveland.com, Article byline · full quotes →
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Sports
Amid the Angels' first-ever 100-loss campaign, lefty Reid Detmers posted career-best numbers and a franchise-best ERA milestone.
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“Reid Detmers is the first @Angels pitcher to finish a season with 30+ starts and a sub-3.50 ERA since C.J. Wilson in 2013!”— @MLBStats, MLB statistics account · X · full quotes →
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Politics
16h ago
Kasim Khan tells CBC he hasn't spoken to Imran Khan in seven months, as Pakistan detains the ex-PM's relatives ahead of PTI protests.
began Sep 23now
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№700 (page 20) · newest development 16h ago · 5 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“I find it hard to imagine that I will see him again.”— Imran Khan's son · full quotes →
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World
Heavy rains since mid-September have killed eight in eastern Thailand and affected 1.7 million people across 27 provinces; capital declared…
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“We are inundated not only with the scale of the flood but also with the lack of resources. This is a natural disaster in the conflict area.”— Hein Htet · full quotes →
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AI
Despite alarming headlines about AI mishaps and breaches, the White House is preparing meetings with tech leaders that skip regulatory…
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“Notably, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also dined with Trump last night at the White House, Semafor confirmed, a surprising development given the Pentagon…”— Semafor · full quotes →
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Tech
Cloud-dependent smart appliances face obsolescence when manufacturers cut support, leaving users with devices that no longer work as…
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“The shutdown of June Oven is just another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.”— Jennifer Pattison Tuohy · full quotes →
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Business
Services producer price index rose 3.7% year-on-year in August, fastest pace since June 2024, driven by freight, advertising, and rental…
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“A key gauge of Japan's service-sector inflation rose in August at the fastest annual pace in more than two years, highlighting mounting price pressures that…”— Bank of Japan · full quotes →
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Culture
Boston University researcher explains how generational differences in communication styles create workplace misunderstandings.
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№705 (page 20) · newest development 16h ago · 8 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“Gen Z texts. Gen X calls. And everyone has a different idea of what "professional" means.”— The Conversation US · full quotes →
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Sports
12h ago
NBA insider reveals the center's determination to leave Utah was key leverage in the Lakers deal.
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“Kessler's camp successfully convinced Jazz officials that he was absolutely determined to go the qualifying offer route this summer had he stayed in Utah and…”— Marc Stein · full quotes →
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Politics
Trump's VP targets visa abuse, citing companies that claim worker shortages while cutting US staff.
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“The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy.”
— JD Vance, US Vice President · Indian Express · full quotes →
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World
Abbas Araghchi discusses a seven-point plan with intermediaries in New York as Trump rejects the initial terms.
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№708 (page 20) · newest development 8h ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“We are waiting for the intermediaries to convey a definitive response, and we will decide accordingly.”
— Abbas Araghchi · full quotes →
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Health
20d ago
A new podcast investigation shows the company behind PFAS chemicals concealed knowledge of widespread contamination since the 1970s.
began Sep 3now
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“3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into people's blood for decades — and continued making them.”— ProPublica, News organization · Bluesky · full quotes →
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AI
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang's essay on his AI product Muse draws sharp pushback as 'faux-hallmark pap.'
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“My take is much closer to Notopoulos’s than to Manton Reece’s . I think it’s fascinating that Wang’s essay doesn’t sound at all like the sterile neutered voice…”— John Gruber · full quotes →
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Tech
A widely shared thread says Windows silently stores thumbnail images of deleted photos in hidden cache files that forensic examiners can…
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“Windows keeps a thumbnail of every photo you've ever deleted. It sits in a file called thumbcache_256.db, and forensic examiners pull it routinely. There are…”— @Ayzacoder, X user · X · full quotes →
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Culture
A single syndicated article, republished across six Advance Local sites, claims another country singer has passed $1 billion in net worth.
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№712 (page 20) · newest development 1d ago · 9 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“Was Dolly Parton country music’s richest singer? The answer might surprise you”— MLivecom, Flipboard/Mastodon account for MLive's Michigan Life & Culture · Mastodon · full quotes →
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Business
50% tariffs on whey imports are squeezing Canadian manufacturers and threatening US consumers as Trump and Canada's Carney exchange…
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№713 (page 20) · newest development 1d ago · 5 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“Economic tools can be turned on and off fairly quickly. Supply chains can't.”— Aaron Skelton · full quotes →
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Sports
1d ago
49ers tight end George Kittle finds the end zone twice as San Francisco faces Arizona.
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№714 (page 20) · newest development 1d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“GEORGE KITTLE'S SECOND TD OF THE GAME”— @NFL · full quotes →
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Politics
Trump administration moves to overturn environmental and regulatory policies from the Biden years.
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№715 (page 20) · newest development 12h ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“Trump seeks to rewrite Biden-era rules of the road”— The Hill · full quotes →
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World
First Germany-Russia foreign minister meeting since January 2022 ends with Berlin seeing no shift in Moscow's stance on Ukraine.
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“a line had been crossed, we expect this not to happen again, and we are ready to respond at any time”
— Johann Wadephul, German Foreign Minister · Reddit · full quotes →
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AI
1d ago
Open-source AI model gains rapid dominance as proprietary systems face competition.
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“DeepSeek has 64% market share today. 3 months ago, it had at 25%. open models are winning”— @gherget · full quotes →
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Tech
A year-old essay arguing users should be able to freely reshape their software gains fresh traction online.
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№718 (page 20) · newest development 18h ago · 18 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention, at most a few cards per topic
“The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far…”— Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews, Ink & Switch researchers · Ink & Switch essay · full quotes →
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Culture
Naoki Hamaguchi says Square Enix is aiming for roughly 20% of players to platinum Revelation, after only 2.6% managed it in Rebirth.
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“Battle director Teruki Endo also saw [the fan reaction] and was like, 'Oh, no! I feel bad - I have regrets'.”
— Naoki Hamaguchi · full quotes →
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19d ago
Team USA begins its quest for a fifth consecutive FIBA Women's World Cup gold medal against China on Friday, September 4, at 8 a.m. ET from…
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