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We are extremely grateful to those have donated so far for your prompt and generous gifts! Your support keeps our hamster wheels turning quickly! Our next target, as we explain more fully below, is continuing our expanded daily Links. We have responded to the Trump turbocharging imperial breakdown by going from 45 to 55 daily … Read more
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to target US vessels and tankers violating the Strait of Hormuz blockade, as its advanced weapons program has aided its allies in Yemen to become the region’s second most feared ballistic missile power. On this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the latest … Read more
Tabs are the best. They’re also the worst. Sometimes I end up drowning in browser tabs containing web pages I don’t remember opening, and sometimes I have a few tabs that I want to close, but I can’t, because I know I’ll need them later. Tuck is a completely free browser extension for all the … Read more
We are shipping code faster than ever. Or rather, our local AI agents are doing it for us. But there is a massive, hidden tax to this speed. Senior engineers are drowning in pull requests filled with AI slop. The core problem is the hallucination that looks perfectly right but is fundamentally wrong. You know … Read more
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company’s board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him. The board, which was announced to staff Friday, is an eclectic group that includes a best-selling science-fiction author and two co-founders of the now-defunct social app IRL, TechCrunch has learned, and Mullenweg has confirmed. … Read more
Home > Law and Politics > VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week. The full text shows that VPNs were added after last year’s discussion draft, which only mentioned ISPs and DNS resolvers. How a VPN should block access … Read more
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The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in the Israel Lobby’s face, and caused all of his supporting artists to quit in … Read more
Meta’s Muse mascot is named Jolly. It’s an adorable, cuddly representation of Meta’s AI agent that you can dress however you want—like a doll. At the company’s recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s furry Muse donned a toga and laurel wreath. In Instagram ads I saw for Muse, the mascot wore exercise gear and … Read more
Back in 2023, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $75.4 billion. I can’t remember when exactly I started to hear the quasi-joke people would make: Xbox is going to eat Activision Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard is then going to eat Xbox from the inside out. That is no longer a joke, and it’s more or less … Read more