Carl von Clausewitz said it's wise to "never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity." What a relief, then, that the facility managers of the Pentagon have seen fit to install equipment that trains officers to be bold, take risks, and continue to strive in the face of adversity. — Read the rest

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Writer and comics historian Mark Evanier writes about an auction of a famous piece of art that is currently up for bid.

In 1969, publisher Jim Warren must have taken a look at the demographic group buying horror comics in his magazines Creepy and Eerie and realized that the exact same group might be interested in a bit of sexual content. — Read the rest

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Bruce Springsteen has just released a song about the horrors playing out in Minnesota, "Streets of Minneapolis."

He wrote on Bluesky:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis.

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Marcin Wichary, author of the marvelous Shift Happens, established a collection of favorite well-made apps and sites. The crowdsourced but curated selection includes things you've seen before if you read Boing Boing, such as Ian's Shoelace Site and Neal Agarwal's fun stuff, but plenty I was unfamiliar with, such as Plain Text Sports and the rekall cyberpunk mood board. — Read the rest

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Overlooked in the Kepler data and discovered by a citizen scientist, HD 137010 b is one of the most interesteing exoplanets yet observed. Check out A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. — Read the rest

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After talking about cracking down for months, YouTube favoring slop over its human creators has finally come to an end: the video platform is removing and gutting the top slop channels. This comes days after the CEO, Neal Mohan, targeted "low-quality AI content" in a recent blog post about "managing AI slop." — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The Mymanu Orb Open-Ear AI Translation Earbuds provide real-time, AI-powered translations for over 50 languages. Grab a pair for just $139.99 (reg. $179.99). 

Language barriers are part and parcel of traveling, but there is nothing more frustrating than having to quickly load up your translation app before missing the moment entirely. — Read the rest

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Archeologists found a 430,000-year-old tool, and it isn't Rupert Murdoch. The artifact, one of two found at a lake shore in Greece, are the oldest wooden implements ever identified. Described as a "spindly stick" about 2 and half feet long, it could have been used to dig. — Read the rest

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Yoon Suk Yeol, the former South Korean president impeached and jailed after trying to impose martial law on the country, was jailed for 5 years earlier this month for abusing his power, and could face a more severe sentence on other charges. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: BrowserCopilot AI works directly on the pages you're already using, offering customizable copilots, multi-model support, and fewer reasons to copy and paste all day now $69 (reg. $619).

Your browser already knows everything about your life. Your emails, half-finished drafts, endless tabs, research rabbit holes, and the document you swore you'd finish [yesterday] all live there. — Read the rest

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Lives spent up late led to poorer health in late life, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Tracking the chronotypes of 300,000 mostly white adults in the U.K., with an average age of 57 years, researchers found that 8% had late-night bedtimes with peak activity during the evening, whereas 24% were "definitely morning people." — Read the rest

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AI datacenters' demand for processing power, memory and storage has seen prices for GPUs and RAM soar, and now last year's technology is following suit. DDR4 and older cards are joining the latest models on the top shelf. People building systems are finding that the savings "aren't as significant as expected," writes Adam Corsetti. — Read the rest

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