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Say Hello To $6 Diesel

11 Sep 2026, 02:21 by Tom McKay

Diesel is reaching latte prices. Chat is this okay?

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Sam Altman: Please Let OpenAI Into the Energy Grid

11 Sep 2026, 01:01 by Tom McKay

Altman pitches OpenAI as solution to malicious AI, just weeks after the company's AI agents hacked Hugging Face.

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AirPods 5 Hands-On: Better Than ANC AirPods 4 in Every Way and Now $30 Cheaper

10 Sep 2026, 22:45 by Raymond Wong

The AirPods 5 with wireless charging case is the best-value product that Apple announced at its 'Surprise and Shine' event.

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‘Wandering Cat’s Cage’ Lays Bare the Fault Lines of Gender and Autonomy in a Ferocious Sci-Fi Dystopia

10 Sep 2026, 22:30 by Isaiah Colbert

Akane Torikai's speculative fiction manga flips the familiar post-male premise to highlight how the continuity of bodily autonomy in patriarchal society is policed no matter who's in charge.

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Jimmy Kimmel Yanks James Talarico Interview From TV Over Trump FCC Threats

10 Sep 2026, 22:00 by Tom McKay

Brendan Carr's FCC might pull ABC affiliates off the air over an interview with the Democratic Senate candidate, Kimmel said.

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Here’s Palantir CEO Alex Karp Wearing a Keffiyeh in College

10 Sep 2026, 21:25 by Webb Wright

More recently, he’s framed the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza as a struggle of good versus evil.

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The Record Labels Are Done Fighting AI. Now They Want a Cut

10 Sep 2026, 21:10 by AJ Dellinger

Who wants to pervert their IP the most?

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Apple’s Biggest AI Advantage: It’s Not Trying to Build God

10 Sep 2026, 20:40 by Webb Wright

While other companies warn of an impending AI-pocalypse, Apple is making the technology seem refreshingly mundane.

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Scientists Tried Recreating Uranian and Neptunian Ice. Here’s What Happened

10 Sep 2026, 20:30 by Gayoung Lee

When you crank up the temperature and pressure, ice gets really wonky.

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‘Widow’s Bay’ Gets a Vinyl Release That’s as Fun and Creepy as the Show Itself

10 Sep 2026, 20:15 by Cheryl Eddy

David Fleming's Emmy-winning score comes packaged with tons of detailed extras in the new Mutant release.

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Scientists Confirmed a New US Mosquito Species—and It May Already Be Spreading

10 Sep 2026, 19:50 by Ed Cara

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered the species Aedes amateuri within the U.S.

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The Far-Right Pivots to Hating ‘Algorithmic Immigrants’

10 Sep 2026, 19:28 by Matt Novak

"Look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants," said Joe Allen, an acolyte of Steve Bannon

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Report: Roughly Half the World’s Governments Underestimated Covid Deaths by the Millions

10 Sep 2026, 19:10 by Matthew Phelan

A new and unusually comprehensive dataset of all-cause mortality reports from 134 countries suggests that governments either ignored or covered up over 6 million covid-19 deaths.