- newLibrary of Leng archives decades of articles about Magic: The Gathering
An online archive called Library of Leng has indexed more than 208,000 articles about Magic: The Gathering, some dating to the card game's first years in the 1990s. [via 404 Media]The site is the work of Gregor Stocks, a software engineer who built…
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- newCNN sues Perplexity AI over "verbatim" copies of articles
CNN is suing AI company Perplexity claiming its software generates verbatim copies of its news stories. It's the latest example of traditional publishers targeting AI-powered language models surreptitiously trained on their copyrighted material. File…
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- newBlue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday evening during a ground test ahead of a forthcoming launch, destroying the vehicle and raising new questions about the company's timeline for supporting NASA's Artemis program.Video footage shows fire…
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- newScientists built a machine to solve what AI can't
A team spread across Washington University in St Louis, the Indian Institute of Science, Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz built a computer to solve the kind of problem that stumps today's chatbots, and they describe it in a new…
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- newGames matter because games don't matter, says a philosopher
In bridge, a heart trick earns 30 points while a club trick earns 20, numbers that mean nothing outside of the game. That's the whole point, argues philosopher C. Thi Nguyen in his book The Score. Good games use an arbitrary scoring system as a means…
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- newA coder fed 20 years of his messages to AI to audit his friendships
Software engineer Vadim Drobinin used GDPR data-access laws to download his entire chat history — ICQ and IRC logs from the 2000s, VK, Twitter, and Facebook from the 2010s, Instagram and Telegram after that — then ran the roughly 1.2 million mess…
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- newEx-CIA official arrested with $40M in gold bars at home
Every workplace has goldbrickers. It's a time-honored tradition to work hard to look like you're working hard whilst hardly working. Those willing to work, but only enough to keep the boss off their ass. Goldbrickers show up at meetings but leave bef…
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- newThis horse-racing board game gives players zero control over anything
The same horse-racing board game has been published and republished for decades under at least seven different names — Dubble Kross (1991), The Horse Race Game (2004), Wooden Horse Races Game (2004), Horse Race (2005), The Racing Horse Game (2006),…
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- newHarris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states
Fox News host Harris Faulkner is gamely trying to turn Trump's sanctuary city airport sabotage into a misguided travel brochure.International travelers are not interchangeable units in a national tourism dispenser. People fly to New York because the…
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- newHere's the $250 bank note with Trump's mugshot on it
Introducing a forthcoming hypothetical $250 bill featuring President Trump's mugshot, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed unable to suppress a faint air of amused dégoût — though it might be argued this is simply his customary manner of addre…
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