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1:26

The Race Against the AI Clock: Urgent Calls for...

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2025/06/06

In today’s AI news, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sounding the alarm over a proposal in President Trump’s latest spending bill that would bar states from regulating artificial intelligence for ten years. Writing in the New York Times, Amodei warns, “A 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. A.I. is advancing too head-spinningly fast.” He argues that we could see fundamental changes to our world in as little as two years, and by a decade from now, “all bets are off.” Amodei

1:10

Unlocking the Power of Self-Hosting Essential Tools...

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2025/06/06

Welcome back to our “Complete Beginners Guide to Self-Hosting” podcast. If “you’re a complete beginner who is curious about getting into self-hosting services,” this episode is for you. In part two, Alex picks up where he left off on our “fresh Pi.” First, he installs Immich, an open-source photo and video backup solution that keeps your memories safe under your control. Next, we dive into Audiobookshelf, giving you a sleek web interface to stream and manage your favorite audiobooks from

1:18

Peloton Launches Repowered: The Hassle-Free Resale...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to FitTech Focus. Today we’re talking Peloton’s big announcement: Repowered, its very own resale marketplace for pre-owned Bikes, Treads, Rows and accessories. Right now the site is “currently only open for listing items, with the ability to purchase items coming soon.” Sellers in Boston, New York and Washington, DC can start listing their large equipment by entering serial numbers, while anyone nationwide can list smaller accessories. You set your price or accept a suggested

1:20

Unleashing the Powerhouse Inside Your Rack with...

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2025/06/05

Hello and welcome to today’s one-minute tech briefing. If you’ve ever wondered just how many GPUs you can cram into a standard server rack, look no further than Supermicro’s GB300 NVL72. This hyper-dense 4U chassis holds eight NVIDIA H100 SXM5 accelerators with full NVLink connectivity, delivering a staggering 4 petaFLOPS of FP8 performance per unit. Stack ten of these 4U servers in a 42U rack and you end up with 80 GPUs, all cooled and powered within a single footprint. As Craft Computing

1:45

Mastering Decision Making with Monte Carlo Tree...

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2025/06/05

In a recent Computerphile video, Professor Nick Hawes of the Oxford Robotics Institute breaks down Monte Carlo Tree Search, or MCTS, a groundbreaking approach to automating sequential decisions. As Professor Hawes explains, “The fundamental idea of MCTS is to use random simulations to estimate the value of each move.” The algorithm unfolds in four steps: selection, expansion, simulation, and backpropagation.During selection, MCTS navigates the existing search tree, choosing moves that

1:23

Transform Your Old PC into a Linux Web Server in Minutes

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Tech Reboot. Today we’re diving into how to turn an old PC into a Linux web server. Believe it or not, the very first web server was a NeXTcube at CERN back in 1989, complete with a little note reading “This machine is a server do not power down.” Fast forward to today, you can recycle that old laptop or desktop into your own mini–web host using lightweight Linux. Here’s the quick rundown: fire up your terminal, run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade, then install

1:05

Navigating the Job Market: Readers Share Their...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Ask a Manager, where every Thursday we throw a question out to our readers. This week, a long-time federal employee who’s venturing into the private sector for the first time in a 25-year career asked, “How long did your last job search take?” They admit, “There’s no information out there on ‘normal,’ and I’m sure it varies widely by industry,” so they want your real-world data. Here’s what we’re polling: Approximately how long did your last job search take? How many

1:17

Revolutionizing Convenience: The Future of AI with...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to a quick Tech Minute. Today we’re looking at a new AI agent for iPhone built by coder Rounak Jain ahead of Apple’s own rollout. Agentic AI, as the article explains, can “take actions on our behalf” instead of simply responding with advice. Jain’s project, called PhoneAgent, was born at an OpenAI hackathon and is “experimental software that can get things wrong sometimes.” Yet it offers a glimpse of the future. With PhoneAgent you can, via voice or text, ask your phone to take a

1:20

Navigating the Shifting Tides of the Labor Market:...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to this week’s labor market update. New unemployment benefit filings rose to their highest level in eight months, climbing by 8,000 to 247,000 for the week ending May 31—the “most since early October.” Even so, weekly claims remain stuck in a historically healthy 200,000 to 250,000 range. Many companies are pulling or lowering guidance, blaming the “dizzying rollout of tariff announcements,” and economists warn of a potential “tariff-induced global economic slowdown.” Fed Chair

1:08

The Budget Breaker: Is the Wo-We Mini PC Worth Your $45?

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2025/06/05

Today I’m looking at a tiny desktop PC you can buy for just forty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents. The Wo-We mini PC packs an Intel Celeron N4020 dual-core chip, 4 GB of RAM, 128 GB of eMMC storage, and Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. It offers both VGA and HDMI outputs with Intel UHD 600 graphics that can drive a single 4K screen or dual monitors. On its product page, Wo-We boasts “powerful performance without breaking the bank” and calls its graphics “state-of-the-art.” In real-world use,

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Unmasking Self-Awareness: Four Hacks to Reveal Your...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to QuickCast. Today we’re asking: are you as self-aware as you think? Researchers point out two kinds of self-awareness: the introspective variant—searching “deep down” for who you really are—and the interpersonal variant—knowing “who you think other people think you are.” As Charles Cooley said, “you are who you think other people think you are.” Even ChatGPT weighed in: “I don’t have a self to be aware of,” yet it can simulate self-awareness by adapting to your feedback. The

1:35

The Year of the Pink Slip: Analyzing the Surge in...

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2025/06/05

Hello and welcome to The Economic Pulse. This week, layoffs are surging as 2025 becomes the year of the pink slip. U.S. employers announced almost 100,000 job cuts in May—a 47 percent jump from last year, reports Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Senior vice president Andrew Challenger warns, “Tariffs, funding cuts, consumer spending, and overall economic pessimism are putting intense pressure on companies’ workforces.” Six months into 2025, we have seen nearly 700,000 job cuts—an 80

1:17

The New Normal of Political Discourse: Cruelty...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to today’s episode. Last Friday in Butler County, Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst faced an angry crowd shouting “People are going to die!” during a debate over Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Ernst’s response was immediate: “Well, we all are going to die.” True enough, but as Ross Douthat argues in The New York Times, there’s a vast difference between dying after a long, full life with decent health care and suffering a premature, painful death because you can’t

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Elon Musk Sparks Controversy Over Senate Budget Bill...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to today’s QuickCast. Elon Musk has spent the last two days tweeting non-stop about the U.S. House budget bill now in the Senate. He warns this “massive transfer of wealth from the poorest to the wealthiest” will strip health care from 11 million people and pile trillions onto the deficit. Musk fired off: “Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL.” He argues a budget “can be big or it can be beautiful, but it can’t be both.” Calling it a “pork-filled Congressional spending bill…

1:21

Conquering the Hills: Elevate Your Training with On...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to RunBrief, the podcast that keeps you moving smarter, not harder. Today, we’re talking about a free web tool that finally takes the guesswork out of finding and measuring your favorite hill. It’s called On the Go Map, but most runners know it as “How Far Did I Run?” Simply click your hill’s start and end points—using the walking icon to snap your path to actual roads or drawing straight lines if you like—and hit the elevation icon. It looks like a mountain, tucked in the bottom

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Unpacking the Controversy Surrounding Elsa the FDA's...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to Health Bytes. I’m your host, and today we’re talking about Elsa, the FDA’s new agency-wide AI tool that’s stirring up controversy. Launched under Commissioner Marty Makary’s “aggressive timeline” to scale AI by June 30, Elsa is billed as a game-changer for scientific reviewers and investigators. According to FDA Chief AI Officer Jeremy Walsh, “Today marks the dawn of the AI era at the FDA,” with Elsa set to accelerate clinical protocol reviews, summarize adverse events, and even

1:17

The Rise of AI Kiss and Hug Apps: A Strange...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Tech Briefs. Today we’re diving into the strange rise of AI kiss and hug apps. Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll see ads promising you can “smooch your crush” or “see her in a blue bikini” with a tap. Apps like Boom.AI, VideoAI, and DreamVid charge subscriptions and microtransactions—some up to $7.99 a week—to let you generate short videos from one or two photos. But the results are, in the words of one reviewer, “more cursed than magical.” Kissing looks awkward

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Balancing the Scale: Trump’s Consumption Critique and...

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2025/06/05

Hello and welcome to EconMinute. Today we’re looking at a striking claim from Donald Trump: that Americans consume too much. The Economist notes consumption has soared to nearly 68% of GDP, the highest since the 1950s, while national saving has sunk to just 16%, a postwar low. Trump’s remedy? A so-called “revenge tax” on imports. He argues that tariffs would “make America rich again” by squeezing foreign-made goods, boosting domestic output and shrinking the trade deficit. But as The

1:17

Simplifying Java: The Pitfalls of Premature Optimization

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2025/06/05

Hello and welcome to today’s one-minute dive into a classic Java head-scratch. On The Daily WTF, we meet Alice’s co-worker, who runs a query, pulls every row into a List by doing “result.add(new Integer(rs.getInt(1)))” and then immediately copies it into an int[] array. As the author points out, since Java 5 you get automatic boxing and unboxing—so you don’t need “new Integer” or “((Integer) result.get(h)).intValue()”. Even more puzzling is creating that fixed-size array just after

1:00

Late Night Laughs: Colbert and Kimmel Take a Swing at...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to Best of Late Night, where we bring you yesterday’s funniest moments so you don’t have to stay up. Last night on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert tackled Elon Musk’s sudden sour mood toward the Trump administration. “Apparently the ketamine has worn off,” Colbert quipped, imagining Musk waking up from a wild night with, “[imitating Musk] Oh my god, I spent $300 million to elect who? I have how many children? That can’t be their names.” He warned, “I’m starting to worry that two

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