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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps Jul 11, 2025 Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

| | The Vigilant Fox 🦊 on X: "When the topic turned to “weather wars,” Heavin didn’t hold back, saying he and Maria both believe it’s very real. He described flying over hurricane-ravaged North Carolina and seeing entire forests of massive trees snapped in ways that didn’t match the storm’s weakened winds. https://t.co/ymzS0lD61s" / X
Jul 11, 2025 |

| | Kitty Holland Case: Ireland Untouched by Backlash to Progressive Overreach | National Review
Jul 11, 2025
Kitty Holland Case: Ireland Untouched by Backlash to Progressive Overreach | National Review |

| | DSisme48 🚫 woke and its partners on X: "@CherylWroteIt @elonmusk @grok Well said. Grok is very easily manipulated by haters and believes mainstream media too. But it is getting better." / X
Jul 11, 2025 |

| | Elon Musk’s Newest AI Chatbot Is Powerful, Controversial, and Already Under Fire
Jul 11, 2025
Elon Musk’s Newest AI Chatbot Is Powerful, Controversial, and Already Under Fire
Gizmodo
Grok 4 is xAI’s most advanced model yet, but early praise is clashing with old scandals and fresh tests of its limits. |

| | Sam Altman Is Up, Tim Cook Is Down: Big Tech’s Trump Scorecard - WSJ
Jul 11, 2025 |

| | Leftist Anti ICE Just OPENED FIRE On ICE Agents In California At LA Riots | Timcast IRL - YouTube
Jul 11, 2025
Leftist Anti ICE Just OPENED FIRE On ICE Agents In California At LA Riots | Timcast IRL
YouTube
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| | Tim Pool REVIEWS Superman, It WASN’T WOKE, James Gun Is SAVING The DCU - YouTube
Jul 11, 2025
Tim Pool REVIEWS Superman, It WASN’T WOKE, James Gun Is SAVING The DCU
YouTube
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| | Trump targets "witch hunts" against Bolsonaro and other global allies
Jul 11, 2025
Trump defends global allies against "witch hunts"
Axios
Bolsonaro's trial clearly reminds Trump of his own. |

| | Nicole Shanahan on X: "Geoengineering: Who’s Behind It and How We Stop It " / X
Jul 11, 2025 |

| | Exclusive Interview with The Unknown Hacker Tech Billionaires Are Quietly Listening To - YouTube
Jul 11, 2025
Exclusive Interview with The Unknown Hacker Tech Billionaires Are Quietly Listening To
YouTube
Parth Patil was an unknown indie hacker living in Los Angeles. No press. No funding. Just 14-hour days spent in silence, building with AI before most people ... |

| | Introducing Gemini with photo to video capability
Jul 11, 2025
Turn your photos into videos in Gemini
Google
You can now use Veo 3 to create video clips from photos you upload in the Gemini app. |

| | Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications - Google Developers Blog
Jul 11, 2025
Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications
Learn about GenAI Processors, a new open-source Python library for building powerful and flexible Gemini applications with streamlined, real-time multimodal processing. |

| | New Study Confirms "Sex" Is More Effective Than Pills for Treating This Common Chronic Disorder
Jul 10, 2025
New Study Confirms "Sex" Is More Effective Than Pills for Treating This Common Chronic Disorder
The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
Orgasm is just as effective, if not more effective, than sleeping pills in combating insomnia. |

| | Grok’s antisemitic outburst heaps pressure on EU to clamp down on artificial intelligence – POLITICO
Jul 10, 2025
Grok’s antisemitic outburst heaps pressure on EU to clamp down on artificial intelligence
POLITICO
EU set to outline latest bid to get Big Tech to reduce AI risks. |

| | Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Jul 10, 2025
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions. |

| | Bill Gates says AI lacks the creative edge to replace coders | Windows Central
Jul 10, 2025
Bill Gates says AI will replace humans for most things — but coding will remain "a 100% human profession" centuries later
Windows Central
Microsoft's co-founder claims that generative AI lacks the creativity and judgment to replace human programmers, even in a century. |

| | Matt Taibbi Breaks News on New FBI Investigations Into Brennan and Comey... and Absurd Media Spin - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Matt Taibbi Breaks News on New FBI Investigations Into Brennan and Comey... and Absurd Media Spin
YouTube
Emily Jashinsky is joined by Matt Taibbi of Racket News to discuss the latest breaking news on the FBI investigation into John Brennan and James Comey, comme... |

| | Scientists Discover Tree Using Lightning To Kill Its 'Enemies' - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Scientists Discover Tree Using Lightning To Kill Its 'Enemies'
YouTube
Scientists discover that Tonka Bean trees not only survive lightning strikes, but that lightning damages nearby competing trees and vines. Research paper:htt... |

| | Will Zohran Mamdani Become the Democrat Party's Trump? | Emily Jashinsky - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Will Zohran Mamdani Become the Democrat Party's Trump? | Emily Jashinsky
YouTube
Americans’ trust in the corporate media has cratered. And with good reason: After decades of deception and distortion—considering its uncritical coverage of ... |

| | 'Gutfeld!': Former Biden doc, ‘poor guy’ who should be pardoned for this - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
'Gutfeld!': Former Biden doc, ‘poor guy’ who should be pardoned for this
YouTube
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the ‘Gutfeld!’ panel discuss former President Joe Biden’s former physician pleading the Fifth during interview with Congress. ... |

| | Victor Davis Hanson: Zohran Mamdani's Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Zohran Mamdani's Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet
YouTube
As New York City's Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani gains momentum, a troubling record is beginning to emerge—one that raises serious questions about ... |

| | 90% of English Phrases Come from Sailing, Falconry, & Native American Stuff... Probably - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
90% of English Phrases Come from Sailing, Falconry, & Native American Stuff... Probably
YouTube
After Kinnett called Falconry "Hawkery", a YouTube member prompted him to show his work. What colloquial phrases and terms in modern English come from sailin... |

| | Inside Story of Bondi's Epstein Files Fail, and How to Solve Cancer, w/ Liz Wheeler & Dr Soon-Shiong - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Inside Story of Bondi's Epstein Files Fail, and How to Solve Cancer, w/ Liz Wheeler & Dr Soon-Shiong
YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Liz Wheeler, host of "The Liz Wheeler Show," to reveal what really happened when she and others were invited to the White House and ... |

| | Donald Trump’s Seven Rules: Mark Halperin on How President Trump Runs The White House - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Donald Trump’s Seven Rules: Mark Halperin on How President Trump Runs The White House
YouTube
Mark Halperin breaks down the seven rules Trump lives by to run the White House — from his chaotic decision-making to learning from past presidents, connecti... |

| | There is No Safe Haven for ‘Trump-ugees’ - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
There is No Safe Haven for ‘Trump-ugees’
YouTube
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| | SCARBOROUGH FAIR SPED UP SOUNDS LIKE THE MUSIC FROM BRAVE #violin #fiddle - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
SCARBOROUGH FAIR SPED UP SOUNDS LIKE THE MUSIC FROM BRAVE #violin #fiddle
YouTube |

| | Lamb Doesn’t Want Cat On Her Rock - YouTube
Jul 10, 2025
Lamb Doesn’t Want Cat On Her Rock
YouTube
Florence the lamb doesn’t like any cat on her rock anymore 😂 |

| | ‘It’s time’: Progressives pressure top Democrats to back Mamdani - POLITICO
Jul 10, 2025
‘It’s time’: Progressives pressure top Democrats to back Mamdani
POLITICO
Liberal activists and the Working Families Party, which helped the New York City mayoral candidate win the primary, are leaning harder on Hochul, Schumer and Jeffries. |

| | John Kerry says 'Trump was right', Democrats allowed migrant 'siege' of border
Jul 10, 2025
John Kerry says 'Trump was right', Democrats allowed migrant 'siege' of border
"Without a border protected, you don't have a nation," the former secretary of state tells the BBC. |

| | How to Turn an Image Into Google Sheets Data With OCR in Google Drive
Jul 10, 2025
How to Turn an Image Into Google Sheets Data With OCR in Google Drive
How-To Geek
Transform static pictures into dynamic data. |

| | How to Turn an Image Into Google Sheets Data With OCR in Google Drive
Jul 10, 2025
How to Turn an Image Into Google Sheets Data With OCR in Google Drive
How-To Geek
Transform static pictures into dynamic data. |

| | They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check! | TechCrunch
Jul 10, 2025
They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check! | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Before she stepped down, Yaccarino had a blue check next to her display name, accompanied by an X logo, signifying that she is affiliated with the company that brought us Mecha Hitler. Now both badges are gone. |

| | Kamala's scrapped 'Subway Takes' interview is fresh proof of her kid-glove media treatment
Jul 10, 2025
Fresh proof that America dodged a Kamala bullet despite her kid-gloves treatment from the media
New York Post
In one more telling lowlight of the 2024 campaign, even a TikTok star felt obliged to protect Kamala Harris from . . . Kamala Harris. |

| | Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI | Hacker News
Jul 10, 2025
Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI | Hacker News |

| | Elon Musk's X faces an uncertain future
Jul 10, 2025
Elon Musk's X faces an uncertain future
Axios
Linda Yaccarino was hired as CEO to rehabilitate X's ad business and bring stability. |

| | Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially - IEEE Spectrum
Jul 10, 2025
Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially
ieeespectrum
In a few years, AI could handle complex tasks with ease |

| | Grok 4 Launch [video] | Hacker News
Jul 10, 2025
Grok 4 Launch [video] | Hacker News |

| | xAI on X: "Introducing Grok 4, the world's most powerful AI model. Watch the livestream now: https://t.co/59iDX5s2ck" / X
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Why Grok Fell in Love With Hitler - POLITICO
Jul 10, 2025
Why Grok Fell in Love With Hitler
POLITICO
AI expert Gary Marcus explains what went wrong with Elon Musk’s pet project, and what it means for the future of AI. |

| | Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones | Hacker News
Jul 10, 2025
Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones | Hacker News |

| | Why Elon Musk’s xAI Chatbot Grok Went Rogue - WSJ
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Context Engineering Guide | Prompt Engineering Guide
Jul 10, 2025
Context Engineering Guide | Prompt Engineering Guide
A Comprehensive Overview of Prompt Engineering |

| | Teaching a Kid to Think Like a Genius | Psychology Today
Jul 10, 2025
Teaching a Kid to Think Like a Genius
Psychology Today
Every child can develop Leonardo's genius-level thinking through cross-domain connections. Parents can teach these strategies to unlock this potential. |

| | X CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Breakup With Elon Musk Was Months in the Making - WSJ
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Grok 4 is here — Elon Musk says its the same model physicists use | Tom's Guide
Jul 10, 2025
Grok 4 is live — Elon Musk introduces 'smartest AI' and addresses antisemitic posts
Tom's Guide
Deeper thinking and greater reasoning is promised |

| | Nichole “Vapor” Ayers on X: "Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so https://t.co/dCqIrn3vrA" / X
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Darshak Rana ⚡️ on X: "CHILLING 🧠 In 1974, this man experienced a "glitch in reality." He discovered the Matrix 22 years before it existed. FBI and CIA seized his research. But 46 years later, Elon Musk and quantum physicists prove him right. The declassified files will terrify you: 🧵 https://t.co/tNmY2vCEGp" / X
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Darshak Rana ⚡️ on X: "CHILLING 🚨 : The Matrix isn't fiction. The "Reality" of universe follows 18 rules. I've collected PROOF from science, nature, and history. A VISUAL THREAD on what's real: 🧵 https://t.co/ZqCAAsqN8V" / X
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | Elon Musk on X: "That was how I felt when asking Grok 4 questions about materials science that are not in any books or on the Internet" / X
Jul 10, 2025 |

| | How Elon Musk's xAI turned X from 'everything app' into nothing app
Jul 10, 2025
X's road from "everything app" to nothing app
Axios
X is now a strip mine for Grok's training data. |