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What's new in Gemini Code Assist - Google Developers Blog Added: Aug 22, 2025
What's new in Gemini Code Assist
Explore what's new in Gemini Code Assist's Agent Mode, now available in VS Code (Preview) and IntelliJ (Stable), for streamlined coding with AI powered plans, inline diffs, and chat.

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Hummingbirds love this one plant â and I think youâll fall in love with it too | Tom's Guide Added: Aug 22, 2025
Hummingbirds love this one plant â and I think youâll fall in love with it too
Site: Tom's Guide
Hummingbirds will flock to this plant

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Trump FBI Raids John Bolton Amid Classified Docs Investigation | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
Trump FBI Raids John Bolton Amid Classified Docs Investigation | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
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Documents: The architectâs programming language - Stack Overflow Added: Aug 22, 2025
Documents: The architectâs programming language - Stack Overflow

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Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two ⢠The Register Added: Aug 22, 2025
- Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
- Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain

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What is the difference between a raven and crow? - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
What is the difference between a raven and crow?
Site: YouTube
Let's look at some of the easiest ways to tell the difference between a raven and a crow.https://www.tiktok.com/@wingsandwildlandshttps://www.instagram.com/w...

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Protests Erupt In UK After England's Flags Removed By Government For Being Racist - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
Protests Erupt In UK After England's Flags Removed By Government For Being Racist
Site: YouTube
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rexpaces on X: ""CO2 is so rare that you can't even capture it out of the atmosphere" https://t.co/2fm3pcC2cW" / X Added: Aug 22, 2025
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Noetic Order Community / X Added: Aug 22, 2025
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Adrian Dittmann on X: "Join the Noetic Order" / X Added: Aug 22, 2025
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Elon Musk on X: "Yes" / X Added: Aug 22, 2025
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What the hell is going on right now?
Added: Aug 22, 2025What the hell is going on right now?
Site: catskull.net
What the hell is going on right now?

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What is going on right now? | Hacker News Added: Aug 22, 2025
What is going on right now? | Hacker News
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President Trump Makes an Announcement, Aug. 22, 2025 - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
President Trump Makes an Announcement, Aug. 22, 2025
Site: YouTube
The White House

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Will AI Destroy Humanity? Can Humans Escape AI Doomsday Debate | The Culture War With Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
Will AI Destroy Humanity? Can Humans Escape AI Doomsday Debate | The Culture War With Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
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Trump Claims Total Victory, Court Eliminates $500M Fine In NY Fraud Case| Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
Trump Claims Total Victory, Court Eliminates $500M Fine In NY Fraud Case| Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
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Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System"
Added: Aug 22, 2025Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System"
Site: Futurism
The billionaire's latest theory is a contradictory prediction of AI's effects on mental health on one hand, and fertility on the other.

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Daniel Dennett: Consciousness is no miracle. It's a magic trick. - Big Think
Added: Aug 22, 2025Daniel Dennett: Consciousness is no miracle. It's a magic trick.
Site: Big Think
Dennett argued that consciousness is a set of cognitive âtricks," and that the "hard problem of consciousness" wasn't really a problem.

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Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra - Feuerfest 1996 !!! Polka Francaise - op 269. J. Strauss - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra - Feuerfest 1996 !!! Polka Francaise - op 269. J. Strauss
Site: YouTube
Old TV recording of AndrĂŠ Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra during a television broadcast in 1996 on Dutch TV !!!Feuerfest! ('Fireproof!') op. 269 is a p...

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The Oldest Jewish Music Ever Discovered. Hereâs What It Sounds Like. - YouTube Added: Aug 22, 2025
The Oldest Jewish Music Ever Discovered. Hereâs What It Sounds Like.
Site: YouTube
Ovadiah the Convert wrote the oldest surviving Jewish sheet music. These pages were preserved in the genizah storage room of Cairoâs Ben Ezra Synagogue, whic...

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Harvard scientist suggests object coming at us is advanced 'mothership' Added: Aug 21, 2025
Harvard scientist suggests 'hostile' object coming at us is advanced 'mothership' after issuing warning
Site: UNILAD
A Harvard scientist has suggested the 'hostile' object hurtling towards us is an advanced 'mothership'.

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3I/ATLAS comet might generate light through nuclear power, physicist says | Fox News Added: Aug 21, 2025
3I/ATLAS comet might generate light through nuclear power, physicist says | Fox News

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Target CEO To Resign, Leftists Cheer Amid Boycott Over DEI - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
Target CEO To Resign, Leftists Cheer Amid Boycott Over DEI
Site: YouTube
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The Bold Lib Explains Why She's A Democrat - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
The Bold Lib Explains Why She's A Democrat
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Worldâs First Light-Based Computer That Remembers Everything 𤯠- YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
World's FIRST Light-Speed Computer That Remembers Everything đ¤Ż
Site: YouTube
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Trump's Summit, Left Crisis, and Elon Is Back - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
Trump's Summit, Left Crisis, and Elon Is Back
Site: YouTube
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The Prompt Theory - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
Comment from @AllTimeScary
Site: YouTube
I mentioned it in the video but the release of Google VEO 3 and how realistic those videos were is what really motivated me to make this. It was the first time AI video generation looked convincing to me and it felt unsettled me

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Trump's massive $500M civil fraud fine in AG Tish James' case thrown out by NY appeals court Added: Aug 21, 2025
Trumpâs massive $500M civil fraud fine in AG Tish Jamesâ case thrown out by NY appeals court
Site: New York Post
A New York appeals court Thursday has thrown out the massive $464 million judgment dealt to President Trump after he was found liable at a civil trial for business fraud.

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'We are the problem': Calif. trying to undo decades of liberal policy Added: Aug 21, 2025
'We are the problem': California is trying to undo decades of liberal policies
Site: SFGATE
"I said, 'Guys, this is it.'"
California Democrats basked in a huge win this summer when they passed two sweeping reforms that will likely speed up housing production in the state â and a New York Times bestseller just might have been the reason why. âAbundance,â written by journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, was published in March and examines divisions in American politics. It specifically puts a magnifying glass on liberal policy and overregulation, which the authors argue have led to a severe housing shortage and a high cost of living. Perhaps surprisingly, the book was a massive hit among state Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom. This spring, the governor praised the book on his podcast for taking âa very critical look at Democratic governance.â He said the book offered a path toward making strides in housing policy, not to mention toward the Democratic Party possibly earning back votersâ confidence. On that episode, which was released March 25, Newsom had Klein on as a guest. Klein, who grew up in Irvine, said that while he was living and working in Washington, D.C., he was accustomed to writing about âa political system where the problem was Republicans were bad,â but when he moved to the Bay Area in 2018, he noticed how the region was struggling and he began to look inward. âIt just wasnât doing well. People werenât happy. People were leaving,â Klein said. His biggest question was: âHow do we make it possible to build more?â He added that liberals âdonât even realize how often we are getting in the way of it, how often we are the problem.â Newsom and Klein rarely disagreed with each other during that hour-and-a-half episode, and the governor lightheartedly nodded in agreement that the California government can be lethargic in its execution. Newsom then admitted that he had bought physical copies of âAbundanceâ for the Democratic Senate and Assembly leaders in Sacramento for them to study the work. âI sent it to the two leaders of my California Assembly and Senate,â Newsom told Klein. âI said, âGuys, this is it.ââ Abundance, reborn Klein and Thompsonâs book did not introduce the âabundanceâ movement; rather, the authors built on an existing intellectual framework that emerged in California, and the U.S. at large, in the mid-2010s. The philosophy boils down to a belief that Americans can live more abundantly with less regulation and less government involvement in building homes. It emerged around the same time as the boom of the pro-housing YIMBY (âYes in My Backyardâ) movement. What the book did do â particularly after Newsomâs buy-in â was spark real momentum among policymakers. âBefore the book came out, abundance was not necessarily part of our vocabulary or on the tip of our tongue,â Azeen Khanmalek, the executive director of Abundant Housing LA, a nonprofit organization that promotes affordable housing in Los Angeles County, told SFGATE. The book âlaunched the word and the conceptâ into the mainstream, Khanmalek said. History | Why a wealthy banker blasted a huge hole in a Bay Area cliffLocal | There's a mansion hidden directly under the Bay BridgeCulture | Inside the Bay Areaâs cult-like obsession with Beanie BabiesLocal | The world's last lost tourist thought Maine was San Francisco Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here. Consider how earlier this summer, Newsom finally got major housing reforms to the finish line, including historic changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, a 1970 law aimed at ensuring government officials consider the environmental impact of any public or private development projects. The law was meant to bring a more conscientious approach to building but has instead routinely been blamed for stunting development projects in the name of climate concerns. High-density housing units, such as condominiums in urban infill areas, have been the target of numerous lawsuits, consistently resulting in their failure to be built time and time again. Thereâs also the sluggish progress on Californiaâs long-awaited high-speed rail project, which is years behind its estimated timeline and grossly over its originally estimated budget. Republicans have repeatedly used these failures as political ammunition, most notably when President Donald Trump announced he was withholding billions of dollars in federal funding as punishment for the railwayâs shortcomings. âWhat has taken so long on high-speed rail is not hammering nails or pouring concrete. Itâs negotiating,â Klein and Thompson wrote in âAbundanceâ in a chapter titled, simply, âBuild.â The two said those conversations, often with stakeholders, community members, contractors and politicians, are a waste of money and time, and âtime is a killerâ on any project. The authors wrote that Newsom, who has served California as mayor of San Francisco, lieutenant governor and now governor, has witnessed the phases of high-speed rail and âknows how bad this looks. Knows how bad this is.â They quote the governor, who at one point admitted that the railwayâs failures mean âpeople are losing trust and confidence in our ability to build big things.â So, in June, lawmakers, with a massive push from Newsom, reformed CEQA via two bills that will allow developers to avoid the historically tedious climate review process and get homes and other developments built faster. The authors of the bills, Sen. Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who represents much of the East Bay, in part credited the rise in popularity of âAbundanceâ for their bipartisan success, as did Khanmalek, who called the book âa clarion callâ to Democrats âfor winning back the country.â Matthew Lewis, the director of communications for California YIMBY, an organization that has campaigned for eight years to reform CEQA, told SFGATE that the publication of the book made âa big splashâ and also âhad a big role in convincing Newsomâ to get on board with CEQA reforms. âThe book had the most impact with Gov. Newsom,â Lewis said. âI also think the fact the governor has a lot of respect for Ezra Klein as a writer and thinker.â Paving the way âIâve been involved in abundance long before it was called Abundance,â Wiener, a progressive and longtime lawmaker from San Francisco, told SFGATE. Wiener has been in the California Senate since 2016, and before that, he was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He has another bill, Senate Bill 79, that is likely to head to the governorâs desk for his signature, which would allow for the construction of more housing units and taller buildings near major public transit stations. Abundance, Wiener continued, is âa very straightforwardâ idea that politicians should make it easier and faster to âbuild the things that make peopleâs lives better and more affordable.â He added that Klein and Thompsonâs book has âhad a lot of momentum and got a lot of people to think about this issue, and it puts into words and paper what a lot of people have been thinking.â Other writers have also tackled the big question about why liberal government doesnât work, notably Jennifer Pahlka in the 2023 book âRecoding America,â as well as Yoni Applebaum in âStuckâ and Marc J. Dunkelman in âWhy Nothing Works,â which were both published at the start of this year. But none of those books made its way into everyday conversation in California political circles the way âAbundanceâ has. California has consistently fallen short of its housing goals. In 2022, the Newsom administration set an end-of-decade target to build 2.5 million more housing units, or 315,000 per year, but the governor admitted to Klein during their podcast interview that California was ânot even closeâ to meeting the target. Wicks, whose Assembly Bill 130 reformed parts of CEQA by making infill housing easier to build in cities, told SFGATE that many of the ideas brought forward in Klein and Thompsonâs book were already being discussed but said the bookâs popularity was âserendipitous timing.â The lawmaker also said that the November election results contributed to the success of the two housing bills: âIt showed me that voters were mad. They want the government to work. They donât want the government to be an impediment to housing.â In a March interview with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Derek Thompson, a staffer for the Atlantic-turned-Substack newsletter writer, described his first conversation with Ezra Klein, a New York Times writer, about âthe future of liberalism.â At the time, both journalists had already been chewing on big, intellectual ideas about the ways liberals have gotten things right â and how they got things very wrong. For Klein, those thoughts were flushed out in a 2021 essay he wrote for the Times, and Thompson in one he published in 2022 for the Atlantic. Both quickly came to the idea that rather than compete, they should write a book together that could become a new framework for how Democrats can govern. Some Republicans, however, argue that if California Democrats are taking Klein and Thompsonâs lead, what theyâre really doing is poaching from conservatives. âI laughed when he named it âAbundance,â because this has been the Republican philosophy for as long as I can remember,â state Sen. Josh Hoover told SFGATE regarding the bookâs title, saying that reducing regulation and building more housing have long been cornerstones of Republican policymaking. âI really feel like Republicans have been on the abundance train, and now itâs some Democrats who are starting to wake up and realize.â There are still some skeptics: Justice advocates question whether undoing climate laws through the CEQA reforms could harm workers by taking power away from them and removing any environmental accountability for developers, said Asha Sharma, a policy analyst with the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. Yet itâs clear the 304-page book has made waves. âIt shows thereâs a certain part of the Democratic Party thatâs at least attempting to acknowledge where they have failed,â Hoover said. â 'There's a lot of anger': California's conservative corners turn on Trumpâ Beloved Calif. radio station bracing for 'devastating' Trump cutsâ A California city tried to triple in size. Then came the rebellion.â One of Calif.'s most watched House races is about to get more interesting

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Fall 2025 Forecast Update: Calm Before the Winter Storm Âť Severe Weather Europe
Added: Aug 21, 2025Fall 2025 Forecast Update: Calm Before the Winter Storm
Site: Severe Weather Europe
Latest Fall 2025 forecasts show La NiĂąa returning, with signs of a mild Season, followed by winter reversal in the United States and Canada

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President Trump stops by to thank the national guard and law enforcement in D.C. - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
President Trump stops by to thank the national guard and law enforcement in D.C.
Site: YouTube

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greg on X: "@elonmusk Hey @grok will I ever get married" / X Added: Aug 21, 2025
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Elon Musk on X: "Grok is the best at predicting the future, which is the best measure of intelligence imo" / X Added: Aug 21, 2025
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Elon Musk on X: "Long press on any image on đ to turn it into a video in about 17 seconds https://t.co/Ki7cWejC6M" / X Added: Aug 21, 2025
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Elon Musk on X: "Aiming for Sunday https://t.co/LscGoKU99e" / X Added: Aug 21, 2025
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White House puts the Smithsonian museums under the microscope - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
White House puts the Smithsonian museums under the microscope
Site: YouTube
Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan unpacks President Donald Trump's concerns over ideology in museum displays on 'America Reports.' #foxnews...

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Gistr | Bring All Your Learning & Research into One Smart Notebook Added: Aug 21, 2025
Gistr | Bring All Your Learning & Research into One Smart Notebook
Gistr is an AI-native smart notebook that helps you think, learn, and organize knowledge you discover online. Bring all your learning into one place for deeper understanding and active retention.

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Tish James' political crusade against Donald Trump was an abomination of the law Added: Aug 21, 2025
Letitia Jamesâ political crusade against Donald Trump was an abomination of the law
Site: New York Post
New York Attorney General Letitia James is going to need a bigger fish or a smaller trophy wall.

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Mark R. Levin on X: "President Trump has an 8th amendment challenge to the unconstitutional fines levied against him by a rogue judge https://t.co/moDes6vlVu" / X Added: Aug 21, 2025
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Trump Posts Text of 8th Amendment After Levin Notes Constitutional Challenge Added: Aug 21, 2025
Trump Posts Text of 8th Amendment After Levin Notes Constitutional Challenge to Excessive Fines
Site: MRCTV
âPresident Trump has an 8th amendment challenge to the unconstitutional fines levied against him by a rogue judge,â Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin noted Tuesday, commenting on the extraordinary $370 million fine (including interest) imposed by a New York judge.

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'BIG WIN': Court throws out Trump's $500M civil penalty - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
'BIG WIN': Court throws out Trump's $500M civil penalty
Site: YouTube
'Outnumbered' panelists weigh in after a New York appeals court threw out the civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump. #foxnews #trump #politics #...

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BREAKING: Court throws out Trump's $500M fraud penalty - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
BREAKING: Court throws out Trump's $500M fraud penalty
Site: YouTube
Former U.S. attorney Andy McCarthy weighs in after a New York appeals court threw out President Donald Trump's massive civil fraud penalty, with one judge ca...

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MASSIVE Victory For Trump In Civil Fraud Case, DOJ Could Go On OFFENSE ft. The Quartering - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
MASSIVE Victory For Trump In Civil Fraud Case, DOJ Could Go On OFFENSE ft. The Quartering
Site: YouTube
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Where Did EPA's $20 Billion Really Go? - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
Where Did EPA's $20 Billion Really Go?
Site: YouTube
The EPA directed $20 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act through outside entities, raising questions about conflicts of interest and oversight.#leezeldi...

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President Trump Joins Law Enforcement and Military Personnel in Washington, D.C. - YouTube Added: Aug 21, 2025
President Trump Joins Law Enforcement and Military Personnel in Washington, D.C.
Site: YouTube
Washington, D.C.

A Ballad of the Bookmarks
The world spins fast, a digital stream, With news of power, a political dream. From court decisions, To protestisions, The headlines echo, a constant theme.
In silicon valleys, where futures are spun, AI's advancements have just begun. Gemini aids code, A heavy new load, While light-speed computers outrun.
The cosmos whispers, a mystery deep, A Harvard scientist, secrets to keep. An object approaches, With cosmic reproaches, While comets their nuclear secrets heap.
From gardens blooming, to birds on the wing, The Earth's gentle beauty, new songs to sing. A hummingbird's feast, From East unto West, The wonders that nature does bring.
The threads of history, softly unwind, In ancient music, and thoughts of mankind. From Strauss's delight, To ancient script's light, The echoes of ages we find.
The system is tested, a digital fray, Arch Linux attacked, through the night and the day. A DDoS tide, Nowhere to hide, As servers begin to give way.
A philosophical query, deep and profound, On consciousness wrestled, on hallowed ground. Dennett's keen mind, What truths can we find, As the nature of self is unbound?
The forums are buzzing, with whispers and pleas, Of "What is going on?" on the digital breeze. A question so vast, Forever to last, As we search for the truths that appease.