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Rebecca Black’s Friday turns 15

Happy Friday!

/news

Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show

Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013

/food

RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

/sports

Legendary Olympic Cross-Country Skier Had Everyone in Awe By Sprinting Up a Hill

Keep running up that hill.

/nostalgia

The Windows Media Player green head skin is still burned in my brain

Never forget what they took from you.

/gadgets

I tried Nothing's AI app builder — and ended up with a screaming tea timer

Way cool.

/news

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

/coffee

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Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk

Just brew it.

/earth

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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

A group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts are now paying off. The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since

/technology

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

/videos

Why There Are So Many Image Formats

Not a webp file!

/finance

ChatGPT’s cheapest options now show you ads

OpenAI has started testing ads on its AI platform, ChatGPT, for users on its Free and Go plans. These ads will appear as 'sponsored' links at the bottom of responses. However, users can opt out of ads on the Free plan in exchange for fewer daily messages. Users on the Go plan cannot opt out but can still dismiss ads, share feedback, and turn off ad personalization. Ads will not be shown to users under 18 or in conversations on sensitive topics. Plus plan subscribers, who pay at least $20 per month, will not see any ads.

/gadgets

Here's how to disable Ring's creepy Search Party feature

Ring's Super Bowl ad alerted many people to the company's Search Party feature, which is basically neighborhood surveillance. Here's how to disable it.

/news

The Washington Post and the tragic decline of newspapers

RIP newspapers.

/earth

The air that you're breathing in New York was literally over the North Pole 10 days ago

Arctic blast. 💨

/sports

American Football Is Bigger Than Ever. It’s Also Dying.

In ‘Football,’ Chuck Klosterman argues that the sport’s violence and made-for-TV pacing drove its success, but may now be pushing it toward irrelevance.

/earth

Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump's EPA tried to end it

After the Trump administration attempted to end or privatize the Energy Star program, Congress passed and President Trump signed a bipartisan budget bill that fully funds the program, potentially strengthening it. The program, which awards the Energy Star logo to the most efficient appliances, has saved Americans over $500 billion in energy costs since 1992. Despite the funding, the program faces staffing challenges and advocates are monitoring the EPA's management of the program with the new funding.

/finance

The typical U.S. worker has $955 saved for retirement, report finds

The average American worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, underscoring the financial strain millions could face in old age, according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security.

/politics

Twitter is not real life - by Lakshya Jain

Voters who get their news from Twitter are markedly different in our polls than the median voter

/dataisbeautiful

Apps used the most in the United States by age, visualized

h/t a16z https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

/apple

Here's a size comparison between an iPhone 5 and a iPhone 17

Phones have gotten ginormous. h/t Out Of Galaxy

/music

Explaining Nardwuar: How a former guerrilla journalist became an unlikely icon

The Human Serviette owes his success to his meticulous research—not to mention his near-inhuman persistence.

/offbeat

The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files

While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know why

/apple

February 5, 1996 cover of Businessweek

🍎🪦

/oldweb

Jeff Bezos posing with a computer in 1995

Photograph by Jim Lott/Seattle Times

/videos

This video of Craig David and a fish is pure cinema

Can I add this to Letterboxd?

/technology

Wikipedia vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army saving big tech’s training data

The editors are both populating and fighting the world’s regional language AI engines.

/entertainment

Bill Nye to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 4th Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards

Consider the following...

/earth

How Disinformation is Being Used to Block and Distort Offshore Wind

Ill wind.

/videos

going to the store

Normal guy. Normal walk.