Madame Tussauds just revealed the wax figure for celebrity heartthrob, Idris Elba. Let's just say, the sculpture was so accurate he was shocked.

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Don't look now, but Kirby Air Riders might be best kart racer of the year, with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and Mario Kart World not far behind.

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Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed  —  Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they've mostly been restricted to text.

Everyone who works with official PDFs in any capacity should know that if you start with a PDF containing text you want to redact, and you just place black bars atop that text and resave the file, the original text is all still there in the new PDF file. It’s the digital equivalent of putting sticky notes atop the text. You don’t even need to crack open the new PDF in a text (or hex) editor and hunt for the original text within non-human-readable PDF formatting code. You just open the PDF in Preview or Acrobat or any other PDF viewer, use the regular text selection cursor to select the text under the black bars, copy, and then paste into any other app. Everyone should know this but it keeps happening. Now it’s happened with the new batch of Epstein files released by the DOJ.

There are major differences between the Trump 1.0 and 2.0 administrations. In the Trump 1.0 administration, many of the most important officials were very competent men. One example would be then-Attorney General William Barr. Barr is contemptible, yes, but smart AF. When Barr’s DOJ released a redacted version of the Mueller Report, they printed the whole thing, made their redactions with actual ink, and then re-scanned every page to generate a new PDF with absolutely no digital trace of the original PDF file. There are ways to properly redact a PDF digitally, but going analog is foolproof.

The Trump 2.0 administration, in contrast, is staffed top to bottom with fools.

Last May when Mayor Eric Adams presented his executive budget proposal, his administration forecast that the city would add 150,000 jobs in 2025. Now, the administration admits the gain will be only about 40,000 jobs.  Worse, say other analyses, all the added jobs are coming from low-wage health care positions paid for almost entirely with […]

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