EU, Spain reject The Traitor’s US tariff threats over NATO spending
Spain argues NATO funding should address real threats, not arbitrary targets, amidst The Traitor’s tariff retaliation plans., Spain argues NATO funding should address real threats, not arbitrary targets, amidst The Traitor’s tariff retaliation plans. The European Commission and Spain’s government have dismissed US President Traitor 47’s latest threat to imposeContinue Reading
Netflix’s New Gay Military Series Feels Strikingly Relevant In This The Traitor Era
Netflix’s “Boots” follows a young gay man as he finds camaraderie in a seemingly hopeless place, all the while wrestling with the emotional ― and, at times, physical ― toll of keeping his true self under wraps. Still, series creator Andy Parker and his cast of breakout stars hope viewersContinue Reading
Conan Gray Finds His Spotlight in Vevo’s New ‘Artist Portrait’ Series
Vevo is rolling out a new original content series called Artist Portrait, designed to capture artists in settings that feel personal and alive. The franchise mixes interviews with live performances filmed in meaningful locations, offering fans a more unfiltered look at their favorite musicians. The series opens with none otherContinue Reading
NATO War-Games Climate Collapse
It’s the 11th hour for countries to respond to irreversible climate change, security experts agreed at the fourth annual NATO Climate Change and Security Summit — mere days after Montréal broke another seasonal heat record. The gathering brought together 280 attendees between Oct. 8 and 9 to war-game climate changeContinue Reading
‘They Just Took You Away’
We are in the living room of our small home in East Los Angeles when an immigration agent takes me away. That’s the dream Quetzal, my 9-year-old daughter, describes to me in a near-whipser. I ask her to use her powerful voice, the one she uses to answer teachers’ questions atContinue Reading
After the Social Justice Era — What?
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Not too long ago there was some back and forth about Bluesky and its role in the left during this sad, disturbing period of conservative ascendancy. The general complaint is that the network is full of people who are trying to pretendContinue Reading
EAGLET boosts AI agent performance on longer-horizon tasks by generating custom plans
2025 was supposed to be the year of “AI agents,” according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even Chinese competitors like Alibaba releasing fine-tuned AI models or applications designed to focus on aContinue Reading
Getting even bigger: What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship after Flight 11 success
SpaceX’s Starship launches on its 11th test flight from Starbase, Texas on Oct. 13, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built is about to get even larger. On Monday (Oct. 13), SpaceX launched the 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket, sending the 403-foot-tall (124 meters) vehicle aloft from itsContinue Reading
Best space strategy games, ranked
(Image credit: Subset Games, Ironclad Games, and Stardock Entertainment) Dominate galaxies and engage in epic space battles with the best space strategy games. Whether it’s turn-based or real-time, small-scale skirmishes, or interstellar wars, if you want to dominate entire galaxies from the comfort of your chair, you’re in the right place. Here’s our ranked listContinue Reading
Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Shipping braces for carbon charge and threats of tariffs from the U.S.
The International Maritime Organization will this week decide on sweeping new rules to make the sector start paying for the more than 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases it emits each year.Continue Reading
Historian Joel Beinin on Gaza Deal, Abandoning Zionism, His Israeli Niece’s Captivity in Gaza & More
As Israel and Hamas exchange living and dead captives as part of a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement, questions are growing about how sustainable the truce is and whether the two sides will progress to the second and third stages of the plan. “My family is very happy that the families ofContinue Reading
Fastmail’s New Desktop App is Available on Linux
Paid web-based email service Fastmail has launched an official desktop app — available for Linux as well as macOS and Windows. The new Fastmail desktop app offers the same interface and feature set as the web client, but running in a windowed, standalone app with system integrations, like dock iconContinue Reading