Who makes the best pastrami dip sandwich in Los Angeles? - Los Angeles Times
We tried the pastrami dip sandwich at Cole's, Philippe the Original, Johnnie's, the Hat, Sandwiches by Connal and Langer's Delicatessen.| Los Angeles Times
Harvard Medical School is delaying an online transgender health care course after facing scrutiny for offering fee waivers to LGBTQ doctors while charging other attendees $650. The medical school’s website had previously promoted fee waivers for “transgender” and “gender diverse” individuals seeking to enroll in the course “Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health,” National Review reported. […]| The College Fix
Students at the Ivy League institution are set to host their annual Sex Week celebration, slated for the first week of November.| The College Fix
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland| Harvard Data Science Review
by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell The sun was shining, the sky was blue (sorry, Elmore, for starting with the weather). So I decided to take a walk to Trader Joe’s. At checkout the pleasant young lady asked, “How’s your day … Continue reading →| Killzoneblog.com
We tried the pastrami dip sandwich at Cole's, Philippe the Original, Johnnie's, the Hat, Sandwiches by Connal and Langer's Delicatessen.| Los Angeles Times
If you’ve ever been fired, Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill want you to know you’re not alone. The former top…| Daily Front Row
Spot bitcoin ETFs are entering 401(k)s and IRAs. Here’s how they may reshape retirement investing—from low fees and inflation hedges to volatility control.| Forbes Digital Assets
One of crypto’s most successful investment teams, led by Joe Naggar, is spinning out of New York investment firm Republic to form Feynman Point Asset Management.| Forbes Digital Assets
Last week’s flash crash laid bare the industry’s structural issues.| Forbes Digital Assets
ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.| The Wiretap
As sharks circle, $WBD stock could rise another 50%, said Bank of America. But bidders Paramount and Comcast face big legal barriers. Could Netflix prevail?| Peter Cohan
ed(1) is a versatile programming system. Yet no one talks about metaprogramming and algorithms in it. Now someone did, and that’s me!| Artyom Bologov
Our peer-reviewed journal and innovative editor-vetted Hub offer new ways to share research performed by, with, and for communities.| Eos
Surface ruptures causing earthquakes pose risks to infrastructure and human lives, but advances in models and data in the last few decades have improved our ability to mitigate their effects.| Eos
Why I keep coming back to Vim| Robert Alexander's Tech Blog
Amazon has now removed the Dechoker and rival unapproved suction devices marketed at parents to save children from choking.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
NSO Group is being acquired in a deal led by a Hollywood film producer.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
In a bid to stabilize struggling crude-oil refineries, state lawmakers on Saturday passed a last-minute bill that would allow the construction of 2,000 new oil wells annually in the San Joaquin Valley while further restricting drilling along California’s iconic coastline.| Los Angeles Times
Newsom said the bills were a compromise, designed to push California toward a clean-energy future while still ensuring the state has enough affordable gasoline to meet drivers' needs.| Los Angeles Times
Spotify is just the latest business to split the role of chief executive. While there are advantages to sharing the burden, the organizational culture has to be right.| Forbes
This type of highlighting is ideal for assembly. With it, the things that shouldn't seem similar usually don't.| wordsandbuttons.online
More than 1,000 CDC staffers were fired on Friday and half were rehired Saturday, creating chaos and confusion. Experts share their hypotheses as to what is going on.| Forbes
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Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.| lab.alexanderobenauer.com
Oracle zero-day vulnerabilities are being targeted by at least one major cybercrime group and the FBI says it's looking bad.| The Wiretap
Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.| The Wiretap
ICE’s joint-biggest order for Palantir will help it pursue an immigration policy that encourages people to leave the country without arrest, though some fret immigrants are being left little choice.| The Wiretap
For the fifth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has named UVA Health Children’s, part of UVA Health, the No. 1 children’s hospital in Virginia.| UVA Health Newsroom
Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.| Rashi Shrivastava
At 60, Kamala Harris has a lot of opportunities ahead of her. Which will she pursue?| Los Angeles Times
With a client list that includes Nvidia, Anthropic and Uber, the $6 billion-valued Grafana Labs is flexing with $400 million in annualized revenue — and new investment from a tender offer of up to $150 million.| Richard Nieva
After announcing a billion-dollar fundraise last week, the $100 billion AI data storage and analytics company is barreling ahead with new investments and plans for an eventual IPO. “It’s not an if, it’s a when,” said CEO Ali Ghodsi.| Forbes
Dave's Paper Notes: A Tutorial for the Sam Command Language| ratfactor.com
Advanced simulations reveal a new calcium carbonate phase whose unusual elastic behavior may explain puzzling seismic and electrical anomalies beneath ancient continents.| Eos
Launched in 2023, Civic Joy Fund has been reported and labeled as a non-profit organization, but has yet to file the necessary tax forms required for its tax-deductible status. San Francisco’s boom loop is strong, [oscillating from] the proverbial chandelier. Downtown First Thursdays (DFT) — an outdoor street festival mixing live music and food trucks […] The post Popularly Reported SF Nonprofit Is, in Fact, Not a Nonprofit at All appeared first on Underscore_SF.| Underscore_SF
Yekutiel’s newly launched crusade to vie for next year’s District 8 Supervisor race in San Francisco presents contentious foreshadowings. The past two weeks have seen a whirlwind blow through San Francisco’s political landscape. The ACLU officially sued ICE in San Francisco in an effort to stop courthouse arrests; Governor Newsom hinted at support of a […] The post Manny Yekutiel’s Bid for SF Board of Supervisors Seat Is (Already) Riddled With Red Flags appeared first on Underscore_SF.| Underscore_SF
Three Nigerian writers share their experiences of the literary culture there and here.| The Cincinnati Review
Trump appears poised to accept a set of terms similar to Project Texas, a ByteDance proposal that Biden felt perpetuated an unacceptable risk to national security.| Emily Baker-White
An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.| Emily Baker-White
U.S. law requires a ban of CapCut, Gauth, Lemon8, Coze, and many other ByteDance- owned apps, unless they are sold in the TikTok deal that President Trump announced today.| Emily Baker-White
Even as medical groups push back on Trump’s unfounded claims about autism, they're going viral on the world's biggest video platform.| Emily Baker-White
The U.S. and China have long fought for control over TikTok’s algorithm. Chinese negotiators suggest a Chinese company will — but Congress says a U.S. company must.| Emily Baker-White
Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have become some of the most watched political content on YouTube in 2025.| Emily Baker-White
A successful TikTok deal would end China’s leverage over the social media app in the U.S. — and Trump’s too.| Emily Baker-White
“Intel is a failing company,” the senator wrote to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. By investing in it, she said, Trump could be lighting taxpayer dollars on fire.| Emily Baker-White
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.| Emily Baker-White
In a scathing editorial, the CCP reiterated that it will not let TikTok’s parent company sell its signature algorithm. What would a TikTok without that algorithm be?| Emily Baker-White
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he’s allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.| Emily Baker-White
Feds got data on a Discord group used by teenagers in 2022 to try to organize terror attacks in the name of ISIS.| The Wiretap
This is a brief update on the New York City mayoral election....| TPM – Talking Points Memo
Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for — essential for —...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
We’ve noted this in the emails members have received, but since we’ve...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
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As we hurtle toward an almost inevitable government shutdown, I want to...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
I’m the human resources (HR) manager of a medium-sized enterprise. My boss gave me the task of organizing and managing a new volunteer program for employees. How do I start it right? — Doctor Why. Convincing employees to participate in weekend activities such as tree planting, feeding programs, or community clean-ups can be challenging. After […]| BusinessWorld Online
PHILIPPINE SHARES declined on Monday on profit taking after the market’s four-day climb, with the peso’s recent weakness also weighing on sentiment. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) declined by 0.79% or 49.66 points to close at 6,214.83, while the broader all shares index went down by 0.3% or 11.52 points to end at […]| BusinessWorld Online
To help more patients receive lifesaving kidney and liver transplants, the UVA Health Transplant Center is launching a new program to emphasize the importance of living organ donation.| UVA Health Newsroom
Klarna's value is off 69% since peaking in 2021. With plans for an IPO next week, Klarna grows more slowly than rival Affirm and is less profitable.| Peter Cohan
ICE has spent over $5 million on social media and dark web monitoring software that critics say enables warrantless surveillance.| The Wiretap
ICE can now deploy a robot capable of letting off smoke grenades and navigating obstacles in its raids.| The Wiretap
Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.| The Wiretap
Hundreds of pages in classified NCIS files were left out for the trash collectors, a search warrant reveals.| The Wiretap
When we first started Sight Unseen back in 2009, we’d spent nearly a decade working in traditional print journalism. Despite launching shortly after the rise of blog culture, we insisted that Sight Unseen be called an online magazine, doubling down on our commitment to long-form feature stories and our hallowed idea of what respectable journalism ought to be. But at the same time, right from the beginning, we thought of our site as a forum for indulging our own interests and obsessions, pub...| Sight Unseen
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.| Forbes
An alum of Israel’s intelligence complex, Tal Kollender built her now $300 million-valued startup largely through word of mouth, counting Amazon and Coca-Cola as customers.| Forbes
Flow Control: a programmer's text editor. Contribute to neurocyte/flow development by creating an account on GitHub.| GitHub
The CDC's revised guidelines for COVID-19 boosters limit access to healthy children and adults under 65. Here's what it means in terms of vaccine availability this fall.| Judy Stone
Fire poured out of my eyes when I sat down at my...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
I wanted to share two-and-a-half follow-on thoughts about the murder of Charlie...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
Kate and Josh discuss the great shutdown debate and the Roberts Court’s...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
I don’t have much to share on the death of Charlie Kirk...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
Think you know GoLand? Discover ten secret superpowers that can save you time and help you move faster, write better code, and scale with confidence.| The JetBrains Blog
Contract records show ICE is arming its new agents with military-grade gear, from Silicon Valley’s autonomous drones to Glock handguns.| The Wiretap
ICE handed the controversial facial recognition company its biggest federal contract to date as it continues its illegal immigration crackdown.| The Wiretap
I don’t often recycle content here on the C-suite Blueprint. This entry is an exception given the increasing peril journalism (and, indeed, our entire society) currently faces. The piece below is republished from August 2022 with no edits. There are, however, some updates that bear mentioning. First, when Jennifer Rubin penned the op-ed referenced, she […]| C-suite Blueprint
People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.| Iain Martin
Fluidstack’s revenues ballooned to $66 million by selling access to GPUs and landing a deal to build a massive AI data center for the French government.| Iain Martin
Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.| Forbes
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Wharton Statistics and Data Science Department, Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Computer and Information, and Mathematics, and Penn Research in Machine Learning Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.| Harvard Data Science Review
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at whether Congress will extend Obamacare subsidies, the latest data on Lilly’s obesity pill and more.| Forbes
Some fire relief bills are still working their way through the Legislature, including some that could ease burdens on the FAIR Plan and improve the permitting process for rebuilding.| Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom promoted his more than 2,000-mile jaunt from California to South Carolina as a bid to help the party win back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, but most people there saw it as a precursor to a 2028 presidential run.| Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities to close a $12-billion deficit.| Los Angeles Times
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From wearables to virtual counselors, artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize mental health support for patients with breast cancer.| UVA Health Newsroom
Plus: xAI published thousands of private Grok conversations.| Rashi Shrivastava
Mayor Karen Bass reduced the hours that a nightly curfew in downtown Los Angeles is in effect on Monday, allowing struggling businesses to remain open later into the evening.| Los Angeles Times
Less than 48 hours before the planned reopening, the state said it remains "in the dark" regarding the city of Los Angeles' plans for providing security to the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades.| Los Angeles Times
The AI juggernaut is working with Founders Fund-backed startup Binti in its first foray into government social work.| Forbes
The perpetrators allegedly acquired a list of gig workers and tricked them into sharing one-time passcodes, before buying gift cards, the FBI says.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers on Friday announced a deal with Uber and Lyft on a bill that would allow hundreds of thousands of rideshare drivers to form unions and bargain collectively while still being classified as independent contractors.| Los Angeles Times
From legendary ballparks to cultural gems, Chicago is full of can’t-miss experiences. Here are 5 places that capture the city’s spirit.| Recommend
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Cruise traffic to Martinique is on the rise, with the island reporting an 11 percent increase in arrivals for the 2024–2025 season.| Recommend
Boost shoulder season bookings this October capitalizing on Hawaii's largest LGBTQ+ celebration in Honolulu.| Recommend
