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  • The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine

    I, like so many others of that generation lost to the internet,have been thinking about friction lately. How technology’s promise of seamless interconnection across people, geographies, and time has ultimately made each of us more alone. About the price we pay, if we’re willing, for community. I thought about friction as I walked back and read more

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    The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine

  • Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery

    A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes’s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, while the other read more

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    Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery

  • A Superior Salvator Mundi, and 5 Other Strange and Wonderful Masterpieces at TEFAF Maastricht

    The little Dutch city of Maastricht (population about 125,000), boasts an incredible masterpiece-to-resident ratio each March, when the TEFAF fair comes to town. This year, 276 dealers from 24 countries have brought many thousands of objects, arranged in sections devoted to paintings, antiques, jewelry, modern and contemporary art, design, ancient art, arts of Africa and read more

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    A Superior Salvator Mundi, and 5 Other Strange and Wonderful Masterpieces at TEFAF Maastricht

  • Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini

    Second is advertiser tools. If you’re a small business, you’re not thinking about all the queries people are going to type in. AI is great at figuring out which keywords to use, what’s the optimal creative, and generating all of that. The third piece is the most nascent: ads in new experiences. The general philosophy read more

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    Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini

  • US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access

    A bipartisan privacy coalition in the United States Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a strict warrant requirement on the FBI’s backdoor searches of Americans’ communications, aligning federal law with a 2025 federal court ruling that found the warrantless practice unconstitutional. The bill, the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2026, repeals controversial expansions read more

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    US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access

  • This New TV Headphone System Serves Up Lag-Free Audio to Many Pairs at Once

    You may also be wondering just how you connect other headphones to the transmitter via Auracast. As I said earlier, Sennheiser’s HDR 275 connect to the system automatically on power-up, though they can also break free and connect to your phone over regular Bluetooth to take them on the go. Other options have their own read more

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    This New TV Headphone System Serves Up Lag-Free Audio to Many Pairs at Once

  • The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is

    The 1974 Venice Biennale has gone down in history less for what went on view than what didn’t: the show itself. The explanations for why the exhibition didn’t happen are diverse. Some accounts attribute the show’s cancelation to an embarrassing disagreement among warring Italian factions. Others follow the narrative laid out by then-Biennale president Carlo read more

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    The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is

  • Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation

    Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing “Ni De Aquí, read more

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    Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation

  • Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists

    The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been invited to preview read more

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    Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists

  • How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks

    Since the United States and Israel first unleashed a broad campaign of air strikes across Iran in late February, the cybersecurity industry has warned that the country’s retaliatory measures would include punishing, disruptive cyberattacks against Western targets. Late Tuesday night, the first of those attacks arrived in the US: a devastating breach of the medical read more

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    How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks

  • Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View

    A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to theAssociated Press,the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from theSão José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off read more

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    Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View

  • Live Updates: Irans supreme leader gives first statement as oil prices go up, markets down

    Oil prices rose back above $100 and stocks sank Thursday as Iran’s attempts to hit supplies in the Middle East and bring down the global economy overshadowed a record release of strategic crude reserves by the International Energy Agency. Stock markets in Asia closed down Thursday and European markets opened with losses as investors saw read more

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    Live Updates: Irans supreme leader gives first statement as oil prices go up, markets down

  • Ukraine launches world-first programme giving startups access to real war data for AI training

    Ukraine is opening partner access to train AI models using real battlefield data — the first initiative of its kind in the world. According to Mykhailo Fedorov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, the government has approved a resolution launching a new framework for cooperation between the state, Ukrainian companies, and international partners. For startups, read more

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    Ukraine launches world-first programme giving startups access to real war data for AI training

  • Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch | TechCrunch

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is building rival efforts through two startups: NeuroXess, which develops implantable BCI systems, and a second company, Gestala, developing non-invasive ultrasound-based BCIs. Gestala has raised $21.6 million (CN¥150 million) just two read more

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    Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises M just two months after launch | TechCrunch

  • Ukrainian-Estonian Defencetech Black Forest Systems raises $400K to scale infantry drone platform

    Kyiv-based company Black Forest Systemshas received $400,000 in investment from Front Ventures and Hede Capital Partners AB. Founded in 2024, Black Forest Systems develops vertically integrated unmanned systems and tactical drone platforms for infantry and Special Operations Forces operating in forward positions. Their solutions combine proprietary electronics, secure communications, and control software into vertically integrated read more

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    Ukrainian-Estonian Defencetech Black Forest Systems raises 0K to scale infantry drone platform

  • Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker | TechCrunch

    A group of Iran-linked hackers say they have broken into the servers of U.S. medical tech giant Stryker, causing disruptions worldwide.As of Wednesday morning, many of Stryker’s global systems have been wiped, and some login pages are instead showing the logo of the hacker group. The hacktivist group, known as Handala, claimed responsibility for the read more

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    Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker | TechCrunch

  • Google Maps is getting an AI 'Ask Maps' feature and upgraded 'immersive' navigation | TechCrunch

    Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps is introducing a Gemini-powered conversational “Ask Maps” feature along with an updated “Immersive Navigation” experience that brings a 3D view, road details, natural voice guidance, and more to the app. The new “Ask Maps” feature lets users ask complex, real-world questions using natural language, such as “My phone read more

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    Google Maps is getting an AI 'Ask Maps' feature and upgraded 'immersive' navigation | TechCrunch

  • Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods | TechCrunch

    Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They’re also among the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has cracked that problem in an unlikely way — by reading the news. While humans have assembled a lot of weather data, flash floods are read more

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    Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods | TechCrunch

  • $3M for DEXTools’ PerpTools from DEXForce and Orderly

    PerpTools, an on-chain perpetual futures trading platform, has been introduced by the creators of DEXTools, an analytics suite for decentralised exchanges. The platform was developed following a $3 million seed funding round led by DEXForce and Orderly and is built on the Orderly liquidity layer. PerpTools is integrated directly within the DEXTools environment, allowing users read more

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    M for DEXTools’ PerpTools from DEXForce and Orderly

  • What Should Be in Your Bug-Out Bag, When the Disaster Comes?

    You never know when you’re going to have to bug out on short notice. The politics of the moment are less than predictable. Disasters never strike on schedule, and few stores stay open for a wildfire or an insurrection. As of early 2026, wildfires and the resulting chaos look especially likely in the American West read more

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    What Should Be in Your Bug-Out Bag, When the Disaster Comes?