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Angela Watercutter, Gabriel Leão

The Stan Accounts That Keep Posting Through Brazil’s Ban on X

When the country’s Supreme Court suspended X in Brazil, stan Twitter in the region seemed to grind to a halt. Others found ways to persevere.

Wired Top Stories

Steven Levy

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity's Problems

The OpenAI CEO’s recent mini-manifesto argues (again) that AI will make the future impossibly bright. He could use a refresher course on the basics of human behavior.

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Friday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

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Kenneth Arthur

Jayden Daniels is already playing like one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks

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Jayden Daniels has arrived. Will the road through the NFC playoffs lead to the nation’s capital?

The theme for the Week 3 edition of QB of the Week, highlighting the quarterback who had the best week in the NFL, could be “You never know...”

Will Andy Dalton lead the Panthers to the playoffs? You never know. Does Malik Willis give the Packers a better chance to win than Jordan Love? You never know. Was Sam Darnold actually an upgrade over Kirk...

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Doug.Farrar

Bills OC Joe Brady has proven to be one of the NFL’s best play callers

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Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay ... and Joe Brady?

When we talk about the NFL’s greatest offensive minds, the same names usually come up. San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan is often (and justifiably) at the top of the list, and then Shanahan acolytes like Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel.

This season, what Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell has done for Sam Darnold should elevate...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

LG and Razer made an ultra-responsive Bluetooth controller for cloud gaming

The new ULL-supported controller (seen right) was tested against an unspecified standard Bluetooth gamepad (left). | Image: LG

LG has teamed up with Razer and MediaTek to develop a new Bluetooth gaming controller that could greatly reduce the input lag for cloud-based gaming. According to LG, it’s the first controller to utilize Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Bluetooth technology — an in-development standard that aims to make wireless controllers as responsive as their wired...

Mashable

No, it's not an iPhone 17 render, it's the new Xiaomi 14T Pro

Xiaomi's new top phone is here, and it looks familiar.

With the Xiaomi 14T Pro, it appears that the design heads at Xiaomi simply said: Well, let's imagine the next year's iPhone, and then design our phone to look like that.

The result, unsurprisingly, looks pretty great, even if it's not the most original. Xiaomi sent me a 14T Pro review unit in the Titan Gray color, and I was surprised at how much I liked it. It has flat, aluminum edges, interspersed with antenna lines, and on the back,...

Fast Company

Yasmin Gagne

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev isn’t scared of meme stocks

The Robinhood cofounder discusses Roaring Kitty’s return, the gamification of trading, and why he’s bullish on crypto, despite SEC scrutiny.

Keith Gill (aka “Roaring Kitty”) returned to social media this summer. Three years earlier, the Reddit influencer had helped sparked a meme stocks craze among retail investors that led to the GameStop stock short squeeze. The surge in stock price was a disaster for online brokerage platform Robinhood: The company halted the trading of GameStop...

Fast Company

Sebastian Buck

From logic to leaps: a new paradigm for CEOs in the AI age

When logic becomes a commodity, business leaders must prioritize creative passion.

In a packed auditorium at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, toward the end of Steve Jobs’s penultimate keynote before he stepped down as CEO, he said, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.” This was a period of explosive innovation and...

Fast Company

AJ Hess

How Stephen Miller and the anti-DEI movement are going after small businesses

At Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, panelists discussed the legal strategy being used by anti-DEI conservatives, including Stephen Miller.

On July 3, 2023, the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, prohibiting U.S. colleges and universities from considering an applicant’s race during the admissions process.

Fast Company

Reuters

Hurricane Helene leaves over 1 million Floridians without power

Utility company Duke Energy had 380,000 affected customers.

More than 1.28 million homes and businesses in Florida were without power on Friday as Hurricane Helene made landfall as one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

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21 People Who Found Something Very Dangerous And Were Like "Hey, I'm Gonna Pick This Thing Up"

Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't pick up random snakes.

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ESPN.com

Scheffler fires back, says Kim 'poked the bear'

The Presidents Cup turned spicy on Thursday when Scottie Scheffler responded to Tom Kim's celebratory "Let's go!" by matching his birdie and shouting, "What was that?"

Wired Top Stories

Dell Cameron

As FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Term Expires, Democrats Are Torn Between Donors and Their Base

New polling shows roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Lina Khan.

SBNation.com

Savannah Leigh Richardson

A look at the Presidents Cup Friday foursome pairings; best authentic quotes from Day 1

Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images

Team USA leads 5-0 after Thursday’s Presidents Cup session. Check out Friday’s pairings and the best things said from Day 1.

Welcome to Playing Through’s daily ritual — Golf Talk Today.

Each day, the crew will discuss various elements of the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, and more.

Team USA swept the International Team 5-0 on Thursday of the Presidents Cup. The Americans denied every attempt the Internationals gave them.

Today, we will look...

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Nicholas Fandos and Benjamin Oreskes

As Adams’s Fate Hangs in the Balance, Cuomo Waits in the Shadows

The uncertainty surrounding Mayor Eric Adams has fueled rampant speculation that the former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo may enter the mayor’s race.

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Tor is more popular than ever in our security-minded world

Following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, Tor is offering a communications lifeline to the oppressed.

A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, security-conscious people are hunting out tools like Tor, the anonymous communications network, says Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications at the Tor Project.

Fast Company

Rob Walker

Trump, Harris, and McDonald’s: How burgers became core to the election

The fast-food brand keeps finding itself in the spotlight this election. That’s because McDonald’s is America.

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