Opinion: A bruising conspiracy

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday targeted President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump again, suggesting that the president’s hands are bruised “from Melania swatting them away.”

While there is plenty of fodder for comedy in the political world these days, can we please stop with the jokes about the president’s hands? I ask on behalf of the Silent Generation, and every baby boomer who…

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What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of software developers working on those systems failed to find. This capability will…

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Trump Accidentally Admits What He Really Thinks of MAGA Voters

Donald Trump just erupted at MAGA allies for oppposing his war. In one tirade, he attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others as “FAKE MAGA.” In another, he slammed them as “Low IQ.” Similarly, his pollster, John McLaughlin, claimed that the MAGA base “doesn’t consider” those critics “conservative” anymore. So disagreeing with Trump intrinsically makes you non-MAGA? This reveals Trump…

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Tareq Baconi’s Search for Liberation

In June, as I was reading Tareq Baconi’s memoir _Fire in Every Direction,_ Israel launched a series of surprise attacks on Iran. Though I was born in the United States, I have people in Iran, as well as a good many memories. For 12 days, I watched footage of fighter jets and exploding drones over and inside the narrow streets of Tehran, trading updates with family here as we texted and called…

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