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It’s been quite a while since we visited Middle-Earth on the big screen (anime prequels aside), but it looks like Lord of the Rings fans have plenty to look forward to in the coming years. We already knew that Andy Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum was in the works — and by all accounts is progressing nicely — but another Rings-related film is in development too, and it’s being co-written by none other

• Elon Musk's lawyers have asked Delaware Chancery Court's top judge to recuse herself from a case.
• They say she hearted a LinkedIn post criticizing him.
• The judge says she never read the post and reported her emoji reaction as "suspicious activity."

A Delaware judge overseeing

Anthropic has begun previewing "auto mode" inside of Claude Code. The company describes the new feature as a middle path between the app's default behavior, which sees Claude request approval for every file write and bash command, and the "dangerously-skip-premissions" command some coders use to make the chatbot function more autonomously. 

With auto mode enabled, a classifier system guides Claude

• Meta began laying off hundreds of employees on Wednesday.
• The company has made several rounds of layoffs in recent years as it has sought to become more efficient.
• At the same time, Meta has continued to pour billions of dollars into AI.

Meta began laying off hundreds of employees across the company on

Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips, the golden retriever bounding through autumn leaves, the Tokyo street scene that looked almost real, lined up to declare that something had shifted. […]

• With two working parents and four kids, mealtime is always a little hectic in our house.
• My husband and I have very different styles in the kitchen, so we try to keep our distance.
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• Jatee Kearsley's bakery, Je T'aime Patisserie, gained fame after a viral feature on Righteous Eats.
• Going viral changed the trajectory of her business but took a toll on her mental health.
• Kearsley says she wouldn't want to go viral again, even though that may sound ungrateful.

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• I've solo traveled to all 50 states, and I think the best way to explore a new city is by walking.
• I love exploring places like Chicago, New York City, and New Orleans on foot.
• I moved to Boulder, Colorado, because of its walkability and proximity to fun hiking trails.

After traveling solo to