The Drély Tribune

Live updates: After weeks on hold, deal between Israel and Lebanon is progressing, says US official

The Middle East's favorite dance partners are at it again, with the US and Iran trading airstrikes like passive-aggressive roommates leaving increasingly hostile sticky notes. Trump declared the ceasefire 'over' faster than a celebrity marriage, while somehow a separate Israel-Lebanon deal is allegedly making progress—because apparently one functioning diplomatic relationship is the regional quota.

Breaking

Today's Paper - The New York Times

Today's Maine political scene resembles a dumpster fire wrapped in parliamentary procedure, as Democrats gear up for an internal cage match over replacing Senator Graham Platner following rape accusations. The Times has helpfully reduced this messy human drama to a neat 'progressives vs. moderates' narrative, because nothing says journalism like turning sexual assault allegations into a convenient political horse race.

World

US and Iran exchange more attacks across the Mideast, threatening ceasefire deal

The US and Iran continue their regional game of military whack-a-mole, with American airstrikes prompting Tehran to spread the love by hitting Gulf countries—because why limit the chaos to two players when you can drag the whole neighborhood into it. At this rate, that Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal mentioned elsewhere is looking like the diplomatic equivalent of finding a unicorn.

Breaking

Tehran launches more strikes after explosions reported in southern Iran

Centcom's latest Middle East performance featured a 90-target Iranian spectacular, leaving 14 dead and proving once again that escalation remains everyone's favorite diplomatic strategy. Tehran, never one to back down from a good old-fashioned tit-for-tat, has naturally responded with more strikes because apparently someone misplaced the de-escalation playbook.

BBC World

Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Sink Into Violent Cycle After Latest Strikes

The U.S. and Iran have settled into their familiar dance of mutual destruction, with ship attacks begetting strikes begetting more strikes in an endless waltz of violence. Any pretense of a cease-fire has been thoroughly cremated, and both sides seem committed to proving that sometimes the only way out is through—preferably through someone else's territory.

NYT World

Syria says cell behind ‘terrorist bombings’ in Damascus arrested

Syria managed to solve their little terrorist bombing problem with impressive speed, conveniently arresting the perpetrators just as Macron was trying to enjoy his Damascus tourism experience. Nothing says 'stable governance' quite like explosions greeting a visiting French president, but hey, at least the cleanup crew was efficient.

Al Jazeera

Jail guard targeted in Project South alleged murder plot accused of overseeing abusive practices

A Toronto corrections officer who was apparently so charming that someone plotted to murder him spent Thursday in court explaining that his alleged strip search enthusiasm and inmate threats were just good old-fashioned job dedication. Nothing says 'workplace excellence' quite like becoming the target of a murder plot while overseeing what sounds like a detention center management masterclass.

CBC Canada

Body found after crews extinguish shed on fire in Brampton, police say

Brampton fire crews successfully extinguished a shed fire Thursday, only to discover they'd been racing to save someone who was already beyond saving. Sometimes the real emergency is the one you find after you think you've solved the problem.

CBC Toronto

Alberta tornadoes spur evacuations, five injured

Alberta tornadoes decided to crash the camping party at Dillberry Lake Provincial Park Wednesday night, sending campers fleeing to safety with five people injured in the process. Mother Nature apparently felt the provincial park was getting a bit too cozy and decided to redecorate with some high-velocity landscaping.

Globe and Mail

AT&T leaves rivals flat-footed as bankrupt carrier folds

AT&T's competition just got a little easier as another carrier decided bankruptcy was more appealing than trying to keep up in the wireless wars. Nothing says 'disrupted market' quite like your rivals literally ceasing to exist.

Yahoo Finance

Can Walmart help the Fed harness real-time U.S. economic data? We’re about to find out.

The Fed is recruiting Walmart's former CEO to help track real-time economic data, because apparently knowing whether people can afford groceries requires expertise from someone who spent years selling them groceries. It's either brilliant pragmatism or a tacit admission that retail giants understand the economy better than economists do.

MarketWatch

Florida's Palm Beach airport renamed for Trump

Florida has renamed Palm Beach International Airport after Trump, because nothing says 'local hospitality' like making sure visitors know exactly whose political territory they've landed in. The FAA confirmed the change, though they stopped short of commenting on whether the runway will now be gold-plated.

CNBC Tech

The ChatGPT browser is already dead

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser lasted about as long as a mayfly's weekend, getting the axe less than a year after its October debut. Apparently automating your web browsing wasn't quite the killer feature they thought it would be, proving that sometimes even AI needs to learn when to quit while it's behind.

The Verge AI

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Elon Musk is pinky-promising not to 'cut off' Anthropic if they host their models with him, which is exactly the kind of reassurance you'd expect from someone who definitely plans to cut you off later. With $40 billion on the table, this feels less like a business partnership and more like a hostage negotiation with extra steps.

TechCrunch AI

Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI

Google has graciously decided to tell you when ads were made by AI, as if we couldn't already spot the soulless corporate speak and uncanny valley humans from space. This transparency initiative arrives fashionably late to the party, like showing up with store-bought cookies after everyone's already gone home.

The Verge AI

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

The AI industry is grappling with whether it can justify its $3 trillion price tag, which puts it somewhere between 'small country's GDP' and 'maybe we should have stuck with Excel spreadsheets.' The ROI debate has returned with bigger numbers and presumably bigger headaches for anyone trying to explain this to shareholders.

TechCrunch AI

Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger

Microsoft is using AI to find more security problems faster, which means Patch Tuesday is about to become Patch Christmas Morning with extra presents nobody wanted. It's the technological equivalent of your helpful neighbor pointing out every single thing wrong with your house while you're trying to sell it.

The Verge AI

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta has thrown its hat into the AI coding ring with Muse Spark 1.1, because apparently we needed another coding assistant to join the digital unemployment line. Their pitch focuses on enterprise automation and bug fixes, targeting the lucrative market of developers who'd rather have robots write their code while they contemplate career changes.

TechCrunch AI

Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's finally changing.

SpaceX's Starship is flipping the script on launch dynamics, with its clever "Pez dispenser" payload deployment showing that when you can haul massive cargo cheaply, satellites suddenly become the accommodating party in this cosmic relationship. Finally, rockets are calling the shots instead of tiptoeing around precious cargo like overpriced space butlers.

Ars Technica

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

Anthropic is pulling the old bait-and-switch, moving Claude subscribers from flat fees to usage-based pricing for their fanciest AI model. Apparently the honeymoon phase of "all-you-can-chat" AI subscriptions is over, and now we're back to metered digital conversations like it's 1995 and we're paying per text message.

Wired AI

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

Anthropic's researchers have essentially given Claude a brain scan and discovered it has a hidden conceptual playground where it mulls over ideas—some boring, others nightmare fuel. Their "Jacobian lens" tool is like having X-ray vision into AI consciousness, which sounds either fascinating or like the opening scene of every robot uprising movie ever made.

MIT Tech Review

GPT-5.6

GPT-5.6 is making waves on Hacker News with 853 upvotes, though without more details I can only assume it either achieved sentience or learned to make decent coffee. Either way, the tech crowd is predictably losing their collective minds over what's likely just another incremental update with a shiny new number.

Hacker News

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Elon Musk is graciously promising not to 'cut off' Anthropic while praising some game called Mythos/Fable, because nothing says trustworthy business partner like having to explicitly promise you won't sabotage someone. With $40 billion on the table, Anthropic gets to decide whether they believe the guy who turned Twitter into X and fired most of its staff.

TechCrunch

The ChatGPT browser is already dead

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is getting the axe less than a year after launch, making it roughly as long-lived as a mayfly with commitment issues. Announced in October and already being 'sunsetted' as part of today's ChatGPT Work announcements, Atlas joins the growing graveyard of AI products that promised to revolutionize everything but couldn't even survive their first birthday.

The Verge

GitHub - vercel-labs/openreview: An open-source, self-hosted AI code review bot powered by Vercel. · GitHub

Vercel dropped OpenReview, an AI code review bot that lets Claude judge your pull requests because apparently human reviewers weren't crushing enough souls. It's in beta, which means it's currently learning the fine art of nitpicking semicolons and questioning your life choices.

OpenReview

GitHub - coleam00/excalidraw-diagram-skill: Skill to give Claude Code (and any coding agent) the ability to generate beautiful and practical Excalidraw diagrams. · GitHub

Someone taught Claude how to draw those trendy Excalidraw diagrams, because what coding agents really needed was the ability to turn your spaghetti code into actual visual spaghetti. Now your architectural disasters can look aesthetically pleasing while still being functionally questionable.

Excalidraw Diagram Skill

GitHub - tanishqkumar/ssd: A lightweight inference engine supporting speculative speculative decoding (SSD). · GitHub

A new lightweight inference engine promises speculative decoding so speculative they said it twice in the name. Either it's a typo or they're really, really confident about their speculation game.

SSD

GitHub - matt1398/claude-devtools: The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source.

Finally, DevTools for Claude that lets you peer into the AI's digital soul and watch it burn through tokens like a cryptocurrency day trader. Now you can visualize exactly how your context window became a graveyard of forgotten conversations.

claude-devtools

GitHub - LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills: 🧠 Curated collection of 1209+ best OpenClaw skills — weekly updated by MyClaw.ai

Someone curated 1,209+ OpenClaw skills because apparently we needed a skill marketplace for AI agents, weekly updated like it's the Billboard Hot 100 for digital labor. Quality over quantity was clearly not the guiding principle here.

OpenClaw Master Skills

GitHub - vercel-labs/webreel: Record scripted browser demos as video · GitHub

Vercel's WebReel lets you script browser demos into videos, perfect for creating those polished product demos that make everything look effortlessly smooth. Because nothing says 'authentic user experience' like a perfectly choreographed performance.

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