Pumpkin Chili

This pumpkin chili gets an entire can of pumpkin purée—but you’d hardly know it. Rather than making the chili taste like pumpkin, the purée gives it velvety richness, body, and an autumnal hue. (Be sure to buy pure pumpkin purée, not pumpkin pie filling.) Best of all, it comes togetherContinue Reading

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

Some of the hardest work in code review happens outside the changed lines. A change can look correct in isolation and still break code elsewhere in the system. That is what makes our early results for OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra most interesting. In our evaluation, Astra caught approximately 4% more labeledContinue Reading

Who leaked America’s weapons secrets? Pentagon subjects top military officials to polygraphs

Dozens of senior US military officials were subjected to polygraph tests in a sweeping investigation into media leaks involving classified information on America’s stockpiles of advanced weapons. Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon puts senior military officials on polygraph tests over a weapons leak. Some of the highest-ranking officers in the US militaryContinue Reading

“Anything that sounds remotely like a Tele is that Esquire. It’s my impression of Keith Richards”: Steve Lukather played his 1951 Esquire on sessions with Joni Mitchell and Dolly Parton. And it tells us a lot about the evolution of the Fender Telecaster

(Image credit: Future/Olly Curtis) If you mention the words Fender and Esquire, most guitarists these days will picture a Telecaster-style guitar with no neck pickup. Fender’s Esquire model actually predated the Telecaster, and indeed the Broadcaster, having first been produced in the spring of 1950. Although a single bridge pickupContinue Reading