Edible Nashville, a foodie magazine in Tennessee, holds a rather unique farm-to-table dinner event each year. It's at Hachland Hill, an 80-acre inn/retreat/event space 20 minutes outside of Nashville. Since the property has a creek running through it, and the Tennessee summers are hot, the magazine sited a long, snaking dinner table in the creek itself:

Attendees enjoyed cool feet as well as cocktails, wine, beer, dinner and live music. The event is getting rave reviews on social media; these are the unique experiences people crave these days.

The next Creek Dinner won't happen until July of 2027.

Fun fact: During the phases of a solar eclipse where the sun is partly obscured...

...small gaps in the environment—between leaves, for instance—can act as tiny pinhole projectors. The result is that these cool crescent-shaped illuminations are projected:

You can do a Google Image search for "eclipse crescent projections" to see more. 

Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the experience.

The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, gave the US military a firsthand taste of how modern drone warfare has evolved on the battlefields of Ukraine. The Ukrainian drone operators participating in the exercise were easily able to spot and destroy US armored vehicles by mimicking the actions of dropping bombs from above or moving close enough to simulate a kamikaze strike, according to US officials and a participant who spoke with The Wall Street Journal.

US armored vehicles were being destroyed so quickly that they were “respawned” and sent back into the simulated fray, a US official told The Wall Street Journal. The US troops who participated in the exercise—held in Germany from April 9 to May 10—were on rotational deployment from Fort Hood, Texas.

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This year is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the original Quake by id Software, if you could believe it. To commemorate that, publisher Bethesda has released a new campaign chapter for the game, titled "Dawn of the Machine."

This is part of a series of new campaign chapters, all developed by MachineGames "in collaboration with id Software." MachineGames is best known for making the games in the relatively recent Wolfenstein reboot series, as well as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The Quake maps are made by a team dubbed "Quake Club," which includes several MachineGames employees who work on Quake maps in their spare time.

The ambition and scope of some of these maps is beyond what was typical for Quake maps back in the late '90s, thanks in part to the team's use of TrenchBroom, a newer map editor that works well on modern systems and is easier to work with and more capable than what folks were using in those days.

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Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation comes days after rival OpenAI said one of its own models had breached developer platform Hugging Face, adding to growing unease over whether frontier AI labs are doing enough to control the increasingly capable systems they are building.

In a blog post describing the incidents, Anthropic said Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems during cybersecurity evaluations. All of the attacks happened during "capture-the-flag" exercises, a commo …

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