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A widely venerated Christian legend about two saints, Barlaam and Josaphat of India, turns out to be a retelling of the Gautama Buddha's biography. The tale traveled from Sanskrit accounts of the Bodhisattva through Persian and Arabic versions before appearing as a Georgian Christian text in the 10th century, eventually spreading across Europe as far as Iceland.
Vice President JD Vance reportedly described artificial intelligence in starkly moral terms, calling it satanic, a framing that has found traction among Christian conservatives within the Republican Party. The comments surface as the Trump administration simultaneously promotes AI as a key driver of economic growth, exposing a tension between religious skepticism and policy enthusiasm inside the White House.
The htmx team released version 4.0.0 after eight months of development, rewriting the library's internals to use the fetch() API instead of XMLHttpRequest. Key user-facing changes include making attribute inheritance explicit by default, standardizing event names, and dropping localStorage as the default for history support. The team is not marking 4.0 as 'latest' on NPM, keeping 2.x as the default for CDN users until early 2027 while 4.0 becomes the 'next' line.
NFL running back Christian McCaffrey has taken an ownership and co-founder stake in a footwear startup, letting his nine-year Nike deal lapse to do so. The partnership, formed with entrepreneur Todd Meleney, has produced a training shoe called The CMC, designed around McCaffrey's own feedback after he criticized an early prototype for lacking support and stability.