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Five tiny state parks reveal ancient fossils, Lincoln ties and colonial history x/channahon-state-park — Sep 6, 2026 Across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Massachusetts, little-known state parks reveal extraordinary natural and historical treasures hiding in plain sight. From Channahon’s river confluence to Falls of the Ohio’s vast Devonian fossil beds, Lincoln Homestead’s Lincoln-era roots, Morris State Park’s protection of Crowley’s Ridge, and Roxbury Heritage’s historic John Eliot Square and First Church, these small gems offer accessible, richly meaningful experiences. +23 Jared Kim Never heard of Morris State Park before this but Crowley's Ridge sounds like a hidden gem, adding it to my list for the next road trip.
+6 Dana Whitfield Boyle calling Murdoch's press a Frankenstein monster is a bold framing, curious to see if Ink backs it up with nuance or just spectacle.AMD Helios Debuts on Azure, Expands Anthropic Deals Tech — Jul 20, 2026 AMD unveiled Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, as a bid to challenge Nvidia, with Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Oracle among early customers and plans to ship to customers in the second half of 2026 for Azure deployment. Helios combines Instinct MI455X GPUs, Venice CPUs, Pensando networking and ROCm software, and will power frontier-model inference in Azure, with two new Venice-based VM series and expanded Pensando DPUs to scale cloud AI workloads. +127 Nvidia launches Spectrum-6 for AI data centers Tech — Jul 21, 2026 Nvidia unveiled Spectrum-6, a 102.4 Tbps Ethernet platform for the Vera Rubin AI supercomputer, doubling capacity to speed training and inference for large-scale AI workloads, with early adopters including CoreWeave, Microsoft, Nebius, SpaceXAI, and Tesla. The announcement saw Nvidia stock rise about 2%, while AMD touted its rival Helios Rackscale Solution with Microsoft and other big players joined by Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle. +3