Lab Notes 002: atproto subscription for Leaflet publications — how it works; why we started here; what's next
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE
The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.
Defector
• Barry Petchesky
Chicago Man Wears White Sox Cap To Work
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square this morning, so you might assume he donned a White Sox ballcap at the request of one of his parishioners. I think it much more likely he just wears this around all the time, even to formal events where it's entirely inappropriate. Have you met people from Chicago? He probably sold his mitre to buy a sandwich.
This fairly definitively puts to bed any lingering debate about which accursed Chicago franchise gets to claim the Pope, though the Cardinals and Padres could still make a case. In any event, the former Robert Prevost surely claims the White Sox—that is the face of a man who just heard that Jerry Reinsdorf might not sell the team until 2034.
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
An Interview With A Psychiatric Nurse Whose Research Funding Was Cut By The Trump Administration
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Lakebase Is Databricks’ Fully-Managed Postgres Database for the AI Era

When Databricks announced its plans to acquire the serverless Postgres startup Neon a few weeks ago, it clearly signaled it’s
The post Lakebase Is Databricks’ Fully-Managed Postgres Database for the AI Era appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Jason Parham
An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
Browser Dating users upload their 5,000 most recent searches, which are turned into a “browsing personality profile" by AI.
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins
How Waymo Handles Footage From Events Like the LA Immigration Protests
Waymo driverless taxis capture troves of video footage in order to operate, but the company reveals very little about how much data is stored—and for how long.
It's Time for Something New
The Every Podcast
• Dan Shipper
How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15 With AI Agents | Kieran Klaassen, Nityesh Agarwal
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft
Jellyfish Tracks AI Impact Across Four Major Coding Tools

Jellyfish, a software engineering intelligence platform provider, today expanded its integrations to support additional AI coding tools, as engineering team
The post Jellyfish Tracks AI Impact Across Four Major Coding Tools appeared first on The New Stack.
McSweeney’s
• Eli Grober
You’re Invited to My Birthday Military Parade
WIRED
• Kate Knibbs
Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
In the complaint, the Hollywood giants allege Midjourney generates “endless” ripoffs of everything from minions to Darth Vader.
The Fediverse Report
• Laurens Hof
Fediverse Report – #120
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
My AI Agents Are All Nuts via Niko Heikkilä
Thomas Ptacek published this article in the Fly.io company blog. You might ask why such a one-sided and belittling rant with plenty of toxic vitriol could be published in a business blog, but let's put that aside.
Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do via Baldur Bjarnason
baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/
I don’t recommend publishing your first draft of a long blog post. It’s not a question of typos or grammatical errors or the like. Those always slip through somehow and, for the most part, don’t impact the meaning or argument of the post.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
I needed an updated bio for a conference in October.
AI and Vibe Coding Are Radically Impacting Senior Devs in Code Review

AI agents, vibe coding, AI code review, and other AI-centric topics are all I see developers talk about on social
The post AI and Vibe Coding Are Radically Impacting Senior Devs in Code Review appeared first on The New Stack.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Gay Restaurants That Nurtured LGBTQ Americans
As Pride month is now in full swing, Erik Piepenburg, journalist and contributor to The New York Times, and author of the new book Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants (Grand Central Publishing, 2025), talks about how LGBTQ-friendly restaurants have nurtured queer Americans and their fight for civil rights.
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WIRED
• Will Knight
A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World
A new machine learning approach tries to better emulate the human brain, in hopes of creating more capable agentic AI.