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Can Anyone Tell Me Why Sales of Our Signature Terrifying Yellow Wallpaper Are Down?

Gentlemen, I want answers. Our quarterly earnings are in the garbage, and I expect one of you overpaid three-martini-lunch layabouts to have a good explanation why my family’s home-decor company is bleeding money like a physician of high standing using proper, modern medical...

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Play With Clay

Happy to announce that the amazing Clay.earth product and team is joining Automattic. If you haven’t tried the app out yet, here’s a quick video to give you a taste. TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well: One of the top requests we’ve heard from Beeper beta testers is they want to tie in … Continue reading Play With Clay →

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Enough with AI

I’m going to take a break from AI-related blogging for a few months. I think the pause will do me and my readers some good. It’s too divisive an issue, and I expect in the coming years there will be a small but vocal faction that pushes back against AI more than there has be...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Richard MacManus

The Herd Is Strong: PHP and Its Developer Ecosystem at 30

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This month marks the 30th anniversary of PHP being released to the world. To find out how PHP has evolved

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WIRED
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Social Media Is Now a DIY Alert System for ICE Raids

The undocumented migrant community in the United States is using social networks and other digital platforms to send alerts about raids and the presence of immigration agents around the US.

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Text • Drew Magary

Metallica Is Forever

Metallica Is Forever
There was a time in my youth where the anticipation of a concert was better than the concert itself. I saw a whole lot of incredible acts back then, but my memories of those shows are largely confined to their buildup. I remember waiting for hours—in a line that wrapped arou...

WIRED
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Unpacking AI Agents

Need to make a dinner reservation or change your flight? Now AI agents can do that for you. This episode of Uncanny Valley looks into what Sam Altman calls “the next giant breakthrough.”

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Text • Ray Ratto

The Whole NBA Is Telling James Dolan To Piss Off

The Whole NBA Is Telling James Dolan To Piss Off
What is visible in most coaching searches is largely iceberg-ish in nature, in that we see 10 percent of the process and then, mostly out of self-aggrandizement, measure it at 90 percent from there. But let's play the game anyway and laugh the fit of our trousers off at the ...

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Text • Alex Zenla

What You Need To Know About Apple’s New Container Framework

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At WWDC 2025, Apple announced something that will fundamentally reshape the way we think about container security: its Containerization framework

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Text • Patrick Redford

Why ‘The Rider’ Is The Best Sports Book I’ve Ever Read

Why ‘The Rider’ Is The Best Sports Book I’ve Ever Read
Sports are simple. That is perhaps their most crucial property, the attribute that makes sports interesting to write and read about yet simultaneously makes doing so depend, to greater or lesser degrees, on mistranslation. The French Open final, an afternoon Golden State Val...

WIRED
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RFK Jr.’s Appointees to CDC Vaccine Panel Are Not Good

Robert Malone, a mainstay in conspiratorial circles, and Martin Kulldorff, a coauthor of the widely criticized Great Barrington Declaration, are two of the most concerning picks.

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Text • Jonathan Vila Lopz

Using AI for Test Generation: Powerful Tool or Risky Shortcut?

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AI is rapidly transforming software development, with AI-coding assistants now commonplace, offering everything from autocompletion to generating substantial code blocks.

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How 1963 Defined the Civil Rights Movement

Peniel Joseph, professor of history and public affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution (Basic Books, 2025), talks about his new book, an examination of the impact of events in 1963 on the struggle for civil rights -- from MLK's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to the assassination of JFK.


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Making Cents of Class-Action Lawsuits

Andy Vasoyan, freelance reporter examining the intersection of technology and culture and former Weekend Edition host at KCLU, talks about his latest writing in WIRED sharing his experiences in joining as many class-action lawsuits as possible, and how you can get involved too.


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WIRED
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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale

House Democrats sent letters to the potential buyers of the genetic testing company, asking how they plan to protect customer genetic data under a change of ownership.

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City Politics: Previewing the Second Debate and Other Races

Gothamist/WNYC reporter Elizabeth Kim previews the second Democratic primary debate and Rachel Holliday Smith, managing editor for The City, talks about the other competitive races in this month's primary, including city council and some of the borough president races.  Plus, WNYC All Things Considered host Sean Carlson previews the next installments of "Word from the Curb."


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Jason Snell on WWDC 2025: ‘Apple Intelligence Shifts Gears’

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Jason Snell:

After last year, Apple could’ve been forgiven for wanting to soft-pedal this year’s Apple Intelligence announcements and regroup. It didn’t do that, nor did it double down on last year. Instead, it’s chosen a middle ground — a bit safe and familiar but also a place where Apple can feel a bit more like itself. In the long run, it needs to get this right. In the short term, maybe it should focus on meeting its users where they are, rather than pretending to be something it’s not.

Agree with Snell’s take completely, I do.

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Text • Lauren Theisen

Brian Wilson Was The Sound of Something Just Out Of Reach

Brian Wilson Was The Sound of Something Just Out Of Reach
It's impossible for me to think about Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday, without picturing myself awake in my teenage bedroom at some sort of goblin hour. I still have very late nights, but they look a lot different—healthier, more organized. If I lose sleep now, it's beca...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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The View From LA

Gustavo Arellano, columnist for The Los Angeles Times, offers his take on the protests in Los Angeles, the Trump administration's response and how local communities are showing up for their immigrant neighbors. 


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Text • Alex Williams

No SSH? What Is Talos, This Linux Distro for Kubernetes?

Sidero CTO Andrew Rynhard and Head of Product Justin Garrison explained Talos’s design philosophy, highlighting its minimalism and focus on automation

The rise of container-based Linux distros is real, especially now with the demand for deploying to edge environments that require

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