McSweeney’s
• Nathan Kamal
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
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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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Richard MacManus
The Herd Is Strong: PHP and Its Developer Ecosystem at 30

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
• Fernanda González
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.
Defector
• Drew Magary
Metallica Is Forever
WIRED
• Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Will Knight
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.”
Defector
• Ray Ratto
The Whole NBA Is Telling James Dolan To Piss Off
What You Need To Know About Apple’s New Container Framework

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced something that will fundamentally reshape the way we think about container security: its Containerization framework
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Defector
• Patrick Redford
Why ‘The Rider’ Is The Best Sports Book I’ve Ever Read
WIRED
• Beth Mole, Ars Technica
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.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Jonathan Vila Lopz
Using AI for Test Generation: Powerful Tool or Risky Shortcut?

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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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Emily Mullin
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.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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’
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.
Defector
• Lauren Theisen
Brian Wilson Was The Sound of Something Just Out Of Reach
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alex Williams
No SSH? What Is Talos, This Linux Distro for Kubernetes?
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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