Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Just sad and deflated about the senate passing Trump’s bill. It’s going to hurt a lot of people, including many people who voted for Trump. Today was mostly inevitable after the election, but there are still some positive, more narrowly targeted things we can focus on, while we wait for 2026.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• B. Cameron Gain
VMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management

Usage and customer feedback during the coming months and weeks will determine whether has managed to pull off a remarkable
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WIRED
• David Gilbert
A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
Amazon’s scale is mind-boggling to me. They now have a million robots for their fulfillment warehouses.
Sharded vs. Distributed: The Math Behind Resilience and High Availability

Probability is the branch of mathematics that deals with uncertainty. It helps us understand the likelihood of different outcomes occurring.
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How to Have a Hot Commie Summer
WIRED
• Zoë Schiffer
Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 87 – SO ORDERED
Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Travis Gosselin
How SPS Commerce Built Its Internal Developer Portal

Implementing an internal developer portal isn’t just about choosing a tool; it’s about reshaping the way your engineering teams work
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Defector
• Drew Magary
All I Want Is To Live In A World Where People Talk Normal
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about farmers markets, vibrators, dogs in mild peril, and more.
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WIRED
• Zoë Schiffer
Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.
How (Human) Developers Should Upskill in the AI Era

AI code assistants are being treated as digital interns, AI employees are becoming more common, and realistic avatars of CEOs
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Cloudflare is on the offensive against AI bots
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu, Parker Hall
Nothing's New Phone (3) and Headphone (1) Look Nothing Like You've Seen Before
The unusual LED lights from the original Nothing phones have morphed into a matrix display that can show the time, a Magic 8 Ball, and even a spin-the-bottle game.
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as Primates Are Going Viral
Some Instagram creators are using Google’s Veo 3 and racking up millions of views on AI videos of “bigfoot baddies.” They’ll teach you how to make them for $15.
WIRED
• Mike Dent
Trump’s New Fragrance Doesn’t Smell Like Success
Early reviews are in for the US president's “rallying cry in a bottle”—and they're not good. It also costs $249.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
What Last Week's Blockbuster Decisions Mean for SCOTUS
Ruth Marcus, a contributor to The New Yorker and a former columnist for The Washington Post and the author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover (Simon & Schuster, 2019), talks about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and takes stock of what the Supreme Court's latest decisions mean for the identity of the court and the ability of judges to check executive power.
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WIRED
• Molly Taft
The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs
President Donald Trump’s budget would kill off tax credits for wind and solar, raising costs for new clean energy projects and blowing up valuable investment in those already in the pipeline.