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Robert Reich, recently retired as Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, Secretary of Labor under Pres. Clinton, a columnist for Newsweek and The Guardian and substack, and the author of several books, including his latest, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America (Knopf, 2025), shares his story and why he thinks his generation 'came up short' and why young progressives listen to his political analysis.

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Sam Altman posting about the release in a Twitter / X post: We believe in individual empowerment. Although we believe most people will want to use a convenient service like ChatGPT, people should be able to directly control and modify their own AI when they need to, and the...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about loaded fries, USC football sucking shit, toothpaste, Lamar Jackson, and more.

Hey now, let’s all give a big round of applesauce to Albert Burneko for presiding over this column a week ago. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that Albert is our greatest living American, now and forever.

I was scrolling the Steam store aimlessly a few Saturdays past, avoiding my various anxieties and responsibilities as a professional, when I happened upon a game whose banner appeared to be the old guy from Darkest Dungeon digging a hole (I wasn't looking very closely). Enti...

Do AI tools make developers 56% more productive, 26% more productive or — as a recent METR study showed —

The post How Top Tech Teams Use AI To Boost Dev Productivity appeared first on The New Stack.

There’s a seismic shift taking place in software development. Anthropic’s CEO recently predicted that within the next three to six

The post AI and the Future of Code: Developers Are Key appeared first on The New Stack.

Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers from their children has been revived. Why are they so scandalized by a woman being sexy...

This Is a Big Release Going Dark: Dark Mode Arrives How Does It Relate to AI? Connecting with the Agentic World Just Put a Fit on That! Maps Become More Beautiful A Better Red: Introducing New Named Colors More Spiffing Up of Graphics Non-commutative Algebra Draw on That Surface: The Visual Annotation of Regions Curvature […]

The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.

It's all that baseball fans can talk about this morning, the huge memorable swing of the bat at the narrative and emotional climax of Monday night's dramatic game in Arlington, Texas. An incredible, historic moment! Allow me to set the scene: It's the bottom of the 10th inn...

The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida's law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.

GitOps was pitched as a transformative approach to software delivery and infrastructure management, promising better outcomes across multiple dimensions of

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Some people are fans of the San Francisco 49ers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the San Francisco 49ers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: San Francisco 49ers.

A recent expert panel organized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cast doubt on the safety of SSRIs in pregnancy -- sparking backlash from medical institutions and doctors. Lauren Osborne, M.D., vice chair of Clinical Research at the Department of OBGYN at Weill Cornell Medicine and chair of The National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP), explains what the science says about antidepressant use during pregnancy.

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Is there a more welcome refuge from the troubles of modern life than the laundromat - that electromechanical chapel of enforced contemplation? I find them very relaxing.I haven’t had occasion...

Shipped a couple new things this morning: Micro.blog for iOS bug fixes, and a slight redesign to how the automatic accessibility description works when adding a photo on the web. Much smoother workflow.

Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.

Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.

At this point it's clear that the Caitlin Clark conversation, for lack of a better term, isn't going anywhere. Some things just become so ubiquitous and so useful as a culture-war cudgel that they can never be put down. You have to accept the fact that everyone is eventually...

“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”