Luke and Jonathan recap Season 9 of Crossword, preview Season 10, and share their thoughts on what they’re looking forward to over the next 6 months of WordPress. No cricket is discussed, but a recurring pun does make an appearance.
WIRED
• Matt Burgess
A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
Good post from A New Social about the difference between bridging and cross-posting. The illustrations really help too.
Perspective: I view WordPress as if it's my own product.
Snake-in-the-Box Problem
I added two new subscription lists to lists.opml.org and it's better organized and more concise.
A Brian Lehrer segment on specialized high schools in NYC. I went to one of them, signed up for the test mostly to get out of school for a day, and got in. Back in those days (the early 70s) no one studied for the test as far as I know. It has become very competitive and there's an issue of the racial makeup of the student body. As always Lehrer does a great podcast.
Not much time to blog today, might have a podcast later. In the meantime I did a search of Daytona for object database, a term that goes back to the early days and makes for an interesting browse, at least for me.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm
MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity
America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
Cameron Brink Is Back And Ready To Swat
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Richard MacManus
AI Agents Are the New APIs: Mashery Founder’s New Company

If APIs were the connective tissue between different websites and apps during the Web 2.0 era, then AI agents are
The post AI Agents Are the New APIs: Mashery Founder’s New Company appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Andrew Marshall
Why Latency Is Quietly Breaking Enterprise AI at Scale

As enterprises invest an ever-increasing percentage of their tech budget on AI, they expect it to deliver groundbreaking efficiencies and
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Defector
• Drew Magary
Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Dallas Cowboys
Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.
Your team: “I no longer want to be here.”
WIRED
• Joel Khalili
Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
A federal jury found crypto developer Roman Storm guilty of operating an unlicensed crypto business, but cleared him of sanctions violations and deadlocked on a money laundering charge.
WIRED
• Will Knight
Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety
The US government conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models—and never published the results.
McSweeney’s
• Michael Pershan
Honey, I Have No Clue What You’re Talking About—I Did NOT Use AI to Write My Wedding Vows
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
What to Know About the Eating Disorder ARFID
ARFID is an eating disorder that often presents as extremely picky eating, but that can quickly turn serious. Caitlin Moscatello, author and contributor to New York Magazine, and William Sharp, director, Children’s Multidisciplinary Feeding Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; and associate Professor, Division of Autism and Related Disorders & Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, explain how to recognize signs and how treatment is evolving.
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The Nihilistic War In Sudan
Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum says the scale of destruction is vast and, as the conflict rages, people are overwhelmed by chaos.
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