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After many delays and negotiations, most of President Donald Trump's tariffs went into effect last Thursday, August 7th. Eric Levitz, senior correspondent at Vox, break down the latest news —  including why Trump’s tariffs, no matter how tough they might be on American pocketbooks, might be very hard to reverse.

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JSX (JavaScript XML) gave developers a familiar way to write interfaces, blending HTML-like syntax with JavaScript’s power. But as applications

The post Beyond JSX: Rethinking the Component Model in Frontend appeared first on The New Stack.

GitHub CEO resigns to go back to doing his own thing:

…my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I’ve decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again. GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon. I’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we’ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world.

GitHub is a unique product that deserves to be run independently. But also, I’m not too worried about this change.

It appears to be dawning on President Trump that he will not be ending the Russia-Ukraine war in one day as he promised during the campaign. Trump’s frustration at Vladimir Putin is rising: This week he accused Putin of hitting him with “bullshit” and even admitted...

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

Your team: Atl2nt8 Fal3ons.

I finally get Midnights. I don’t just mean, “Oh, I thought this album was whatever when I first heard it, and now I really love it,” though I do mean that a little bit. I mean I get it get it. Like, I get how Taylor Swift concert tickets are as pricey as diamond rings. I get...

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead of months. WorkOS simplifies MCP authorization with a single API built on five OAuth standards.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

Mark Tyson at Tom’s Hardware: AOL, now a Yahoo property, will end its dial-up internet service, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-based internet connectivity service, on September 30, 2025. Its dial-up service has been publicly available for 34 years, and has ...

Thomas Dohmke, who has been at the helm of GitHub since 2021, today announced that he is stepping down to

The post GitHub Loses Its CEO And Independence appeared first on The New Stack.

Tad Friend, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of In the Early Times: A Life Reframed (Crown, 2022), talks about his article "How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It" about researchers selling the idea of defeating death. 

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Today we rolled out two improvements to category management in Micro.blog on the web. The first is a new selection interface so you can more easily delete lots of categories at once. This was particularly a problem when importing from other blog systems, which could create l...

Arun Venugopal, senior reporter for WNYC's race & justice unit, shares his reporting on how the tourism industry in NYC is suffering because of President Trump's tariffs and other policies.

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Martha Barnette, co-host of the radio show and podcast A Way with Words and author of Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland (Harry N. Abrams, 2025), shares some fascinating stories of where words like "spam" and "cocktail."

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If it feels like white rappers are sprouting up all around us, it's with good reason. Though they never really went away—Kreayshawn is somehow still in the news—the last year alone has brought to prominence artists such as ian, who stylizes his name in all lowercase and puts...

Listening to Decoder with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao. Stunning to me that Notion has 900+ employees. I can’t even imagine what I would do that many people. Wouldn’t mind 9 employees for Micro.blog, though.

Time to channel your inner cruciverbalist. This week's puzzle was constructed by Dan Zarin and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Dan is a crossword constructor and freelance writer based in Portland, Maine. Over the years he has been a musician, a hitchhiker, a barista, an advertising copywriter and a food critic, so making puzzles seemed like the next logical step.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE. 

The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley tells WIRED he imagined the planet’s future based on his fears as a parent about the present, from dystopian capitalism to the “moral horror” of growing up.

The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor patients in the ICU.

The OverDrive is made to let ground vehicles navigate tough terrain with minimal input from humans.