Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
[Sponsor] Phoenix.new
Resurrect your side projects with Phoenix.new, the new AI app-builder from Fly.io. Just describe your idea, and Phoenix.new quickly generates a working real-time Phoenix app: clustering, pubsub, and presence included. Ideal for multiplayer games, collaborative tools, or quick weekend experiments. Built by Fly.io, deploy wherever you want.
Spent most of the day resting, listening to the audiobook for The Grace of Kings, and trying to avoid working. My body was exhausted and Covid was the non-negotiable reminder to slow down. Feeling better. 😷
Podcast Standards Project
• Transistor
Bringing video to the open podcast ecosystem
Today, the Podcast Standards Project hosted a session on "Video podcasting with HLS" to a packed room at Podcast Movement, before the conference had even started.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine
WIRED
• David Gilbert
An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories
A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
★ Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103
A perfect logo, from a designer with a long and storied career.
Predicament
I got my War of Being LP sleeve signed by them. We agreed the names of the songs on the Altered State album (my favorite album) are difficult to remember when they asked me which of their songs was my favorite. They ended up performing the song I had in mind later anyway! #ArcTanGent
Defector
• Kathryn Xu
Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version)
Bowen Yang's 'Wicked' White Lie
The Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live cast member talks with Terry Gross about his favorite pop culture in the aughts, his SNL audition, and his recent trip to China.
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Liquid Glass has (deservedly) received plenty of criticism. But there are some areas that are clearly better, like these buttons in iOS alerts.
TesseracT is simply unbeatable as the highlight of #ArcTanGent 2025 for me. They always put up such a great performance. The music, the choreography, the lights, the props, they were rightfully the culmination of the entire festival this year.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joseph Matalone
Solve the AI Tech Talent Crisis With These Recruiting Strategies

Building a team that’s ready for whatever’s next in software starts with how you recruit today. Technologies like AI, edge
The post Solve the AI Tech Talent Crisis With These Recruiting Strategies appeared first on The New Stack.
MSNBC → MS NOW. In fairness to the designers, any new logo is going to be worse than the peacock.
During the first Trump term, I thought MSNBC’s coverage was great. But this year they’ve seemed unmoored. I’ve mostly stopped watching. This rebrand was a chance for something new and they blew it.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
How to Get Invited Back to the Beach House
Listeners call in to share their tips for how to be a good house guest; and listeners who frequently host guests at their houses share what they appreciate from their guests.
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Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
Diogo Jota Will Never Walk Alone
The first weekend of a new Premier League season is a time for optimism and for excitement. Even after an over-stuffed summer of soccer, which this year brought us the Club World Cup, the women's Euros, and the women's Copa América, there's nothing quite like the return of the club season. Overreactions are part of the fun this early—Viktor Gyokeres is a bust! West Ham is getting relegated!—but so is just watching competitive club soccer once more. The 2025-26 season started on Friday with a bittersweet debut, though, as the defending champions of Liverpool beat Bournemouth 4-2 at Anfield in the club's first competitive match at home since the death of Diogo Jota.
WIRED
• Emily Mullin
The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended
According to state health officials, a measles outbreak that started in an undervaccinated community and killed two children is now over.
Defector
• Chris Thompson
Twelve Minutes Of Ice Cube Stumbling Around An Empty Office In An Escalating Panic Almost Redeems The Rest Of ‘War Of The Worlds’
The climax of the new movie War of the Worlds features cheap-looking CGI'd clips of large robots standing next to large buildings, cut together with b-roll clips of B-2 stealth bombers in flight and Zoom-style laptop camera shots of several exhausted actors making wildly unconvincing Oh no faces. The music is very intense. This would've been exactly as wack as it sounds, except that the sequence is tied together by another set of clips, of 56-year-old Ice Cube running around, lost, in a large empty office space, while shouting for assistance. I am sorry to report that this part kicks ass.

WIRED
• Zoë Schiffer, Jake Lahut
WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dig into WIRED's latest—from crude deportation memes to GPT-5's negative reception.