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Roots of R&B: Johnny Otis & Etta James

All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Singer, songwriter, producer and talent scout Johnny Otis got his start leading a big band that had the 1945 hit “Harlem Nocturne.” Later, as a talent scout, he discovered such performers as Big Mama Thornton, Esther Phillips and Etta James. James' career took off in the '60s with hits including “At Last," “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “I’d Rather Go Blind."

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ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?” 

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Linux Foundation Opens the Door to DocumentDB

Old-fashioned card catalog. The Linux Foundation has welcomed the DocumentDB project.

Microsoft’s open source, document-oriented database system is now under the aegis of the Linux Foundation. At Open Source Summit Europe,

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Text • Tom Ley

NFL Once Again Tweaks Rules To Make Tom Brady Look Better At His Job

NFL Once Again Tweaks Rules To Make Tom Brady Look Better At His Job
Tom Brady's first season as NFL broadcaster did not go well. The man who Fox is paying $37.5 million per year to provide color commentary spent most of his on-air season stumbling in and out of awkward silences, while offering up so much boring analysis that at times it beca...

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Text • Albert Burneko

Butlerian Jihad Now

Butlerian Jihad Now
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Raine, who brought his despair and suicidal thoughts to OpenAI's ChatGPT sof...

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Typepad is shutting down after an amazing 20+ years. It was spun off of Movable Type back in the very early days of the blogosphere. Seth Godin used to use it too, and I see that his old URLs redirect, which is great.

Defector
Text • Patrick Redford

Danish Intelligence Service Tells Trump To Stop Oafish Espionage Maneuvers

Danish Intelligence Service Tells Trump To Stop Oafish Espionage Maneuvers
Early Wednesday morning, Danish public broadcaster DR broke the news that several associates of Donald Trump had been flagged by the Danish Police Intelligence Service for running a shoddy espionage campaign in Greenland to soften the ground ahead of a potential push by the ...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Jed Salazar

Hardened Containers Aren’t Enough: The Runtime Security Gap

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We’ve come a long way from the days of shrink-wrapped software, where applications were developed in monolithic form and deployed

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Text • Chris Thompson

Josina Anderson Advises Independent Noun-Inclusion Vis-Á-Vis Chemtrails

Josina Anderson Advises Independent Noun-Inclusion Vis-Á-Vis Chemtrails
Florida Senate Bill 56, passed into law in April of this year, prohibits "the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of Florida for the express purpose of affect...

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Text • Mark E. Griffin

I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook

I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, creating a beautiful flash across the screen, and, if the TikToks are accurate, a slight puff of acrid smoke emanating from withi...

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Text • Richard MacManus

How MCP-UI Powers Shopify’s New Commerce Widgets in Agents

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Earlier this week, we interviewed the two developers of MCP-UI, a new way to add React and web components to

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Text • Brad Bourque

Save 20 Percent on Our Favorite Android Earbuds

The Nothing Ear (a) are svelte and elegant, with great sound quality and a more compelling price than ever

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Text • Mohan Varthakavi

Cut Complexity, Control Data: The Path To AI at Scale

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We’re moving from hype to implementation in the AI adoption arc. Consequently, enterprises’ expectations of AI, its impact and anticipated

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Text • Julian Chokkattu

Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL Review

Google's trio of 10th-generation Pixels is better than ever, but there's an off-putting dose of generative Al.

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This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

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John Gruber with analysis of the latest lawsuit in the Masimo patent saga:

It reads to me like that same decision would have been made, at the same time, if Kamala Harris had won last year’s election. But that’s the problem with a pay-to-play corrupt government like Trump’s, and Tim Cook’s willingness to play along to any degree, no matter how mild. By currying favor with Trump, it now looks like any decision from the U.S. government that goes in Apple’s favor might be because Apple curried favored with Trump. I genuinely do not believe that’s the case here.

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Text • Matthias Biehl

Why Federated API Management Is Essential for Hybrid Cloud

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As enterprises shift toward hybrid and multicloud architectures to maximize flexibility, reduce vendor lock-in and meet regulatory demands, they often

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Text • Drew Magary

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Baltimore Ravens

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Baltimore Ravens

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

Your team: DROP IT, MISTER!

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Lost, then Found

Inspired by a report that the MTA's lost and found isn't working as well as expected, listeners call in with their stories of things they've lost and later found.


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City Politics: Trouble in the Adams' Campaign, Mamdani's Scavenger Hunt, and more

Katie Honan, senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, talks about the latest news in the mayoral campaign including her experience covering mayor Eric Adams after receiving cash in a bag of chips from a former staffer, the culture of "toxic masculinity" amongst the candidates, and Zohran Mamdani's scavenger hunt.


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