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Waiting on hold. “There are currently 146 callers ahead of you…” Seriously?!

Bananas Foster describes itself as "the official non-profit of Banana Ball," the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the Savannah Bananas. Its mission, per executive director Jolie Chabala, is "celebrating the foster care community, while educating and inspiring others t...

They said it couldn't be done. They said Aaron Rodgers surely couldn't look as bereft of an inner life and the spark of humanity as he already does. Well, some truly awful technology has proven the doubters wrong.

During Sunday's broadcast of the Steelers' 31-17 loss to the Seahawks, Fox Sports aired an "AI Football Journey" that covered Rodgers's career, from draft day to his current gig in Pittsburgh. It will come as no surprise to anyone that it looked like shit and contained a couple of errors.

Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

A recent Washington Post article explained how most families have a secret language that only they understand, or a "familect" as some linguists call it. Listeners call in to share the words in their family that only they use, which are often conjured in the minds of small children and then used for years down the road.

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DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.

The generative AI landscape is experiencing a fundamental transformation in 2025, driven by the widespread adoption of the Model Context

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The year Charles Sullivan finally started the treatment that helped manage his agonizing digestive disorder was also the year he was arrested for the crime that would send him to prison for life. Now, 31 years and several surgeries later, he’s still struggling to find relief within the medical system that operates behind Texas prison […]

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I love a good microcosm. It makes for efficient blogging, for one, and it's also helpful to have one play or drive to point to if anyone wonders How It's Going. Well, it's going badly, Steve! Fucking Steve. Fucking Giants.

For 60 minutes on Sunday against the Cowboys, Russell Wilson was awesome; the problem was overtime, where Dallas prevailed 40-37. The 36-year-old, signed mostly to be a steady short-term presence and mentor on a team that is still several years away, looked like the QB1 of old. He was really chucking it! On balls that traveled more than 20 yards in the air, Wilson was seven of 11 with three touchdowns, including a fourth-down precision strike to Wan'Dale Robinson with 2:44 left, and a 48-yard mortar to Malik Nabers with 25 seconds on the clock, both of which looked like they could be game-winners, and neither of which were.

Looking through Federico Viticci’s iOS 26 review. He starts on a fairly positive note about Liquid Glass. Or at least, not a “the sky is falling” panic:

I can’t stress this enough: the first thing you need to understand about Liquid Glass is that it’s not a drastic, groundbreaking redesign that changes the look of your iPhone overnight, like iOS 7 did for millions of people in 2013.

This is our 100th Defector crossword! Don’t solve them all in one place. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Brian Keller, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. This is Brian’s sixth published puzzle, and for novice and advanced constructors, he recommends trying out Crosserville.

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.

Over the last four years,  has gained popularity for its ability to integrate data and microservices orchestration within a single

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I had a flash last night during the Emmys. The Bloggers of Mastodon. I loved the concept right off the bat, so I wrote a blog post using in WordLand that went through WordPress and landed on Mastodon. It all works. Where are the other Bloggers of Mastodon? Let's start a club! ;-)

I've gotten a lovely response to the Que Sera Sera post I linked to here. It's from 1996, I was reporting from a tech conference I was at where there were all angry men on stage threatening everyone else. They may not have known they were doing that, but it was awful. And so different from the web we were just beginning to understand at that time. I'm going to start going through the posts that I remember making a difference at the time. No better way for me to remember what the web is, going back to these memories when it was all fresh and new, before the leaders of tech realized what was going on. Google didn't ship for another two years. It probably wasn't even in development at the time. Yet I think the last section is a good anthem for the web, for those of us who think it's time to cut pop all the bullshit off the stack and get back to our roots.

Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), talks about his latest article on the "rapidly escalating" threats to America’s election system, including how the Trump administration is making it harder to vote, the DOJ's civil rights division has dropped cases investigating gerrymandered maps in states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Texas and more.

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This question has come up quite a bit lately. People don't know that there are two places you can use FeedLand, feedland.org and feedland.com. There's a lot of history here, and some uncertainty about the future, so there's not much I can do other than explain the situation...

The Detroit Lions blowing out the Chicago Bears and their rookie head coach in Week 2 is not the kind of result would normally be a big story, but Sunday's matchup was more than just an NFC North clash, and Ben Johnson is more than just a first-time head coach experiencing r...

This is the first of two parts. Recent reports of AI doom highlight a 95% failure rate in enterprise rollouts.

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New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

An LLM breathed new life into 'Animal Crossing' and made the villagers rise up against their landlord.