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$25 Off DoorDash Promo Code | October 2025

Explore today’s top DoorDash promo codes for $25 off, free delivery, and up to 30% off with our latest coupons for new and existing customers.

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.

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What everyone is saying about Sora

What everyone is saying about Sora

It's cool. It's scary. It's a hit

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Why Bloomberg Chose Vendor-Neutral Java Over Big Tech

When Bloomberg decided to standardize its Java infrastructure in 2018, the company faced a decision that would impact more than

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The ChatGPT for music that launched in 1994

Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines.

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MLB Average Game Time Under Three Hours for Third Straight Year

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Jason Foster, reporting for MLB.com: Nine-inning games during the 2025 season have, on average, clocked in at 2 hours, 38 minutes through Thursday, marking the third straight season in which the average game time was 2:40 or shorter. Regular Season nine-inning @MLB g...

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Blocktober

It’s so exciting to see what the creative minds like Nick Hamze or Tammie Lister are doing with Automattic’s AI vibe coding tool, Telex. Tammie is doing a Blocktober, a block every day this month of October, you should follow along.

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Sen. Cory Booker on the Democrats’ risky shutdown bet

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Democrats are making a gamble that voting against a Republican plan to fund the government will be worth the pain of the current shutdown.

New Jersey’s senior Democratic senator Cory Booker voted against a similar Republican plan to fund the government back in March. And he's been one of the most visible critics of the second Trump administration in the Senate. 

Host Colby Itkowitz speaks with Booker about the stakes of the current government shutdown, how long it could go on, and why he says Democrats must “do something” to try to reduce looming hikes in health care costs or risk further alienating their base.

Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Josh Carroll, with help from Zoe Cummings. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sam Bair.

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After we added books and bookshelves to Micro.blog, there was a lot of good feedback about expanding it to movies, video games, music, and other collections of media. I think I have a good next step: make it easy to simply search for a movie and blog about it. Planning to wire things up via TMDB. 🍿

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Why More Young People are Getting Early-Onset Cancers

More young people under the age of 50 are getting diagnosed with early-onset cancers and researchers are trying to figure out why. Nina Agrawal, health reporter for The New York Times, explains what they have found so far, and what is still unknown.


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Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism via Bruce Schneier

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Today’s world requires us to make complex and nuanced decisions about our digital security. Evaluating when to use a secure messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp, which passwords to store on your smartphone, or what to share on social media requires us to assess risks and make judgments accordingly. Arriving at any conclusion is an exercise in threat modeling.

Fresh Air
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

The WWE superstar considered pursuing a career in mixed martial arts before realizing, "I don't like getting punched in the face." Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine. He spoke with Terry Gross about his many injuries, his relationship with his late father, and his wrestling personas. 


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How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions

On September 22, Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, Texas’ new “bathroom bill,” into law, marking another escalation in the Republican war on the rights of trans people. What may be less evident on first glance is how the law also represents an attack on public institutions—and on the legal system writ large.  Andrea […]

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Our Favorite All-in-One Printer and Scanner Is $50 Off

Epson's latest generation of EcoTank printers are already a good value before the discount.

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Your private data isn't as private as you think via Ben Werdmuller

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It’s not widely understood that it is technically possible for privately hosted data to be obtained by government, law enforcement, or even private parties without your knowledge.

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Thursday Morning Politics: Government Shutdown Day 2

Politico congressional reporter Nicholas Wu talks about the latest on the federal shutdown and other national political news.


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October Is The Stuff Of Life

October Is The Stuff Of Life
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. I suppose the fact that I w...

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Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

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Your Optimal Morning Routine

Inspired by an article in The Atlantic that shares recommendations for a "happy start to the day," listeners call in to share their morning routines, and explain why it helps them get going; plus Michael Hill, WNYC's Morning Edition host, shares his ultra-early routine.


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A Brief History Of Martian Ruckuses

A Brief History Of Martian Ruckuses

In the balmy late summer of 1924, people across the world prepared to receive the first messages from the intelligent alien civilization that was assumed to inhabit Mars.

To tune in to these Martian communications, the U.S. military imposed a period of radio silence on the nation that spanned 36 hours between August 21 and 23, coinciding with an unusually close pass between Mars and Earth in their orbits around the Sun. Martians, so the reasoning went, might capitalize on this moment of relative proximity—when the planets were a mere 34 million miles apart, instead of many times that distance—to reach out to their neighbors.