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Stress-Testing the Rule of Law

What is breaking down or what’s broken when the governor of Illinois says he’s being invaded by the National Guard of Texas under President Trump’s orders, or when the president is dueling with Oregon and ...

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Tasklet Is IFTTT for the Agentic Age

There are plenty of tools on the market now that let you build AI agents. Maybe you’ve used AWS AgentCore,

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Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Bunny, And Why?

Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Bunny, And Why?
When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season's Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the world, because Benito Martínez Ocasio is probably the single most versatile man in show business. He's wrestled a match at WrestleMania, pulled double du...

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National Guard Deployment In American Cities

President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Portland, Chicago and D.C., and while Democrat-led states are fighting back, some Republican-led states are welcoming the troops -- even requesting them. Tonya Mosley talks with Atlantic national security staff ...

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The Raised Middle Finger Is Implied

The Raised Middle Finger Is Implied
This was the moment Jerry Jones could have cleaned the slate on his reputation as a brilliant businessman, Foghorn Leghorn tribune act, mirror addict and gaseous faildad, and as you may have guessed given his resume, he duffed it. We all had such high hopes for him too. In ...

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Who Can Stop A’ja Wilson?

Who Can Stop A’ja Wilson?
PHOENIX — On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only one lead change. Nor was it really a lead change to remember: It happene...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

30 Issues in 30 Days: Criminal Justice Reform

Michael Tannousis, assemblymember representing District 64, including southern Brooklyn and the east shore of Staten Island" and Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice and the director of Vera Action, cover what each New York City mayoral hopeful is proposing when it comes to criminal justice reform, including the 2019 bail reform law signed by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, plus Zohran Mamdani's and Curtis Sliwa's policy proposals.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps

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It’s now almost three years since Elon Musk acquired Twitter. Since then the fediverse — a collection of decentralized web

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Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

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Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to r...

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Apple’s Justification for Removing DeICER From the App Store

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Pablo Manríquez, reporting for Migrant Insider: Apple has quietly removed DeICER, a civic-reporting app used to log immigration enforcement activity, from its App Store after a law enforcement complaint — invoking a rule normally reserved for protecting marginalized grou...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Do You Need an AI 'Friend?'

Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, talks about his reporting on the AI company called Friend, and their ads, which have been defaced throughout the subway system.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Right-Sizing AI for the Edge: Power, Models and Security

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At Edge Impulse’s recent panel discussion on Edge AI, three industry leaders shared their views on

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How ‘Slow Horses’ Explains The World

How ‘Slow Horses’ Explains The World

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.

The world. Ugh. Awful place. Can’t recommend enough that you avoid it. I know I do. I am a man who craves distraction, seeing as how it’s my best chance of isolating myself from all of the bullshit out there. This is why I don’t watch the news. What kind of fucking lunatic wants to watch the news right now? They can’t even do the news right anymore! They fucked it up, just like they fucked up everything else!

The Texas Observer
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In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, and seriously injuring another, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, who were being detained at the site.  The federal government was quick to blame the attack on the “far left” and the […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Your Next Pull Request Will Come From a Product Manager

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For my entire career, I’ve built tools and platforms for a specific person: the professional software engineer. We’ve focused on

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The Pro Tennis Calendar Is Built For Burnout

The Pro Tennis Calendar Is Built For Burnout
The professional tennis calendar might make sense if this was still the slow-paced lawn game of the previous century. But it isn't, and hasn't been for a long time. Every passing week intensifies the mismatch between the tour calendar and the bodily demands of pro tennis in ...

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Barcelona Is On The Warpath

Barcelona Is On The Warpath
One of the motivations for the new Champions League format, which debuted in the men's game last season and now has come to the women's side, was to beef up the competition's first stage with more heavyweight bouts. The drool-worthy slate of games that kicked off this year's...

WIRED
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How Hong Kong Gave Rise to Labubu

How Hong Kong gave rise to Labubu and a designer toy movement now shaping global culture.