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These SteelSeries Earbuds Are Great for Gaming, and Are 35% Off Right Now

You might be surprised to find out how capable the SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds are.

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After Many UX Improvements, We’re Relaunching the Small Child as xKid, Your Next-Gen Everyday Companion

Thank you for attending our company’s all-hands. It’s been an incredible eight years since we launched the first version of the Small Child. I’m not embarrassed to say that initially, we had a suboptimal product-market fit. The UX was terrible, and first-time users had no id...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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30 Issues in 30 Days: Fighting Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Bias

Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of 30 Rights of Muslim Women: A Trusted Guide (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024) , and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, discuss how to fight both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at a time of polarization over the Mideast in the context of concrete policy proposals from the New York City mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa.


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The Shutdown Is Pushing Air Safety Workers to the Limit

Federal employees say that flying is still safe despite the strain on air traffic controllers. But expect even more airport delays ahead.

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Jane Goodall

Today we’re remembering renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, known for her work researching the behavior of chimpanzees and protecting their habitats. She died last week at the age of 91. "Every time somebody discovers an animal doing something that we used to think was unique to us, there is this scientific uproar, because we [humans] have to keep our uniqueness. And of course the chimps have challenged this belief again and again and again," Goodall told Terry Gross in 1999. 

John Powers reviews the Netflix thriller film A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. 

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Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren't even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they're many hundreds or thousands of words shorter than the blog itself. Caring about the headline and dek is to some extent like close-reading the movie poster inside the multiplex. Probably it's better to just go inside the theater and watch the movie.

Possibly Economist culture correspondent Jon Fasman, writing in the Wall Street Journal, is not solely to blame for the following combo, atop his baffling Thursday column about Johnny Cash:

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Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures

This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Who is María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Price Winner?

Gideon Rose, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the former editor of Foreign Affairs and author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010), talks about María Corina Machado, who was announced as the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and related news of the day.


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Is the End of Detection-Based Security Here? 

Security images in collage.

I started in security in the late 2000s doing intrusion detection and incident response. Since then, the world has undergone

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Grandparenting as Paid Labor?

Marina Lopes, author of Please Yell at My Kids (GCP/Balance, 2025), talks about her story in The Atlantic suggesting American parents look at the way childcare works in Singapore where grandparents are frequently primary caregivers and get paid for the work.


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First request for YouTube API access has been rejected by Google because they didn’t like my screencast walkthrough. Annoyed. Might pivot and get back to it later.

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Run Containers and VMs Easily With OrbStack GUI

If you are either a container pro or are looking to start your journey with this particular technology, you’ll want

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OpenAI Aims To Make ChatGPT the Operating System of the Future

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OpenAI announced its Apps SDK at DevDay 2025 on Oct. 6 in San Francisco, fundamentally transforming ChatGPT from a conversational

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Make It Nice: Windows And Floors

Make It Nice: Windows And Floors

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector's best interior design advice column. Today we have a search for cool and cooling window treatments, a rehabbed Man Apartment, and a lecture about rugs.

Noe asks: 

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We added new settings for your profile page today. By default Micro.blog thinks about most everything as public on the open web, but adding more control here feels right and is consistent with some of our fediverse settings. Here’s a screenshot:

A privacy settings interface with options to hide the profile for signed-out users and hide replies on the profile page is displayed.

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Could Amazon Nova AI be used to generate an index of RSS feeds?

Could Amazon Nova AI be used to generate an index of RSS feeds? An advanced AI model could certainly be used to generate an index of RSS feeds. Here's how it might work: Data Collection: The model would first need … Continue reading →

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The best thing about working with other people is they push you to consider paths you wouldn’t have thought of yourself. Helps to not get stuck in one narrow way of thinking.

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The social network of the web

I was just catching up on tweets and saw an announcement earlier this week that Matt Mullenweg is going to lead a town hall discussion at WordCamp Canada next Friday in Ottawa. A week from today. I find that exciting. I'll in the room for sure, and blogging it. Why not? ;-) ...

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I know so many people around my age that were never told this simple truth that I heard Steve Jobs say in a video the other day. Paraphrasing -- the people who made the rules you think you have to live by weren't smarter than you. Once you accept this as fact, then if you can find the leading edge you can make it work the way you want it to. You can be one of those people.

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Google Search Could Change Forever in the UK

New regulation from the UK’s competition authority means Google may be forced to make major changes in the way that people use its search engine.