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More on the Lack of an Included Charger With New M5 MacBooks in Europe, Including the U.K. and Norway

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While poking fun at EU regulations leading Apple not to include a power adapter with the new M5 MacBook Pro across Europe, I wondered why the U.K. — which left the EU five years ago — was affected. DF reader C.A. wrote, via email: We did indeed leave the EU, but remain a...

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Emperor Palpatine

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.

Defector
Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

A Thorough And Depressing Review Of The Raiders’ Three First Downs

A Thorough And Depressing Review Of The Raiders’ Three First Downs

The Las Vegas Raiders played the Chiefs on Sunday, or at least appeared on the same field as the Chiefs on Sunday. They were certainly there, in their spiffy white uniforms, in Kansas City, but with Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers both injured and inactive, “played” may have been asking too much.

Vegas never entered the red zone. Only once did the offense cross midfield. On that occasion, they gazed longingly at the end zone from the Chiefs’ 46. In seven attempts, they did not convert a single third down. They totaled 95 yards—70 passing, 25 rushing—to Kansas City's 434. Vegas lost, 31-0.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Darryl K. Taft

How Block Got 12,000 Employees Using AI Agents in Two Months

RALEIGH, N.C. — While most companies are still figuring out how to get their developers to use AI coding tools

The post How Block Got 12,000 Employees Using AI Agents in Two Months appeared first on The New Stack.

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Could Trump's boat strikes turn into war?

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Since September, the United States has taken credit for at least seven attacks against boats in the Caribbean, killing dozens of people. The Trump administration claims they were carrying deadly drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela and could be treated as though they’re enemy ...

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

Why Modern IPv6 Failed This Massive Kubernetes Networking Test

PARIS —When I worked for NASA in the 1980s, I helped build a Near Space Network tracking program using xBase

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Defector
Text • Luis Paez-Pumar

It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than Bournemouth-Crystal Palace

It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than Bournemouth-Crystal Palace

Perhaps it should not have been surprising that a matchup between the fourth- and sixth-placed teams in the Premier League produced an absolute firecracker of a match. Perhaps Bournemouth and Crystal Palace are two really good and, maybe more importantly for the purposes of a neutral, really fun sides, and their Saturday showdown at Selhurst Park was just a perfect clash at a perfect time. Whatever the reasoning, the 3-3 classic was the best game of this young season—and yes, I am including all of the Liverpool last-minute nonsense, including the two matches against these very teams—and a thrilling look England's upper-midtable, a place where everyone is a tough out and no lead is safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dm3zj7cUGQ

WIRED
Text • Eric Berger, Ars Technica

Mystery Object From ‘Space’ Strikes United Airlines Flight Over Utah

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above 30,000 feet.

The Texas Observer
Text • Steven Monacelli

ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account

Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey made an unannounced visit to a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility on Monday in an effort to demand accountability from the agency, which has failed to substantively respond to multiple inquiries from the congressman—including one stemming from a Texas Observer investigation earlier this year. “I’m here today to […]

The post ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account appeared first on The Texas Observer.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Claude Code Comes to Web and Mobile

Today, Anthropic’s Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company’s

The post Anthropic’s Claude Code Comes to Web and Mobile appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
Text • Zoë Schiffer

Google Has a Bed Bug Infestation in Its New York Offices

Employees at the company’s Chelsea campus were told to stay home after exterminators found “credible evidence” of an infestation.

Defector
Text • Kelsey McKinney

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Rises for Soufflés

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Rises for Soufflés

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens, with the same time parameters as the professional-grade bakers competing on the show.


WIRED
Text • Brad Bourque

These Skullcandy Earbuds Are Discounted Up to Nearly $50 Off

The Method 360 ANC have great active noise canceling, and a case built for clumsy folks like me.

WIRED
Text • Paolo Armelli

What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist

In just seven minutes, the thieves took off with crown jewels containing with thousands of diamonds along with other precious gems.

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Text • Ray Ratto

Which Trash Team Rules The NFL’s Dumpster?

Which Trash Team Rules The NFL’s Dumpster?
The National Football League has a firings gap. Though still the worldwide leader in commercial interruptions and enormous American flags, the NFL has fallen shamefully behind its college cousin at the vital measure of in-season coach firings; that figure is currently eight,...

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Ken Burns On The American Revolution

Burns' new six-part PBS documentary series includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men are created equal." The series begins Nov. 16. 

Also, Lloyd Schwartz reviews a recording of Handel arias from soprano Julia Lezhneva.


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Text • Ginny Hogan

At Least We Owned the Libs

Sure, it was a huge bummer that they cut funding for fixing the streets in our town. We enjoyed going places. But, overall, it’s worth it for the tax cuts we expect any day now. I mean, at least we owned the libs. Libs love streets. Did you see that video of Trump dumping sh...

Defector
Text • Kathryn Xu

Is Max Verstappen Actually Going To Win This Championship?

Is Max Verstappen Actually Going To Win This Championship?
After all the debate about fair application of Papaya Rules and which of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri is really McLaren's number one driver, the answer, as it is turning out, is neither of them. One race is a fluke, two is coincidence, three is when you really start consid...

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

Kickstarter Campaign for Ben Zotto’s ‘Go Computer Now!’, a Book on Sphere, the Nearly Forgotten Personal Computer Company

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Ben Zotto: Name every pioneering personal computer you can think of from the 1970s. The MITS Altair 8800. The Apple-1. The IMSAI 8080. You may even know about the SWTPC 6800 or Processor Technology Sol-20. There’s a computer missing from that list, and it’s an important...

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Text • Hamilton Nolan

Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job

Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job
The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where you picked up credentials, which was long. This indicated that while there ...