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Forget SEO. Welcome to the World of Generative Engine Optimization

This holiday season, more shoppers are expected to use chatbots to figure out what to buy. ‘Tis the season for GEO.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Alexander T. Williams

Should You Go All-In on Vite? A Risk vs. Reward Analysis

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When Vite first landed, it wasn’t just another JavaScript bundler — it felt like a complete reset. Fast startup times,

The post Should You Go All-In on Vite? A Risk vs. Reward Analysis appeared first on The New Stack.

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Text • Samantha Cole

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted. 

WIRED
Text • Makena Kelly

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

WIRED
Text • Molly Taft

The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students

The outage impacted online learning platform Canvas, which is used by half of college students across the US, leaving many unable to access course materials or contact professors.

Defector
Text • Israel Daramola

What Even Is ‘After The Hunt’?

What Even Is ‘After The Hunt’?
After the Hunt, the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, is ostensibly about a great many things. It is a film about campus politics, generational divide, the slippery nature of power dynamics, fantasy kitchen apartments, and whether you can be too much of a wife guy. But ...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Ed Huang

Building a Self-Aware Enterprise With GenAI

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The enterprise is on the brink of a great transformation. It is about to become, in a sense, self-aware. What

The post Building a Self-Aware Enterprise With GenAI appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Lewis Denham-Parry

Beyond Namespaces: Why Kubernetes Needs Real Workload Isolation

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Kubernetes namespaces are one of the most familiar tools in the platform engineer’s toolkit. In an article published on The

The post Beyond Namespaces: Why Kubernetes Needs Real Workload Isolation appeared first on The New Stack.

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Text • Lauren Theisen

The Sounds Of Autumn

The Sounds Of Autumn

BONK!

The Brian Lehrer Show
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30 Issues in 30 Days: Climate and Energy Policy

Caroline Spivack, reporter for Crain's New York Business, talks about the mayoral candidates' climate and energy policies, including their stances on Local Law 97.


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#190 – Seth Rubenstein on Block Composability in WordPress’ Future

In this episode of WP Tavern, Seth Rubenstein from Pew Research Center talks with host Nathan Wrigley about advanced WordPress development, focusing on block composability in Gutenberg. Seth explains how new APIs, Block Bindings, Block Bits, and the Interactivity API, are making WordPress more powerful, enabling developers and editors to build dynamic web applications, like complex quizzes, directly in the block editor. They discuss the potential for easier UI interfaces and the promising future of WordPress as a flexible platform for interactive content, while touching on performance improvements and upcoming needs like responsive blocks. Whether you’re a developer curious about the future of Gutenberg or an editor dreaming of more drag-and-drop web app power, this episode is for you.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Thanks to Trump, George Santos is Out of Prison

Grace Ashford, New York Times reporter covering New York State politics and government, talks about why President Trump commuted former Congressman George Santos' sentence, which allowed him to leave prison after serving less than three months of his long sentence for crimes related to theft and fraud.


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Text • Tom Ley

Doug Martin’s Family Says He Was Experiencing Mental Health Crisis Before Dying In Police Custody

Doug Martin’s Family Says He Was Experiencing Mental Health Crisis Before Dying In Police Custody

TMZ broke the news Sunday that former NFL running back Doug Martin had died in Oakland, Calif. at the age of 36. Though the precise circumstances of his death remain unclear, one thing we do know is that Martin died while in police custody.

Through a statement, the Oakland Police Department has offered its version of events leading up to Martin's death. According to the cops, officers were responding to a call about a break-in at 4:15 a.m. on Saturday morning. After encountering Martin in the house they were called to, "a brief struggle occurred" and Martin "became unresponsive" after being taken into custody. The police department's statement goes on to say that paramedics were called to the scene, and that Martin later died in the hospital.

McSweeney’s
Text • Taylor Harris

Come as You Are, Unless You’re Noticeably Black or Disabled

You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.” - - - A quick note f...

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Text • Ray Ratto

More Of This, Please

More Of This, Please

The Toronto Blue Jays are worthy champions by any measure, whether that be Vladimir Guerrero's outsized gifts or George Springer's uncanny sense of the moment or Alejandro Kirk's combination of improbable results and very civilian silhouette. They earned their way to this World Series by reducing the Seattle Mariners to Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh, and a bunch of other employees, and more power to them for that.

They're going to need all that power and more given what awaits them, and what we all would like to see—a fully scheduled, extended drama playing out across a World Series that lasts until November. The alternative is the Los Angeles Dodgers administering one final beatdown to an overmatched challenger and a winter of people wallowing in the time-suck that is the salary cap debate.

WIRED
Text • Julian Chokkattu

Apple iPad Pro (M5, 2025) Review: Tremendously Powerful

Apple’s flagship tablet hones in on power, but it‘s the desktop-like iPadOS 26 experience that makes it shine.

WIRED
Text • Adrienne So

Oakley Meta Vanguard Review: The Do-It-All Smart Glasses

Meta's second collaboration with Oakley look good, sound great, and might just replace your action cam.

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Text • Manuel Moreale

10 pointless facts about me

Found on Kev’s blog and originally started by Dave, here are my answers to this fun blog challenge: Do you floss your teeth? Sometimes. I’d say maybe a few times a week? I’m terrible at being consistent, and that includes flossing regularly. Tea, coffee, or water? Coffee in...

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Text • Bob Dunn

Transforming Website Analytics for WordPress Users with a Privacy-First Approach

In this episode, Adam chats with the creators of Independent Analytics, a WordPress plugin focusing on user-friendly, privacy-oriented website stats. They highlight its benefits over Google Analytics and upcoming features.

McSweeney’s
Text • Ryan Wilkins

The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win

“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — From “The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win” by The New York Times Editorial Board - - - American politi...