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The Last Mayoral Debate: Recap Part 2

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps the last mayoral debate between the three remaining candidates, Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, as early voting is set to begin this weekend.


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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

The Last Mayoral Debate: Recap Part 1

Brigid Bergin, Gothamist and WNYC senior political correspondent, and David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, recap the last mayoral debate between the three remaining candidates, Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, as early voting is set to begin this weekend.


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WIRED
Text • Zeyi Yang

The Man Who Makes AI Slop by Hand

Chinese creator Tianran Mu went viral for mimicking the eerie, unsettling aesthetic of AI videos, but his work is 100 percent human.

WIRED
Text • Boone Ashworth

Google Earth Gets an AI Chatbot to Help Chart the Climate Crisis

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Carol Platz

Breaking the ‘Shared-Nothing’ Bottleneck: A NoSQL Paradigm

A series of lights and dots.

While there is no single storage architecture model that fits all NoSQL databases, the often recommended approach is a distributed,

The post Breaking the ‘Shared-Nothing’ Bottleneck: A NoSQL Paradigm appeared first on The New Stack.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

30 Issues in 30 Days: ICE in the City

Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, talks about how each candidate says they will respond to ICE or other federal agents conducting raids in the city, like the one that happened earlier this week in Chinatown.


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WIRED
Text • Makena Kelly

The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers

With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

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Great Spurs win last night in the season opener. I went to bed in the 3rd quarter and caught up on the rest of the game this morning. In other NBA news, craziness with Chauncey Billups arrested for a poker operation tied to the Mafia. 🏀

McSweeney’s
Text • Molly Carney

The Boxcar Children and the Mystery of the Missing Norms

“The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom, a construction project that is far more extensive than he initially let on, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.” — New York Times - - - Henr...

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The result of the photo shoot with the new #Plushtodon in preparation for their launch at the end of November. See the @Mastodon blog for details.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Joab Jackson

Are Unikernels the Answer for Next-Gen AI Cloud Workloads?

Nobody likes waiting around for an app to start, nor database to boot. Certainly not Vercel. Nor Prisma. Vercel’s venture

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weblogs.com re-viewed

Yesterday I did some research into how weblogs.com, in 1999, tracked changes in the blogs it was following. This was a precursor to feed readers. There was a main output file called changes.xml, a reverse chronological list of sites, not feeds, feeds didn't exist yet. From...

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Think different about developers

Tell the people who make AI's -- I want a way to have apps run in your browser that has direct connections to the AI engine, and it connects via the user's credentials, not the app devs (though you are entitled to know who the developer is). When I explored the idea of makin...

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Text • Samantha Cole

New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines

New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines

An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily.

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Text • Tom Ley

Wemby’s Going To Make Things Ugly For These Guys

Wemby’s Going To Make Things Ugly For These Guys
In our big NBA preview, I asked what it might look like if Victor Wembanyama adjusted his shot diet in order to replace a good chunk of his three-point attempts with shots taken closer to the rim. The Spurs' first game of the season, a 125-92 win over the Mavericks, gave us ...

WIRED
Text • Michael Calore

Nike’s Robotic Shoe Gets Humans One Step Closer to Cyborg

Project Amplify is Nike’s latest attempt to put some spring in your step with help from a powered mechanism that enhances the natural movement of the human ankle and lower leg.

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Text • Joseph Cox

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

WIRED
Text • Scott Gilbertson

GoPro Max 2 360 Camera Review: It’s Finally Here

The Max 2 is the long-awaited update to GoPro’s 360 camera line that delivers “true” 8K video.

WIRED
Text • Ryan Waniata

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 Review: Major Fun

Bose’s best headphones add some convenient new tricks for a modest price hike.

WIRED
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How Long Do Vacuums Last? (2025)

Vacuums don't last forever. Here are the signs to look for, and how to help your vacuum live longer.