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24 Oct 15:03 • Richard MacManus

How MIT’s Project NANDA Aims To Decentralize AI Agents

2025 has been the year of AI agents, and most of the developer attention so far has been on the

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Defector
24 Oct 14:33 • Barry Petchesky

The NHL Has A Uniform Problem

To get this out of the way: I find it still a little cruel when the Carolina Hurricanes and Colorado Avalanche celebrate their respective descents from the Hartford Whalers and Quebec Nordiques. Yes, it's been 30 years, but as long as fans of relocated teams are still alive,...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
24 Oct 14:33 • Janakiram MSV

Multipass: Fast, Scriptable Ubuntu VMs for Modern DevOps

Canonical’s Multipass is a versatile tool for launching and managing lightweight Ubuntu virtual machines (VMs) across platforms, including macOS, Windows

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McSweeney’s
24 Oct 14:30 • Vijay Khurana

Excerpts from The Believer: Game: The Cryptic Crossword

- - - FEATURES: Black squares White squares Seeming gibberish - - - Solving a cryptic is a bit like chewing over a confounding poem. Words that begin as the unlikeliest of associates end up somehow being apt neighbors, relating to one another in a way that makes sense, o...

Defector
24 Oct 14:03 • Ray Ratto

Adam Silver’s Job Is About To Get So Much Harder

It's one thing to open your season with a 40-point, 15-rebound masterwork, but it is quite another to discover in short order that such deeds are in fact "the least you can do." This is the situation in which Victor Wembanyama now finds himself three days into his third seas...

Defector
24 Oct 14:03 • Albert Burneko

What Can’t The President Do?

Donald Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House this week, so that he can build a ballroom with a footprint nearly twice the size of the existing White House, financed by blatant graft. The White House is not Trump's property, and his proposed ballroom will undoubted...

Interconnected
24 Oct 14:03

Some wholesome media

I’m on my hols. Some recommendations. Watch The Ballad of Wallis Island. Charming, poignant comedy about a washed-up folk musician and loss. By Tim Key and Tom Basden. Now I knew Basden can write - the first episode of Party is the tightest wittiest 25 minutes of ensemble r...

xkcd.com
24 Oct 13:36

Continents

The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.

McSweeney’s
24 Oct 13:27 • Jeffrey Scott

How Long Were You Going to Let Me Keep Mispronouncing “Chopin,” Janice?

Oh, my god. You knew? Why didn’t you say something? Sweet mother of Mozart, Janice! I think I’m going to be sick. Do you have any idea how awkward tonight was? I was knee-deep into my anecdote about the Raindrop Prelude—do you know how many times I’ve told that story, Janice...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
24 Oct 13:09 • Virna Sekuj

When To Use Synthetic Monitoring vs. Real User Monitoring

Most web teams start their performance journey with synthetic monitoring. You spin up a Lighthouse test or an uptime checker,

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
24 Oct 12:39 • Crystal Morin

Securing the Vibe: Reducing the Risk of AI-Generated Code

Vibe coding helps people bring ideas to life quickly. It gives them the courage to create when inspiration strikes, especially

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WIRED
24 Oct 11:58 • Luke Larsen

Dell Tower Plus Review: A Hybrid Work and Gaming Desktop

The Dell Tower Plus is a desktop PC that balances performance, accessibility, and style surprisingly well.

WIRED
24 Oct 11:31 • Parker Hall

The Best Audio Interfaces of 2025: Universal Audio and More

We've tested dozens of the most popular USB audio interfaces and found the best sounding and easiest to use in your home studio.

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
24 Oct 11:06 • Manuel Moreale

Romina Malta

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Romina Malta, whose blog can be found at romi.link. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Pedro Corá and the other ...

WIRED
24 Oct 11:03 • Lauren Goode, Michael Calore

How Data Centers Actually Work

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI.

WIRED
24 Oct 11:03 • Rhett Allain

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

WIRED
24 Oct 10:21 • Ben Dowsett

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

The Daily
24 Oct 10:05 • The New York Times

Demolition at the White House

The Trump administration completed its demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Thursday to make way for a new presidential ballroom. Luke Broadwater, who covers the White House, explains who is paying for President Trump’s latest construction project and why the de...

WIRED
24 Oct 09:48 • Manisha Krishnan

How Prankster Oobah Butler Convinced Venture Capitalists to Give Him Over $1 Million

In his latest stunt documentary, British journalist Oobah Butler exposes the ridiculousness of internet hustle culture.

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
24 Oct 09:00

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Exposes MAGA’s Darkest Aim

In a shockingly brazen move, President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million stemming from certain federal actions against him. Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a scaldi...