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Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Crossword, Oct. 27: I’ve Seen This One (Themeless)

The Crossword, Oct. 27: I’ve Seen This One (Themeless)
It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This puzzle was constructed by Will Eisenberg and Brian Callahan, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Will is a French horn player, music teacher, and puzzlemaker in the T...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

The Housing Questions on NYC Voters' Ballots

New York City voters will see several questions on their ballots that aim to make it easier to build housing. Alec Schierenbeck, executive director of the Charter Revision Commission argues in favor of the measures, and Lincoln Restler, New York City Council member (District 33, Greenpoint, Northside Williamsburg, South Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Boerum Hill, Vinegar Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Navy Yard), explains why much of the City Council is opposed to the changes. Then, Andrew Berman, executive director of Village Preservation, shares why his group is opposed to ballot questions 2 through 4.


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The Texas Observer
Text • Gus Bova

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our November/December 2025 Issue

Texas Observer reader, Books. That’s right—it’s 2025, and I’m using the medium of a print magazine to talk to you about the even longer words-on-paper form that is the book. Why? Because I have the business acumen of someone who edits a small progressive news outlet, in Texas mind you, while having absolutely zero more […]

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Text • John Gruber

Behind the Design: Adobe Premiere on iOS

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Adobe Design profiles Adobe’s new Premiere app for iOS, and interviews Christopher Azar, group design manager for Adobe Video, regarding the thinking behind the app and its design: What was the primary goal when you set out to design Premiere on iOS? Christopher Azar: O...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Emilio Salvador

What’s Next for Developer Teams: How To Prepare Now

Two people walking down hallway of blue and purple lights.

I have one kid in college right now. As I watch him navigate education in this AI world, I keep

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Text • Matthew Gault

Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age

Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age

These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.

Defector
Text • Lauren Theisen

Green Bay Packers Show Immunity To Aaron Rodgers

Green Bay Packers Show Immunity To Aaron Rodgers
It would have made for a more dramatic scene if it happened at Lambeau Field, but nevertheless, plenty of folks in Packer jerseys showed up to the stadium on the North Shore in Pittsburgh to watch Aaron Rodgers—suiting up for the team he beat in Super Bowl XLV—take on the Gr...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Alexander Matyushentsev

Cloud Native and AI: Why Open Source Needs Standards Like MCP

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The past decade of cloud native was about scaling microservices with Kubernetes and GitOps. The next will be about how

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McSweeney’s
Text • Ben Unglesbee

Posts from the Liberal Dark Web, Ca. 2027

Mima0100: Hello! This is my first time on the “Dark Web.” My grandson recently set up Tor on my iPad. Question: Does anyone have any flu, COVID, and/or shingles vaccines for sale??? Or know where I can find them? I’m willing to pay up to $600. My grandkiddos said not to shar...

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

Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads

The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project’s launch

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WIRED
Text • Ryan Waniata

14 Best Bookshelf Speakers (2025): Active, Passive, and Hi-Fi

Soup up your sound with these active and passive speakers. We have picks for every budget.

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

The Open Web, A History of an Ideal

The open web is a decentralized, accessible space rooted in collaboration and innovation. From its beginnings with TCP/IP to modern movements, it emphasizes user control over content and identity.

WIRED
Text • Charley Locke

Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech?

AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future.

WIRED
Text • Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website

A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.

WIRED
Text • Sandra Upson

How to Build an AI Startup: Go Big, Be Strange, Embrace Probable Doom

Thousands of entrepreneurs are trying to rebuild the economy around AI. I set out to see how they’re actually doing it.

WIRED
Text • Steven Levy

Why AI Breaks Bad

Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.

WIRED
Text • Todd Feathers

Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

WIRED
Text • Brian Merchant

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

WIRED
Text • WIRED Staff

Claude Goes to Therapy

Who better to put Claude on the couch than the original “chatterbot” herself, Doctor Eliza?

WIRED
Text • Paul Ford

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.