Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
The Crossword, Oct. 27: I’ve Seen This One (Themeless)
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Gus Bova
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 […]
The post Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our November/December 2025 Issue appeared first on The Texas Observer.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Emilio Salvador

I have one kid in college right now. As I watch him navigate education in this AI world, I keep
The post What’s Next for Developer Teams: How To Prepare Now appeared first on The New Stack.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
Defector
• Lauren Theisen
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alexander Matyushentsev

The past decade of cloud native was about scaling microservices with Kubernetes and GitOps. The next will be about how
The post Cloud Native and AI: Why Open Source Needs Standards Like MCP appeared first on The New Stack.
McSweeney’s
• Ben Unglesbee
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project’s launch
The post Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Ryan Waniata
Soup up your sound with these active and passive speakers. We have picks for every budget.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
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
• Charley Locke
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
• Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
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
• Sandra Upson
Thousands of entrepreneurs are trying to rebuild the economy around AI. I set out to see how they’re actually doing it.
WIRED
• Steven Levy
Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.
WIRED
• Todd Feathers
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
• Brian Merchant
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
WIRED
• WIRED Staff
Who better to put Claude on the couch than the original “chatterbot” herself, Doctor Eliza?
WIRED
• Paul Ford
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.