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Text • Brad Bourque

Sennheiser’s Awesome Wireless Earbuds Are Almost Half Off

These high-end earbuds sound great, and have a much-needed discount.

Defector
Text • Vikram Murthi

Jafar Panahi Returns With The Masterful Revenge Drama ‘It Was Just An Accident’

Jafar Panahi Returns With The Masterful Revenge Drama ‘It Was Just An Accident’
The sole child in Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident knows right from wrong. In the film’s first scene, a young girl is introduced bopping up and down in the backseat of a car, to the beat of a repetitive dance number all but designed to annoy tired moms and dads everywh...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

A Democratic Manifesto

Joyce Vance, a legal analyst for MSNBC and former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, University of Alabama School of Law professor, and author of the Civil Discourse Substack, and of the new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable:  A Manual for Keeping a Democracy (Dutton, 2025) talks about the rule of law and offers legal and historical context for the current moment in American history as she calls for citizens to uphold the Constitution.


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McSweeney’s
Text • Tom Ellison

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dumbing down of world knowledge.” – From the book Wikipedia: The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge by Edwin Black 2010 - - - Well, we...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Idan Yalovich

What Does It Take for AI Agents To Deploy Infrastructure?

Overhead view of criss-crossing multiple-lane freeways.

AI is changing the way developers code. How much change and whether it’s all positive is the source of endless

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Agam Shah

What Are AI Orchestrators and Why Do They Matter Now?

orchestrator

Orchestrators make sure that AI agents don’t work in a vacuum; they organize the components, processes and information exchange to

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WIRED
Text • Louise Matsakis

Here's How Many People May Use ChatGPT During a Mental Health Crisis Each Week

OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.

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Text • John Gruber

App Store IDs Hint at Possible iPad Versions of Pixelmator Pro, Compressor, Motion, and MainStage

macrumors.com/2025/10/27/apple-may-release-pixelmator-pro-for-ipad/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:

Apple might be preparing iPad apps for Pixelmator Pro, Compressor, Motion, and MainStage, according to new App Store IDs uncovered by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. All four of the apps are currently available on the Mac only. A quick overview of each app:

  • Pixelmator Pro: Professional image editing app acquired by Apple earlier this year
  • Compressor: Final Cut Pro companion app for compressing audio and video files
  • Motion: Final Cut Pro companion app for creating 2D/3D titles, transitions, and effects
  • MainStage: Logic Pro companion app for live performances

There is already a less-capable Pixelmator app available for the iPad and iPhone.

Interesting though that — just like Final Cut and Logic — these new pro apps are reportedly iPad-only, with no support for iPhone.

Also: still no Xcode, even for iPad.

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Text • Jennifer Riggins

Why Your Platform Engineering Career Is Really a Sales Job

Christopher Batey of Core Engineering Consulting Group (CECG) speaks about platform engineering at Fast Flow Conf, October 2025.

LONDON — It turns out that platform engineer is a sales job. We’ve written a lot about how DevOps engineer

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

30 Issues in 30 Days: Trump and the NJ Gov's Race

Nick Corasaniti, New York Times reporter covering national politics, with a focus on voting and elections, talks about how both Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill say they would deal with President Trump if they are elected governor, and other ways the president's influence is being felt in the tight race.


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Explaining New York Ballot Question #1

Rosemary Misdary, WNYC and Gothamist health & science reporter, explains the statewide ballot question about preservation in the Adirondacks and expanding skiing facilities.


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Defector
Text • Ray Ratto

The Coaching Hot Seat Is Now An Ejector Seat

The Coaching Hot Seat Is Now An Ejector Seat
The latest crisis in college football—there's one every week, because crises are oddly good for business—is one of scarcity. With more money in the hands of boosters whose identity revolves around spending it and fewer rules binding those glad hands, every weekend is no...

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Text • John Gruber

Joe Rosensteel: ‘Creative Neglect: What About the Apps in Apple?’

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Joe Rosensteel, writing at Six Colors, regarding the demise of Apple’s Clips app: It’s not that it was completely inept, but it was an aimless showcase to demonstrate what Apple could do. It withered over the course of eight years before it was quietly killed. At no poi...

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Text • John Gruber

Gurman Reports That Apple Is Preparing to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026

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Mark Gurman, in his weekly paywalled Power On column for Bloomberg: I reported a few years ago that Apple was working to bring more advertising to iOS. Well, now that effort is gaining traction — with a plan to start the ads as early as next year. The company is focusing...

Defector
Text • Tom Ley

Those Steelers Uniforms Looked Like Shit

The Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, and they looked like crap the whole time.

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Introducing Disappearing Posts on Threads

We're launching ghost posts, Threads posts that are automatically archived after 24 hours so you can share your unfiltered thoughts.

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Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data

Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data

Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data.

The Texas Observer
Text • Justin Doud

Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard

Once a month, 79-year-old Ann Gaskill pulls her Dodge Caravan into the parking lot of the Ark Church in Conroe, where Combined Arms, a Houston-based veterans organization, operates one of its mobile food pantries throughout the region. Gaskill started using the program after husband, an Air Force veteran, died, limiting her income. Whenever the third […]

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Text • John Gruber

Inside the Math That Detects Cheating on Sports Bets

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Dian Zhang and Ignacio Calderon, reporting for USA Today: Even before Terry Rozier dropped out of the 2023 NBA game in which he’s accused of rigging his statistics, computers at an “integrity monitor” firm flagged a flood of bets that did not match a mathematical model o...

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

GitHub Bets on Openness

GitHub's Octocat.

With CEO Thomas Dohmke’s departure in August and GitHub’s deeper integration into Microsoft, developers are asking what comes next for

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