It’s hard to beat this dual-purpose, budget-friendly soundbar in small spaces.
WIRED
• Simon Cohen
Creative Stage Pro Review: A Great Soundbar for Small Spaces
WIRED
• Ben Dowsett
Inside the Star-Studded, Mob-Run Poker Games That Allegedly Steal Millions From Players
NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets are all part of an alleged ring of rigged poker games. Here’s how these games are assembled, who attends, and how the purported cheating happens.
WIRED
• Isabel O’Brien
A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire
An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena.
WIRED
• Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly
Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown
The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.
WIRED
• Manisha Krishnan
How K-Pop Demon Hunters Star EJAE Topped the Charts
Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”
The Daily
• The New York Times
The Long Road Home for Gazans
Earlier this month, after Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement, the Israeli military said it would withdraw from parts of Gaza — allowing some Palestinians displaced to the south to try to return home to the north.
Rachelle Bonja, a producer of “The Daily,” recen...
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Bad New Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal
The economic news is getting worse. Major companies are announcing mass layoffs, and it’s dominating the headlines, including in the Rust Belt. Food stamps are about to expire for millions. And new info shows how Obamacare premiums wil...
WHY DO THEY KEEP GIVING TRUMP COGNITIVE TESTS? - 10.30.25
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 29: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: The correct question has been lying there, invisible in the forest, for the trees. It was Mary Trump who finally saw it – and asked it: “Why the hell (do) they KEEP giving him cognitive tests...
WIRED
• Lauren Goode, Will Knight
Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending
Three of the biggest US tech companies reported record profits and record infrastructure spending on Wednesday, fueling speculation about a possible AI market bubble.
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Launches With AI-Cloned Pages From Wikipedia
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Jay Peters, writing for The Verge:
However, despite Elon Musk promising that Grokipedia would be a
“massive improvement” over Wikipedia, some articles appear to be
cribbing information from Wikipedia. At the bottom of the page
for the MacBook Air, for example, you can se...
WordCamp Canada 2025
• Dan Knauss
🚀 Accelerate at WordCamp Canada 2025
The Human Made team behind Accelerate was absolutely thrilled to be a Great Lakes sponsor for WordCamp Canada 2025! We had an amazing time connecting with the Canadian WordPress community, sharing what we've been working on, and learning from all of you.
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• Darryl K. Taft
Eclipse Opens Up Enterprise AI Agent Development With ADL
The Eclipse Foundation yesterday launched a challenge to proprietary AI platforms with the introduction of the Agent Definition Language (ADL),
The post Eclipse Opens Up Enterprise AI Agent Development With ADL appeared first on The New Stack.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Casey Means: A MAHA leader, and the next surgeon general?
Casey Means faces lawmakers on Thursday, as they vet her nomination for the nation’s top medical post: the U.S. surgeon general. Means has been a prominent critic of the medical establishment. She could soon be put in a position to change it.
Means, 38, resigned from her fin...
Local Note: WMMR’s Pierre Robert Found Dead at 70
Nick Vadala, reporting for the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Longtime WMMR-FM host Pierre Robert was found dead in his home
Wednesday. He was 70.
Robert’s surname, I must point out, rhymes with Pierre (and with Colbert).
A native of Northern California, Robert joined WMMR...
WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman
The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure's downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes.
Polls in publications — what block should we add next?
Lab Notes 014: help us test our newest block type…by voting on what block to add next in Leaflet!
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Oladimeji Sowole
Building Multiagent Workflows With Microsoft AutoGen
Most AI implementations can feel like having a single, really smart intern: helpful, but limited to one perspective and prone
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