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A New Light-Based Cancer Treatment Kills Tumor Cells and Spares Healthy Ones

By combining LED technology and nanomaterials, researchers have created a therapy that eliminates cancer cells using localized heat without damaging healthy tissue.

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Why Simplicity Matters in Website Analytics

Website analytics should be simple and accessible, allowing website owners to easily track key metrics without confusion. A straightforward approach helps identify successes and areas for improvement.

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Maintaining A Music Library, Ten Years On via Brian Schrader

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It took me by surprise to learn that this post was now a decade old: Last week I decided to leave Spotify. I've been using the service for almost 2 years now, and overall I've really liked it... It's hard to explain why [I'm leaving], but I guess I feel apprehensive about Spotify being in control of how and where I listen to music in ways I haven't been before.

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[Sponsor] Mux: Video API for Developers

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Video should be simple to ship and scale. Mux makes it easy to build live and on-demand video into anything from websites to AI workflows.

Upload a video, get back a playback URL. No transcoding headaches. No CDN setup. Go further with video building blocks – thumbnails, transcripts, storyboards – to create exactly what you want.

Now, Mux is shepherding Video.js, the web’s most-trusted open-source player, and reimagining it for the modern developer experience.

Future-proof your video with infrastructure trusted by Patreon, Substack, and Synthesia. Get started free, no credit card required. Use code FIREBALL for an extra $50 credit.

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How Kalina Silverman helps readers make meaningful connections

Kalina makes Big Talk with her newsletter.

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Repair Video

The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.

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Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned

President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

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Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs via Jim Nielsen

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I’ve been thinking about a note from Alex Russell where he says: any time you're running JS on the main thread, you're at risk of being left behind by progress. The zen of web development is to spend a little time in your own code, and instead to glue the big C++/Rust subsystems together, then get out of the bloody way.

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Wind turbines, driving back from Corpus Christi.

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Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.

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The Pelicans Are Already Deeply Alarming

The Pelicans Are Already Deeply Alarming

The New Orleans Pelicans are 0-6 to start the season. Of those six losses, three have been by at least 30 points. No team in NBA history has accumulated three 30-point losses this early in a season.

The Pelicans rank 27th in offensive rating and 29th in defensive rating. They are playing "an unserious brand of basketball," longtime Pelicans reporter Will Guillory decreed Sunday evening. The players "seem to have given up on" head coach Willie Green, per Rod Walker at NOLA.com, who wondered if the coach's time was up. Green, the coach since 2021 and a holdover from a previous front-office regime, nevertheless kept his job during the offseason, which would have been the most natural time to replace him.

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Stretching a food budget, when SNAP's uncertain

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An estimated 42 million Americans use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – also known as food stamps – to feed themselves and their families. The program ran out of funding over the weekend amid the government shutdown. 


While the Trump administration agreed to release enough funds to pay for half of November's SNAP benefits, many SNAP users are worried about what the rest of the month – and beyond – might look like.


Host Colby Itkowitz speaks to technology reporter Heather Kelly about the current state of SNAP and how people are looking to online content creators for practical advice about how to stretch their food budgets.

Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks also to Mariana Alfaro, Jen Liberto and Yun-Hee Kim.

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Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'

Filmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. ‘Nouvelle Vague’ focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema, specifically Jean-Luc Godard and his landmark 1960 movie ‘Breathless.’ "I ...

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Miami Keeps Blowing It

Miami Keeps Blowing It
One of the underrated aspects of the last few years of Miami football is that, with the decline of UF and Florida State, the Hurricanes have in-state recruiting locked down. For the most part, this has paid dividends. Miami regularly boasts a slew of first-round NFL talent o...

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ToiletTree Fogless Shower Mirror

I know this is a weird product recommendation, but I’ve just thought about it too long and it needs to come out. I’ve used the ToiletTree Fogless Shower Mirror for like 15 years at least. See you’ve got this problem with shower mirrors where they like instantly fog up with the steam. This mirror solves […]

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Living And Dying With Max Scherzer

Living And Dying With Max Scherzer
Eleven years ago, when I was a college sophomore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I made an impromptu drive to Detroit with four friends for the express purpose of seeing Max Scherzer. It was his final home start as a Tiger, and while I'd be lying if I said I remembered much of the g...

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Time to Migrate

Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. This month marks the third anniversary of my Mastodon migration and I’m convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why

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Is There A Favorite Hiding Somewhere In The NFL’s Big Muddle?

Is There A Favorite Hiding Somewhere In The NFL’s Big Muddle?
So after nine weeks of the NFL season, give or take a shared and very valid dread at the condemned warehouse that is the Cowboys-Cardinals Monday night matchup, we can all agree that the only thing we can all agree on is that Dan Quinn really filled his trousers by not takin...

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WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart.

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OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon

OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup.