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The House Oversight Committee released a tranche of emails from the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that give us more information about his relationship to President Donald Trump. Today on the politics roundtable, we’ll unpack what these emails say and how the White House has responded.

And, after 43 days, the federal government is back open for business. As the dust settles on the longest shutdown in history, we’ll talk about what lawmakers learned – and whether another shutdown could be right around the corner.

Colby speaks with Dan Merica and Matthew Choi, who are co-anchors of our politics newsletter The Early Brief. 

Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff and Josh Carroll. It was edited by Peter Bresnan and mixed by Sean Carter. 

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Microsoft this week made Visual Studio 2026 — the latest version of its flagship dev platform — generally available, calling

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The prefight of the year already has been fought. Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. both made weight Friday in London for their Saturday night rematch at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. As the size of the venue hints, this is a massively anticipated event in England. The actual fight will have a hard time competing with its backstory. 

Backstories, rather. This thing’s got story lines for the ages. Among them: A rematch for the middleweight belt! Will Eubank's détente with his dad (and former trainer) hold through the final bell? These fighters just plain don’t like each other, but their fathers don’t like each other even more after their own set of legendary boughts in the 1990s! There's even an angle involving Neymar.

So, you say you want really, really long-term support for your Linux? Boy, does Canonical have a deal for you!

The post Canonical Extends Ubuntu Linux Support for up to 15 Years appeared first on The New Stack.

Nikita Prokopov blogs about the neediness of apps. I can especially relate to the notifications part:

Notifications are like email: to-do items that are forced on you by another party. Hey, it’s not my job to dismiss your notifications!

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

This edition of the newsletter is a bit of a catch-up on links since we have been busy with outreach to potential speakers, participants, and sponsors for the second in-person Protocols for Publishers ✨ event in Europe. The next PfP event looks to be in London, UK and

Luckin Coffee, Chagee, and other Chinese brands are targeting US consumers with Instagram-worthy drinks sold through sleek mobile apps.

The biggest retail event of the year has grown into an entire month of sales that ebb and flow. Here’s how to make the most of it.

A game recap of Wednesday's 131-95 victory, published on Celtics.com and NBA.com, praised Boston's leading scorers Payton Pritchard and Derrick White, in that order. That led to an unfortunate headline, which Memphis Grizzlies beat writer Sharon Shy Brown captured in a timely screenshot on Thursday:

We found early Black Friday deals on WIRED-tested smart bird feeders, smartwatches, vacuums, and more.

What do educators teaching deep learning workshops, startup teams spinning up collaborative data science environments and researchers needing GPU access

The post Jupyter Deploy: The New Middle Ground Between Laptops and Enterprise appeared first on The New Stack.

Hello and happy Friday! We're getting ready to wind things down for the week, so spend some time asking us questions in the comments section. See ya down there.

Ever since it was disclosed that financier Leon Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein over $150 million for tax and estate planning in 2014, six years after the latter pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges, I have been fascinated by the notion that the disgraced sex offender...

As Congress debates whether to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage, Hayden Rooke-Ley, lawyer and senior fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, explains how the infighting is already driving up costs and narrowing networks.

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4:50 a.m. — Carmen arrives at the airport for her 6:15 a.m. flight. 4:53 a.m. — Carmen heads to security early, because she doesn’t have TSA PreCheck, CLEAR, or the subscription service where a man in a suit carries you, piggyback, to the front of the line. 5:03 a.m. — Carme...

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New York City's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani defines himself as a democratic socialist, yet his critics have seized on his leftist identity to paint him as an extremist. Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, professor of political science and executive director of the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York, and author of 20 Years of Rage: How Resentment Took the Place of Politics (Mondadori, 2024) explains the core principles of the various strains of thought on the left to paint a clearer picture of what Mamdani believes in and how he'll govern as mayor.

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The U.S. Mint announced it made its last penny this week, in order to save money. Listeners call in to talk about how they use pennies these days, if at all, plus share their favorite penny-related sayings.

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