Sign up

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

US Strikes on Venezuelan Alleged Drug Boats

Regina Garcia Cano, Andes correspondent at The Associated Press, discusses the Trump administration's latest escalation against alleged drug boats from Venezuela, as the most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off the country in a few days in a show of American power.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

How AI Songs Got on Your Spotify Playlist

Kyle Chayka, staff writer at The New Yorker covering technology and Internet culture, discusses how songs generated using artificial intelligence are dominating top music charts and streaming services like Spotify, sometimes without the knowledge of listeners.

=> "That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I." (The New Yorker, November 12, 2025)


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Explains, in Detail, and Apologizes for Yesterday’s Global Outage

blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems’ permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries in...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
Text

Congrats to Gus Mueller on Acorn’s recognition as a finalist in the App Store Awards! I use Acorn pretty much every day, sometimes for design or mockups, and sometimes just as a scratchpad of screenshots and other graphics that need a quick crop or edit before uploading to my blog.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Joab Jackson

How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday

ATLANTA — When running a web-scale operation, reacting to increased demand means you are already behind the curve, advised a

The post How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday appeared first on The New Stack.

404 Media Supports Webmention
Text • Matthew Gault

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech'

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech'

Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

Defector
Text • Jasper Wang

Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media

Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media

As I finally got to work on writing Defector’s fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a standalone blog, and who am I to disagree with Defector’s Editor-in-Chief? You can find the full version of the Year 5 Annual…

WIRED
Text • Michael Calore, Caroline Haskins, Steven Levy

In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.

WIRED
Text • Will Knight

This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
Text

Love the covers on these special TikTok editions of a few of Brandon Sanderson’s books. Might’ve ordered a set for gifts. And I’ll keep The Emperor’s Soul, which I don’t have in print. 📚

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

City Politics: Jessica Tisch Accepts Job in Mamdani Admin, Eric "Mamdani Spoiler" Adams, and More

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, talk about the latest political news in the city, including what Mayor Adams is up to in his last few weeks in office, Mayor-elect Mamdani's transition plans, and the congressional primary races that are starting to take shape.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia

nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-saudi-dinner-guests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.clG6.uxuqC4aodHYk&smid=url-share

The New York Times: The world’s richest man. One of the world’s most famous soccer players. The president of soccer’s governing body. Dozens of executives from the finance, tech and energy sectors. These are some of the guests who attended President Trump’s black-tie din...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

The First G20 Summit on African Soil

Yinka Adegoke, editor of Semafor Africa, talks about the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa and the U.S. boycott.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Pete Johnson

There’s No SKU for AI: A 3-Box Framework to Avoid AI Failures

Man checking the label on a product in a store.

The numbers are sobering. A highly publicized report from MIT shows that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are

The post There’s No SKU for AI: A 3-Box Framework to Avoid AI Failures appeared first on The New Stack.

Interconnected Valid
Text

Spinning up a new thing: Inanimate

I’m spinning up something new with a buddy and you can guess what it is by what I’ve been writing about recently. Big picture, there are two visions for the future of computing: cyborgs and rooms. I’m Team Augmented Environments. Mainly because so much of what I care about h...

Defector
Text • Patrick Redford

Thomas Pynchon Is Laughing All The Way To The Brink

Thomas Pynchon Is Laughing All The Way To The Brink
Thomas Pynchon's reputation precedes him. He is literature's ur-diagnostician of the post-war psyche, the author of difficult doorstopper novels, and a sort of prophet of paranoia—someone ahead of his time in seeing the outlines of various malevolent forces lurking beyond th...

Defector
Text • Jae Towle Vieira

Meet-Cute At The Anne Rice Vampire Ball

Meet-Cute At The Anne Rice Vampire Ball

True lovers of gossip also appreciate humanity’s fondness for fantasizing, since there’s nothing like a fantasy to fuel speculation or move the plot forward. Someone has a bit of a thing for velvet? Someone’s got a crush? Excellent, yes, we love an appetizer almost as much as we love a meal. 

We’re going all the way back to the 90s and all the way down to New Orleans for today’s gossip, which features a pair of goths, a dashing stranger, and the Anne Rice Vampire Ball. I’m sure you can imagine what might be going on here. You should embrace that speculative feeling before you press play, because even if you were to live a hundred lifetimes, you’ll never get this moment back. 

WIRED
Text • David Gilbert

How Donald Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Spin Cycle

Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
Text

This report from Matthew Prince about Cloudflare’s outage yesterday shows the mind-boggling scale of their network. The graph has 25 million HTTP 500 errors per second.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
Text

After a rocky bit early in the year, I feel that Micro.blog is in a really good place right now. New users are joining and the features are the best they’ve ever been. So now I’m nervous that something else is about to go wrong. 🤪