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Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID

We are happy to announce fiscal sponsorship via WE AID, a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework. This move is part of Mastodon’s transformation. This partnership offers donors tax-deductible contributions in Ger...

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November Update to the App Store Review Guidelines

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Here’s the updated full guideline for section 4.1: 4.1 Copycats (a) Come up with your own ideas. We know you have them, so make yours come to life. Don’t simply copy the latest popular app on the App Store, or make some minor changes to another app’s name or...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Cursor 2.0 IDE Is Now Supercharged With AI and I’m Impressed

The Cursor IDE has been recently updated to version 2.0, and it carries with it some powerful AI integration. This

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xkcd.com
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Satellite Imagery

Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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KServe Joins CNCF To Standardize AI Model Serving on Kubernetes

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last month, the accepted the open source KServe software as an incubating project. KServe’s prominence in

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WIRED
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The US Military Wants to Fix Its Own Equipment. Defense Contractors Are Trying to Shoot That Down

A push by military contractors could alter pending legislation that would have empowered servicemembers to repair equipment. Lobbyists are pitching a subscription service instead.

WIRED
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Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup

Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

The Atavist Magazine
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14,445 and Counting

Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.

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Michael Shannon Gets A Turn Playing Good Guys

Shannon's known for playing intense, menacing characters, like Agent Nelson Van Alden in ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ In two new projects, though, he plays good guys – historical figures pursuing justice and political reform. He’s President James Garfield in the new Netflix series ‘Death by Lightning.’ And he’s a prosecutor trying Nazi leaders for war crimes in the new film ‘Nuremberg.’ Shannon spoke with Dave Davies.

Also, David Bianculli reviews a revived and expanded TV documentary series about the Beatles.Follow Fresh Air on instagram @nprfreshair, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter for gems from the Fresh Air archive, staff recommendations, and a peek behind the scenes.

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WIRED
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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

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It’s All Over But The Crowing Over The Corpse Of Your Rival

It’s All Over But The Crowing Over The Corpse Of Your Rival
Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Israel: We finally made it to the end of a knotty mess of a college football season. The...

McSweeney’s
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The Stranger Things They Carried

(With apologies to Tim O’Brien) - - - Mike carried Eggo waffles for a girl named Eleven. They were not love waffles, but Mike Sheets was hoping, so he carried the box of Eggos down the stairs to the basement. During science class at Hawkins Middle School or trick-or-treating...

Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A Thousand Years of Capitalism

We’re talking about capitalism this time, trying to reckon the power of big money to shape—even rule—the human species. Capitalism is the one-word name given to a thousand-year-old force. It’s not a science or doctrine ...

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The Brian Lehrer Show
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20 Years of Freakonomics

Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio and the co-author of Freakonomics (Harper Collins, 2025), now in a new 20th anniversary edition, reflects on 20 years of "Freakonomics," its impact and use of data, and talks about what's next.


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Defector
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups?

Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups?

In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial fjord in Chile's Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America, one of the places leopard seals take up residence outside of Antarctica. He was thrilled; this was the first leopard seal he'd ever seen in Chile, where he is from. As he peered through his binoculars, he noticed another, smaller seal: a pup. "I got so excited, and then we got there, and it's dead," he said.

Macarena with her dead pup in 2021.

Defector
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Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys?

Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys?

Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what goes on there, I want his administration to be a success. This is why I was so disappointed by some of the Mayor-Elect's recent conduct, which raises new questions about whether Mr. Mamdani is truly prepared to be a Mayor who represents all New Yorkers.

During his appearance on The Adam Friedland Show this week, Mr. Mamdani, a devout Arsenal fan, took some time out of explaining his policy agenda to remember some Arsenal guys:

Defector
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Are The Thunder Too Good?

Are The Thunder Too Good?

We learned in our reading yesterday that the Detroit Pistons are now a fully fledged power in the better-than-we-thought Eastern Conference, and well worth the notice both for what they've already accomplished and for the wonders that the exceedingly springy Jalen Duran works on his own.

It's a nice story told well, but also they are not the Oklahoma City Thunder. If they're much closer than most expected, the Pistons currently fall among the NBA's narrow tier of closest-but-not-that-close teams. The Thunder are threatening the most dangerous résumé in sports—that of the 2016 Golden State Warriors, the most mocked great team in NBA history.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
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Private encrypted notes in Micro.blog present some challenges, especially for search. If you only have a handful of notes, it’s no big deal, but I have over 2000 notes in Micro.blog now. So searching on the web, for example, has to load everything into the browser and decrypt it.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

City Politics: Mamdani's Transition Plans Continue

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from Mayor-elect Mamdani's transition plans.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Beyond Scripts: The Shift From Automation to Agentic AI

Colorful images to represent AI as brain

Industry engineering has transformed over the past decade. Nearly every function is now automated from integration and testing to deployment

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