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Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
Audi Crooks Makes Every Minute Count
WIRED
• Emily Mullin
RFK Jr.’s Health Department Is Pondering a National Men’s Health Initiative
At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a “men’s health crisis.” Others called to ease men’s access to hormones.
WIRED
• Dell Cameron
Warnings Mount in Congress Over Expanded US Wiretap Powers
Experts tell US lawmakers that a crucial spy program’s safeguards are failing, allowing intel agencies deeper, unconstrained access to Americans’ data.
WIRED
• Joel Khalili, Caroline Haskins
Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The founder of Terraform Labs was sentenced today for lying about ‘experimental’ coins that blew a $40 billion hole in the crypto economy.
Defector
• David Roth
All Things Must Pass, With Matthew Coller
Podcasting is a "next man up" business. Not in the way that the NFL is—no one is actually getting injured out here, although thinking about human-induced climate change after last week's Peter Brannen episode did bum me out a little bit—but the show must go on even when the booked guest calls in feverish and groggy on the day of the show. Luckily, Drew is on a texting basis with Matthew Coller of Purple Insider, which meant that we not only could still talk NFL this week, but could do so with one of the elite emergency podcast quarterbacks, a returning champion guest whose football knowledge goes far beyond the grim NFC North team which he and Drew care about the most. We barely even mentioned the Vikings in this one, because there was too much other ball to talk.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
The biggest shift yet in U.S. vaccine policy
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I’ve got about 5 of 6 great starts here. I have one idea that I’m especially psyched out of my mind about.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Michelle Gienow
Kubernetes GPU Management Just Got a Major Upgrade
“As a low-level systems engineer, if you do your job right, no one knows you exist — but the minute
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alex Williams
Inception Labs: Making LLMs Faster and More Cost-Efficient

AI leader Andrej Karpathy said Inception Labs’ approach to diffusion has the potential to differ in comparison to all the
The post Inception Labs: Making LLMs Faster and More Cost-Efficient appeared first on The New Stack.
A Courtside Look At NBA Legends, From Jordan To Kobe
Legendary NBA head coach Phil Jackson and sports journalist Sam Smith talk about the stars who helped define the sport, including Jordan, Kobe, and Shaq. They spoke with Tonya Mosley about their new book, 'Masters of the Game.'
Also, Justin Chang shares his picks for the 10 best films of 2025.
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Defector
• Drew Magary
Now We Must All Become Bills Fans
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it.
This is not the best Buffalo Bills team of the 2020s. They’ve gotten dusted by the likes of Atlanta and Miami. They have a negative turnover differential. Their passing game is often inert, especially in the face of oncoming blitzes. They still don’t have a viable WR1, cycling through a gallery of slobs—Brandin Cooks, Mecole Hardman, Curtis Samuel—in a fruitless attempt to get more production out of that room. They’ve lost two vital interior defensive linemen to IR. They even lost their kicker for the season. Everyone still hates the offensive coordinator, and no one trusts the head coach.
WIRED
• David Gilbert
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
McSweeney’s
• Mike Lacher
Times New Roman Turns Right
Why Open Platforms Are the Future of Kubernetes Deployments

Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source projects in history. In 2024, it generated $1.71 billion in revenue,
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A 5-Step Checklist for Building Collaborative AI Agent Systems

AI agents transform enterprise operations by autonomously interpreting context, making decisions and executing tasks with minimal human input. But the
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Trump’s New National Security Strategy
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), discusses recent Trump administration moves to define The United States' relationship with The European Union and why the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
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WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.