The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition and Lander's Congressional Bid; Trump's Effort to Ban State AI Laws; Shop Listener 2025: Under $50
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
City Politics: Mamdani's Emerging Opposition; Lander's Congressional Bid (First) | Trump's Effort to Ban State AI Laws (Starts at 40:34) | Shop Listener 2025: Under $50 (Starts at 1:00:24)
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Loraine Lawson
Rust-First Shuttle Launches Neptune for Easier App Deployments

Shuttle is a Rust-first, open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud platform for deploying apps. This week, the company launched
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says
Normally, it’s bad news to be next to an exploding star. But ancient supernovae may have aided the formation of our home world—and perhaps Earthlike planets elsewhere.
WIRED
• Anika Jane Beamer
Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
WIRED
• Stephanie Pearson
Velotric Discover 2 Electric Bike Review: Versatile and Powerful
This laid-back ride comes with an almost bewildering array of power modes and riding styles. Just make sure you obey the law.
WIRED
• Simon Hill
How to Use Smart Lighting Around the Home: Reviewer Recommendations
I’ve been reviewing smart lighting for years. Here are tips on how to prep, what to choose, and the smart lights that work best in each room.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
Gear News of the Week: Android Gets Emergency Live Video, and the Pixel Watch 4 Supports Gestures
Plus: Apple Fitness+ expands to new markets, it’s even easier to add photos to Aura’s digital frames, and the new Nocs speakers go heavy metal.
The Daily
• The New York Times
'The Interview': 3 Senators Who Quit on Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to Trump
The current and former lawmakers get candid about bipartisan politics, party leadership and the state of the Senate.
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WIRED
• Carlton Reid
The Instagram-Fueled Boom in Copycat Vintage Car-Body Shells
Instagram is awash with Asian firms showing how they can remake old Broncos, Defenders, and other whole classic cars—better and much cheaper than in the US.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn
@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Winter Fun
The colors here have now gone blue for winter, and snow has started, thanks to the excellent Snow Fall plugin. I also wanted to congratulate Wealthfront on their IPO. Many on their team have been friends or advisors over the years, from David Fortunato responding to my email about their WordPress blog being on an … Continue reading Winter Fun →
From a couple months back.
📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria
Apples
Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote
Experimenting with tags in Leaflet
Lab Notes 018: a simple implementation of global tags for Leaflet posts, to help writers and communities coordinate and find each other — with some early examples and ways to try!
Westenberg.
• JA Westenberg
Is It a Metric or an Obsession?
I’ve been thinking about why some people can track their progress on goals without going insane, while others turn into the guy who weighs himself four times a day and has a panic attack when his Fitbit dies…
You’d think there’d be some