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Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple Account Is in Kafka Mode

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Paris Buttfield-Addison: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I ha...

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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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Rust-First Shuttle Launches Neptune for Easier App Deployments

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Shuttle is a Rust-first, open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud platform for deploying apps. This week, the company launched

The post Rust-First Shuttle Launches Neptune for Easier App Deployments appeared first on The New Stack.

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Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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'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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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.

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How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech

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.

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Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn

Michael Shannon understands he’s associated with some intense, menacing characters he’s played, like Agent Nelson Van Alden in ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ “I’m a big fella, and I got this giant head, and it’s not too difficult for me to seem intimidating I suppose, but it couldn’t b...

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@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.

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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 →

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From a couple months back.📷️ Pentax KX🎞️ Kodak Portra 400🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7👤 @Ameboid ⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInF...

From a couple months back.

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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.

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Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote

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Six-minute segment from Amazon’s AWS re:Invent keynote last week: Payam Mirrashidi, VP, Cloud Systems & Platforms, Apple, explains how AWS Graviton helps improve developer velocity at scale. Hear Swift’s journey from the premier programming language for the Apple eco...

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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!

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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