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When Rob Reiner was killed earlier this week along with his wife and creative partner Michelle, the world of film lost one of its most beloved and respected figures, an artist who had done very good and extremely popular work in a variety of genres, first in front of the cam...

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Modern Illustration is a project by illustrator Zara Picken, featuring print artefacts from her extensive personal collection. Her aim is to preserve and document outstanding examples of mid-20th century commercial art, creating an accessible resource for understanding illustration history.

Glorious collection of mid-century illustrations and graphic design. Also a good follow on Instagram. (Via Dan Cederholm.)

I dare say this post from Adrian Roselli — first published in 2015 and updated 16 times (and counting) since — is the definitive debunking of the pseudoscience claims regarding deliberately ugly fonts being somehow beneficial to readers with dyslexia.

The great filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed in their home Sunday. Their son Nick has been arrested on suspicion of murder. It’s a shocking and tragic end to a life that brought joy to so many. Reiner’s contributions to American film include canonical movies such as ‘The Princess Bride,’ ‘Stand By Me,’ ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘This Is Spinal Tap.’ He spoke with Terry Gross this past September about his reunion with the ‘Spinal Tap’ guys, growing up among comedy legends, and collaborating with his son Nick on a film inspired by Nick’s struggle with addiction. 

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Nothing But Respect returning champion Tom Krell unveiled several compelling theories this week on the show. They include:

• Las Vegas is becoming increasingly irrelevant as a nexus of vice, since the internet now facilitates all that stuff.
• Cam Johnson runs like a middle manager.
• The Oklahoma City Thunder will lose "10-12 games at some point this season" (he's joking but his reasoning is compelling).
• Based on conversations he's had with someone who helps style Cade Cunningham, Jamal Murray has cost himself millions of dollars by refusing to optimize his Instagram presence, which we all found refreshing.
• Nikola Jokic is a negentropic hooper.

The WNBA and its labor force are in the midst of a contentious, high-stakes CBA negotiation, which could not be happening at a more interesting historical juncture. Women's sports have seen explosive growth in their popularity over the past few years, which is not without it...

Netflix’s “tadum” is so iconic that it’s the name of their company blog. HBO’s static + chanted om is the OG standard-setter. I suspect the new Apple TV fanfare will be seen in that class. The old one was not.

David Miliband, president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee, shares the countries on the IRC's "watchlist," or the countries they determine are most at risk for humanitarian emergencies, and what the IRC is doing to prepare.

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The AI race isn’t just about bigger models or better algorithms — it’s about speed. The teams that win are

The post Why a ‘Boring’ Database Is Your Secret AI Superpower appeared first on The New Stack.

In late November and early December 1999, the World Trade Organization convened in Seattle for a round of conferences and negotiations. Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets to meet them, including labor activists alarmed by the post-NAFTA landscape of the US, as w...

Andrew Chow, technology correspondent at TIME, talks about the choice of the people behind AI for their annual "Person of the Year" selection.

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This is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations,” a

The post KubeVirt Planning: Storage, Network and Security Considerations appeared first on The New Stack.

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.

As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt.

MacStories 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award: Unread. Congrats @johnbrayton!

Eleven years after its inception and eight years after its second sale to a different developer, Unread still stands out in the third-party indie app market because it’s managed to honor its lineage while adapting to the ever-changing nature of the Apple ecosystem.

Working in open source software (OSS) sometimes feels like running on a treadmill that never stops. The projects you depend

The post Put a Fork in It: The Future of Open Source That’s ‘Done’  appeared first on The New Stack.

Shop Listener is back for the 2025 holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out the children's holiday gifts they sell for a Brian Lehrer Show listener-sourced gift guide.

==> Submit your information for our Shop Listener online guide at wnyc.org/shoplistener and check out all the entries!

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Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about Joe Burrow, karate kicking a door shut, LARRY, Christmas cookies, and more.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: This is my last Funbag of 2025. I’m headed out on Christmas break with my family, so we’ll have a guest host or two minding the store while I’m gone. Same deal with the Jamboroo. As always, you can still write into our guest bloggers using the usual Funbag email address, so get on that. And have yourself a merry little Christmas, won’t you?

If we wonder how Large Language Model (LLM) providers will try to improve their services in the next few years,

The post From AGI Hype to Engineering Reality: The Future of LLMs appeared first on The New Stack.