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Every year, The Brian Lehrer Show asks you to submit the best photo you took that is sitting on your phone – and every year, you deliver with some breathtaking shots. This year, you submitted over 700 photos! Our partners at Photoville, along with a special guest judge, jour...

Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket joins the pod to talk about indie journalism, the industry, and what's going on in the federal government

The North Carolina Tar Heels, fresh off of the cataclysmic first season of the Bill Belichick era, have decided that what this program really needs is more notable old horndogs who used to be great at coaching football. In that spirit, the school has turned to Bobby Petrino.

Petrino is expected to be the new offensive coordinator for Belichick's Tar Heels, according to reports from ESPN and On3. This comes after the firing of Freddy Kitchens and other lackeys Belichick has thrown under the bus to make it seem like he is planning to change things around. Petrino spent most of the past season as interim head coach for Arkansas, a return to glory after his infamous horndoggery-related 2012 firing from the school. The glory was short-lived, though, as the team went winless the rest of the season.

Philip Bump, MSNOW contributor, author of the How to Read this Chart newsletter and the author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America (Viking, 2023), talks about the latest national political news, including the release of the Epstein files, divisions in the GOP and more.

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Bari Weiss, the little smirking suck-up that is presently editor-in-chief of CBS News, intervened at the last minute Sunday to spike a completed story, titled "Inside CECOT," that was scheduled to air on that evening's edition of 60 Minutes. The story, exposing conditions at...

The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.

Since we’ve no place to go, let’s solve the Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Rebecca Goldstein and Rachel Fabi, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Rebecca is a research scientist in Albany, Calif. Rachel is a bioethicist in Syracuse, N.Y. Together, they are the Fall 2025 Boswords Themeless League Champions, Stormy Division, Pairs.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE.

In addition to the Micro.blog holiday photo challenge, we also have micro.christmas, a fun domain that gathers up recent posts about the holidays.

An exoplanet located 750 light years from Earth has an atmosphere unlike anything previously known.

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

In enterprises, applications execute business processes and often create data as a side effect. Traditional business reporting uses this data

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Manu Moreale reflecting on a Mastodon post that attempted to simplify the world into effectively good and bad people: I keep thinking about this tweet because to me it embodies one of the core issues I have with general social media discourse: the lack of depth. This fits ...

My default AI for coding help is GPT-5.2 in Codex on “high”. It is very good. But just when I think they’ve mostly solved hallucinations, ChatGPT gets a couple easy fact-checks wrong. As models get more efficient and cheaper, I expect more users to be routed to longer thinking to address this.

These are the sports moments from 2025 that the Defector staff enjoyed.

A’ja Wilson Hits A Game-Winner In Phoenix

With only three goals in his first 14 games, Connor McDavid looked like he might be having one of those years where he focuses more on setting up his teammates than scoring himself. He has these seasons from time to time, and there's nothing wrong with them—in '23–'24 he tallied a round 100 assists and finished third in MVP voting—but as McDavid's finite prime rolls on, it'd be pleasant to see him decide to take over games, like he used to when he was scoring 40 (or 64).

Well. About that. Since scoring three in 14, McDavid has scored 20 goals in his last 23 games, and 12 in his last 10. He is metaphorically turning on the jets, often by (also metaphorically) turning on the jets.

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.

For one magical night a year, Santa and his friends bring holiday cheer to millions of people around the world. For the rest of the 364 nights? They’re just like us: hustling to get by in an ever-shrinking global economy. Rudolph hasn’t had time for any reindeer games latel...

When I went to the first AI Engineer Summit in October 2023, AI agents were a joke. At that point,

The post AI Engineering Trends in 2025: Agents, MCP and Vibe Coding appeared first on The New Stack.

In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many months ago, here are 10 of the best Observer longform stories from 2025 (in chronological order). May they enrich you for the now, and steel […]

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These open-back headphones sound insane, but they aren't that comfortable.