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• Dan Shipper
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Marjorie Freeman
A Guide to Safe, Incremental Open Source Observability Migration

When people hear “software migration” or “migrating away from proprietary agents” they picture months of copying dashboards, rewriting alerts, redeploying
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WIRED
• Parker Hall
JBL Bar 500MK2 Review: A Fantastic Soundbar System
This compact 2.1 soundbar system offers realistic Dolby Atmos surround sound.
Ho ho ho!
Coca-Cola didn't invent Santa, they did made him marketing-friendly.
Defector
• Tom Ley
Have A Wonderful Christmas Time In This Open Thread
Happy holidays, pals! The site will be in low-power mode for the next couple of days, so feel free to entertain yourselves here while we warm our feet by the fire.
Onward!
This time of year every day feels like Saturday. I love it. Why can't we always live like this?
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Podcast: We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras
How we tracked ourselves with exposed Flock cameras; a year in review; and our personal recommendations on all sorts of things.
404 Media
• Janus Rose
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
Who Were the Women of Ravensbrück? Lynne Olson on Courage in Captivity
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
How to Choose a Computer Monitor (2025): Everything You Need to Know
Monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to choose one that will suit your needs and budget.
McSweeney’s
• Talia Argondezzi
Rudolph the Red Won’t Guide Santa’s Bourgeois Sleigh Tonight
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
25 Work From Home Gift Ideas
Upgrade your loved one’s home office with these picks that make every day a little easier—and a little more fun.
‘Morrie’ Writer Mitch Albom On Second Chances
Albom's 2025 novel, ‘Twice,’ asks a question most of us have daydreamed about: what if you could go back and relive any moment of your life? In the book, a man is born with that exact power, but every second chance comes with a cost. Albom talks with Tonya Mosley about his new book, and the lasting influence of Morrie Schwartz, his old college professor who died in 1995 of ALS. Nearly 30 years ago, Albom chronicled their weekly visits in his bestselling book ‘Tuesdays With Morrie.’
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WIRED
• Paresh Dave
Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
The Best Desk Accessories (2025)
Brighten up your bare desk with these cute, fidgety, functional, and stylish desk accessories.
Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?
WIRED
• Matt Burgess
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
The Daily
• The New York Times
Trump Goes After Venezuela’s Oil
WIRED
• Niamh Rowe
Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop
A surge of AI-generated content is frustrating Pinterest users and left some questioning whether the platform still works at all.
WIRED
• Sandro Iannaccone
AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.