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Monitor Your Servers With Free Uptime Kuma Container

If you run a collection of servers, be they a home network lab or those powering your business, you are

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey

‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey
I wasn’t sure, at first, that I wanted to read Heated Rivalry, or the rest of the novels in Rachel Reid’s best-selling “Game Changers” series. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first of Reid’s two standalone hockey romances, Time to Shine, which takes place in an imaginary world ...

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De’Aaron Fox Is In Control

De’Aaron Fox Is In Control
For the third time this December, the San Antonio Spurs have beaten the otherwise barely beatable Oklahoma City Thunder. Each win showed off a different Spurs strength, with the first two being headlined by Victor Wembanyama's vertical pressure and the team's scoring depth, ...

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Securing Legacy Android Apps: Modern Encryption Practices

Person with a phone getting a security alert.

As software engineers rise up the ranks from junior levels to managerial roles in mobile development, good code practices become

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Java Developers Get Multiple Paths To Building AI Agents

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how Java would soon overtake Python as the programming language of choice

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The Brian Lehrer Show
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Holiday Best-Of: Jelani Cobb; Pregnancy; Grandparenting; Julia Ioffe; Cartoons

During this holiday season, hear some recent favorites: Jelani Cobb, dean of the Journalism School at Columbia University, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025 (One World, 2025), looks back at recen...

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The Best Things We Heard In 2025

The Best Things We Heard In 2025

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year.

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Our 25 Most-Read Pieces of 2025

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We’re counting down our most-read pieces of 2025. This list will be updated daily until we reach #1 on December 31. Thanks to all our contributors, readers, and supporters this year!

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25. I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
by Lia Woodward and Leah Folta

24. Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb
by Juliana Gray

23. The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City
by Devin Wallace

22. New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for ‘The President Violated the Constitution’
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Behind the Blog: We Have Recommendations For You

This week, we discuss history repeating itself, a phone wipe scandal, Meta's relationship with links and more.

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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds via Bert Hubert

berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. We no longer really believe in that theory, but when it comes to dealing with the US, many Europeans are however currently busily negotiating with reality.

WIRED
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Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance?

WIRED
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Ricoh GR IV Review: Everyone's Favorite Pocket Camera Gets Better

Ricoh’s cult-inspiring pocketable camera gets a small update, with important improvements in autofocus and image quality.

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Lars-Christian Simonsen

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Lars-Christian Simonsen, whose blog can be found at lars-christian.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Matt ...

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Jane Fonda

Early this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during a SAG-AFTRA award acceptance speech. "This is not the time to go inward," Fonda says. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her career onscreen and off, as an activist. 


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US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.

WIRED
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Sleep Number P6 Smart Bed Review: Advanced and Adaptive

This legacy brand brings its beds into the modern era with 100 firmness levels and in-depth sleep tracking.

WIRED
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‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here

Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.

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Marriage and Sex in the Age of Ozempic: An Update

This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since. In the past few years, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound have been radically reshaping the people’s lives, changing appetites ...

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HP ZBook 8 Gli 14-Inch Review: An Unimpressive Workstation

Billed as a workstation (and priced accordingly), HP’s Zbook 8 falls short of dazzling.

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More scraps from my notes file

I’m away with family this week so here are some more scraps from my notes (previously). Disney is considering a reboot of the Indiana Jones franchise. Goodness knows how many Jurassic Park movies there are. We need to create new IP. Culture creates new ideas downstream. Wit...