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Novak Djokovic Washes His Hands Of The Quasi-Player Union He Co-Founded

Novak Djokovic Washes His Hands Of The Quasi-Player Union He Co-Founded
Right before the 2020 U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic co-founded a group called the Professional Tennis Players Association. The sport is governed by a handful of powerful institutions, which face little pushback due to scant labor organization. The PTPA was intended to advocate f...

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Jaylen Brown Is Handling The Spotlight Just Fine

Jaylen Brown Is Handling The Spotlight Just Fine
As NBA honors go, Player of the Month is fairly Mickey Mouse. Being named either conference's best player over any given 12-game stretch is straightforwardly impressive, though not enough to get anyone outside of the online paramilitary wing of any team's fanbase to care abo...

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With Maduro gone, what's Venezuela's future?

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After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump declared: “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.” The world is still digesting the consequences of the intervention, which the Trump admi...

WIRED
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Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.

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Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem

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You know the drill: Each month your organization’s cloud bill comes in, higher than the month before, despite all your

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Just heard an ad on WNYC-FM saying we should share news with them. That's a milestone. First time I've ever heard NPR say our purpose was anything other than giving them money. They could go even further -- support blogs and podcasts that cover the NYC area.

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How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?

The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever lookin...

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WASI 1.0: You Won’t Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026

WebAssembly made huge strides with the release of Wasm 3.0 and the component model. However, the last lap in the

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Thirty-Two Bird Names I Would Contribute If I Were an Ornithologist

1. Johnson’s Thrush
2. Brown Jumping Quaff
3. Pandora’s Baffle
4. Yellow-Eared Tiegslider
5. Jaundiced Terpsichore
6. Pink-Bellied Sneech Destroyer
7. Very Normal Bird #9
8. Grouch-Throated Arabesque
9. McQueeqy-McSqueeg
10. Brown Jumping Quaff Goes to London
11. Pink-Footed Trumpole
12. Roy
13. Jamaican Cat Dodger
14. Sartorial Eumonia
15. Brown Jumping Quaff Visits Sailor Moon
16. Gnostic Speed Warbler
17. Ryan’s Reynold
18. Threecan
19. Vermilion-Spotted Mandora
20. Lacy-Footed Tristesse
21. McSqueegy-McQueeg
22. Reticulated Thong Snatcher
23. Very Normal Bird #86
24. Thomason’s Hornbill
25. Brown Jumping Quaff and the Wrath of Piet Mondrian
26. Rumpole’s Ordinal
27. Eastern Cloudmonger
28. Tit-Licking Fump Rucker
29. Feathers McGee
30. Get Down from There
31. Show Me the Money
32. Jack

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Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the Minifigs.

WIRED
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These On-Ear Beats Headphones Are Marked Down by $70

What these headphones lack in active noise-canceling, they make up for with big, bold sound.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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The Next Era of AI: From Single User to Team Collaboration

An avatar joins a business meeting.

Most interactions today follow a familiar pattern: You open a chat interface, describe your problem and wait for a response.

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Nick Lucchesi Takes Helm at The New Stack

Happy first Monday of 2026 to The New Stack (TNS) readers! It is with great pleasure that I introduce you

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Investigating The Great Los Angeles Fires

MS NOW journalist (and Palisades native) Jacob Soboroff says covering the 2025 wildfires was the most important assignment he's ever undertaken. His new book, ‘Firestorm,’ offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the systems that failed during the disaster and the effort to rebuild. 

Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the roadtrip novel ‘The Rest of Our Lives,’ by Ben Markovits. 

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Jets End Their Season With Zero Interceptions Or Dignity

Jets End Their Season With Zero Interceptions Or Dignity
There is no earthly reason for you to have kept tabs on the New York Jets in Week 18—normal people would have averted their eyes by Week 2—but the team made proper history on Sunday. Yesterday's 35-8 loss to the Buffalo Bills meant that the Jets went an entire season without...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

A Recap and Preview of New State Legislation

Jimmy Vielkind, New York State Issues reporter for WNYC, reviews a slew of bills signed by Governor Hochul at the end of 2025 and previews the State Assembly's upcoming legislative session.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why Your Dashboards Are Obsolete in the Age of AI

Smart robot arm systems for innovative warehouse

Walk into an Amazon distribution center right now and you can feel the future humming. Thousands of robots glide across

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Great post today by Ben Thompson on the changes coming in the future, even as AI replaces some jobs:

All of that could very well be replaced by AI, but the point is that the history of humans is the continual creation of new jobs to be done — jobs that couldn’t have been conceived of before they were obvious, and which pay dramatically more than whatever baseline existed before technological change.

There will always be something to do. And humans will always seek out art and writing and anything crafted by humans, because we feel a connection with it.

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John Voorhees revived his old Objective-C app with Claude Code and came away floored:

What I see is the foundation of a fundamental shift in the economics of building and maintaining apps. […] Will new opportunities emerge for indie developers to serve even narrower user segments as the time and effort to build new utility apps drops?

Yes. Small developers (especially generalists) have a new competitive advantage because they have all the capability of larger teams and none of the bureaucracy.