McSweeney’s
• Yoram Ong
What It Takes To Scale AI Agents in Production

With the release of “reasoning” models capable of multistep, test-time compute, the intelligence required to solve complex problems is accessible
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WIRED
• Brad Bourque
These Luxurious Headphones Are Almost Half Off
The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 feature premium materials and luxurious sound.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
Trae Young Is A Casualty Of The Changing NBA
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
New Year's Resolutions That Actually Stick
Suleika Jaouad, author of a bestselling memoir about her battle with cancer, and most recently, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life (Penguin Random House, 2025), discusses her latest Substack essay on how New Year's resolutions almost never stick, and how she engages in the pleasures of small rituals instead. Listeners call in to share about the resolutions they made that they've actually stuck with... which may be more like smaller, daily rituals instead of lofty, life-changing goals.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Changes to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
Under Health Secretary RFK Jr's guidance, the CDC has made changes to recommendations for the childhood vaccine schedule. Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist and member of the group Defend Public Health, explains what the changes are and why they are such a big deal for public health.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
From Pets to Cattle: The New Mindset for Managing VMs

This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations,” a
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Mayor Mamdani's First Moves on Housing
On the day of his inauguration, mayor Zohran Mamdani began his tenure with a press conference in a Flatbush building lobby. David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, recaps all of the latest housing news coming out of the Mamdani administration including his executive orders, latest appointees, and more.
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Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
LSU Ate Too Many Cupcakes Before Dinner
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Puzzling Political Turn, Explained
Once a fierce advocate for Trump and his MAGA base, Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken with the president and resigned from Congress. ‘New Yorker’ staff writer Charles Bethea discusses Greene's past — and what may lie ahead. He spoke with Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Abigail Wall
Serverless Cloud Architecture Is Failing Modern AI Agents

For nearly a decade, cloud architecture has been shaped by a simple rule: Keep everything stateless. AWS Lambda and other
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Defector
• Drew Magary
Can I Use Salsa As A Salad Dressing?
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 football, auto wipers, road trips, and more.
Whoa hey, I’m back! Let’s see what happened while I was away. Well, my family and I went to Germany for the holidays, only for me to immediately come down with a case of the barfing flu. Then we got stranded in Frankfurt for two days after New Year’s thanks to a missed flight connection, then I had to split my family into separate traveling parties just to get us back stateside before 2029, and then we bombed Venezuela. What an exciting time to be alive. And barfing.
I mentioned this on our bonus episode of Core Intuition last month, but I don’t think I’ve blogged about it… Sometimes AI will come up with something and I’ll think, “Damn, that is better than what I would have written myself.” Annoying! My only fix is to edit nearly everything to make it my own.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
A Brief Lineage Of The NBA’s Supposed Swag Crisis, With Devon Walker
This week's Nothing But Respect with comedian, writer, and actor Devon Walker was a fun, loose one. Topics discussed: Aaron Gordon's Dwyane Wade diss track "9 OUT OF 10"; the regrettable Kendrick Lamar GQ shoot; which SNL people can ball; the necessity of distinguishing a player's on-court swag from their off-court swag; which numbers are cool (55) and which are bad (anything above 40 "unless you have a good reason"); Veeze making fun of Tony Snell; and whether or not Tidjane Salaün's mini-surge is any of our problem.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim on Venezuela, January 6th Anniversary and More
Andy Kim, U.S. Senator (D NJ), talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey. Topics this month include the Trump administration's military actions in Venezuela, the lasting ramifications of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and more.
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Assume I'm working on a twitter-like user interface. Your text can include <a> elements. When the user clicks on one of these, should I open it in a new tab? Prior art? There is none, because in the old school twitter-like apps don't allow links.
More book editing and AI
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alexander T. Williams
The Hidden Engineering Cost of ‘AI Everywhere’ Product Roadmaps

AI has quietly shifted from a differentiator to a default expectation. Product roadmaps now arrive with “AI-powered” stamped on nearly
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Don Mattingly Joins Phillies as Bench Coach
nytimes.com/athletic/6942357/2026/01/05/don-mattingly-hired-bench-coach-phillies/
Welcome to Philadelphia, Donnie Baseball.
Defector
• Tom Ley
Former Michigan State Player Makes Too Much Of A Scene For Even Tom Izzo To Tolerate
Fans of Michigan State basketball and Tom Izzo's coaching style love to talk about how valuable his confrontational style is to the program. Any instance of Izzo stepping over the line, even getting physical with a player, is metabolized as a necessary ingredient to success. Izzo just loves to mix it up with his guys, we're told, and loves when they mix it up with him.
It's fair to wonder how spending several developmental years around a guy who loves nothing more than screaming in a huddle might affect some of Izzo's players once they graduate. For example, the four years Paul Davis spent playing for the Spartans may have something to do with the fact that he is now the type of guy to yell nasty shit at a referee, earning himself an ejection from the arena and a public reprimand from Izzo.