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Superstition

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

WIRED
Text • David Gilbert

Election Deniers Think the Venezuela Attack Is All About 2020

Election deniers are sure that the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.

McSweeney’s
Text • Karen Scholl

Drafts of My Dog’s New Year’s Resolution

V1: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box. V2: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box before breakfast. V3: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box when company is over. V4: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box when Grandma, who doesn’t like dogs, is over. ...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Mayor Mamdani's First Week

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, talk about the latest news from Mayor Mamdani's first week in office, including his controversial decision to rescind two executive orders from Mayor Adams on Israel and antisemitism, his relationship with the business community and more.


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WIRED
Text • Will Knight

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.

WIRED
Text • Adrienne So

What's Going on With Smart Rings?

Ultrahuman smart rings currently can’t be sold in the US. We caught up with the company’s chief business officer to discuss what’s next for ring-based health tracking.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Lessons Learned From Real-World NoSQL Database Migrations

A flock of birds against an orange sky.

In “Battle-Tested Tips for a Better NoSQL Migration,” I shared my top strategies for planning, executing and de-risking a NoSQL

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Shouri Thallam

From Guesswork to Guardrails: Kubernetes Container Rightsizing

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In a Kubernetes cluster, CPU and memory requests are both a cost dial and a reliability dial. They’re how you

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Defector
Text • Lauren Theisen

The Lightning Refuse To Go Away

The Lightning Refuse To Go Away
Stevie Nicks famously sang the line "Lightning strikes / maybe once, maybe twice." But on Tuesday night, Tampa Bay exceeded Ms. Nicks's expectations, lighting up the night with four goals as they beat the league-best Avalanche to extend their win streak to eight games. It w...

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The Growing Power & Influence Of White Supremacy In America

Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book, ‘American Reich,’ centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif. He spoke with Dave Davies.

Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews ‘Marty Supreme.’ 

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The year of technoligarchy

The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

The Texas Observer
Text • Tyler Hicks

Could This State Senate Runoff be a Tipping Point for Tarrant County? 

Even some of his most passionate supporters were surprised by the number of votes Democrat Taylor Rehmet received in the November special election for Texas Senate District 9.  His competitors, Republicans Leigh Wambsganss and John Huffman, each had mountains of cash and the backing of major PACs and political players across Texas. Even so, Rehmet, […]

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

What Happens to Venezuela's Oil

While the Trump administration has declared its intent of revitalizing the Venezuelan oil industry, Rebecca F. Elliott, energy reporter for The New York Times, reports on who stands to benefit from more drilling in the country.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Burley Kawasaki

Operations Shift: Assistants to Autonomous Multiagent Systems

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AI assistants have become table stakes across modern enterprise operations. Drafting emails, summarizing interactions and surfacing next-best actions are no

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Audio • WNYC

Your Odes to the Metrocard

The MTA has phased out MetroCards in favor of tapping and OMNY cards. Listeners call in to offer their tributes to the iconic yellow cards, which date back to the 1990s. 


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New York's Venezuelan Community Reacts to Trump's Maduro Ouster

Gisela Salim-Peyer, associate editor at The Atlantic, reports on the scenes from the courtroom where Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro was arraigned this week after the Trump administration's military actions in the South American country—and the range of responses from New York's Venezuelan community.


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Defector
Text • Tom Ley

Tony Dokoupil Eats Heaps Of Shit In First Week As CBS News Anchor

Tony Dokoupil Eats Heaps Of Shit In First Week As CBS News Anchor
Last month, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss decided to make Tony Dokoupil, then the host of the network's three-hour morning show, the new lead anchor on CBS Evening News. In any other circumstance, it might be hard to figure out how this promotion was issued to a guy wh...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Kaylin Trychon

Forget Predictions: Tech Leaders’ Actual 2026 Resolutions

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People have strong feelings about New Year’s resolutions. I know people who spend their entire December reflecting and then in

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WIRED
Text • David Cox

The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.

WIRED
Text • Caroline Haskins

New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub’s corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.” Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.