Superstition
WIRED
• David Gilbert
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
• Karen Scholl
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Will Knight
An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.
WIRED
• Adrienne So
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
• Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

In “Battle-Tested Tips for a Better NoSQL Migration,” I shared my top strategies for planning, executing and de-risking a NoSQL
The post Lessons Learned From Real-World NoSQL Database Migrations appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Shouri Thallam

In a Kubernetes cluster, CPU and memory requests are both a cost dial and a reliability dial. They’re how you
The post From Guesswork to Guardrails: Kubernetes Container Rightsizing appeared first on The New Stack.
Defector
• Lauren Theisen
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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• Molly White
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
• Tyler Hicks
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, […]
The post Could This State Senate Runoff be a Tipping Point for Tarrant County? appeared first on The Texas Observer.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Burley Kawasaki

AI assistants have become table stakes across modern enterprise operations. Drafting emails, summarizing interactions and surfacing next-best actions are no
The post Operations Shift: Assistants to Autonomous Multiagent Systems appeared first on The New Stack.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Tom Ley
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Kaylin Trychon

People have strong feelings about New Year’s resolutions. I know people who spend their entire December reflecting and then in
The post Forget Predictions: Tech Leaders’ Actual 2026 Resolutions appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• David Cox
New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins
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.