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• Giri Nathan
JD Vance Is A Hog That’ll Eat Any Slop
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• Giri Nathan
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In 2023, a Chevrolet dealership in California woke up to a viral nightmare: Its new AI chatbot had just agreed
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Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in Scorsese’s 1976 film ‘Taxi Driver.’ "What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the '70s," she says. She talks with Terry Gross about the 50th anniversary of that movie, getting mauled by a lion on a set, and why she kept her sexuality private for most of her career. Foster’s latest film, ‘Vie Privée’ (‘A Private Life’), is in French, which she speaks fluently.
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WIRED
• Vittoria Elliott
For the second Trump administration, the world of online conspiracies is shaping real-world policies like never before.
WIRED
• David Gilbert
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
Defector
• Drew Magary
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, e-shopping, lotion application methods, and more.
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WIRED
• Brad Bourque
Elgato's Stream Deck+ adds knobs and an LCD for even more info at a glance.
WIRED
• Zeyi Yang
Are You Dead Yet soared to the top of app store charts and became a magnet for investors. In an exclusive interview with WIRED, one of its creators says they’re changing the name anyway.
FrameLab
• Gil Duran
Trump declared 'my own morality' is his only constraint on power, revealing the authoritarian logic at the heart of conservative ideology.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Matthias Biehl

It might seem easy to design and deploy an API by following the predictable API development life cycle pattern. Without
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• Dan Shipper
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Maxine Joselow, New York Times reporter covering climate policy, shares her reporting that found the EPA will no longer measure the lives saved by regulating two air pollutants, and what that might mean for how companies operate, how clean the air is and how it will negatively affect people's health.
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404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Fake images of LeBron James, iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even Nicolás Maduro show them in bed with AI-generated influencers.
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• Lauren Theisen
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• Giri Nathan
After his Boston Celtics lost 98-96 to the Indiana Pacers on Monday night, head coach Joe Mazzulla delivered a tour-de-force performance as the character "Joe Mazzulla." While speaking to press, he answered all six questions with the same two words, then left.
There's a lot to love about Mazzulla's line delivery. You think, just for a second, that he might provide an actual answer to the next query—nope. "Illegal screen."
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• WNYC
Jonathan Cohen, historian and the author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (Columbia Global Reports, 2025), talks about how prediction markets, where people bet on world events, elections or...almost anything, are rising in popularity, and the risks that may come with these lightly-regulated markets.
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I noticed a quiet shift in our engineering team recently that brought me to a broader realization about the future
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