These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.
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• Brad Bourque
Our Favorite Earbuds for Most People Are Over 25 Percent Off
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.
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• WNYC
Vanessa Friedman, fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times, discusses the Saks Global bankruptcy filing to find out what it means for shoppers and vendors, and what it says about the state of retail sales in the city.
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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

The latest (CNCF) Annual Cloud Native Survey has been released, and with “82% of container users running Kubernetes in production,
The post CNCF: Kubernetes is ‘foundational’ infrastructure for AI appeared first on The New Stack.
The first time I saw a Waymo, I just about lost my mind, laughing. “There’s no one driving that car!” Now they’re everywhere and it’s normal. When I see one now, I just think, “There’s a safe car that is unlikely to run over a pedestrian.”
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• WNYC
Mark Malkoff, comedian and author of Love, Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan’s Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend (Penguin Random House, 2025), talks about his book on Johnny Carson, which focuses on the decade the late-night legend spent hosting the Tonight Show from New York; plus he discusses how Carson invited Jim Henson's Muppets on the show, including an episode hosted by Kermit the frog.
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• Deirdre Mahon

The discussion around AI often focuses on content creation, software development and financial management. However, one of the business processes
The post From data to dollars: AI’s role in the modern GTM stack appeared first on The New Stack.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss stances on AI, a conference about money laundering, and signs about slavery coming down.
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• Janakiram MSV

Kubernetes continues to evolve and mature as the most preferred orchestration platform for containerized applications and microservices. Kubernetes 1.35, the
The post Kubernetes 1.35 features that change Day 2 operations appeared first on The New Stack.
Good analysis from Laurens Hofs on ICE getting a verified badge on Bluesky and the resulting fallout. It underscores some confusion in the fediverse about what Bluesky is:
When fediverse users say they don’t want to be bridged to Bluesky, they’re applying an ActivityPub mental model to ATProto infrastructure. In one sense this is a bit of a category error, the bridge connects to networking infrastructure, not the application.
He doesn’t let Bluesky off the hook either, though. Good points on how ICE presence alone (without any posts) is a fear tactic.
AI assistants could if they wanted drive all of us crazy in different ways. Advertising squared.
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins
US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.
He’s the subject of a new two-part HBO documentary by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio called ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ It looks at his origins in Brooklyn, his service in WWII, his EGOT-winning comedy career and lifelong friendship with Carl Reiner. We’re returning to our 1991 and 2001 interviews with Brooks. He told Terry Gross about why he loves mixing bad taste and high production value.
Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the Oscar-nominated German film ‘Sound of Falling.’
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• Loraine Lawson

A new VS Code exploit can rewrite AI agents across all code repositories, an application security specialist demonstrated Thursday. On
The post Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit appeared first on The New Stack.

Time plays a crucial role in an organization’s defense posture, including the timestamping of events, whether they occurred during business
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• Jason Parham
TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.
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Steven Rodas, environmental reporter for NJ Advance Media, explains why utility costs in New Jersey have spiked over the last several years and the details of Gov. Mikie Sherrill's state of emergency on utility costs.
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• Steven Levy
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.