More winter storm prep today. Groceries. Went to my mom’s house too to wrap pipes, drip facets, turn the heat up. 😞 I’m sure this is all a foreign concept for folks in the north… Here in central Texas our infrastructure is just not ready for crazy cold. ❄️
A new home page for the Scripting News podcast. Nice to get this one off the big todo list.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Shahar Azulay
LLMs create a new blind spot in observability

Teams that have run Software as a Service (SaaS) products know the routine: An alert goes off, and everyone scrambles
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Loraine Lawson
Distributed apps platform Aspire supports JavaScript, Python

Aspire, Microsoft’s open source, cloud native development platform, now supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java as first-class citizens. “With Aspire
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Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Why going outside is good for you, even when it's freezing
Today on the show, we explore the science behind why going outside is so good for us, even when it’s freezing.
If you’re interested in learning more about nature therapy, check out the Center for Nature Informed Therapy.
A psychologist says this exercise can make you more hopeful in 14 days: the Noticing Nature Intervention is straightforward, but its results might surprise you.
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My first rule of platforms: "People don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors." I thought that rule was pretty new, but it actually appears in a 1996 blog post.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• David Eastman
How Claude Cowork helps developers spread the AI knowledge

Last month, I reviewed Claude Desktop and noted that the simple addition of giving Model Context Protocol (MCP) permission to
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Scientists Discovered a Cow That Uses Tools Like a Chimpanzee
Veronika, a brown cow in Austria, uses sticks and brushes as multipurpose tools to scratch hard-to-reach spots
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): WIRED-Tested and Approved
Most gaming laptops under $1,000 aren’t great, but these three machines stand out above the rest.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Best Portable Blenders of 2026: Ninja, Nutribullet, Beast
Cordless portable blenders have come a long way since their introduction a decade back. Here's why the Ninja Blast Max smokes them all.
WIRED
• Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts
DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits
Plus: The FAA blocks drones over DHS operations, Microsoft admits it hands over Bitlocker encryption keys to the cops, and more.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows
Plus: Asus exits the smartphone market, and Sony partners with TCL on TVs.
The Daily
• The New York Times
'The Interview': Chloé Zhao Is Yearning to Know How to Love
The “Hamnet” director on trying to overcome her deepest fears — and open her heart.
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WIRED
• Jeremy White
Watch Party: The Best TAG in Years, a ’60s Sensation, and Omega Goes All White
It’s LVMH Watch Week, so here's WIRED's pick of the timepieces that made their debut—plus one notable gatecrasher.
WIRED
• Ritsuko Kawai
This Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.
Best Of: Writers Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Quiara Alegría Hudes
★ Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames
The unpolished version of the feature we have today only reiterates my belief that Tahoe is a mistake to be avoided. It’s a good idea though, and there aren’t even many of those in Tahoe.
Double-Pronged Extension Cord
Watched: Disneyland Handcrafted. Some great early construction footage. 🍿