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• Kathryn Xu
Amanda Anisimova Defeats Wang Xinyu, Narrowly Escapes Amanda Anisimova
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• Kathryn Xu
McSweeney’s
• Emily Flake
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Fahmid Kabir

If you’ve seen a new crop of data about ops lately, you may have noticed this new category coming up:
The post AI DevOps vs. SRE agents: Compare AI incident response tools appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Anshul Gupta

This is the second of a four-part series. Read Part 1: How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters)
The post Async Rust: Pinning demystified appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks. Our top pick is from Blissy.
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson talks about the 1984 New York City subway shooting, when Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers. "We are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter. Up will become down, down will become up. And that also felt very, very familiar to where we are today," she tells Tonya Mosley. Thompson argues reactions to the Goetz case helped fuel a politics of racial resentment that reshaped criminal justice, national policy and media narratives. Her book is 'Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.'
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• WNYC
NYC Comptroller Mark Levine talks about the budget gap and what it means for NYC's finances, plus, how the city is managing the storm.
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• Tom Ley
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• Patrick Redford
On Dec. 20, with the Los Angeles Clippers sitting at 6-21 and one half-game out of last place in the Western Conference, Clippers blogger Robert Flom unwittingly turned his favorite team's season around through the power of posting. He will soon have to make like a beaver and eat some paper to pay for his alterations to the cosmic weft.
Specifically, Flom responded to a tweet from ESPN's Dave McMenamin, in which the Lakers propagandist quoted Clippers coach Ty Lue projecting a plus-15 win differential for his team over the course of the rest of the season. Upon some cajoling from another Clippers fan, who joked about the team going 15-3 upon trading for the decrepit bones of DeMar DeRozan, Flom made his fateful proclamation:

The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Listeners call in to talk about whether their schools got a snow day or had to do remote instruction, and how it's going either way
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WIRED
• Brad Bourque
Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

With the MCP protocol, Anthropic created the de facto standard for AI models and agents to talk to third-party applications.
The post Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework appeared first on The New Stack.
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Defector
• Lauren Theisen
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• Maitreyi Anantharaman
It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week's puzzle was constructed by Rafael Musa, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Rafa lives in San Francisco with his cat Georgia.
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404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson

Networking giant Cisco purchased Isovalent in 2024 to get in on the cloud native action. In our cloud native community,
The post Cisco is using eBPF to rethink firewalls, vulnerability mitigation appeared first on The New Stack.
B I J A N
• bijansabet
I built a little web app to scratch a personal itch. An easy way to format photos the way I prefer them onInstagram. Drop in photos, get them back with a clean white border inside a square.Plus a toggle to add a film rebate look. Your photos never leave your browser. Nothing is uploaded or […]