WIRED
• Nena Farrell
Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Here’s How to Turn It Off (2026)
Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn't ask for it. Here's how to change it back.
McSweeney’s
• Forest Abruzzo
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
Open Responses vs. Chat Completion: A new era for AI apps

The ability to build portable, provider-agnostic AI applications is the future of agentic development. For the past few years, OpenAI’s
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How Tucker Carlson Became Right-Wing Media’s Most Significant Voice
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Jason Zengerle says after Tucker Carlson was let go from CNN and MSNBC, and joined Fox News, Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy revived his career. “Those more prestigious Fox shows… they could not find camera-ready, intelligent human beings to go on their programs and make a sensible case for Donald Trump -- and Tucker was someone who could,” he tells Terry Gross. After Fox fired Carlson in 2023, he started his own streaming show and moved further to the right. Zengerle writes that Carlson’s story shows how conservative media has changed. His book is ‘Hated By All The Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.’
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• Brad Bourque
These Feature-Packed Earbuds Are Less Than $50
Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.
WIRED
• Maddy Varner, Manisha Krishnan
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
WIRED
• Aarian Marshall
New Data Shows Robotaxis Competing on Price—and Speed
Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service with human drivers, is winning the price wars.
I was looking at some of the first posts in in 1998 in discuss.userland.com and came across this post that talked about my decision to stop doing the Mail Pages, now that we had the discussion group.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• snow_storm, cold_snap, unhoused_people, homelessness, housing, local_wnyc
Getting Unhoused New Yorkers Inside in Bad Weather
Over the weekend, seven New Yorkers perished in the cold and snow despite the city's outreach attempts to get unhoused people in shelter. Dave Giffen, executive director of Coalition for the Homeless, explains why these efforts fell short, and what the city can do to get the homeless population indoors and save lives.
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Defector
• Patrick Redford
The Class Warfare Behind The Varsity Blues Saga
WIRED
• David Gilbert
Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
★ The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.
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• Manuel Moreale
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Defector
• Lauren Theisen
Let’s All Say “Buongiorno” To My Favorite Olympic Curlers
Defector
• Patrick Redford
In This House We Believe In Highlights, With Samer Kalaf
The agentic revolution: A new vision for SREs

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are no longer an afterthought for harried IT leaders. They play a critical role in ensuring
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Defector
• Brandy Jensen
Defector Reads A Book Is Tackling ‘Wuthering Heights’
Have you heard the news? British director Emerald Fennell is making Wuthering Heights, an adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic loved by depressed and horny girls everywhere.
Or, more precisely, she is making "Wuthering Heights," because, as she explained in a recent interview, "it is Wuthering Heights and it isn’t—but really I'd say that any adaptation of a novel should have quotation marks around it." Well, OK!
Since it's Emerald Fennell, the movie is sure to have some weird sex stuff going on. Also, since it's Emerald Fennell, the movie will probably be bad. Either way, in anticipation of its release we have decided to read (or, in some cases, reread) the 1847 novel. Please join us as we engage in some turbulent yearning on the Yorkshire moors.
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
Best Walking Pad Deals: Save $150 and More (2026)
Whether you're working from home or just trying to hit your step goals, these walking pad deals make it easy to move every day.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Rep. Espaillat Calls For an End to ICE
U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (D, NY-13) shares why he says ICE should be "dismantled," his vote against its funding and his resolution to impeach Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.
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