Doing way too many things simultaneously today. Took a few minutes to unplug and read a book in the afternoon before diving back into code. Only finished one book in January, hoping to make progress on a few more in February.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Charles Humble
Durable Execution: Build reliable software in an unreliable world

Software reliability is a persistent problem for developers because IT systems are built on unreliable components: hardware degrades; software has
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WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
Elon Musk Rolls His AI Startup Into SpaceX, Creating the World’s Most Valuable Company
By fusing SpaceX and xAI—which acquired X last year—Elon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.
AI Agents Run Amok: Clawdbot –> Moltbot –> OpenClaw
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Rahul Auradkar
Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything

AI is ubiquitous in both the consumer and enterprise sectors. Yet few organizations are realizing AI’s full potential. Why? AI
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Why enterprise businesses should adopt immutable Linux for the desktop

If you’ve been a part of the Linux community for even a brief period, over the past few years, chances
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was “brittle.” Here’s how 2.0 fixes it.

The new, revised Factory 2.0 swaps out 1.0’s fragile, event-driven pipeline with a self-healing system powered by a new open
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents

OpenAI is betting that coding agents are outgrowing the terminal. The company launched a macOS desktop app on Monday for its Codex
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WIRED
• Caroline Haskins
HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”
WIRED
• Brian Barrett
The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
A teddy bear, an ice skate: What remains from last year's deadly D.C. plane crash
In late January of last year, an American Eagle flight and a U.S. Army helicopter collided above the Potomac River, killing everyone aboard both aircraft. It was the deadliest flight disaster in the U.S. in decades.
A year later, families and first responders are reflecting on their enduring sorrow.
Local public safety reporter Emma Uber reads her story that recounts how loved ones left behind are processing the anniversary and finding solace in the keepsakes first-responders were able to recover after the crash.
Today’s show was produced by Sabby Robinson. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter.
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Defector
• Giri Nathan
Carlos Alcaraz Has Conquered All Terrain
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Dyson Deals: WIRED's Top Pick Pet Vacuum and Purifier Heater
WIRED's favorite pet vacuum, and our favorite purifier-heater, are on steep discount right now.
OpenAI has a new Mac app for Codex. It appears to unify both Codex CLI and the web-based Codex into a single interface. This is where they always wanted to go by naming everything Codex.
Working on something new that is ending up much more costly to run than I was expecting. I’ve tried to move features that previously required Micro.blog Premium down to the standard Micro.blog subscription whenever possible. Probably can’t happen for this new thing.
McSweeney’s
• Torie Johnson
Meet the Newest Domestic Terrorist Group: V.A. Nurses
Defector
• Eli Cugini
Fanfiction’s Total Cultural Victory
My Changing Media Landscape via Chris McLeod
I cancelled Disney Plus in September (though my annual sub runs until March). A year ago, I downloaded my entire Kindle library and stopped buying from their store. Netflix was cancelled in December. Audible went bye-bye sometime last summer. None of this was planned, exactly - more like a series of small decisions that eventually accumulated into something larger.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Why Your Friends Are Ignoring Authoritarianism
Sigal Samuel, senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect, talks about why many people in America are able to ignore politics and what our duty as citizens should be under an authoritarian government.
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Ethan Hawke
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon.’ He’s nominated for an Oscar for his performance. Hawke spoke with Terry Gross about collaborating with Richard Linklater, losing his friend River Phoenix, and his thoughts on aging.
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