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Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
During the day I thought about this tiny experience of a blackout
Why Pam Bondi's crashout is indicative of much deeper rot in the Trump White House - and why yelling about the Dow on the Hill isn't changing anything for Trump. He's mentioned in the Epstein files over... checks notes... a MILLION times! And how far is Trump willing to go to steal the election? And are we ready to fight back? Why Joe is less concerned about the state of the Democratic Party than some might believe. It's not about a blue wave anymore. It's a change wave.
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Podcast Standards Project
• Transistor
If we're going to introduce new RSS-based features, they should reflect what podcasters and listeners want. The biggest danger to our project is adopting our own pet-projects instead of building stuff creators actually want to use.
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Some of us are hopeful. Some of us are terrified. Most of us are both, often in the same hour. And into that vacuum of uncertainty there is a torrent of speculation dressed up as prophecy.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
As OpenAI sunsets its most dangerous model, the tensions it exposed remain as tricky as ever. PLUS: Elon's space catapult, and OpenAI vs. Anthropic
Austin sunset behind buildings, from 26 floors up, at Clawstin. 🦞
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Nick Lucchesi
Dynatrace is experiencing a major moment in its history. It’s expanding from an observability platform what might be described as
The post The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead appeared first on The New Stack.
Newly unsealed passages cited in WP Engine’s complaint allege that Automattic categorized hosting companies as “friends,” “would-be friends,” and “charlatans,” and planned to “steal every single” site from those who refused a trademark deal.
You’d have to send fairly lengthy newsletters to run into issues. And even then, only a subset of subscribers would suffer.
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
The Asus Zenbook S 16 was a favorite of ours last year, but the price was always too high. Now it has dropped to $1,000, and it’s a total steal.
If you haven’t seen this or heard about it (or even if you have), the full story of this McDonald’s mural is well worth your time. “Giving that talk…was one of the greatest moments of my life. Bar none.” (Don’t skip the video!)
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

The latest iteration of the TIOBE Index of programming languages indicates that more specialized languages are creeping up on Python’s
The post Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”
As you know, I love me some Lego engineering builds. This one is pretty fun: using a large syringe, a Raspberry Pi, neodymium magnets, a controller scavenged from a toy submarine, and a bunch of Lego pieces, Brick Experiment Channel built a remote-controlled submarine. And it works so well! They even tested it by navigating 200 meters in a real stream.
Anthropic has another funding round and highlights their growing revenue for Claude Code. Not surprised. Claude Code was first, people like it, and Opus 4.6 is really expensive. I think Codex 5.3 will continue to slowly peel developers away.
Spider-Noir is an upcoming live-action series starring Nicolas Cage as his noir Spider-Man character from Spider-Verse. The trailer is available in color and black & white.