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The Sacramento Kings Can’t Even Lose On Purpose

The Sacramento Kings Can’t Even Lose On Purpose
Give the Sacramento Kings an incentive, and they will find a way to flee from it. The operators of basketball's least functional franchise spent the part of the season in which they were deluded enough to think they could win games instead getting humiliated, losing nightly ...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Social Media's Addiction Trial

David Streitfeld, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter covering tech for The New York Times, explains the landmark trial regarding social media addiction, brought by a 20-year-old woman against Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube for optimizing their products to her mental and physical detriment.

Photo: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, United States, on February 19, 2026. (Photo by Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 

 


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JBL's Best Wireless Headphones Are $170 Off at Walmart

The Tour One M3 headphones offer flagship performance at midrange pricing, as long as color is negotiable for you.

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Tiny Puppet Sound

Would you like to watch a puppet DJ a chill set of French house music in cool workplace meeting space? Trick question because of course you would. This went right into my Underscore collection. (via undermanager)

Tags: music · video

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Customization easily becomes complexity. How much is too much? For Tinypost I landed on two settings: light or dark, plus an accent color. Enough to feel like yours. Not enough to turn into a site builder. Hopefully :) tinypost.blog

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60 Minutes should do a segment on what you have to go through to get a birth certificate in any random state. It's a lot of work, I've had to do it twice in the last few years. You'd have to be a pretty committed voter to be willing to do all that work. I imagine it would be even harder if you're black, and it's going to be hugely hard for married women who changed their last name when they got married. And how much you want to bet they don't accept birth certificates from Muslim countries? It is the biggest scam ever, and if the journalists don't cover it that way, always, with no both-sides-isms, then we should all know this is the end of journalism in the US. And btw also the end of real elections in the US too. The Repubs these days like to say they're against the "deep state" -- well my friends this is about the most deep state bullshit ever.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Monday Morning Politics: Latest on US Strikes in Iran

Dan Lamothe, U.S. military and Pentagon reporter at The Washington Post, shares his reporting on the latest U.S. military actions in Iran, especially what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz, and more.

Photo: People clear rubble in a house in the Beryanak District after it was damaged by missile attacks two days before, on March 15, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Credit: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images.

 

 


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Text • Albert Burneko

Trump To World: Please Help Me Un-Shoot My Own Leg Off

Trump To World: Please Help Me Un-Shoot My Own Leg Off
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Oman, has been effectively closed for over two weeks, since the United States and Israel began their war of aggression against the nation of Iran and Iran responded by, ...

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Text • Lauren Theisen

Can I Interest You In A Billiken?

Can I Interest You In A Billiken?
March Madness means it's time to get invested in random schools from places you've never been, and after the bracket reveals on Sunday, I'd like to offer a potential rooting interest: the Saint Louis Billikens men's team. Based indeed in Missouri and not some off-brand St. L...

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Text • Chris Thompson

Fernando Alonso’s Extremities Pulped For Pointless Laps In A Worthless Lemon

Fernando Alonso’s Extremities Pulped For Pointless Laps In A Worthless Lemon
It must have been surreal and thrilling for Fernando Alonso to find himself in a points position moments after the start of the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix. That Aston Martin he's driving is a worthless piece of crap, but because half the grid has still not figured out how to wo...

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Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Crossword, March 16: Big Blowup

The Crossword, March 16: Big Blowup

Make yourself at home and solve our Monday crossword. This week's puzzle was constructed by Dan Zarin and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Dan is a crossword constructor and freelance writer based in Portland, Maine. Over the years he has been a musician, a hitchhiker, a barista, an advertising copywriter and a food critic, so making puzzles seemed like the next logical step.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE. Please note that submissions will be closed from April 1 to May 1.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Oscars Recap With Sam Sanders

Sam Sanders, host of The Sam Sanders Show on KCRW, recaps the winners, losers, and culture-defining moments from the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony.

Photo: Michael B. Jordan, winner of the Best Actor Award for his role(s) in “Sinners,” poses in the press room during the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images.

 


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Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT

Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT

A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.

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“Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the...

“Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything.” Concierge Nation: Welcome to White-Glove America. “Exclusivity — even if it comes at the cost of social cohesion — is the business model.”

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Gov. Sherrill's First Budget Proposal

Michael Sol Warren, New Jersey reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about Gov. Mikie Sherrill's first budget plan, which she says will address property taxes and school funding, as well as the proposed cut to the Stay NJ tax relief program, which aimed to keep seniors from leaving the state.

 

Photo: New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill gives the Budget Address in the Assembly Chambers of the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (Office of Governor / Rich Hundley III)


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“This Is Not The Computer For You”

Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit allergic to hype, but I just now got around to reading this review of the Macbook Neo by Sam Henri Gold that absolutely everyone has been recommending and, well, this might be the best product review ever written? The consensus is reason...

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The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...

The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the scientific community in the US. “This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.”

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Text • Tom Ley

Mentally Ill Former Navy SEAL Inspires Team USA To WBC Final

Mentally Ill Former Navy SEAL Inspires Team USA To WBC Final
Team USA had an uninspiring showing during pool play at this year's World Baseball Classic, and thanks to manager Mark DeRosa's struggles with math, needed a little bit of luck to make it to the quarterfinals. But now, after victories over Canada and the Dominican Republic, ...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why AI workloads are breaking traditional Kubernetes observability strategies

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For most platform engineering and ITOps teams, the ability to orchestrate containerized workloads at scale has transformed development organizations. But

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Text • Paul Sawers

Anthropic makes a pricing change that matters for Claude’s longest prompts

Illustration of a cartoon robot inserting a coin while holding a stack of coins, depicting the cost of running large language models.

Anthropic announced Friday that the 1-million-token context window for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now generally available,

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