Defector
• Lauren Theisen
Vegas And Utah Are Murder On Early Bedtimes
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Defector
• Lauren Theisen
McSweeney’s
• Ali Fitzgerald
Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors' models.

OpenAI wasted little time since announcing changes to its partnership with Microsoft on Monday. T \he ChatGPT hitmaker is now
The post The OpenAI-Microsoft reset, decoded: Why AWS may come out ahead appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Defector
• David Roth
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

On Thursday, Anthropic took Claude Security, a defensive security tool in Claude Code on the web that scans codebases for
The post Anthropic’s Claude Security emerges from closed preview to scan your codebases for vulnerabilities appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Meta’s decided its new proprietary AI LLM, Muse Spark, would be much more profitable than the open-source Llama. What are
The post Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Anna McKie
At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Supreme Court heard arguments on two cases where the Trump administration is attempting to end TPS, or Temporary Protected Status, for thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in the US. Ciarán Donnelly, senior vice president for International Programs at International Rescue Committee, and Daniel Berlin, policy director of Protection Pathways at the International Rescue Committee, offer their take on why the program should stay legal, as well as talk about the humanitarian crisis they say is ongoing in Haiti.
Photo by Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons): Panorama of the west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., United States of America
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Trump administration’s work requirement changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, officially took effect this month. Karen Yi, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering homelessness and poverty, explains what has changed for SNAP recipients in New York and New Jersey.
Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Department of Agriculture via Wikimedia Commons: A farmer's market in Baltimore tests out wireless payment through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations and the author of Into The Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Summit Books, 2026), talks about the effects of DOGE cuts on USAID, and of his efforts to publicize them and what the cuts meant for countries receiving U.S. assistance.
Photo courtesy of United States Coast Guard via Wikimedia Commons: USAID packages being delivered by United States Coast Guard personnel.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Halle Newman, writer, talks about her recent piece for Slate, "My Dad Used to Have All the Answers. Now He Asks ChatGPT," and the people who outsource their advice-giving to generative AI.
Photo: close-up of a man using a laptop. Credit: SHVETS via Pexels.
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We Distribute
• Tim Chambers
Six months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins?
Apparently I still don’t know how to join a Zoom call without being muted first. It’s always a surprise what is going to happen when I connect. Camera on? Audio? Who knows!
Vincent Ritter has launched Build with Micro.blog, a new unofficial site with API documentation, example apps, and much more. Our official documentation is so sparse that it’s not obvious how far-reaching the scope of the API actually is. This site really shows it.