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Defector
• Lauren Theisen

Vegas And Utah Are Murder On Early Bedtimes

Vegas And Utah Are Murder On Early Bedtimes
This Mammoth–Golden Knights first-round series has looked about as even as they come, but it's been anything but a stalemate. With one experienced team filled with established superstars (Vegas) and one hungry newcomer that's still finding its full potential (Utah)—plus the ...

McSweeney’s
• Ali Fitzgerald

Aquaphobia

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.

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WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave

Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own

While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors' models.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Paul Sawers

The OpenAI-Microsoft reset, decoded: Why AWS may come out ahead

Amazon logo on a glossy, translucent cube.

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 Rolls Out 'Advanced' Security Mode for At-Risk ChatGPT and Codex Accounts

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 Valid
• Manuel Moreale

11 down, 33 more to go. Plus a cave.

We had another lovely, sunny weekend last week, and that means I walked the second of the ten segments of the 44 votive churches loop. This time around, I didn’t have to mess with the route in order to hit all the churches in one go because there were no variants. And, like ...

Defector
• David Roth

Saudi Arabia Decides LIV Golf Is Ready To Be Supported By Its Passionate Fan Base, Unbeatable Product

Saudi Arabia Decides LIV Golf Is Ready To Be Supported By Its Passionate Fan Base, Unbeatable Product
When LIV Golf launched in 2022, many were skeptical that there was a viable commercial lane for a new professional golf tour, even if it was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's seemingly bottomless Public Investment Fund and driven by the definitely bottomless cynicism of contempor...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Claude Security emerges from closed preview to scan your codebases for vulnerabilities

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at Code with Claude 2025.

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 abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark

A solitary human figure stands at the center of a starry void, surrounded by swirling pink, green, and cream shapes — evoking the uncertainty Llama developers face as Meta pivots to its proprietary Muse Spark model.

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.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

OpenClaw status with books

There’s a lot of hype about AI becoming like an employee that you can just trust to do things. Much of that is overblown. But I had an experience with OpenClaw this week that is close to that, after months of it sitting idle on a server without much of a purpose. I’ve been w...

WIRED
• Anna McKie

Scientists Are Starting to Unlock the Nanoscale Secrets of the Immune System

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system.

kottke.org Valid
Jason Kottke

Farewell, Voting Rights Act

Adam Serwer writing about the yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that guts much of whatever remains of the Voting Rights Act: In states with large Black populations that remain under Republican control — half of the Black American population resides in the South — lawmaker...

Defector
• Patrick Redford

The NBA’s Lottery Reform Proposal Will Change, But Not Eliminate, Tanking

The NBA’s Lottery Reform Proposal Will Change, But Not Eliminate, Tanking
If you paid any attention to the NBA after the calendar flipped to 2026, you were inundated with feverish debates about how to solve the supposedly existential crisis facing the league: tanking. With a strong 2026 draft class awaiting them, the worst 10 teams in the league a...

The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC

TPS for Haitians and Syrians Hangs in the Balance

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

NY & NJ Work Requirements for SNAP Benefits

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

Behind the Scenes at USAID

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

When Dad's Wisdom Comes From ChatGPT

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

The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card

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?

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

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!

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

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.