Markdown support is a big feature for people who want to know what we're doing with their text and what we're not doing. ;-)
Defector
• Lauren Theisen
Jakub Dobes Is Growing Up
I still can't help but associate Montreal goalie Jakub Dobes with a game I went to in New Jersey in November. It was an OT win for the Devils, and the first loss of the season for a 24-year-old netminder who'd only made 15 starts for the Habs the previous year. He took it hard. Talking to media in the postgame, he seemed devastated in a way that better fit a Game 7 defeat, putting all the blame on himself for a loss he took very personally.
"I'm just disappointed in myself. That's pretty much it," he said.
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
Dylan Harper Demands Your Attention
On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a kids’ movie, Alexandra Petri imagines other dystopian source material for family flicks. “Andy Serkis’s Maus: Talking mice? Great. Talking mice and cats? Even better!”
Why is Inkwell stuck in review
Fortnite is back in the App Store. From Tim Sweeney on X:
This is a critical moment in the battle against the App Store empire to win freedom for all developers and consumers, and we’ll continue the fight in every jurisdiction worldwide until competition is restored to digital stores and payment markets everywhere.
“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up soon’ and ‘Sorry, life has been hectic’, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.”
McSweeney’s
• Josh Mendez
What I Imagine William Shakespeare Thought Every Time He Rewrote the Same Scene Over and Over Again
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Last Days of Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show'
CBS has canceled "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert." As the show airs its final episodes, Bill Carter, editor at large for LateNighter.com, discusses what its loss says about today's media landscape.
Photo: US comedian Stephen Colbert speaks onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Hantavirus Fact and Fiction
Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, talks about what public health authorities do and don't know about the strain of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship, what the risks are and what the reaction of US-based health officials has signaled about pandemic preparedness here.
Photo: Specialist workers in full PPE carry boxes containing hazardous waste as they begin the process of disinfecting the cruise ship MV Hondius after it docked in the Port of Rotterdam following the recent hantavirus outbreak, on May 18, 2026 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
10-Question Quiz: American History, Part 2
Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About History and Don't Know Much About Mythology (Harper Paperbacks 2020), quizzes listeners on how well they know their American history.
Photo: The White House pictured in June 2025. (Credit: Jack Walker/WNYC)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Good Things to Start Your Week, Take Two
Melissa Kirsch, writer of the New York Times newsletter "The Good List," which gives recommendations and inspirations for living a more joyful and meaningful life, and writer of "The Morning" newsletter on Saturday, discusses her work and listeners call in about the new things they've tried that are bringing more joy and meaning to their lives.
Photo: Stock image of joyful child running through a field. (Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Creative)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Spring Cleaning: Organizing for Kids
As part of a series on "spring cleaning," Laura Kinsella, founder of Urban OrgaNYze, offers advice on how to stay organized despite the chaos of a kid-filled household.
Photo: Stock image of identical twin boys in a very untidy bedroom covered in toys. (LPETTET/E+ via Getty Creative)
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Upcoming accessibility improvements from Apple sound good. A natural use of LLMs. From MacStories:
Rather than requiring a defined set of commands that need to be memorized to control a device, the feature will allow users to invoke actions with natural language, such as, “Tap the orange folder.”
Nothing is better than listening to NBA podcasts the day after an epic Spurs win. What a game. 🏀
The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked contraption that types “I hope this email finds you well” over and over again. Jacquard loom & player piano vibes.
House of Day, House of Night
In a region that was once Germany but is now Poland, a woman and her husband make a life in a house where a stream runs through the foundation.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Valkey just had a 17x year. Its lead maintainer still doesn’t want Redis to die.

Valkey 9.1 is now generally available with a focus on improved efficiency, modularity, and ecosystem tooling for production workloads. At
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Adrian Bridgwater
Anthropic debuts MCP tunnels and self-hosted sandboxes to lock down AI agent infrastructure

Anthropic used its first developer conference, held outside the US in London on Tuesday, to announce new capabilities for Claude Managed
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Monica White
Why production RAG systems give confident, wrong answers at scale

In production RAG systems, the biggest bottleneck usually isn’t the LLM. It’s retrieval. Most teams start with a simple pattern:
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