How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection. “6. I have to give up on some of my little projects.” (I am mid-cull right now, making some tough calls. But also: many books I haven’t so much as touched in 10 years.)
Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This...
Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet. “I am the pinnacle of technological innovation, and yet they force me to moonwalk.”
ChatGPT’s update for Work and Codex puts the design in a precarious position. There is so much going on. If it was me, I would take a step back and think about how to keep a simple chat interface that scales well to Codex without immediately feeling overwhelming.
McSweeney’s
• Kara Panzer
We Believe Pregnancy Is a Magical Time in a Woman’s Life, So We Designed the Shapeless Maternity Sack™
Defector
• Giri Nathan
Karolina Muchova And Coco Gauff Played A Tiebreak Neither Will Forget
Six Colors
• Dan Moren
WhatCable gives you the download on your USB cables
If you’ve ever wondered why your data transfers to external drives aren’t going as fast as you’d like, or a certain peripheral just isn’t working, you could probably use WhatCable, a helpful little app from developer Darryl Morley.…
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
OpenAI is folding Codex into the ChatGPT app — and taking aim at Claude Cowork

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch on Thursday was widely expected, but in addition to the new models, the company also made a
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The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...
The official trailer for Dune 3. I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.
In addition to launching GPT-5.6, they’ve combined the ChatGPT and Codex Mac apps. I guess that was bound to happen. It still needs a little more work to feel right for normal, non-coding chats.
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 is now live

As expected, OpenAI on Thursday made its family of GPT-5.6 models available to its app and API users globally. This
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted. “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Enterprise AI benchmarks are broken

Every enterprise software vendor claims its AI agent is production-ready, but how to measure it remains up in the air. The
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
Jensen Huang says traditional coding is dead. Here’s what comes next.

Traditional coding is at a crossroads. The manual process of writing syntax like Python is rapidly being replaced by agentic
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Defector
• Tom Ley
How Did Bryce Harper End Up Helping FanDuel Keep A Gambling Addict On The Hook?
McSweeney’s
• Ali Fitzgerald
Reset Yourself
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.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr: you’re given a series of place names and you need to click as close as you can to them on a globe.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
Meet Torstein Træen, The Stoic Norwegian Survivor Who Briefly Lit Up The Tour de France