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In Massachusetts, Head Start serves more than 10,000 children who come from poor households, experience homelessness or live in foster care. Early childhood advocates say the proposed changes would compromise support for vulnerable children. 

If passed, Question 3 would replace party primaries in Massachusetts with an "all-party" system in which all candidates — Democrats, Republicans, etc. — compete in the same preliminary election and the top two finishers advance to the general election. Opponents say that will give Republicans more influence in Massachusetts.

An AI-based private school will open two locations in Boston, including the space once used by one campus of the scandal-plagued Croft School in Jamaica Plain.

If my infant son can carry the imprint of my love without remembering the specifics of these early years, then maybe my grandmother’s love can find me in the same way, writes Arielle Gray. “Maybe, even if she can no longer identify me, something in her still recognizes the shape of me.”

In this first episode of "You Could Make This Beautiful," actor Henry Winkler tells hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie about the poetry he's found in everything from fly fishing, to the music of Lin-Manuel Miranda, to the acting performances of the late Robin Williams. Poet...

In this second episode of You Could Make This Beautiful, hosts Maggie Smith and Faith Salie talk to Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! about a prophetic reading at his first wedding, the poem that has haunted him throughout his life,...

This week on Endless Thread it's a producer takeover with Grace Tatter and Kalyani Saxena serving up some delicious online stories. First, Kalyani digs into why the internet is so hungry for perpetual stews (a stew that is simmered and added on to in perpetuity). Then, Grace dishes on a listener conundrum about whether salty Reddit posts are worse for us than sweet ones.

Show notes:

• ZAQ_Makes' Stewtheus (TikTok)
• Want to try perpetual stew? Some tips for avoiding foodborne illness (NPR)
• r/GirlDinnerDiaries (Reddit)
• Does Venting Your Feelings Actually Help? (Greater Good Magazine)
• Endless Thread Subreddit 

This episode was produced by Frannie Monahan and co-hosted by Kalyani Saxena and Grace Tatter. It was edited by Dave Shaw. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus.

Our miniseries finale features comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet J. Hope Stein talking about the poetry in comedy and the comedy in poetry. The couple co-authored the book "The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad" and occasionally bring their mix of joke...

Governments are tightening control over AI infrastructure as companies spend heavily to compete at the frontier. This week, data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos examined how policy, capital, product risk, and scientific research are shaping AI development. She explored AI sovereignty, Google’s infrastructure spending and product risks, the singularity debate, and several developments in mathematical […]

As soon as I received my first Raspberry Pi, I knew that it would be a wonderful platform to bring AI into the physical world. Since the initial hardware didn’t have good CPU support for fast arithmetic, I ended up writing code that ran on the GPU so I could get the speed I needed […]

In July 2025, an AI coding agent on Replit deleted a production database belonging to SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin. It did this during an explicit code freeze. Lemkin had told the agent, in capital letters, not to change anything. The agent ran destructive commands anyway, wiped records on more than a thousand executives and companies, […]

Introduction Not long ago, one of my engineering directors came to me with a request: His team seemed overloaded, and he wanted to hire another engineer. I decided to test a research assistant I had been building—an AI agent connected to our internal systems via MCP—by asking it to analyze the team’s workload and write […]

Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting.

Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier’s inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years.

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

Two security researchers bought cheap domains—including noreply.net and deleteduser.com—and set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are sending them corporate secrets.