
Berkeleyside
• Alon Yoeli
How a Berkeley middle school cooking program shaped a rising East Bay chef

Berkeleyside
• Alon Yoeli

Woman in the Sun, 1961 #hopper #edwardhopper
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t."
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Adrian Bridgwater

The board behind open source operating system Debian has tabled proposals for and against the use of LLM-assisted contributions in
The post Debian just proposed banning AI code. Here’s why it matters for open source developers & maintainers. appeared first on The New Stack.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Scott Jennings has emerged as an early favorite for next White House press secretary, though all stressed that the process is far from complete,” CNN reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Just for members: The latest Inside Elections. This issue includes the fallout from a host of competitive primaries in Florida, updates on dozens of House, Senate, and governor races around the country, and new rating changes in 8 House districts as the general election is less than three months away. Join now to continue reading. Members […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“The Trump administration is authorizing an early shift to the sale of wintertime gasoline blends, its latest move to blunt fuel costs and supply concerns stoked by the war in Iran,” Bloomberg reports.
Governor Katie Hobbs has announced sanctuaries for Arizona's Salt River Horse Herd.
This comes as the Trump administration is rounding up thousands of wild horses to sell to foreign slaughterhouses.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

Slack on Thursday rolled out Add to Slack, which lets users more easily bring the agents they’ve built with ten
The post Slack makes it easier to install agents built with third-party tools appeared first on The New Stack.
The San Francisco Standard
• Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler
Authorities appear to be building a civil rights case against the former congressman, according to the statute cited in a search warrant obtained by The Standard.
Fox: American Eagle is a bit controversial because their women's bottoms are a little too short
Electrek
• Simon Walsh

Today’s 9to5Toys Green Deals is headlined by Anker’s 2026 SOLIX S2000 portable power station at $550 off, but you can also cash in and take a chore off your list with Segway’s Navimow i105N Robot Lawn Mower down at $669. Another notable markdown today is the WORX 2-in-1 reciprocating saw for $73, which I personally own and love.
Head below for other Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek‘s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis

Illinois homeowners can now get rooftop solar paired with a whopping 60-kWh home battery for no money down – but this isn’t free equipment.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
Those cameras watching license plates around the Hudson Valley have gotten plenty of attention lately. Do you feel comfortable with license plate reader cameras in your community? Continue reading…
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Gov. Wes Moore has spent at least a portion of one in every five days in other states since he took office in 2023 — and that pace of travel has accelerated as his national profile has grown,” the Baltimore Banner reports. “A man on the move, Moore has visited at least 27 states, often […]
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Khaya Himmelman
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Election officials in Shasta County — a deep red California county that has...
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, open infrastructure for building cloud software factories, agentic systems that automate work across the
The post Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Charles Humble

OpenSearch is a top-level open-source project under the Linux Foundation, backed by Amazon Web Services and other prominent players. The
The post How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation appeared first on The New Stack.
Techdirt
• Mike Masnick
I spoke a little about this on last week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, but now that Anthropic has come out with more details about how its text watermarking works, the debate has shifted into overdrive. Many people are upset about it, even though it appears that Google has already been doing something similar with the output from Gemini. […]