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Text • Alon Yoeli

How a Berkeley middle school cooking program shaped a rising East Bay chef

Natchez Lee, the chef behind the pop-up and supper club Daffodil Projects, was struggling in school when they joined Growing Leaders.

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Woman in the Sun, 1961 #hopper #edwardhopper

WIRED
Text • Maxwell Zeff

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

Longreads
Text • Carolyn Wells

Where’s the Beef?

"The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t."

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Debian just proposed banning AI code. Here’s why it matters for open source developers & maintainers.

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
Text • Taegan Goddard

Jennings Emerges as Early Favorite to Replace Leavitt

“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
Text • Taegan Goddard

Three Months and Counting

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
Text • Taegan Goddard

U.S. Moves Up Winter Gasoline Sales

“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.

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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
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Slack makes it easier to install agents built with third-party tools

Slack on Thursday rolled out Add to Slack, which lets users more easily bring the agents they’ve built with ten

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The San Francisco Standard
Text • Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler

Feds confiscated Eric Swalwell’s iPhone and Macbook Pro, document shows

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.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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Fox: American Eagle is a bit controversial because their women's bottoms are a little too short

Electrek
Text • Simon Walsh

Anker SOLIX 2kWh power station $600, Segway Navimow i105N Robot $140 off, WORX 2-in-1 reciprocating saw $73, more

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
Text • Michelle Lewis

This $0-down Illinois home solar deal includes a huge 60 kWh battery

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
Text • Bobby Welber

Local County Has Message For New York Drivers About Its Cameras

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
Text • Taegan Goddard

Wes Moore Has Spent 20% of His Term in Other States

“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
Text • Khaya Himmelman

California’s Dem Senators Write to SoS Expressing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Tina Peters

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
Text • Meredith Shubel

Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, open infrastructure for building cloud software factories, agentic systems that automate work across the

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Charles Humble

How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation

Iridescent green, pink and blue waves flow horizontally across the lower half of a black background.

OpenSearch is a top-level open-source project under the Linux Foundation, backed by Amazon Web Services and other prominent players. The

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Techdirt
Text • Mike Masnick

The EU Wanted A Deepfake Detector. It Got An AI Scarlet Letter.

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. […]