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• John Amato
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
30 Issues in 30 Days: Trump Family Profiteering
Sam Kessler, Wall Street Journal reporter, talks about the billion dollar profits the president and his family have made in his second term, especially from crypto-related deals.
Photo: Donald Trump reacts at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, TN. (Photo by Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Speak with the Speaker
Julie Menin, City Council Speaker (D-5, Upper East Side), talks about the latest developments in the City Council and takes calls from listeners in the latest installment of our monthly series.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
10-Question Quiz: TV in the 21st Century
For this pledge drive, listeners try their hand at a quiz. Today, questions about the TV shows The New York Times listed as the best of the century so far.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Watching 'You Can See Everything'
Katie Drummond, global editorial director at WIRED, discusses her cover story on Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's widely-acclaimed documentary 'You Can See Everything,' which follows disgraced businesswoman Elizabeth Homes.
Photo: Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford in 2003 as a 19-year-old to start Theranos, a company now poised to disrupt the medical diagnostic test market. (Photo by Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Fall Foods: Cocktails and Mocktails
Each day during this pledge drive, we're talking fall food--or in today's case, drinks. Carla Lalli, video host and author of several cookbooks, including her latest, Food is a Feeling (Clarkson Potter, 2026), talks about some of the best seasonal cocktails and mocktails to make when hosting.
Photo: A cocktail glass garnished with star anise stands alongside autumn pumpkins and seasonal warm drinks on a wooden patio table during golden hour in Krakow, Poland (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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The San Francisco Standard
• Danny Emerman
The Yaxel Lendeborg show has arrived, and it’s loud: ‘I hope he keeps talking’
After the Warriors rookie was assessed a technical foul for jawing with Luka Doncic, Draymond Green defended his teammate’s trash talk.
The San Francisco Standard
• George Kelly
Cesar Chavez Street renaming would honor female farmworkers
Las Campesinas would be the third name of the 3.5-mile road since 1995.
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display
Tile-based color palettes go way beyond the four shades of red on original hardware.
Techdirt
• Tim Cushing
ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years
Not that we really needed any more evidence of bad faith by ICE and the officer who decided to drive his car across a city street and into an adjacent parking lot for the apparent sole purpose of running over a fleeing migrant, but here it is anyway. As we covered last week, ICE officers […]
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation

OpenAI on Thursday announced that it is donating the Open Responses API specification to the open source Agentic AI Foundation
The post OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel
OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap

This week, OpenAI put COBOL in the spotlight. It announced benchmark results suggesting its latest models are getting much better
The post OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel
Google and AWS open new paths for PyTorch beyond Nvidia

At PyTorch Conference North America 2026 this week, Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch stack for Google TPUs, now available
The post Google and AWS open new paths for PyTorch beyond Nvidia appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
AI found a critical PHP flaw. The bigger failure began in 2024.

Did one of your favorite websites go dark on Wednesday? Some did, as operators took services offline while they waited
The post AI found a critical PHP flaw. The bigger failure began in 2024. appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Oladimeji Sowole
Who on-calls an AI? This is the unresolved crisis of agent ownership

At 2:07 a.m., an AI agent starts failing. The application is still running, but requests are timing out because a
The post Who on-calls an AI? This is the unresolved crisis of agent ownership appeared first on The New Stack.
PHP’s security scramble is just a preview: AI is digging up flaws faster than maintainers can fix them

One of the biggest security scares to hit the web is causing widespread disruption, prompting businesses, hospitals, schools, and government
The post PHP’s security scramble is just a preview: AI is digging up flaws faster than maintainers can fix them appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Jessica Wachtel
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 vs. Claude Haiku 5.5: More accurate at a fraction of the price

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17 as an update to its Flash model. Its change log says the update cuts
The post DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 vs. Claude Haiku 5.5: More accurate at a fraction of the price appeared first on The New Stack.
Vance on being anti-abortion: "It's good for the woman. It's good for our civilization. It's good for humanity."
Q: 96% of Republicans say we are in an affordability crisis. Are we?
Vance: My job is not to preach at the American people. But we have made progress on prices
Vance on Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother:
"Getting into the middle of that drama is not something I want to do"