Federal agents arrested a Florida man accused of starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes. President Trump deployed Texas National Guard troops to Chicago, sparking lawsuits from state leaders. Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to lying to Congress in a politically charged case. Los Angeles residents will see trash bills nearly double to offset a billion-dollar budget deficit. In business, police raided L.A.’s CoolKicks store and arrested its CEO over allegedly buying stolen sneakers, meanwhile California shoppers face new import fees after tariff exemptions were rolled back.
Bay Curious - Why So Many Motels on Lombard Street?
Lombard Street is famous for its winding brick lane, but beyond that iconic block lies something unexpected: a stretch of old-school motels. Why so many in one place? This week on Bay Curious, we explore how the growing popularity of automobiles – and the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge – transformed Lombard Street into a bustling hub for motor lodges. Then, we’ll head south to the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge to unpack its history.
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Marketplace All-in-One - Why cybersecurity training isn’t enough to stop phishing hacks
A recent study of nearly 20,000 University of California, San Diego Health workers found cybersecurity training reduced the likelihood of successful phising attacks by just 2%.
Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Ariana Mirian, senior researcher at the cybersecurity firm Censys and co-author of the study, who explained that many workers are just not taking those training programs seriously enough.
The Daily - A Consequential Supreme Court Term Begins With a Conversion Therapy Case
Warning: this episode contains mentions of suicide.
In one of the first cases of the Supreme Court’s new term, the justices considered whether to strike down a ban on conversion therapy, the contentious practice that aims to change a young person’s sexual orientation.
Ann E. Marimow, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, talks us through the case.
Guest: Ann E. Marimow, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times from Washington.
Background reading:
- Read the main points of the conversion therapy argument at the Supreme Court.
- The case considering the Colorado law will have implications for more than 20 states with similar bans.
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Start Here - Ceasefire in Gaza
Israel and Hamas announce a peace deal that could eventually end the war in Gaza. Police arrest the man they believe started the devastating Palisades Fire in California. And former FBI Director James Comey pleads not guilty in an unprecedented arraignment.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Personal Computing
When computers were first created, they were enormous.
They would often take up the better part of a building, and they consumed large amounts of energy.
Despite the size of these early computers, some people saw a future where computers would shrink down small enough that they could fit inside a person’s home.
Some thought that idea was ridiculous. Not only was that prediction true, but it changed everything.
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The Daily Signal - Israeli/Hamas Ceasefire Announced, Hakeem Jeffries Turns Down Obamacare Funding | Oct. 9, 2025
On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:
- President Trump announces a cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas.
- Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries shuts down a Republican offer to subsidize Obamacare for a year to end the shutdown.
- As races tighten in New Jersey and Virginia, Republican groups launch a blitz in the biggest midterm election campaign in party history.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.9.25
Alabama
- The renewal application for Magic City Acceptance Academy under review
- Madison County DA will not press charges for injury of high school student
- Montgomery City Council suspends activity in entertainment district
- Montgomery Police chief admits there's a gang problem in that city
- Church in Madison is vandalized ahead of speaking event for 1819 News CEO
- An Honor Flight with 17 veterans left AL to head to Washington DC
National
- GOP Senators pass 100+ Trump nominees in new block voting rule
- Trump announces a peace deal agreement between Israel and Hamas
- Trump holds roundtable discussion about Antifa and terrorism
- SCOTUS to hear LA case on racial gerrymandering and districts
- Man arrested in FL for starting Pacific Palisades fire in CA
- Authorities seek answers on mail in ballots sent to woman's home in Maine
- James Comey enters not guilty plea on federal charges out of VA
Python Bytes - #452 pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?)
Topics covered in this episode:
- * Python 3.14*
- * Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker*
- * Claude Sonnet 4.5*
- * Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports*
- Extras
- Joke
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Brian #1: Python 3.14
- Released on Oct 7
- What’s new in Python 3.14
- Just a few of the changes
- PEP 750: Template string literals
- PEP 758: Allow except and except* expressions without brackets
- Improved error messages
- Default interactive shell now
- highlights Python syntax
- supports auto-completion
- argparse
- better support for
python -m module - has a new
suggest_on_errorparameter for “maybe you meant …” support
- better support for
python -m calendarnow highlights today’s date
- Plus so much more
Michael #2: Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker
- by Donghee Na
- App checks compatibility of top PyPI libraries with CPython 3.13t and 3.14t, helping developers understand how the Python ecosystem adapts to upcoming Python versions.
- It’s still pretty red, let’s get in the game everyone!
Michael #3: Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Top programming model (even above Opus 4.1)
- Shows large improvements in reducing concerning behaviors like sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinking
- Anthropic is releasing the Claude Agent SDK, the same infrastructure that powers Claude Code, making it available for developers to build their own agents, along with major upgrades including checkpoints, a VS Code extension, and new context editing features
- And Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available in PyCharm too.
Brian #4: Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports
- Discussion on discuss.python.org
This PEP introduces syntax for lazy imports as an explicit language feature:
lazy import json lazy from json import dumpsBTW, lazy loading in fixtures is a super easy way to speed up test startup times.
Extras
Brian:
- Music video made in Python - from Patrick of the band “Friends in Real Life”
- source code: https://gitlab.com/low-capacity-music/r9-legends/
Michael:
- New article: Thanks AI
- Lots of updates for content-types
- Dramatically improved search on Python Bytes (example: https://pythonbytes.fm/search?q=wheel use the filter toggle to see top hits)
- Talk Python in Production is out and for sale
Joke: You do estimates?
NBN Book of the Day - Maria Fedorova, “Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935” (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935 (Northern Illinois UP, 2025) examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period.
Maria Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise. She reveals the circular nature of this exchange through official government bureaus, amid anxious farmers in crowded auditoriums, in cramped cars across North Dakota and Montana, and by train over the once fertile steppes of the Volga.
Amid the post–World War I food insecurity, Soviet and American agricultural experts relied on transnational networks, bridging ideological differences. As Soviets traveled across the US agricultural regions and Americans plowed steppes in the southern Urals and the lower Volga, both groups believed that innovative solutions could be found beyond their own national borders. Soviets were avidly interested in American technology and American agricultural experts perceived the Soviet Union to be an ideal setting for experimenting with and refining modern farm systems and organizational practices. As Seeds of Exchange shows, agricultural modernization was not the exclusive domain of Western countries.
Guest: Maria Fedorova (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian Studies at Macalester College. She received her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of agriculture, food insecurity, US-Russia/Soviet relations, and transnational history.
Host: Jenna Pittman (she/her), a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Duke University. She studies modern European history, political economy, and Germany from 1945-1990.
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