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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

The Linux Foundation reveals the “ugly” secret of how open source is draining your budget

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Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical

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• Adrian Bridgwater

In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

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Google wants to give developers a comprehensive, functional AI software development toolkit. As such, this month the company has added

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• Max Liu

What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent

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In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on

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• Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play

When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it

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• Paul Sawers

Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

SurrealDB founders Jamie Morgan Hitchcock (COO) and Tobie Morgan Hitchcock (CEO)

AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g.,

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• B. Cameron Gain

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing

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• Oleg Danilyuk

Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it

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There is a failure mode so common in platform engineering that it barely gets mentioned anymore. A team ships a

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• Justyn Roberts

Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think

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Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to

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• Darryl K. Taft

The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem

The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed

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• Frederic Lardinois

AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

(AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands

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• Arjun Iyer

Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them

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The industry has spent the last few years optimizing AI agents’ code-generation capabilities. The focus has been on expanding context

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• Charlotte Fleming

This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity

Organizations are investing heavily in AI, with some allocating up to 8% of their total revenue in AI tools for

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready

Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically

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• Jessica Wachtel

Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows?

By now it’s pretty clear that JavaScript needs WebAssembly (Wasm) to perform heavy computational tasks. In the past few weeks

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• Janakiram MSV

Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling

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With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has

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• Matthew Burns

Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop

I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

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• David Eastman

Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production

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One thing I didn’t do last year was go to any Model Context Protocol (MCP) conferences, largely because I couldn’t

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

Red Hat is perhaps the biggest name in enterprise Linux, but it’s also a major cloud-native player thanks to its

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• Frederic Lardinois

NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation

On The New Stack Agents, Gavriel Cohen discusses why he built NanoClaw, a minimalist alternative to OpenClaw, after discovering security and architectural flaws in the rapidly growing agentic framework.

Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, in a weekend after learning about security flaws in the popular agentic framework.

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• Manish Kapur

96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix

The narrative surrounding software development has shifted dramatically over the last six months. The industry has moved past the initial

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• Janakiram MSV

The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks

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As someone who had a front-row seat to the container orchestration wars, I am watching the same movie play out

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• Tim Rottach

Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

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What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar

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• TNS Staff

The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton

A few weeks after Dynatrace acquired DevCycle, Michael Beemer and Andrew Norris discussed on The New Stack Makers podcast how feature flagging is becoming a critical safeguard in the AI era

Last month, just a few weeks after Dynatrace finalized its acquisition of DevCycle, Michael Beemer of Dynatrace and Andrew Norris,

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• Jack Wallen

Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is

You’ve heard of Docker Desktop, right? Of course you have. Docker Desktop is a user-friendly GUI app that simplifies managing

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• Ariel Russo

The essential shift every ITOps leader must make to survive an unrelenting stream of incidents

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High-profile IT incidents are becoming more frequent and more severe. A single hour of downtime for a revenue-generating service could

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• Josh Lemos

AI agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Here’s how AppSec teams must adapt.

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It has never been easier to quickly and at scale find security vulnerabilities. Linus’s Law, Eric Raymond’s famous dictum about

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• Alasdair Brown

How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue

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LLMs are accelerating work across engineering disciplines, from generating React components and building backend APIs to noodling with SQL. But

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• Jay Reddy

Rising identity complexity: How CISOs can prevent it from becoming an attacker’s roadmap

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Identity has always been the thread that stitches enterprise IT together, but the nature of that identity has changed dramatically.

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• Frederic Lardinois

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great

Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task,

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• Frederic Lardinois

Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is

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