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Text • Tim Young

Why online stores keep showing the wrong products — and why tensors fix it

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If I search for “black running shoes for winter,” marksandspencer.com finds me a lovely pair of lace-up boots…for women. In

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Text • Darryl K. Taft

OpenClaw is a security mess. Jentic wants to fix it

OpenClaw changed everything. The open source AI agent, which went from zero to 247,000 GitHub stars in 60 days, finally

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Claude can now open apps, click buttons, and complete tasks on your Mac — but Anthropic says risks remain

Claude AI controlling a Mac desktop to save a PowerPoint presentation

Anthropic has released an update to Claude Code and Claude Cowork that brings computer-use capabilities to macOS desktops, enabling autonomous

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Text • Oladimeji Sowole

Why most AI projects fail after the demo actually works

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Building an AI demo is easy. Shipping an AI system that runs reliably in production, day after day, under load,

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-source web agent

AI agents that can browse the web and complete tasks on behalf of their users have gotten significantly better over

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Text • B. Cameron Gain

WebAssembly could solve AI agents’ most dangerous security gap

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AI agent-generated code poses an often-overlooked threat: the possibility that an agent will generate unchecked, potentially lethal commands. Think of

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Text • B. Cameron Gain

Broadcom donates Velero to CNCF — and it could reshape how Kubernetes users handle backup and disaster recovery

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Broadcom VMware announced on Monday that it will donate Velero to the CNCF sandbox project, a move the company describes

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Text • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

IBM, Red Hat, and Google just donated a Kubernetes blueprint for LLM inference to the CNCF

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The marriage of Kubernetes and AI has arrived in llm‑d, a replicable Kubernetes blueprint to deploy inference stacks for any

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Fellow, Brendan Burns discusses how AI is reshaping Kubernetes and modern infrastructure

For this edition of The New Stack Makers, I sat down with Brendan Burns, one of the co-founders of Kubernetes,

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Text • Darryl K. Taft

PwC’s AI agents are now your consultants — whether you’re ready or not

PwC is putting its AI agents directly in front of clients and cutting out the traditional back-and-forth with consultants as

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Text • Jack Wallen

Exton Linux’s light version will “enlighten” you

I’ve been using Linux for a very, very long time. My Linux usage goes way back to the days of

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Minimus aims to solve one of open-source’s long-festering problems

Container security company Minimus has outlined a new initiative to help open-source project maintainers strengthen the security and integrity of

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Prompt engineering for developers

When I first started writing prompts, I had the unrealistic expectation that since LLMs “know everything,” they would always execute

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Text • Jack Wallen

How to deploy Pi-Hole with Docker and stop ads on every device on your LAN

How do you block ads? Most people install various and sundry ad-blocking software on their computers or add browser extensions

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Text • Camille Crowell-Lee

MCP is everywhere, but don’t panic. Here’s why your existing APIs still matter.

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Everyone is excited for the promise of “Digital coworkers” in this agentic era. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all anyone

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Text • Darryl K. Taft

What a security audit of 22,511 AI coding skills found lurking in the code

AI coding agents have spawned a new software supply chain, and a new study suggests the proliferation of new agents

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Text • David Cassel

Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct?

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What would an AI-first language look like? Last year, a developer in Spain warned that our human-friendly syntax consumed an

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Text • David Eastman

Anthropic’s response to the AI tool that caused lines around the block in Shenzhen

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It is sometimes difficult to capture just how popular OpenClaw is around the world. Then there are reports like one

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Text • B. Cameron Gain

Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure

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My gut reaction has often been to compare WebAssembly to Kubernetes. Flash back to over four years ago: Then, I

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Text • Matthew Burns

Cursor beats Opus at 10x less, Meta’s agent goes rogue, and the 300-page Trump America AI Act

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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Text • Frederic Lardinois

AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it.

In this episode of The New Stack Agents, Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder of Spacelift and OpenTofu, explains how AI is transforming infrastructure as code (IaC).

For this episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Marcin Wyszynski, the technical co-founder of Spacelift and

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Text • Paul Sawers

China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath

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Most of the AI spotlight shines on the biggest models from the biggest labs — Claude from Anthropic, GPT from

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Text • Danielle Cook

Why the ‘glorified host’ for AI is exactly the Kubernetes we need

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I recently caught a post from Hyperframe Research that asked a question many of us in the cloud-native trenches have

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Text • Meredith Shubel

OpenAI acquires Astral to bring open source Python developer tools to Codex — but details are still fuzzy

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OpenAI this week announced its acquisition of Astral to bring the startup’s open source Python developer tools into the Codex

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Text • Reza Ramezanpour

Why flat Kubernetes networks fail at scale

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Rethinking network security hierarchies for cloud-native platforms Kubernetes networking is powerful. Its flexibility lets teams connect hundreds of microservices across

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Text • Ted Young

From pillars to platform: How open observability data is changing the industry

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As the observability industry pivots from proprietary systems to open frameworks, the traditional “pillars” of metrics, logs, and traces are

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Text • Jed Salazar

Linux kernel scale is swamping an already-flawed CVE system

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Linux kernel developers operate under constraints that very few other open source community maintainers experience. Evolving the capabilities of the

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Text • TNS Staff

Backend Development in 2026: What’s Changed, What Matters, and What to Learn Next

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Overview of Backend Development Backend development, often called server-side development, involves building and overseeing applications that run on computers controlled

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Jellyfish AI development study: The real sting has yet to land

Developers are adopting and eschewing AI coding tools depending on their trust in the new automation mantra, the level of

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Cursor’s Composer 2 beats Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price

Cursor on Thursday released Composer 2, the third generation of its in-house coding model. The model outperforms Anthropic’s Opus 4.6

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