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Brooks Barnes, writing for The New York Times: Pixar knew that Elio, an original space adventure, would most likely struggle in its first weekend at the box office. Animated movies based on original stories have become harder sells in theaters, even for the once-unstopp...

In April, Google announced the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol at its Cloud Next conference. The protocol aims to make it easier

The post Google Donates the Agent2Agent Protocol to the Linux Foundation appeared first on The New Stack.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. His proxies insisted this was a simple one-and-done mission. But on social media Trump raised the prospect of regime change in Tehran. 

Today on “Post Reports,” we hear from White House reporter Natalie Allison about how Trump made this decision and the divisions it is causing among his MAGA base. Plus, military reporter Alex Horton explains the operation and the consequences we could feel for years to come. 

Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair. Thank you to Andy DeGrandpre.

A great scene from The West Wing. Use your imagination, something similar is probably happening right now.

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens.

When Google quietly archived the Kaniko project earlier this month, it left a gap in the container ecosystem. Kaniko, a

The post Kaniko Lives On: Chainguard Forks Google’s Dumped Tool appeared first on The New Stack.

As a rainstorm rolled in last Friday evening, hundreds of people eagerly filed through metal detectors at an 1,800-seat performing arts center in McAllen—the urban hub of Hidalgo County in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley—ahead of Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ 13th stop on his nationwide “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Normally a stage for orchestra concerts and […]

The post Can Economic Populism Win Back the Rio Grande Valley? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Lab Notes 004: thinking through different approaches to social discovery, from feeds to curated collections to explorable interfaces.

There are mattress protectors, and there are mattress encasements. Which level of protection is better for you?

It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now. Week three has been intere...

The base, corrupting, disenchanting influence of money has allegedly been right on the cusp of ruining everything good, noble, and just plain fun about soccer for almost a century and a half now. An easy year to point to here would be 1885, when England FA's settled the roar...

The demand for advanced data management and analytics solutions that seamlessly span across multiple clouds and on-premises environments is surging,

The post Kubernetes Delivers Scalable Analytics in Hybrid Clouds appeared first on The New Stack.

This is a silly and inconsequential thing to rant about, but… What is the point of crushed ice? It melts too quickly. I understand it for Sonic and Chick-fil-a, but not for a coffee shop. 🤪

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter.

Five days and multiple government-inflicted catastrophes ago, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to tell people to get their priorities straight. The Supreme Court had just ruled that Tennessee could ban medical treatment for trans youth, in a decision that Justice Sonia Sotomayor described in dissent as "indefensible" and having "no constitutional justification." In response to that news, Schumer put up a post on Bluesky:  

“Vance says U.S. ‘not at war with Iran, we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.’” — NBC News - - - You heard the news straight from the Neimoidian’s mouth. We, the Trade Federation, have indeed made tactical strikes against the planet of Naboo. We’ve heard through the gala...

Vision language models (VLMs) are a promising subset of multimodal AI, capable of processing the two different modalities of text

The post Which Vision Language Models Should You Use for Your Apps appeared first on The New Stack.

Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.

The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning for the area through 8pm Tuesday. Zach Iscol, NYC Emergency Management commissioner, talks about what New Yorkers can do to stay safe.

 

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