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Despite all the advances in cloud automation, most engineering teams still interact with their infrastructure through tickets, dashboards or buried

The post Build an Intelligent Slackbot That Knows Your Cloud: 4 Steps appeared first on The New Stack.

Spencer Kimball, reporting for CNBC one week ago: The Defense Department will become the largest shareholder in rare earth miner MP Materials after agreeing to buy $400 million of its preferred stock, the company said Thursday. MP Materials owns the only operational rar...

Anyone who works in technology knows that AI is not a new concept. But whether you love it or hate

The post How AI Automation Reclaims Developer’s Time appeared first on The New Stack.

I ran something through ChatGPT earlier and one if its bits of feedback was:

One small grammatical suggestion is to connect the final two sentences to improve flow…

The solution? Add an em dash, of course! 🙂 ChatGPT is nuts for em dashes. It uses them when a semicolon or period or anything else might be better. See also my post just last week.

At my mom’s house she has an old framed print of the poem Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Nolte. There are variations of it, but the first line is essentially: If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. I was staring at that and thinking of social med...

Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over the years to help other emerging worker-owned publications find their footing. Without overstating our contributions to their efforts—generally we’re providing just an hour or two on the phone, and a couple email responses—we always find […]

The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.

Attorneys for Robert Roberson and for the State of Texas went toe-to-toe in a Palestine courtroom Wednesday, arguing over the fate of the man whose 2024 execution date was halted in a dramatic eleventh-hour intervention by state legislators—and whose appeals have raised the question of whether a crime occurred at all. After hearing arguments, Smith […]

The post Robert Roberson Faces New Execution Date in Controversial ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case appeared first on The Texas Observer.

TOULOUSE, France — They were going to make it. After working with three riders all day, staving off the pursuit of five others, and eventually holding off the determined charge of a former world champion, Uno-X's Jonas Abrahamsen and Jayco's Mauro Schmid rode into ...

I was chatting with a VP of engineering last week who made an observation that stuck with me: “When we

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I don’t know what I was expecting to find at that Center City Wawa just about half past twelve. Besides cheap hoagies, of course. And a sixty-four-ounce Turkey Hill peach tea. I dunno, maybe I’d try to steal a bag of Lay’s Salt & Vinegar as well. But what I didn’t expect...

Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent, has quickly become a developer favorite, especially after the company launched its Claude Sonnet 4

The post Claude Code User Base Grows as Anthropic Launches Enterprise Analytics Dashboard appeared first on The New Stack.

As Emmy nominations were released this week, listeners share the TV shows they're watching, and how they find compelling content in the sea of available shows and streaming services.

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Six years after the death of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories still captivate the minds of Americans on both sides of the aisle. Last week, the Justice Department, FBI, and president Trump released a memo in an attempt to quell the MAGA movement's fixation with Epstein's case. Shawn McCreesh, White House reporter for the New York Times, explains how this plan backfired and why this case remains a part of the American imagination.

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The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

The AI-powered ElliQ robot and smart display aim to improve life for older folks living alone.

Multiprocessing lets a program run multiple tasks at the same time by creating separate processes. Each process has its own

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Nobody does self-loathing quite like baseball, so it comes as little surprise that its governing body has yet again veered away fearfully yet violently from its essential product, so it can avoid doing more of the thing it purports to celebrate. There is nothing sacred about the All-Star Game, and nothing really to mourn about the fact that a game that was tied after nine innings didn’t proceed to the tenth. But the fact remains that the Most Valuable Player in Tuesday night's exhibition officially went 0-for-2 with a walk during that game, and that the box score does not in any way reflect the only thing about that game that people are discussing today.

Indeed, that very box score reflects the historical, artistic and essentially pastoral nature of the same with these famous and memory-invoking stars:

Here at Defector we are laser focused on serving readers Bill and everything related to Bill. At first I had a hard time with this mandate—I could not think of anything "newsy" related to Bill—until I remembered that in the 1979 television miniseries Salem's Lot there is a scene in which a guy yells "Bill!" a bunch of times. What could be more salient to the interests of Defector readers than that, I ask you—nothing!

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The Buffalo Bills open training camp a week from today and running back James Cook isn’t happy. A year ago, Cook flourished when new offensive coordinator Joe Brady introduced the team to the concept of handing the ball off. Now Cook would like to be compensated for his serv...