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There’s a way this Washington Mystics season could have been kind of tedious. In the offseason, and again at the August trade deadline, the rebuilding team swapped its veterans for a collection of first-round picks. New general manager Jamila Wideman told reporters recently ...

Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he was injured in an airstrike; now he weighs no more than 10 kilograms. In photos published by Reuters, the sharpness of his jaw bone juts out of his fac...

It’s tough being a dad. It’s even tougher raising a young woman in a horrifying patriarchal society that is constantly sending both you and her subconscious reminders that she is not as worthy or inherently good as the boys. And if you’ve also gotta manage a cache of nuclear...

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Platonic ideal of a chameleon, at least for those of us with televisions, is a small, somewhat nervous-looking reptile with the astounding ability to change the colors of its body in drastic and dazzling ways. They are the original masters of camouflage, more famous even...

Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about the 10-year mark—how we’re going to get there, and what we want Defector to look like when we do. Our business is pretty simple. The odd hit podcast and grant to help build infrastructure for worker-owned publications […]

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector's best interior design advice column. Today we have a cavernous bedroom, a tricky living room layout, and a ’70s bathroom. Let’s get into it.

Rein asks:

John Wall announced his retirement from professional basketball on Tuesday, according to a tweet by ESPN's Shams Charania. You could be forgiven for finding that announcement somewhat redundant: Wall, 34 years old, has not appeared in an NBA game since January of 2023, misse...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about college football, Madden, dirty sponges, and more.

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Defector's own Giri Nathan is the father of an insanely great new baby and the author of an insanely great new book. Just as babies transform and master skills at alarming speed, so too have the young tennis prodigies at the center of his book. Changeover: A Young Rival...

Two years ago, ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) dominated the headlines. But the conversation has advanced from the creation

The post Beyond AI Models: Data Platform Requirements for Agentic AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Manning book “Latency.” This book will help you better diagnose latency

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Today, unveiled its Streaming Agents feature in open preview in Confluent Cloud. The new functionality allow organizations to select models,

The post Confluent’s Real-Time Agents Build on Kafka Streaming Data appeared first on The New Stack.

Seeking higher performance, lower latency and stronger privacy, enterprises are exploring the possibilities of edge computing. But critical challenges underlie

The post Kubernetes at the Edge: Deploy With Confidence and Control appeared first on The New Stack.

There’s not much that can go wrong at 700 lines of code, according to computer scientist and frontend developer Mauro

The post Minimalist Mastro Framework Offers Modern Take on MPAs appeared first on The New Stack.

Python developers have always faced a trade-off: write elegant, readable code or go for high performance. For a long time,

The post Rust: Python’s New Performance Engine appeared first on The New Stack.

I had an idea that Global Voices, at least in concept, could help us prepare in the US for what's coming. I wrote: I'd love to have is an idea-sharing network where i could drop this idea in a box named "helping the US stay free" and have it find it's way to the right people in Ukraine who are saying "if only I could talk to people in the US trying to figure this out, we know so much about this!" That's the thing. How to connect know-how with the place that needs to know. To make our resistance more effective use the lessons learned in Ukraine over the last decades.

The purpose of the National Guard occupation of American cities is to control who votes. It doesn’t take much disruption to turn a blue district red. They just allocated $170 billion to fund ICE. They don't need all that money for border enforcement. It's meant to fund the transformation of the US into a Russian-style oligarchy. That's fear-inducing, but Ukraine has been fighting against becoming a Russian-style oligarchy for decades, with ups and downs, but so far, considerable success.

I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.