
Interest in generative AI (GenAI) is transitioning from developing models to creating agents that autonomously perform a broad range of
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Interest in generative AI (GenAI) is transitioning from developing models to creating agents that autonomously perform a broad range of
The post Avoiding the AI Agent Reliability Tax: A Developer’s Guide appeared first on The New Stack.
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Tragic story in The New York Times of suicide and ChatGPT. This probably lines up with the “sycophantic” edition of 4o. As more people use chatbots as therapists, there are so many new potential problems. For minors perhaps there should be escalation to humans, even less privacy.
Defector
• Matt Ufford
Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Rams. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Rams. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.
Your team: Los Angeles Rams, the only sports franchise in history dumb enough to leave Southern California for Saint Louis. Zero points for having the sense to move back.
Guess I won’t be deploying this bug fix right away. 🙁 When deploying to the app servers, I roll each server out of the load balancer to avoid downtime. Can’t do that when Linode’s management interface and API are down.
Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
apps.apple.com/us/app/walk-the-world-virtual-trails/id6743502929
Do you miss being excited about cool new apps?
We’ve made some before like Clear and Heads Up!, and today, we have a new one for you.
Walk the World turns your steps into a new kind of virtual globe-trotting adventure.
Wouldn’t it be cool to know you’ve walked the length of the Boston Marathon this past week?
You can conquer iconic hikes and trails from around the world presented as gorgeous map milestones to complete with your hard earned steps.
If you enjoy or aspire to go on walks more regularly, and beautiful indie apps with a fun new twist, this is your new healthy addiction.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV

In a previous article, I introduced the concept of elicitation in the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This tutorial demonstrates a
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Two gas pipelines in New York are suddenly back on the table following a revival of talks between President Donald Trump and Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this year. Liz Krueger, New York State Senator (D, WF - 28th, Manhattan's East Side) and chair of the Finance Committee, and Rich Schrader, New York government affairs director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), talk about what's at stake for the environment if the projects, known as The Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline and the Constitution pipeline, get the green light from the Governor.
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WIRED
• Luke Larsen
The Nvidia RTX 5070 is coming to the Framework Laptop 16, proving that upgradable GPUs in laptops aren’t just a fool’s errand.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Lydia DePillis, New York Times reporter covering the American economy and Shawn Donnan, Bloomberg News senior writer, talk about the latest economic and tariff news, including U.S. investment in Intel, other deals involving foreign investment in U.S. businesses, and the Federal Reserve.
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Congrats to the Iconfactory on the Tot 2.0 release. Looks like a good update.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

Although AI coding assistants can churn out thousands of lines of code in minutes, writing code is the easy part.
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Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
McSweeney’s
• Kristen Mulrooney
I haven’t forgotten about holding a small Micro.camp this year. The summer has been full of distractions. I think it’s important that we do an event each year, even if it has to be scaled down a little. It’s a time to mark the progress and hear from people.
McSweeney’s
• Ysabel Yates
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• B. Cameron Gain

LAS VEGAS — Broadcom has expanded storage, security and compliance capabilities and has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support beyond
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WIRED
• Luke Larsen
Lenovo’s IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 is a standard budget laptop with just enough qualities to be worth the money when it’s on sale.
The consensus among the people who responded to my what does "on the web" mean query is this. Something is on the web if it has a URL you can use to view it in a web browser. That means, in 2025, that the URL begins with HTTP or HTTPS. Every "page" on a site must have a URL so they can be pointed to independently, otherwise known as deep linking. It's not enough to just have a home page that's on the web. So for example, an iPhone app isn't on the web just because it has an information page that is.
ChatGPT is the Lotus 1-2-3 of search. Google is Visicalc.