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Beyond CI/CD: Why Your Infrastructure Is Your New Bottleneck

Backed up traffic at a roadway bottleneck.

For years, the promise of CI/CD has been the holy grail of software delivery. We’ve invested countless hours and millions

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Instagram Finally Launches an iPad App

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There are finallys, and there are finallys. Apple shipped the original iPad in April 2010. Instagram shipped in October 2010 — and was iPhone-exclusive until 2012. That Instagram didn’t ship a native iPad version of its app until now is really one of the strangest things in tech. But here it is.

One significant difference from Instagram on phones is that on iPad, it defaults to the Reels view, and you have to tap below Reels in the sidebar to get to your following timeline. Adam Mosseri explains their thinking behind this in this Reel (natch).

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Amanda Anisimova Gets Revenge For Her Wimbledon Bagels

Amanda Anisimova Gets Revenge For Her Wimbledon Bagels
In one of the least competitive major finals in tennis history, Amanda Anisimova got squashed by Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon this July. It was a stark 6-0, 6-0, the dust settling in just 57 minutes. There wasn't much to take away from it. "I don't think it helped me become a be...

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US Congressman’s Brother Lands No-Bid Contract to Train DHS Snipers

DHS says retired Marine sniper Dan LaLota’s firm is uniquely qualified to meet the government’s needs. LaLota tells WIRED his brother, GOP congressman Nick LaLota, played no role in the contract.

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Other Quotes from AI-Generated Founding Fathers at the Trump-Commissioned Founders Museum

“A new history exhibit commissioned by the Trump administration has some historians perplexed…. The museum features over 40 AI-generated short videos of these historical figures coming to life to share their stories…. In one video, an artificially generated John Adams says, ...

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Setting Aside The Incorrect Claim About Herd Immunity

Setting Aside The Incorrect Claim About Herd Immunity
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, largely concerning U.S. vaccine policy, which the infamous anti-vax conspiracy theorist oversees in his role as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. As is his custom, Kenned...

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The Fun Kind Of Bad Vs. The Boring Kind Of Good, With Mina Kimes

The Fun Kind Of Bad Vs. The Boring Kind Of Good, With Mina Kimes
We do not do emergency podcasts at The Distraction, although we do joke around about it a lot. The phrase itself feels like a joke, summoning as it does images of two people roughly my age sliding down a fireman's pole into a brightly lit room with a Shure S7 microphone in it...

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Google Avoids Harshest Penalties in Search Monopoly Ruling

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David McCabe, reporting for The New York Times: Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The decision, by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the...

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Pneumatic elevators

I’m the tube a bunch right now (cooking something new and borrowing desks, thanks!) and one of the frustrating bits of the commute is going street level to underground. Escalators are slooooow. (Whereas being static on trains is fine as I can tap blog posts with my thumbs wh...

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There Is Always An After

There Is Always An After

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it.

It’s August and my mom is moving. My dad passed away a little less than a year ago, and after a slog of a winter living in the house they once shared, Mom decided that she wouldn’t tolerate another one. So she found a townhouse close to my sister’s house: small, airy, and bright. It was perfect.

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Text • Vinod Chugani

A Developer’s Guide To Becoming an AI Engineer

"A Developer's Guide to Becoming an AI Engineer" featured image. Neon sign that reads "Actually doing the things"

The demand for skilled AI engineers has never been higher, making this one of the fastest-growing career paths in tech.

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Ahead of Sentencing, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader Michael Pratt Attempts to Seem Reformed

Ahead of Sentencing, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader Michael Pratt Attempts to Seem Reformed

In sentencing memos and exhibits, Pratt's attorney paints of picture that points at Pratt's abusive father, his ADHD, his co-conspirators, the entire pornography industry, and the victims themselves.

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Should AI Get Legal Rights?

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

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Checking Off Boxes in London

We recently stayed in London for almost a week - I've been to London before but only as a stopover to somewhere else. This time I had the opportunity to...

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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.

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No Courage, No Heart, No Brain

No Courage, No Heart, No Brain
Last week, I trudged through the Strip’s endless construction and a labyrinthine parking lot to have my first experience of Sphere. Sphere—just Sphere, no definite article—is owned by Sphere Entertainment, a holding company of the Dolan family (see: HBO, AMC, Radio City Musi...

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Text • Saqib Jan

Why Your Legacy APIs Are a Roadblock for AI Agents

For years, APIs were built with a clear consumer in mind: a human developer on another team who could interpret

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A Teacher’s Back-to-School Night Introduction Gets a Little Too Real

Welcome, parents. I am excited to lead your children through second grade, and I look forward to discussing all the progress they will make. Simultaneously, Back-to-School Night is traditionally a time to meet the teacher and learn about their life. If we linger on that, the...

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How Does Pain Work? Dr. Sanjay Gupta Explains

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new book examines the world of pain — why we feel it, and how we can treat it. He says distraction and meditation can be useful tools for managing pain. He spoke with Terry Gross about how the brain gets pain signals wrong, alternatives to painkillers, and how a family of circus performers inspired a new drug. Gupta's book is It Doesn't Have to Hurt.

Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the HBO series Task, by the creator of Mare of Easttown, starring Mark Ruffalo. 
 


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New Rust-Based Tool Installs Ruby in Seconds

A single ruby in a pronged-setting for a necklace.

It’s easy to get developers excited to try Ruby on Rails, with its productivity, speed and efficiency … but, then

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