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Since I read it in the run-up to the most recent installment of the reading series I do with Patrick Sauer in Brooklyn, I have recommended Seth Wickersham's book American Kings widely. The book is an excellent biographical history of the quarterback as a concept, job, and cultural construct; it is also weird. This is greatly to its credit, because Wickersham takes some chances with storytelling, structure, and perspective, up to and including his own brief high school quarterbacking career in the narrative, that he could just as easily not have taken. I enjoyed talking to him about the book in Brooklyn, and was happy to pick that conversation back up this week when we welcomed him back to the pod this week.

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Developed first as an Amazon-driven fork of Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and more recently as a standalone community-driven alternative to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch

The post OpenSearch 3.3’s New AI Agents Now Generally Available for Developers appeared first on The New Stack.

For over a quarter-century, Tom Sietsema has eaten at and reviewed thousands of restaurants. Now, he’s hanging up his fork and knife. Today, we dip into our archives and bring you a delightful night out at a restaurant with The Post’s longtime beloved food critic. He talks about his love for the theater of dining out, and why he cares so much about guiding readers toward truly delicious food.

Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair. 

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Filmmaker and writer Julian Brave NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. "To live a life in an Indigenous way is a kind of profound thing, and it has been re...

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and others, according to Apple’s online store. In the U...

Fluent Bit is one of the most widely used open source data collection agents for logs, metrics and traces. It’s lightweight,

The post Control Fluent Bit Backpressure With Prometheus appeared first on The New Stack.

I’m the guest on the latest Software Defined Interviews! We cover so many things on this episode, from journaling to Micro.blog’s philosophy and features. Might be the longest interview I’ve ever done, actually.

In the not-so-distant past, search was relatively simple: A search engine would find and rank content that matched the keywords

The post Search Isn’t Dead: From RAG to Agents With Vector Databases appeared first on The New Stack.

Rachel Louise Ensign, economics reporter with The Wall Street Journal, explains the economic forces keeping Americans stuck in their homes and jobs, and how it impacts daily life.

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The start of the NBA season is almost upon us, which means that season preview season is in full swing. The Defector staff preview is coming next week in its usual format, but over at Nothing But Respect, we took a slightly different angle: a detailed look at the season that...

Throughout this membership drive we are talking about the animals we love and care for in our homes -- our pets.  Today, Sam Laroche, manager of Petqua, a pet store on Manhattan's West Side, talks about keeping reptiles as pets and how to help them thrive.

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Sandboxed environments are now core infrastructure for agentic and AI-assisted development. They create short-lived, fully provisioned replicas of production systems

The post How to Measure Sandbox Performance for AI-Driven Development appeared first on The New Stack.

AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.

Niantic is giving its cute AR cartoon companions a voice that will let them guide you around in the real world and point out interesting facts. The feature is being demo’d first in Snap Spectacles.

The music channel in Defector's work Slack is, paradoxically or not, a fairly quiet place. People will talk about records they're enjoying or not enjoying, Patrick will reply "type shit" to various stuff, but for the most part everyone is off listening on their own and on their own time. But when D'Angelo died earlier this week at the age of 51, the channel lit up first with the sad stuff you'd expect, and then with memories of our favorite D'Angelo songs and performances and personal memories—all meaningful in urgent and individuated ways, often very different from one another, all anchored by this one uncanny and brilliant artist. Here is some of that music, and what it means to six of us.

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I have never cared about my car. The first one I owned, a 2000-something Geo Prizm, came to me by way of my aunt when I was 15 and stayed with me until I moved to New York City when I was 24. It got me through high school and college and the first two years of my post-gradua...

At the end of the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, a man in my hometown was accused of sexually abusing children. The claims were bizarre: He had supposedly taken children to secret tunnels beneath a church, killed animals, and forced children to participate in satanic rituals. The trial became a public spectacle when the CEO […]

The post What a North Texas Pride Fest Taught Me About Today’s ‘Rainbow Panic’ appeared first on The Texas Observer.

An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.