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Why Trump destroying the East Wing is the enduring image of his presidency. How did Joe and Alex think No Kings went? What's next? And Alex digs into the numbers - why things keep getting worse for Trump on the economy. But what number did Joe see today that has him excited about 2026? 
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I don’t get sick very often, but when it catches up to me it hits like a freight train. Just trying to keep all the plates spinning while operating at 10% capacity, been sleeping a ton. Today was in some ways better, some ways worse than yesterday. I try to avoid hospitals and emergency care, … Continue reading Under the Weather →

If you haven’t heard or read, I recently joined Automattic. This made a decent splash in the WP community. I was a bit surprised by the reach of my Tweet: And also my LinkedIn post: I also got a cool write up on the Repository: Now, it’s time to get to work!

San Francisco is preparing for federal law enforcement's invasion of the Bay Area, whether it happens or not.

And just like that… we’ve #wceh2025 in the rear view. Have you had a chance to think about what happened? What went well? What could have been better? Have you dug out the business cards, connected on LinkedIn and socials? Lois Chan-Pedley said this about the After Party: “The after party at Craft Beer Market […]

WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I'm shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work.

Jonathan and Luke discuss the copying of plugins and the history of doing so in the WordPress ecosystem. Jonathan realizes what’s been bothering him about it all and Luke points out the difference between stated and practiced values. They also start to talk AI browsers.

Intel reported higher than expected revenue on Thursday and its stock price has risen over 90 percent since the White House announced it was taking a 10 percent stake in chipmaker.

At the bottom of their “Use Cases” page, SerpApi lists the following companies and organizations as customers (“They trust us. You are in good company. Join them.”):

• Airbnb
• Nvidia
• Meta
• Shopify
• Perplexity
• KPMG
• Ahrefs
• Grubhub
• Samsung
• AI21labs
• United Nations (!)
• Thomson Reuters
• BrightLocal
• Experian

From an August 21, 2025 report in The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, alas), however:

OpenAI also isn’t the only Google rival to use SerpApi data. SerpApi’s website previously listed Apple as a customer. In addition to partnering with Google on search, the iPhone maker develops technology to power searches in Safari — a lucrative deal that the judge overseeing the DOJ case could also nix.

Was Apple removed from the list because they’re no longer (or never were?) a customer, or because they remain a customer but don’t want to be listed?

Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times: Eight years ago, SerpApi, a start-up in Austin, Texas, dived headlong into the byzantine world of using robots to “scrape” Google’s search algorithms, so it could collect information to help customers appear higher in search ...

Tony Maglio, The Hollywood Reporter: The Savant, which originally had a Sept. 26 premiere date, was yanked in the weeks following the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative political pundit Charlie Kirk. Language on the landing page for the series has since vacillated fr...

Software developers’ relationship with their tools is, to say the least, complicated. When tools work well, they fade into the

The post Unblock DevEx by Getting Observability Tools Out of Their Way appeared first on The New Stack.

Also after last week's conference we're starting to get help from the open source developer community around WordPress. Really friendly people, excited about what we can all do together.

I'm really happy with the way WordPress News is shaping up. Every community should have a news site like this.

As organizations increasingly adopt generative AI, Kubernetes has become the go-to platform to orchestrate these demanding workloads. However, the rise

The post Why Kubernetes Security Is Critical for GenAI Integrity appeared first on The New Stack.

There is no real sense in getting upset about the Los Angeles Dodgers, for more or less the same reasons that there is no real sense in getting upset about the weather. Both are awe-inspiring and annoying in about equal measure, but there is only so much that can really be done about either. In this case, I guess, "reasonable expectations about how much fun the World Series might be" are the equivalent of carrying an umbrella. In both cases, there is nothing to do but talk about it, and this week, returning champion guest Justin Halpern took a break from making award-winning television programs to do just that.

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday morning as part of an ongoing federal investigation into two separate gambling schemes. In a press conference afterward, officials from multiple enforcement agencies d...

The internet is rife with proclamations of the end of software as we know it. The culprit? AI, of course.

The post AI Agents Will Eat Enterprise Software, Just Not in One Bite appeared first on The New Stack.

One of the hottest events in San Francisco over the past couple of months was a lecture series by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – in which he preached about those he thinks are “legionnaires of the Antichrist.” Thiel has shared his Christian viewpoints publicly and is a longt...