Geologic Core Sample
One mistake I made building the bed platform for my car is these flimsy little brackets. They ended up bending enough over months that they broke in half. Worked on fixing this today.
Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a phony Gmail interface that, rather than showing you your email, shows you Jeffrey Epstein’s emails:
You’re logged in as Jeffrey Epstein. We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM.
Brilliant.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last week, premium database service provider demonstrated its new technology for encrypting data at rest on
The post Percona Brings Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Megan Farokhmanesh
Players are roleplaying ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post

GigaOm has just released its latest Radar for Vector Databases, now in its third edition. The report evaluates 17 leading
The post Thoughts on the GigaOm Radar for Vector Databases v3 appeared first on The New Stack.
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theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/825675/groks-elon-musk-worship-is-getting-weird
Adi Robertson, The Verge:
As a number of people have pointed out on social media over the past day, Grok’s public-facing chatbot is currently prone to insisting on Musk’s prowess at absolutely anything, no matter how unlikely — or conversely, embarrassing — a given feat is.
Grok claims Musk is fitter than LeBron James, funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, and would likely figure out a way to resurrect himself from the dead faster than Jesus.
But it’s a trustworthy source to author an encyclopedia, sure.
Lab Notes 015: we now have in-app notifications for post comments, replies, and new publication subscribers
A thoughtful post today from Laurens Hof in the Fediverse Report about Mastodon’s new CEO and the project’s sustainability. It’ll be interesting to look back a year from now on whether there are visible changes. Hope in the meantime that Eugen Rochko gets some rest and a vacation or two.
Defector
• Chris Thompson
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
WIRED
• Elena Betti
The advantageous offer appeared to loyalty card holders of the European electronics chain on November 8. After 11 days, the company began contacting those who made purchases, calling it a "clear error."
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Phil Wilkins

Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt from the Manning book: “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes,” a practical guide on
The post What To Know Before Building Fluent Bit Plugins With Go appeared first on The New Stack.
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• Kathryn Xu
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Idan Yalovich

Since GitHub Universe and the announcement of GitHub Spec Kit, spec-driven development (SDD) has taken the dev world by storm.
The post Is Spec-Driven Development Key for Infrastructure Automation? appeared first on The New Stack.
McSweeney’s
• Wendi Aarons and Ali Solomon
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
You can save big on the colorful and bass-forward Beats Studio Pro.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson, professor of history at Tulane and the author of several books, including his latest, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (Simon & Schuster, 2025), digs in on a key sentence in the Declaration of Independence and how its reverberated throughout the country's history.
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