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• Frederic Lardinois
When launched Elastic Kubernetes Service in 2018, the target audience was early adopters who wanted a managed control plane and
The post 2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS appeared first on The New Stack.
This week's New Yorker Politics podcast is an interview with Jeopardy champion and host Ken Jennings. Great stuff if you, like me, are a longtime Jeopardy fan. We used to watch it in our Flushing kitchen in the 1960s when Art Fleming was host.
Micro.blog’s CDN bill is up about 25% from last month, no surprise with the launch of better video hosting. I’m taking the opportunity to dig into CloudFront stats that I’ve never actually looked at. Seeing a few things that could be easy wins to optimize.
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
All-Clad is the best, with a price tag to match. These Black Friday deals can help you save some cash.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Heather Joslyn
Has the cloud native era now fully morphed into the AI-native era? If so, what does that mean for the
The post From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going? appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
From robot vacuums to Dyson stick vacs, don't miss these Black Friday deals happening on our favorite vacuums in every category.
…there is so much interesting content out there ready to be discovered. And discovering new content also means connecting with new people, getting exposed to new ideas, different cultures. That’s by far the best quality of the web if you ask me.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Multiple viral devices from Ninja are on record sales for Black Friday, including the Slushi, the soft-serve Swirl, and Ninja's flagship espresso maker.
ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
From protein supplements and electrolytes to greens powders and energy drinks, these are the discounted picks worth snagging.
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
Get good discounts on fast caffeine with markdowns on our favorite pod coffee machines from Bruvi, Ninja, Keurig, and more.
Federico Viticci blogging about AI results, matching my recent thoughts about the products and design mattering:
…since the baseline is now good enough, the app experience and how LLMs are woven into a people’s daily lives and workflows will be the differentiators going forward.
We mark the 100th anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s biggest stage, and feature interviews with two of its members. First up, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He and guitarist Lester Flatt had a hit with “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” Scruggs told Terry Gross how he developed his famous three-finger picking style while absent-mindedly playing the banjo one day. Also, we listen back to Terry’s interview with country music star, “Honky Tonk Girl” Loretta Lynn.
Film critic Justin Chang reviews a new documentary about Russia's crackdown on independent journalists. It’s called ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
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Platform engineering has evolved significantly from its early focus on manual on-premises systems management into a complex ecosystem of cloud
The post Platform Engineering: Where Software-Defined Storage Fits appeared first on The New Stack.
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• The Washington Post
Feeling a sense of awe can make us feel less stressed, less lonely and more connected to each other. It’s good for our bodies and our minds. So how do we feel more of it?
Today’s show was produced by Joshua Carroll, Rennie Svirnovskiy and Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Allison Klein and Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter.
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Defector
• Ralph Jones
For years, a rumor has floated around about the length of Willem Dafoe’s penis. Willem Dafoe’s penis is said to be extra-large. It is allegedly so big, in fact, that after filming nude scenes in the 2009 film Antichrist, Lars von Trier reported that he needed to re-shoot them using a different actor. “He has an enormous dick,” the director told The Boston Phoenix while promoting the film. “We had to take those scenes out of the film.” Here came the kicker: When Dafoe’s penis was on screen, said von Trier, “everybody got very confused when they saw it”.
What this means is that somewhere out there lives a humble man whose penis stood in for Willem Dafoe’s. Who is he?
There are a bunch of useful demo apps in the reallysimple package, which also is itself fairly useful. I used all these tools in implementing FeedLand and WordLand, so I'm pretty sure they'd be useful to other users and developers. The feeder app, one of the demos, is used to generate the Links page on scripting.com, and provides utilities to the scripting language in Drummer.
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• Simon Hill
Save on virtual display smart glasses, arcade machines, the PS5 Pro, and more. These Black Friday deals are for gamers.