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Kubernetes: Get the Most from Dynamic Resource Allocation

With both data center electricity and hardware prices skyrocketing, most organizations will soon be looking to squeeze more efficiencies from

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@owncast (self-hosted livestreaming platform that integrates with the fediverse) is looking really good right now. There's been a lot of progress since I first heard of it.

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Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

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iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 Gaming PC Review: Great Value

iBuyPower’s prebuilt gaming desktop tries some new tricks but comes with a few flaws.

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Big Balls Was Just the Beginning

DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies. It’s far from over.

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Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Are Fueling the Biggest Darknet Markets Ever

Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.

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The Origins of Jeffrey Epstein

The latest release of files related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein left key questions unanswered about his rise to power and his connections to the president. David Enrich, an investigations editor at The New York Times, explains how he worked with a team of reporters t...

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Funny Numbers

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

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For today’s winter wonder photo challenge prompt grinch, at the Trail of Lights. 🎄

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The Return of the Weirdo via Ted Gioia

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“People are less weird than they used to be,” claims psychologist Adam Mastroianni. He describes this as “an epidemic of the mundane.”

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‘Bari Weiss Steps Onto the CBS News Glass Cliff of Doom’

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Elizabeth Lopatto, back in October, after Bari Weiss was first named editor-in-chief of CBS News by David Ellison after his acquisition of Paramount: This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You’re Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You’re Na...

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CBS News Chief Bari Weiss Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Story on Trump’s CECOT Gulag in El Salvador

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David Folkenflik, reporting for NPR: Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump a...

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The ‘60 Minutes’ Report on CECOT That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband

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Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge: 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at least one platform for distribution: Canada’s Global TV. Some people used a VPN to watch it; at lea...

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FDA Approves Pill Version of Wegovy

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide will soon be available in a daily pill Americans can take for weight loss.

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Vibe coding is a trap: why WordPress needs a design system now

In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”: a structured foundation that AI can understand and build upon. Before that, I wrote about

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Perspectives with Tammie Lister

Tammie Lister joins Luke and Jonathan to discuss vibe coding, product thinking, and breaking free from a designer typecast into a reputation for product engineering. They also discuss the importance and relevance of WordPress, themes, and cricket.

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The ‘Epstein’s Suicide’ Video in the Latest DOJ Release Isn’t What It Seems

Here’s how a fake clip from 2019 wound up in the latest Justice Department Epstein files dump.

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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed

Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

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Why AI Agents Are ‘Just Another Backend’

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Edith Harbaugh, LaunchDarkly’s co-founder and CEO, sat down with TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams to talk about treating AI agents as just another backend tool, and how Harbaugh is watching over 5,000 LaunchDarkly customers worldwide release dozens of times a day while looking ahead to a future where software fixes itself.

In 2014, asking companies why they’d want to release software more than once a quarter was a legitimate question. Gartner

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