The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel
Everything in tech is always changing at what feels like a breakneck pace — everything except DevOps infrastructure, that is.
The post Self-Driving DevOps? How Stakpak Tackles Infrastructure Complexity appeared first on The New Stack.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Don’t worry, we’re not changing our website. But we’re finally the owners of the real deal: a .com domain.
Defector
• Defector Staff
This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025.
The Texas Observer
• Gus Bova
Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a sense of what stories are making a splash with a bigger audience, and that’s useful information for us to have. So, for my benefit and perhaps yours, here’s a moderately curated list of our most-read stories […]
The post Our Most-Read Stories of 2025 appeared first on The Texas Observer.
WIRED
• Matt Kamen
A fun diversion for retro gaming on the Nintendo Switch 2—if you can stand to look at it.
WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman
From university breaches to cyberattacks that shut down whole supply chains, these were the worst cybersecurity incidents of the year.
WIRED
• Andrew Couts
Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.
WIRED
• David Nield
Google's AI is now even smarter, and more versatile.
The Daily
• The New York Times
WIRED
• WIRED Staff
From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet's chaos caused outsized real-world harm.
WIRED
• Johan Rockström
Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.
Finished reading: Making History by K. J. Parker. Neat idea, I was pulled into the narration. Wonder if it could’ve been an even longer full novel. 📚
omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/cwko-mon-12-29-25-final
The US version of Oscar is much less funny than the original, but as far as US adaptations go it's still quite good.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
No matter how busy life is, there's always time to admire a beautiful sunset.
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Defector
• Kelsey McKinney
![Some Thoughts On ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Including, But Not Limited To: Ahhhh, Mmmm, And [Crying Emoji]](https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2025/12/connor-storrie-hudson-williams_0.jpg?w=564)
Brandy: Hello Kelsey, I hope you had a lovely Christmas.
Kelsey: Hello Brandy, if by “Christmas” you mean “the season finale of the hit show Heated Rivalry starring Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams which aired on December 26,” I sure did!!
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Sowjanya Pandruju
Three months ago, I spent two weeks building a custom plugin to connect our AI assistant to our internal CRM
The post Goodbye Plugins: MCP Is Becoming the Universal Interface for AI appeared first on The New Stack.
Coffee and breakfast in Louisiana. Quick trip to see family, then back to Texas. ☕️
