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Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly

Did Kubernetes break up cloud party? As the co-founder and CTO of cloud native hardware company Oxide Computing Company, Bryan

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Another btw, in the early blogosphere we had a motto -- watching them watch us watch them, etc. You aren't blogging if you aren't always considering what you're doing.

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BTW, I was right about our respective ages. I am five years older, so we are of the same generation, but have taken different paths, but have arrived at basically the same place. And for what it's worth I voted for George W. Bush against Al Gore in 2000, but voted and worked for John Kerry in 2004.

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Put another way, I don't think they know that there are hippie-type developers who believe in you and your free speech, and build accordingly. The web is the home page for that movement, and it's still there and ready to do the job it was built to do, and not feed your soul into the slurry-making machines.

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I considered my Blogger of the Year award for 2025 very carefully, and yesterday did a podcast about my choice, David Frum, who is doing an outstanding job of adapting his work to the podcast medium, as it was intended to work. What finally made my decision easy was his last...

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When I experimented with not federating my posts for a few months, I also accidentally muted everything from Mastodon. Now that I’m seeing everything again, I’m not sure my life is better. Perhaps there should be a preference to temporary hide external posts — Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, etc.

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HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels

HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels

The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Red Hat Customizes RHEL for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI Platform

Building on continual partnership work with the chip company, has pledged to offer “Day 0” support for Nvidia’s newly-announced Vera

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WIRED
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‘Industry’ Takes on the Age Verification Wars

In the HBO show’s fourth season, Industry proves to be more prescient than it’s ever been.

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A Debate on the January 6th Insurrection Between Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro

Note: All of Jeanine Pirro’s dialogue below is taken from statements she has made on the record and accurately reflects the spirit in which they were delivered. - - - MODERATOR: It’s the anniversary of the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol, and although five years have pa...

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Must-watch narrated bodycam video from Jan 6 Capitol riot. Maybe the saddest moment in American history, so far.

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Here is the Agreement Giving ICE Medicaid Patients' Data

Here is the Agreement Giving ICE Medicaid Patients' Data

On Tuesday, ICE was allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.

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This Year’s Japanese Baseball Free Agents Might Just Be Guys

This Year’s Japanese Baseball Free Agents Might Just Be Guys

Here is a flowchart to determine whether you should be excited about the Japanese free agents coming to MLB this offseason.

Has your team signed one of them? Then hell yeah, brother, always root for your guys. The Chicago White Sox taking a swing on Munetaka Murakami was enough for my recently buried fandom to poke at least one finger out of the grave.

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Data in 2026: Interchangeable Models, Clouds, and Specialization

Current attempts to centralize the increasingly fragmented data ecosystem — which is distributed across vendors, infrastructure, architectures, and tooling —

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WIRED
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Ring and Watch Duty Team Up to Keep a Closer Eye on Wildfires

In a move to help alert people to the spread of nearby blazes, Ring is partnering with Watch Duty to let users share their videos on the wildfire tracking app.

WIRED
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Steve Jobs’ Early Apple Items Are Going Up for Auction—Along With His Bow Ties

Some of the objects came from Steve Jobs’ childhood bedroom. They’re being made available by his stepbrother, John Chovanec.

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Midterm Memo: The C-Team. Maybe B-.

Much like how a sailor, lost and withering at sea, at least gets the chance to see the world, Texas’ ailing Democrats will get the chance this year to recreate some of the magic of the 2018 midterms. You know the drill: Donald Trump’s in the second year of a presidential stint, and his megalomaniacal […]

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WIRED
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Winter Bird Feeding Tips for the Peak of Bird Watching Season (2026)

Winter is often the best time for bird-watching at bird feeders—here’s what ornithologists recommend to get the most out of the season.

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Tyrannies and servilities

The tyranny of government is the tyranny of the workplace is the tyranny of the home.

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Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale talks about Elon Musk, political resistance, and why she still has hope for America’s future.