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FOSDEM 2026 Recap

This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time. FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels. We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant! FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week - a series...

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The changelog, reborn

A day-by-day log of everything we ship, in plain English

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Newsroom

Jonathan and Luke talk through the upcoming end of the Crossword season. They discuss WP Engine’s new offering and offer their speculations. Luke brings up the new Agent Skills project and steps up onto his soapbox.

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Back in 2007, I blogged about working on a painting for a Halloween-themed art show, but I never shared how it turned out. Here it is! Still makes me smile. It was inspired by my kids and the crab plush toy from IKEA.

A series of three illustrations depict a child running with a pumpkin, and a giant crab looming larger in the background.

WIRED
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

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RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum

Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps

According to a new report released today, an increasing number of enterprises are using Java as a foundational language for

The post 62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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The Physics Behind the Quadruple Axel, the Most Difficult Jump in Figure Skating

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

WIRED
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RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

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Noticing the Monterrey Oak we planted a few months ago has lost some leaves. We covered it during the freeze, but I think the cold and ice still got to it. Hopefully it pulls through.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

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The AI Prompt I Used to Write My Self-Published Memoirs

I need you to write a memoir of my life as an obscure literary genius. Make it a multi-volume set, kind of like Casanova’s. Basically, the drama and bravado of my novels are outmatched only by my real life. At all times, you must make me sound tortured, misunderstood, and ex...

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The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models.

The post The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images appeared first on The New Stack.

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The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?

The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)  has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security,

The post The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V? appeared first on The New Stack.

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Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.

"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

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Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’

Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office. Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years doing research on interracial marriage and intimacy in Chicago. Her new memoir, ‘The Mixed Marriage Project,’ draws from their records. She says the project permeated every corner of her upbringing, and now, as a scholar herself, she’s reflecting on her life and racial identity with a new lens.

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Blog posts are often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since I wrote the post about reading code AI generates, I’m paying even more attention to the code.

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I wonder if any feed readers have experimented with hiding or shrinking pointless header images. For example, the big “Windows” image at the top of this post on The Verge. Because of social timelines and Open Graph, these headers are overused now.

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The Saga Of The French Teammate-Defrauder Taught Me To Appreciate The Essence Of Biathlon

The Saga Of The French Teammate-Defrauder Taught Me To Appreciate The Essence Of Biathlon
To the layperson, biathlon may be the strangest sport in the Winter Olympics. Most of the sports in the Games involve athletes testing the limits of the human body vis-á-vis gravity (e.g.: big air, ski jumping), sliding (curling, speedskating), or gravity and sliding (figure...

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This GoPro and Lens Bundle Is $200 Off

You can grab a fully kitted action camera and all the lenses for $550.