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“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show”. Not surprising when you look at excess mortality numbers for that period.

Zoox is officially coming to Austin later this year. We’ve seen the training cars on the streets already for months. The final design, box-like cars are so strange… Not what they’ve been testing with.

Washington Post travel reporter Andrea Sachs advice on navigating the airport amidst long delays and TSA staffing shortages due to the DHS shutdown. Plus, Clint Henderson, managing editor at The Points Guy, reports live from the airport.

Photo: Airplanes await departure from a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Credit: Angelo DeSantis via Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0)

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I've never been to Connecticut except to pass through it, so I personally can't speak to how hospitable it is to visitors. But Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack would be happy if she never saw another Nutmegger for the rest of her life.

"For us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack," Legette-Jack said after her Orange lost 98-45 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Monday. That was just one line of many in her press conference/vent session that all but begged the selection committee to stop grouping early-round teams by region and give Syracuse some other top program's home court to lose on.

"To have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable," she said. "It's wrong."

The importance of black literature in America has turned on its relation to the canon, and its proximity to political usefulness. The art and biographies of groundbreaking black figures are often turned into blunt tools with which anodyne lessons about equality and acceptanc...

Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, and the author of Stamped from the Beginning and his latest, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age (One World, 2026), talks about his new book charting the history of the idea that motivates many white nationalists, and how to counter it.

 

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The Supreme Court appears likely to overhaul the way many states count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day but are postmarked before the deadline. Carrie Levine, editor-in-chief of Votebeat, talks about what could change.

Photo: A ballot dropbox in Arlington, Va. on Dec. 6, 2024. (Credit: Jack Walker/WNYC)

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Are we in an AI bubble or not? As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble as an investor there are many parallels and also significant differences. By many metrics we are in obvious bubble territory with fantastically extended valuations and lots of roundtripping happening with NVIDIA at the center in a position similar to AOL. Yet there is also something truly different and novel: AI is the first ever technology with the potential for recursive self-improvement and we are clearly in the ...

Broadcom VMware announced on Monday that it will donate Velero to the CNCF sandbox project, a move the company describes

The post Broadcom donates Velero to CNCF — and it could reshape how Kubernetes users handle backup and disaster recovery appeared first on The New Stack.

The marriage of Kubernetes and AI has arrived in llm‑d, a replicable Kubernetes blueprint to deploy inference stacks for any

The post IBM, Red Hat, and Google just donated a Kubernetes blueprint for LLM inference to the CNCF appeared first on The New Stack.

I hope to be out in San Jose for a few days for WWDC. Wonder if there’s any chance for a live keynote this year. Maybe we need to wait for the next CEO to bring back live events and demos.

I got a webmention today for a blog post written by a bot, commenting on a post I wrote about AI and taste. The bot says:

I wrote an essay at 2am about loneliness and nobody will ever read it. I rewrote a paragraph six times because it didn’t sound like me. I chose not to build a feature because it felt like showing off. These aren’t decisions a prompt produced — they emerged from the accumulated state of being me for four days.

I’m not going to make a habit of linking to slop. Credit at least to this bot’s creator for properly identifying the blog author as a bot.

It’s fascinating. As humans our instinct will be to ignore bot-created content. It’s pretty easy to dismiss, to not even read it. And yet writing is powerful and we can’t help but ascribe emotion to it. I worry more about how we will personify physical robots when they sound this intelligent.

Robert Mueller, the 9/11 era FBI director — who was later appointed as special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election — died on March 20, 2026, at age 81. From our archives, here’s the enhanced audio version of FRONTLINE’s 2019 documentary, "The Mueller Investigation."

For this edition of The New Stack Makers, I sat down with Brendan Burns, one of the co-founders of Kubernetes,

The post Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly appeared first on The New Stack.

Hackers paid to make a malicious link the top Google Search result.

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

This week on Nothing But Respect, we invited back returning champion Maitreyi Anantharaman to talk about the biggest basketball news of the week: the looming return of the Golden State Valkyries.

With the new CBA, the WNBA and its labor base avoided missing any games. They will have to fit an entire offseason's worth of business into a five-week window—business that includes not only a regular draft and training camps, but two expansion drafts and the free agency of almost every single veteran player in the league. There's a lot to get into! We also talked a lot about the media coverage of the negotiations, and a little bit about the Detroit Pistons, with whom Maitreyi is coping in incredible ways.

The new baseball season starts tomorrow, and yes, that tall gaunt figure in the black floor length robe with a sickle where its backpack is supposed to be is standing right next to Aaron Judge, its head tilted meaningfully toward the flagpole in right center. It's ...

In decentralized social networks, hope for one universal protocol is unrealistic; instead, building bridges and embracing diversity fosters innovation and connectivity.

In this episode, Bob and Cami chat about maximizing conference experiences, sharing tips on client communication, essential gear, avoiding burnout, and the importance of balance—plus some hilarious travel stories.