Defector
• David Roth
The Dutch Style Of Pickup Soccer And A Dog Named Jeff, With Leander Schaerlaeckens
Defector
• David Roth
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel

Google has introduced Gemma 4 12B, a new model designed to bring high-performance, multi-modal intelligence to standard laptops. Small enough
The post Google Gemma 4 12B nearly matches 26B benchmarks — and runs on your laptop appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Chris J. Preimesberger

Ready or not, the agentic enterprise is here, and the key to enabling it efficiently is being debated from various
The post Snowflake thinks it knows what’s really slowing developers down appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Chris J. Preimesberger

As large language models evolve from mere chatbots into autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting, they are beginning
The post Autonomous agents have met their biggest challenge yet: The database. appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger
On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.
The official trailer for season three of Silo. Looks like we finally get some origin story stuff (well, more than a brief scene at least).

The biggest obstacle to enterprise AI isn’t models, data science talent, or even infrastructure. It’s operations. Across today’s enterprises, hybrid
The post Why agentic AI makes the ops platform the most important layer in the enterprise appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Brian Kahn
The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.
Defector
• Veronica de Souza
On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place. “The bulldozer effortlessly demolished cars and buildings, including the home of a former mayor, the office of a newspaper that had sided against him in an editorial…”
TWiT.tv
• Scott Wilkinson and Robert Vanman
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Todd R. Weiss

The number of incoming IT security alerts arriving at enterprise security operations centers (SOCs) today is staggering, with one IT
The post How to dramatically improve enterprise security alert tuning to battle cyberattacks appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Chris J. Preimesberger

The promise of fully autonomous systems — databases that manage, heal, and optimize themselves amid rapidly increasing data stores —
The post Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Mary Branscombe

Securing Kubernetes has always been complex — spanning access control, image vulnerabilities, secrets management, and networking. AI workloads make it
The post How to secure Kubernetes in the age of AI workloads appeared first on The New Stack.
The Texas Observer
• Justin Miller
Rock band logos stickered the walls and railings in the dim light of the Paper Tiger, the grungy San Antonio venue with a 1,000-person capacity that was packed wall to wall for U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico last Friday evening. It was night three of The People vs. Ken Paxton tour, as the Austin Democrat […]
The post Can James Talarico Do Better than Beto? appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Changelog
• Team Ghost
Connect more of your profiles to your publication, and bring your existing followers to Ghost
McSweeney’s
• Louie Aronowitz
McSweeney’s
• Ali Fitzgerald
Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.
TWiT.tv
• Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/04/21/why-i-still-like-the-internet/
The determination to move away from the addictive doom-scrolling of social media has given me pause, given me space to look around at how I use the internet and figure out where I get most value and where I WANT to get it from.