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Apache Cassandra releases tend to be evaluated on roughly the same terms. What can it do now that it couldn’t

The post For years, Apache Cassandra handed this work to your team — 6.0 takes it back appeared first on The New Stack.

Almost everyone’s workplace experience is now set to welcome AI-agent-driven actions through the applications we use daily, and this rapid evolution

The post “A dangerous combination”: The 2 factors that can “corrupt” AI agent workflows appeared first on The New Stack.

Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.

I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

I have a playlist with a few movie soundtracks from Francis Lai, Vladimir Cosma, Goran Bregović, and François De Roubaix. What does #Tidal think I should also put on the playlist? The Benny Hill theme, Inspector Gadget, and Mission: Impossible.

Today’s your lucky day, kid. I’m you from the future. I traveled back to 1955 to give you this sports almanac. It lists all the biggest sports events from now to the end of the century. All you have to do is bet on the winner, and you’ll never lose. You’re the fifth “me” I’v...

Recently fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with The New York Times over the weekend for a lengthy interview about the end of his tenure at CBS News, which Bari Weiss has been speedily destroying with her incompetence. Pelley had a few things to say that co...

At a New York prison, one writer reflects on the atmosphere as his favorite team seeks their first championship in 53 years. “For more than 20 years,I served one of the most miserable sentences while rooting for one of the most miserable teams in sports.” https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/06/08/knicks-nba-finals-prison/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky

The agentic AI wave has produced no shortage of impressive demos. What it has produced less of is agents that

The post With Foundry, Microsoft bets the enterprise AI battle is about reliability, not capability appeared first on The New Stack.

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference last week to announce a series of updates to its flagship Visual Studio IDE

The post Microsoft unlocks Visual Studio for developers left behind by its own AI appeared first on The New Stack.

On May 24, 2022, a Border Patrol Tactical Unit fatally shot 18-year-old Salvador Ramos inside a classroom in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, 77 minutes after Ramos had entered the building to commit the third-deadliest school shooting in American history. Ramos, a former student at Robb, had purchased two high-powered rifles and hundreds of rounds […]

The post How a Gun-Rights Extremist Could Soon Represent Uvalde in Congress appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 5x just might be the best laptop you can buy for $850. It's hard to find any major flaws, which is basically unheard of in a laptop at this price.

Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

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Earlier this year, the “Because I Got High” rapper went viral for winning a case against the cops. Now he’s crypto’s free-speech hero, even though he isn’t quite sure how the digital currency works.

Apple’s built-in screen sharing support for Mac-to-Mac connections has always been a help for those of us with remote setups: headless Macs acting as servers, an office and home Mac, or the laziness of having Macs in different parts of your house you want to access without standing up.…

From the war in Iran to his plan to use taxpayer money to pay his allies, the Republican-controlled Congress has begun rebelling against President Trump. Today, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, a congressional editor at The New York Times, discusses whether this rebellion is a previe...

WordCamp Europe will always be special to me. Having been one of the people who helped get it started, it’s hard not to look around at WordCamp Europe and feel a deep appreciation for what this event has become. And still, every year, it comes back to the same thing for me: The conversations. It’s […]

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Donald Trump is desperately trying to salvage his gala commemorating the United States’s 250th anniversary after many celebrities pulled out. He let out a weird tirade insisting that he is telling them not to come, and also announced a paltry set...