The Best Headlights in the World Are Illegal in America. “America’s roads are now full of tactical-grade headlights, and no one is happy about it.”
blog - aows
• Adrian Vila
Valley of Wine Lighthouse, I
Long Links (AI)
The piece you’re now looking at exists because my latest “Long Links” curation of interesting not-lightweight material included quite a few focused on our dominant malaise, namely you-know-what, I mean it’s in the title. Plenty of people have had more than enough of this discourse and I thought I’d spare them by moving these bits over here
Wembanyama is a really smart dude. Wow.
Grappling With the Existential AI Threat
Charity Majors, writing about how high-performing engineering teams are dealing with the transition from pre-AI to AI-native development: AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy.
This is not a situation where one side is right a...
Ten times
“After all, who could be opposed to getting more done with less work?”
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Welcome, Screwworms! Make Yourself At Home
The screwworms are here, as we predicted they would be. More than half a century after the parasitic pest was declared eradicated, the insects have escaped containment in South America and made it all the way to Texas, where they have not been seen since 1966. There are now ...
The Every Podcast
• Dan Shipper
How Anthropic Uses Claude Fable 5 With Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic Labs, the team responsible for figuring out what the most capable AI models ca...
Citation Needed
• Molly White
End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics
Tiffany Muller talks to me about what Citizens United enabled, how crypto and AI fit into the bigger picture of money in politics, and what it would actually take to fix this broken system.
TWiT.tv
• Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
Windows Weekly 987: SelfLoathing.md
If you think code is safe from automation, think again. This week's discussion tackles why the rise of vibe coding and AI-powered tools could upend long-held beliefs about software development, with even seasoned pros rethinking their roles. Also, a new C++ documentary is w...
Defector
• Ray Ratto
What Is A Grandparent Actually Good For?
Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector's Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com.
This week, Ray answers a question about best practices in being a grandparent.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alex Wilhelm
Observability overload is drowning engineers
If you can see everything, you may see nothing at all. That’s what SREs and DevOps engineers are learning as
The post Observability overload is drowning engineers appeared first on The New Stack.
Unsurprising open corruption from FIFA & the Trump...
Unsurprising open corruption from FIFA & the Trump regime: FIFA rents an office in Trump Tower. “The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” That’s called a bribe.
Defector
• Chris Thompson
We’ve Arrived At The “Nitpicking The Officiating” Portion Of The Finals
Nobody wants to think about officiating, much less talk about it. Joyce Carol Oates knows it. The NBA Finals are no occasion for rational nonpartisanship. The middle ground is out of reach.
If I want to say something straightforwardly true about the officiating, like, "Ref...
The Every Podcast
• Dan Shipper
How Anthropic Uses Claude Fable 5 With Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic Labs, the team responsible for figuring out what the most capable AI models ca...
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Google’s DiffusionGemma is 4x faster than its other Gemma models
About a year ago, Google demoed a diffusion model at its I/O developer conference, but went quiet about the technology
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel
Fable 5: Guardrails and burn rate are annoying users, who say it’s still better than Opus 4.8
On Tuesday, Anthropic debuted Fable 5, the first — and much-anticipated — generally available Mythos-class model. Anthropic says it can work
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
The Anthropic leader who built Claude Code says he ditched prompting — now he just writes loops.
The fastest-moving conversation in AI developer tooling this week began with a job description. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code
The post The Anthropic leader who built Claude Code says he ditched prompting — now he just writes loops. appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
AWS can now mathematically prove your VMs are isolated
On Wednesday, AWS announced that its Graviton5 processor is now generally available and powers two new Amazon EC2 instances: M9g
The post AWS can now mathematically prove your VMs are isolated appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Meredith Shubel
Microsoft pulled 73 GitHub repos after malware attack — but still won’t say who’s compromised
Last week, Microsoft shut down 73 of its own GitHub repositories following a malware attack that would steal developers’ credentials
The post Microsoft pulled 73 GitHub repos after malware attack — but still won’t say who’s compromised appeared first on The New Stack.