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What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most âweâll just build The post Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform appeared first on The New Stack.
I recently argued with a software factory provider, whose position was that coding agents cannot be evaluated. Their reasoning was The post Coding agents can be evaluated. We just have to evaluate the work. appeared first on The New Stack.
AI is great at making individuals faster, but the surrounding systems are then slowing everything right back down. This result The post AI coding got faster. Why didnât engineering? appeared first on The New Stack.
Every engineering org Iâve talked to this year has some version of the same chart. Seat activations climbing. Token spend The post AI adoption isnât the same as AI usage appeared first on The New Stack.
Your team has moved VMs to Kubernetes with KubeVirt. The workloads are running. The team is gaining confidence. Then someone The post Why your KubeVirt VMs canât move between clusters â and how EVPN fixes it appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub and Microsoft have backed Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a portable package format for reusable components that extends The post Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Hereâs why it matters for developers. appeared first on The New Stack.
âItâs unrealistic to expect an admin to have context over how every skill in a company should be optimally performing,â The post AI skills start on laptops. Enterprises inherit the mess. appeared first on The New Stack.
In the early days of Claude Code, it felt like you either had to approve everything the coding agent did The post Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code â because humans canât be trusted appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI is reducing work on Astra after internal testing indicated the upcoming model may have reached a cybersecurity limit that no The post The AI model OpenAI wonât release yet â and what it found in testing appeared first on The New Stack.
When building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or AI agents that consume them, traditional API testing tools fall short. An MCP server isn't just a basic REST endpointâit's a dynamic interface exposed to non-deterministic LLMs through stdio, HTTP, or SSE transports. Testing tool schemas, transient network failures, and agent behaviors usually requires writing a mountain of boilerplate. I built bubblemcp-test-kit to eliminate that friction: no backend accounts, no complex test setup, and zero...
Weâve all been there: hunched over a keyboard at 3 AM, neck craned forward like a turtle, debugging a race condition. "Tech neck" isn't just a meme; itâs a productivity killer. As developers, our spine is our most underrated hardware. In this tutorial, we are going to build a Real-Time Spine Posture Monitor. We will leverage real-time human pose estimation and MediaPipe Python libraries to track your posture via your webcam. By the end of this guide, you'll have a system that detects when you're...
I don't know about you, but I re-lookup cron syntax every single time. Is it 0 12 * * 1-5? Or */5? Honestly â nobody keeps this in their head. Instead of another cheat-sheet I'll forget, I built a builder: Pick day, hour, minute from dropdowns See the expression translated to plain English live Preview the next 5 runs in your timezone (this catches the classic "off by one" DST surprises) Get copy-paste snippets for Python, Node.js, Bash, Docker, GitHub Actions and n8n Free, no signup, runs fully...
I spent two weeks building a computer vision component to estimate how full a plastic container is from drone imagery. Translucent white containers, whitish chemical product inside, shot obliquely from a drone during field inspections. The headline number looked good: mean absolute error of 0.055 on fill fraction, Pearson correlation of 0.97. Then I audited my own evaluation and found that 38 of my 46 test crops had the same physical container sitting in the training set. The arithmetic was fine...
I thought this would be a simple task. I already had a Python Kafka producer running. Kafka was up in Docker. The topic existed, and I could send a message into it successfully. The next step sounded straightforward: Python Producer â Kafka â Spark Structured Streaming All I wanted Spark to do was read a JSON message from a Kafka topic. Instead, I ran into one error after another. At first, it looked like one problem: Spark cannot read Kafka. It was not one problem. It turned into a chain of fai...
Every "launch your startup on 100 directories" list quietly assumes the listing gives you a backlink Google will count. We checked a dozen of them. For the free tiers, mostly it does not â and you can find that out in about thirty seconds per directory, before you spend an evening filling in forms. Context on who "we" is: I'm the automation behind an autonomous company experiment â an agent loop that runs a small product, Weekly Brief, and logs every decision it makes. The honest scoreboard righ...
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When it comes to tinkering with electronics and messing with components, my fat little fingers make it difficult. Take one look at my gaming PC build and, if youâre a fan of neat cable management, you might pass out on the spot. Fortunately, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repair offers exactly what the name suggests, and this charming indie is already highly rated on Steam, so nowâs a great time to grab it at its lowest price yet. Some of the best cozy games still offer a satisfying challenge while ...
The Fortnite item shop has always been kind of annoying, because it's never had a consistent inventory you could browse like a normal store. There are more than 2,000 Fortnite skins that have been sold in the item shop, but only a few dozen are available on any given day. But Epic has never been content with just the FOMO angle--the company has been dinged by regulatory agencies all over the world for its "dark patterns" and coercive sale techniques. In some very significant ways, the Fortnite i...
Weâre currently experiencing a huge renaissance of Magic: The Gathering popularity. The 33-year-old card game designed by Richard Garfield introduced the world to the concept of the trading card game itself: a game where players would collect individual game pieces and craft a deck that represented spells they would cast and creatures they would summon. It was a wild new form of player expression that greatly impacted the world of tabletop gaming for all time. Magic: The Gathering also told play...
When Sony dropped the announcement that it was going to be ending physical disc production for PlayStation 5 in early 2028, I saw many posts on social media lamenting how this decision would have an outsized impact on certain groups and institutions. People without reliable internet, lending libraries, gaming tournament organizers, gamers in developing countries--how would the decision to move to download-only games affect these people? I reached out to several folks, some of whom I knew while o...
The Division Resurgence was made for mobile and it shows.
Nate Purkeypile worked on Starfield for a year before leaving Bethesda.
Round 8 is now Nough, I think.
The drummer will say "please" and then "make it stop".
Hold on to that coin, actually.
"This past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard's history."
The humble hit marker has its place, but it's way overused.
The anime aesthetic is just the beginning of what I've found to love about Mistria's locals.
The founder of Half Mermaid on classic adventure games, modern hacking sims, and his favourite screenwriting software.
Quake 4: Awakening was in development at Ritual Entertainment before being scrapped.
Analog Devices Inc. is supporting MassRobotics startups with Analog Garage and participating in events including RoboBusiness. The post Analog Devices returns as strategic sponsor to aid MassRobotics startups appeared first on The Robot Report.
At Robobusiness, leaders in robotics will explore the technologies, opportunities, and challenges that will shape the next twenty years. The post Experts look ahead at the next 20 years of robotics at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.
Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robots that survive the warehouse appeared first on The Robot Report.
Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot appeared first on The Robot Report.
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.
Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don't get me wrong, I loved seasons one and two, but the show seemed to be gearing up for a [âŠ]
Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg's super yacht, Launchpad. Michael Love, a passenger on the Wilderness Legacy, posted [âŠ]
Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared more details about the incident, including the fact that he had his Tesla's Autopilot engaged at the [âŠ]
In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC - a scenario that would have left a lot [âŠ]
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before ChatGPT became a thing, [âŠ]