News and Tech Update

Post-holiday job search? Check out our weekly jobs report for inspiration, including roles at Alta IT Services and Belay Technologies. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/nGKHxWL

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch By Ernesto Londoño from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/K4g9Nv5 Somali-Americans, Frauds and Swindling, Federal Aid (US), Walz, Tim, Feeding Our Future, Race and Ethnicity, Refugees and Displaced Persons, Immigration and Emigration, United States Politics and Government, Minneapolis (Minn), Minnesota

F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines By Christina Jewett from NYT Health https://ift.tt/ymgIQlH Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Rumors and Misinformation, Deaths (Fatalities), Children and Childhood, Heart, United States Politics and Government, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Kennedy, Robert F Jr, Prasad, Vinayak K, Marks, Peter W, Trump, Donald J

Shoppers’ Holiday Spending Could Help Keep the Economy Humming By Sydney Ember from NYT Business https://ift.tt/AHzvTj3 Consumer Behavior, Gifts, Christmas, Amazon.com Inc, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The Federal Shutdown Almost Delayed Their Marriage By Valeriya Safronova from NYT Style https://ift.tt/xjurUXs Weddings and Engagements

Alisa Viejo, CA, USA, 27th November 2025, CyberNewsWire from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/Z21fgaX

5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off By Bob Mehr from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3NI6czr Folk Music, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Documentary Films and Programs, Content Type: Personal Profile, Prine, John, You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (Movie)

When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own By David Wallace-Wells from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/9l6nw5f Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Quarantines, Coronavirus Reopenings, Epidemics, Disease Rates, Polls and Public Opinion, Deaths (Fatalities), Diet and Nutrition, Vaccination and Immunization, Rumors and Misinformation, Medicine and Health, Disasters and Emergencies, Weight, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Republican Party, Bhattacharya, Jay, Kennedy, Robert F Jr, Memoli, Matthew J

When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own By David Wallace-Wells from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/UjoeZKl Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Quarantines, Coronavirus Reopenings, Epidemics, Disease Rates, Polls and Public Opinion, Deaths (Fatalities), Diet and Nutrition, Vaccination and Immunization, Rumors and Misinformation, Medicine and Health, Disasters and Emergencies, Weight, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Republican Party, Bhattacharya, Jay, Kennedy, Robert F Jr, Memoli, Matthew J

For more than a decade, the evolution of infrastructure automation has followed a clear trajectory. Organizations have invested in workflows, pipelines, controllers, and compliance engines because the market demanded stronger guarantees around reliability and scale. Outages turned into measurable losses. Small misconfigurations cascaded into systemic failures. Even highly skilled teams struggled to keep pace with […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/ra7L1CK

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Says She Won’t Run for a Fourth Term By Campbell Robertson from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/Xrex1Au United States Politics and Government, Elections, Mayors, District of Columbia Council, Bowser, Muriel E, Washington (DC)

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/yTwgYiJ your-feed-science, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, United States Politics and Government, Kennedy, Robert F Jr, Louisiana, Health and Human Services Department

Across the tech industry a disconcerting trend is emerging, job losses at the hand of a seemingly more efficient and cost-effective employee, artificial intelligence (AI). Software developers in particular have felt the full force of automation’s iron fist, with layoffs widespread. Since May, Microsoft alone has let go of approximately 15,000 employees, with software engineers […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/qYLhtly

Endor Labs launches an agentic AI-powered SAST tool that drastically reduces false positives, identifies deeper code flaws and helps DevSecOps teams secure AI-generated code across 40+ languages. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/wjkSNcT

His Comedy Drew an Official Rebuke. He Came Back Fighting. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta from NYT Style https://ift.tt/QgCebX6 Comedy and Humor, Das, Vir, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Content Type: Personal Profile

When the OpenSSF, PyPI, Rust Foundation, and OpenJS recently declared that “Open Infrastructure Is Not Free,” they highlighted a crisis that affects every organization building modern software.  Behind every container image pulled, every vulnerability scan and every automated deployment, there’s a vast web of infrastructure: Package registries, CI/CD services, artifact repositories, security feeds, distribution networks and CDN layers. For decades, this […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/dv4mRcW

Should Buses Be Free? By Jeremy Engle from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/abmwJhI

This Thanksgiving week, we share a fresh DevOps jobs report: Top roles and opportunities for professionals looking to level up their careers. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/OQHgo6Z

We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like By Wendy Edelberg from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/JxZ2EBy Vance, J D, Powell, Jerome H, Labor and Jobs, United States Economy, Wages and Salaries, Immigration and Emigration, Interest Rates, Federal Reserve System

Hedge Fund Titan Has a Turnaround Plan (for the Carolina Panthers) By Ken Belson and Maureen Farrell from NYT Business https://ift.tt/M0W1PhA Hedge Funds, Football, High Net Worth Individuals, Content Type: Personal Profile, Appaloosa Management, Carolina Panthers, National Football League, Major League Soccer, Tepper, David A, North Carolina

The Rise of the ‘Just in Case’ M.R.I. By Brent Crane from NYT Business https://ift.tt/sH4x9Uf Tests (Medical)

Why Your Kitchen Looks Like That By Rachel Wharton from NYT Real Estate https://ift.tt/SVDNzr7 Kitchens, vis-design, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Interior Design and Furnishings, Child, Julia, Kondo, Marie, Microwave Ovens, Refrigerators

Sean Duffy Wants You to Stop Wearing PJs on the Plane By Claire Fahy from NYT Travel https://ift.tt/laWpjAq Airlines and Airplanes, Customs, Etiquette and Manners, Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming, Transportation Department (US), Duffy, Sean P, Sinatra, Frank

Cassidy Got Pledges From Kennedy on Vaccines. They Haven’t Stuck. By Annie Karni from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/UWrKe7H United States Politics and Government, Vaccination and Immunization, Rumors and Misinformation, Autism, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Department, Republican Party, Senate, Cassidy, Bill (1957- ), Kennedy, Robert F Jr

AI is transforming DevOps. Learn how faster model training, optimized pipelines and smarter GPU infrastructure help teams deliver reliable, scalable AI workflows. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/5al4vwA

Traditional testing misses token and context failures. Discover how to measure, test and scale AI agents reliably in production. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/Psfpkt7

Trump Promised Lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them. By The Editorial Board from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/oMt23VX United States Politics and Government, United States Economy, Inflation (Economics), Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), International Trade and World Market, Trump, Donald J, United States

My friends, I’ve been around long enough in the world of DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native to see the “next big thing” fade into “just another dashboard.” But today I’m here to tell you: observability isn’t just another tool—it might very well be the killer app of our era. The Rise of Observability Remember when “monitoring” […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/SysOBm9

Bare metal servers deliver predictable, high-performance compute, storage, and networking—ideal for databases, CI/CD runners, and Kubernetes workloads. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/xLWcTmd

The Hunt Is On for Bears in Japan After Deadly Attacks By Javier C. Hernández, Kiuko Notoya and Kentaro Takahashi from NYT World https://ift.tt/cA4OqJN Bears, Animal Attacks, Japan, Hunting and Trapping, Animal Behavior, Rural Areas, Defense and Military Forces, Shinto, Deaths (Fatalities)

Tessl today outlined a plan to extend a registry it created for specifications that govern the behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) agents being used to build software to create a platform for creating, distributing and observing those specifications. Speaking at a DevCon Fall 2025 conference hosted by the company, Tessl CEO Guy Podjarny said that […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/SNTwPbA

What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway? By Ross Douthat from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/Pg0ytfV Politics and Government, Liberalism (US Politics), Great Britain Withdrawal from EU (Brexit), Right-Wing Extremism and Alt-Right, Populism (Theory and Philosophy), Nationalism (Theory and Philosophy), Conservatism (US Politics)

On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice By Thomas L. Friedman from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/0GZgitX Defense and Military Forces, United States Politics and Government, Israel-Gaza War (2023- ), International Relations, Israeli Settlements, Neo Nazi Groups, Jews and Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Right-Wing Extremism and Alt-Right, Palestinians, Hamas, YouTube.com, Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Cheney, Liz, Fuentes, Nicholas J, Netanyahu, Benjamin, Vance, J D, Israel, West Bank

I was down in Brooklyn this week attending AI Native DevCon, and let me tell you—there’s no hidden metaphor or clever subtext in that name. What GuyPo and the gang have built here is exactly what it says on the tin: a community and a movement laser-focused on using AI natively in software development. Not […] from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/dembx6C

AI-driven software delivery introduces new risks, especially prompt manipulation within CI/CD workflows. This article details the emerging fields of PromptOps and MLSecOps and offers practical strategies for securing prompts, models, and pipelines. from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/lSwYsTv

She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation. By Dennis Zhou from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/dCRkmH6 Books and Literature, Book Trade and Publishing, Writing and Writers, Balle, Solvej, National Book Awards, Denmark, New Directions