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This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.

Week 0 of my DevOps Micro Internship was about the foundations—the parts of the internet you use every day without thinking about them. The exercise that made it click was a simple scenario: a friend launches an online bookstore called EpicReads, hosted on a server in Finland, and asks how people anywhere in the world can open it. The answer is a short chain of technologies working together. The Chain of Technologies Packet Switching: When someone opens the site, their request does not travel as one big lump. Packet switching breaks the data into small packets that each take the best available path across the network and get reassembled at the other end. This is what keeps the internet fast and resilient even across continents. IP Addresses & TCP/IP: Every device on the way has a unique IP address, like a postal address, so the user's computer and the Finland server can actually find each other. The TCP/IP suite runs the conversation: IP handles addressing and routing, while TCP makes sure the packets arrive complete and in the right order, asking again for anything that went missing. HTTP & HTTPS: On top of that sits HTTP and HTTPS, which define how the browser and server actually exchange the web pages. HTTPS adds encryption, so a customer's details and payment stay private. DNS: The last piece is DNS. Nobody wants to type an IP address, so DNS acts as the internet's phonebook, translating epicreads.com into the server's IP. To point a domain at an IPv4 address, you use an A record . The Biggest Takeaway The biggest lesson for me was not any single term. It was seeing how these layers hand off to each other so cleanly that the whole thing feels instant to a user. Understanding that chain is the groundwork for everything else in DevOps, because once you know how a request really travels, troubleshooting stops being guesswork. P.S. This post is part of the DevOps Micro Internship with Agentic AI Cohort 3 by Pravin Mishra. You can begin your DevOps journey by joining

The moment we realized our staging environment was broken It was 3 PM on a Thursday, and our team was scrambling. A critical API change had just been merged to main, but the staging environment—our supposed safety net—was showing false positives. The integration tests passed, but the mobile app was completely broken in production. That's when we knew: our shared staging environment was failing us. The Problem: Shared Staging Is Broken by Design Like many engineering teams, we operated with a single, shared staging environment. Every developer deployed their changes to the same place, leading to: Deployment conflicts: "Who deployed that breaking change?" Cascading failures: One broken PR would block the entire team Test contamination: Data from one test would leak into another Delayed feedback: You'd only discover issues after merging your PR and deploying to staging The "works on my machine" syndrome, now at scale The worst part? Our API contracts were changing constantly, but we only discovered breaking changes during integration testing—often too late. The Solution: Ephemeral Environments per PR We made a radical change: every PR gets its own isolated, short-lived environment. Here's our architecture: Our Implementation Stack Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS) with namespace-per-PR Orchestration: Custom GitHub Action workflow Database: Isolated RDS instance per environment Contract Testing: Pact flow + OpenAPI validation Cleanup: AWS Lambda that runs every hour, destroying environments older than 2 hours The Game Changer: Automated Contract Testing The magic wasn't just in isolated environments—it was in what we did with them. Every time a PR deployed to its ephemeral environment, we ran: Consumer-Driven Contract Testing (Pact) Our mobile and web clients would verify their expectations against the actual deployed API. If a change broke what the client expected, the PR would fail. Provider Contract Validation We'd automatically verify that the deployed API matched ou

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

İlk insanlı katı-hal uçuşu manşetlere düştüğünde çoğu haber "yeni motor" diye başladı. Oysa bir mühendisin gözünde olay motorda değil. Elektrik motoru bu denklemde en çözülmüş parça: hafif, sessiz, yüksek verimli. Asıl kararların döndüğü yer, o motoru besleyen enerjinin nasıl depolandığı. Bu yazı, duvarın neden onlarca yıl boyunca hep aynı yerde — bataryada — durduğunu sistem mühendisliği açısından ele alıyor. Sistem kısıtı: enerjiyi değil, ağırlığı taşırsınız Bir uçağı tasarlarken bütçeniz enerji değil, kütledir. Depoladığınız her watt-saat bir ağırlıkla gelir ve bu ağırlık kaldırma kuvvetiyle ödenmek zorundadır. Ölçüt enerji yoğunluğu , yani Wh/kg. Kerosen bu metrikte devasa bir avantaja sahip olduğu için jetler onlarca yıl tartışmasız kazandı. Elektrikli havacılığın tüm hikâyesi, bu tek sayıyı yukarı çekme mücadelesidir. Neden hep batarya? Kısır döngünün matematiği Menzili artırmak için daha fazla batarya eklersiniz. Ama batarya ağırdır; eklediğiniz kütle daha fazla kaldırma, dolayısıyla daha fazla enerji ister. O ek enerji için yine batarya eklersiniz ve döngü kendini besler. Buna ağırlığın kısır döngüsü denir ve bir sistem sınırıdır: hücrenin Wh/kg değeri belli bir eşiği aşmadıkça, motoru ne kadar iyileştirirseniz iyileştirin duvar yerinde durur. Kararın kaldıraç noktası bu yüzden hücre kimyasıdır. Kimyayı değiştiren tasarım kararı Bugünün lityum-iyon hücreleri pratikte ~260 Wh/kg dolayında bir tavana oturur. Bu tavanın altında yatan iki bileşen sıvı elektrolit ve grafit anottur. Katı-hal yaklaşımı burada iki radikal karar verir: sıvı elektroliti katı bir iletkenle değiştirir ve anodu lityum-metale taşır. Sonuç ~410 Wh/kg, yani mevcut tavanın %60'tan fazla üstü. Yan kazanım da en az ana kazanım kadar önemli: yanıcı sıvı ortadan kalkınca termal kaçış riski düşer, hücre daha kararlı olur ve 15 dakikanın altında %80 şarj operasyonel olarak mümkün hâle gelir. Bu üç sayı tek başına değil, birlikte anlam kazanır. Havacılıkta bir aracın yerde geçirdiği süre doğrudan m

Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it's "voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the US market." Reuters reports that, according to a source, Taylor Farms told customers like Yum Brands owner Taco Bell and the food distributor Sysco on Thursday to pull shredded […]

The API is supposed to deliver posts from 'the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.'

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border.

American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.

Heads-up: this post references a tool I built. It's a genuinely useful walkthrough either way — the technique applies to any Airbnb scraping project. If you've ever tried to scrape Airbnb, you already know the two walls you hit: the pages are rendered by JavaScript, and Airbnb aggressively blocks datacenter IPs. Below is the reliable way to get clean Airbnb data in 2026 — listing prices, ratings, coordinates, and discounts — without running a headless browser or babysitting proxies. The key insight: Airbnb ships its data in the HTML You don't need to render the page. Every Airbnb search response embeds the full result set as JSON inside a <script id="data-deferred-state-0"> tag. Parse that and you get structured data straight away — no DOM scraping, no selectors that break on the next redesign. The path to the results is: niobeClientData[*][1].data.presentation.staysSearch.results ├── searchResults[] // ~18 listings per page └── paginationInfo.pageCursors[] // all page cursors, upfront Each listing carries a base64-encoded ID in demandStayListing.id (decode it, take the segment after the last colon, and you have the numeric listing ID for airbnb.com/rooms/<id> ), a price line with discounts, avgRatingLocalized ("4.95 (123)"), and GPS coordinates. The two gotchas Datacenter IPs get blocked. You need residential proxies. If a response comes back without the data-deferred-state marker, you've been served a bot check — rotate to a fresh IP and retry. ~270 result cap per search. Airbnb won't paginate past ~15 pages. To cover a whole market, split into narrower searches (by price band or neighborhood) and dedupe by listing ID. The no-code way If you'd rather not maintain proxy pools and parsers, I published an Airbnb Scraper on Apify that does exactly the above. Paste a location or a full Airbnb search URL (every filter is honored), and get flat JSON/CSV back. curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ethanteague~airbnb-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKE

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different Optimizer column this week when I learned that Pete Hegseth is […]

Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI agents natively with OpenTelemetry to track concrete user actions (accepting, dismissing, or regenerating code fixes) as implicit labels, creating a continuous data flywheel to distill frontier capabilities into cheaper, local SLMs. By Ben O'Mahony

Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the "most market-moving" posts on the US President's social media platform. On Thursday, Trump Media announced plans to launch "Truth API," a licensed real time data feed for businesses that provides "the fastest access to Truth Social's most influential accounts." It […]

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

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The Trump administration is waging a culture war on science, and the latest salvo is in the form of a dry, bureaucratic proposal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could threaten the future of US science as we know it. The proposal would give political appointees unprecedented control over grant funding, the […]

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use…

Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.