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Screenshot of a workplace safety e-learning module: a man in a yellow hard hat, safety glasses, blue shirt and tie asks "Where is your PPE?" beside three numbered reply options Antique woodcut of giant long-beaked cranes battling small human warriors - one rides a goat-like beast, others draw bows and level spears, with mountains and a flock of birds behind, printed on aged paper with text showing through from the reverse. Type specimen on a coral background: 'HUBANO V2' in a chunky cream slab serif, a large dark-brown pointing-hand printer's ornament, 'THIS WAY OUT' set three times with different words bolded each time, and 'COMING SOON IN 3 WEIGHTS!' underneath. Satellite view of a solar farm - irregular dark blue blocks of panel arrays laid across green rolling hills and valleys, linked by pale access roads. Man instructing woman making a sandwich in busy restaurant kitchen A man in a grey t-shirt leans in and makes the 'too slow' pointing gesture at a woman in a grey strapless dress, who stares back at him with a flat, unimpressed expression. One of the Wikipedia 'high five' stock photos. A stone building wall beside a black door, covered with about fifteen key lockboxes bolted around a drainpipe, plus a keypad entry panel and a metal buzzer plate with dozens of blank name slots. Stacked bar chart of a senior developer's eight-hour day split by task, before and after AI, with ribbons joining each task across the two bars. The day drops from 8 hours to 6.75 because only writing new code, reading and debugging, and testing change; design, code reviews, documentation, mentoring and meetings stay the same. The same chart for a junior developer's eight-hour day. Writing new code is 2.75 hours rather than 1.5, so the same assumed AI speedup drops the day from 8 hours to 6 - a two-hour saving, or 25%, against the senior's 15.6%. A top-down D&D battle map of a night-time arctic tundra camp on flat snow, overlaid with a light grey five-foot square grid. A collapsed trench runs diagonally across the middle of the map with two large ragged holes glowing orange-red from below. A cluster of wooden sleds and scattered debris sits near the trench's northeast end, two campfires with bedrolls to the south, and a large scorched burn area with charred animal carcasses in the northwest corner. Bryan Ross What’s up with these AI jailbreaks and security breaches? There is no organizational-level ROI for AI, just IC ROI Carved ivory tankard mounted in silver, its body a high-relief bacchanal: a pot-bellied Silenus staggering at the centre, flanked by satyrs, a maenad with a bunch of grapes, and a boar at his feet. Close-up of a letterpress-printed vintage hotel luggage label in green and red ink, the words HOTEL and (EGYPT) set in a heavy sans serif. M.C. Escher wood engraving on a 1945 Tijdelijke Academie Eindhoven diploma: a large owl perched on stacked stone blocks above a flooded Dutch landscape with smoke plumes on the horizon. A black Jawbone Up fitness tracker: a rubberised open-ended bracelet with a ribbed texture and a metal cap stamped JAWBONE. Line chart titled Community Security Reports showing Spring open source community security advisories from mid-2025 through mid-2026, low single digits until early 2026, spiking to about 110 in spring 2026, then projected to stay elevated around 50 through July 2026. Digital illustration: a woman's face in profile inside a circular graphic, her head filled with red vascular-looking circuitry and network nodes, ringed by binary digits and blue radial stripes. How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV A pie chart illustrating the distribution of Gemini conversations by activity globally. The chart shows various categories, including Socializing, Relaxing & Leisure (26.4%), Education (20.7%), Work & Work-Related (13.5%), Household Activities (11.0%), Personal Care (9.0%), Other (6.6%), and Consumer Purchases, Professional & Personal Care Services, and Traveling, each with smaller percentages. Not my mistake, now my problem. In-store display sign for Aito Porvoon Lakritsi: a smiling black licorice cartoon mascot in a red bow tie on a red sunburst badge, above a wire bin of bagged Finnish salty licorice. Relative to your interests, Wednesday AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture VMware Tanzu Labs balanced-team diagram: a Venn of Desirable (user-centered design), Feasible (engineering), and Viable (product management) overlapping at 'Successful product', with Agile/XP and Lean Startup activity lists. Marketoonist cartoon: one worker uses AI to expand a few bullet points into a long email; the recipient uses AI to condense the long email back into a few bullet points. Cartoon of a long meeting table full of bored, glazed-over office workers. Relative to your interests, Tuesday Relative to your interests, Tuesday Anthropic Cowork usage by business function - business process & operations leads at 33.4% Anthropic Economic Index - task and artifact distribution Ink-and-wash painting of a scrum of mirrored human figures rendered as dotted line drawings, black on cream, with grey wash background Top row six photos of a small green single-board computer with fan sitting inside a photogrammetry rig; bottom row six matched-angle CAD renders of the same board 🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech DIY Platform – don’t do it A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, wooden-framed bicycle chair sits askew on a brick sidewalk beside a canal, showing signs of age and neglect. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, wooden chair sits askew on a cracked sidewalk near a canal, brick wall, and parked bicycles. Photo by Cormac. Top-down diagram of an attic bedroom. Two blue vertical lines mark the windows on opposite walls; a black circle representing an exhaust fan sits in front of the right window. A green rounded rectangle labeled 'Stairwell no door' is in the lower middle. A solid blue arrow curves from the left window across the room into the fan; a coral arrow points right from the fan out the window; a dashed line runs from the stairwell up to the fan. mood A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, green metal folding chair sits abandoned on a brick sidewalk near a canal and a graffiti-covered building. A complex, steampunk-style espresso machine sits on a workbench surrounded by coffee beans, tools, and various gauges and dials, presented in a detailed, illustrative style. Line chart titled Coté's CFP Acceptance/Rejection History, from 2016 to 2026, showing green Accepted, red Rejected, and yellow Cancelled lines. Accepted talks rise from 8 in 2016 to a peak of 23 in 2025 then drop to 10 in 2026. Rejected talks were near zero through 2020, then climb steadily to 20 in 2026. Talk: VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs – June 25th, 2026 The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020 A stylish and colorful interior space featuring a reception area with a light green counter, cozy seating, and motivational wall art. There are various plants, books, and decorative items like a candle and an assortment of fruit. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, grey armchair sits forlornly on a cracked sidewalk beside a canal, against a textured brick wall. Illustration of a skeleton (Death) sitting cross-legged on a bell, holding the hands of an old winged figure of Time, both atop a globe. Vintage-style photograph of a person hunched over a small portable computer terminal at dawn. Weighty Cover of a white paper titled 'Why You Should Treat Your Platform as a Product', featuring an image of modern glass skyscrapers. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, plastic garden chair sits askew on a cracked sidewalk beside a canal, surrounded by debris and a brick wall. How AI change your software development organization A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, black plastic patio chair sits discarded on a sidewalk beside a canal, brick wall, and parked scooter. Analog/digital composite illustration from Warren Ellis's status post 16jun26. A Quantel Paintbox digital paint system console, an early 1980s broadcast graphics workstation. Solid blue color background Guests from Texas “Untitled No. 23” from “The Yosemite Suite,” 2010, iPad drawing printed on paper by David Hockney. Illustrated five-tier corporate pyramid cake. Top: 'The Shareholder', a fat man with cigar and martini lounging on a moneybag labeled PASSIVE INCOME. Below: 'C-Suite', laughing executives toasting champagne. Below: 'Consultants', grinning men in suits pointing at charts saying DISRUPT, LEVERAGE, ALIGN, TRANSFORMATION. Below: 'Middle-Management', haggard managers yelling and waving rulers at METRICS checklists. Bottom: 'Individual Contributors', exhausted workers hunched over laptops with sticky notes saying WHEN THIS DUE and WILL WORK FOR COFFEE. Line chart titled 'Community Security Reports for Spring By Month' showing low, flat counts from July 2025 through January 2026, then a sharp spike up at April 2026 before easing slightly. Josh Long and Coté are smiling in a selfie, both wearing Patagonia jackets with the brand logo visible. IFE C booth with Prime Wing Deboner display and attendees at a trade show. A media library display features books on pig topics, poultry production, and creatine, with a "Watt's Progress" branding. A yellow “discover” box with a toy race car and the text “BOUW EN RACE AUTO DIE OP ZOUT RIJD! A miniature white toy truck with a “Grolsch PREMIUM LAGER” label is displayed on a clear plastic blister pack. A white wall is covered with various colorful stickers, including “TerraceoStore.com” and “Viva la Victoria”. A torn sticker of Bart Simpson from The Simpsons is visible on a black background with text reading "Atlético Mansillies". A weathered, iron crucifix with outstretched arms is visible on a dark blue book cover with the title “JUAN CARLOS CAMPOS”. Here's a factual alt-text description of the image: A close-up of a decorative, tiled door handle with the text "José M. Lu" visible. A gray SUV is parked on a crosswalk next to a building with signage for business solutions and tax services. A gray, weathered doorway is partially covered by a climbing vine, with a "SE VENDE" sign visible. A glass baking dish filled with baked pasta, topped with cheese and basil, rests on a stovetop. A cyclist rides along a canal path with a yellow Mercedes Sprinter van in the background. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is discarded, black gaming chair sits amidst scattered trash and overgrown foliage near a canal and brick wall. A gray television displays a cartoon character falling down a staircase, with the text "Yeah, but you're married too" visible below. A cartoon hamburger with sunglasses and a thumbs-up walks, with the word "Burger" visible. Loteria-style card numbered 15, illustrated with a man in a straw hat, dark jacket and red bow tie speaking into a microphone with a laptop and stack of papers in front of him, labeled 'EL PODCAST' Bar chart of Anthropic's run-rate revenue from 2023 through May 2026, showing a steep climb to roughly $47 billion in 2026 Economist chart titled 'Is AI putting graduates out of work already?' showing unemployment rates for recent college graduates rising relative to other workers in the US, especially in computer science and engineering majors Standish Group CHAOS Report stacked bar chart, 1994-2015, showing share of IT projects per year as successful, challenged, or failed. Success rates hold at roughly 26-35% across all years. A black-and-white cow standing in dense, overgrown greenery - tall grass, nettles, and willow trees nearly hiding it from view. Stacked area chart titled 'Token use by AI agents is expected to multiply 24 times by 2030' showing estimated monthly token count for agentic AI applications rising from near zero in 2024 to about 117 quadrillion in 2030, split into non-agent workloads, consumer agents, and enterprise agents. Source: Goldman Sachs Research, estimates as of May 2026. Illuminated initial from the 12th-century Winchester Bible, ornate scrollwork in gold and lapis blue A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, black plastic patio chair sits discarded amidst overgrown weeds bordering a brick wall and canal. Central chrome cyborg head surrounded by laptops, tablets, phones, and monitors all showing other robotic figures, connected by circuit-board traces and streams of binary digits Robotic hand pressing a green button on a green circuit board background, with bold 3D letters spelling 'DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION' Folk-art figure of a man in traditional Iberian costume - white blouson sleeves, embroidered scapular with a chalice motif, floral red headscarf - holding wooden castanets aloft in each hand with colorful tassels. Composite still featuring characters from multiple Wes Anderson films arranged in his signature symmetrical, pastel-toned visual style. Editorial illustration accompanying a Semafor article on US youth attitudes toward AI. Chart of the federal funds rate over time, illustrating the relative scale of historical interest rate cycles. Vintage hotel luggage labels spread across a desk - colorful international travel ephemera and stickers. Screenshot of the Wakamai Fondue tool showing typographic data extracted from a font file. Installation view at MoMA showing Marcel Duchamp readymade objects in a gallery. Bowl of green salad topped with a mound of pine nuts and za'atar, on a striped placemat next to a Stream Deck and a ShuttlePRO v2 controller. A scuffed white HITWAY folding e-bike chained up beside a black Batavus, parked on a tiled sidewalk against tall grass. Four people chat on a brick-paved square next to picnic tables, beside a sandwich-board ad asking 'Why have Abs when U can have Kurio's Kebabs?' Boxed 'MrBeast Lab Creation' toy on a store shelf, €9.98, featuring a yellow hazmat-suited MrBeast figure with mixing canisters and slime-fill ampoules. Two records leaning in a bin: a red-and-yellow Festival Classique sleeve of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps behind a Philips 'Musik für Sie' sleeve of Tchaikovsky's Nussknacker-Suite with a puppet mouse and toy soldier on the cover. An empty cappuccino cup and saucer on an orange slatted cafe table, the cup printed with a gold Badeta Koffiebranders Amsterdam logo, milk foam dried inside. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is discarded, upholstered armchair, featuring faded green fabric and visible wear, sits on a grassy sidewalk near a brick wall. Two black silhouettes of businessmen in suits gesturing toward a rising blue 3D bar chart against a grid background. Silhouettes of business people seated around a presenter at a flip chart, set against a backdrop of blue upward arrows and a rising trend line. A supermarket aisle displays a variety of sauces, condiments, and snacks on neatly organized shelves. Auto-generated description: A grocery store aisle filled with a variety of jars and bottles, including sauces, condiments, and spreads, neatly arranged on shelves. Crowd of conference attendees packed shoulder-to-shoulder around a booth at a tech event, with a presenter in a blue shirt at the center speaking to the audience Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive 100G camera shown in three-quarter view, twin stereoscopic lenses on a rugged black body with timecode display, antenna, and tripod mount, on a pink-to-teal gradient background Bar chart titled 'Trust in Brands Among Consumers, 2023-2025' showing high trust in family (93/95/94%), locally owned businesses (90/90/88%), and small brands (86/86/87%) versus much lower trust in big brands (55/59/60%) Satellite-view map of the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, with each body of water labeled in blue italic type ASCII-art Max Headroom rendered in dotted blue characters inside a terminal window titled 'node' Black-and-white woodcut-style illustration of a glass jar labeled 'Richard's Real Mayonnaise' Pulp magazine cover for Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957, depicting a blue-skinned figure in goggles operating heavy machinery in a dust storm; cover story 'The Gentle Earth' by Christopher Anvil Quadrant chart titled 'The Hobby Matrix' classifying hobbies along two axes: life-adapts-to-hobby vs hobby-adapts-to-life, and other-oriented vs self-oriented Hand-drawn diagram mapping software system topologies, with regions labeled Layered Architectures, Monolithic Systems, Plugins Family, Services Area, and Fragmented Patterns Home office with wood floor, tall bookshelves crowded with books, a wide wooden writing desk holding a monitor, lamp, and papers, and an Aeron-style office chair on the left Vintage yellow-and-black 'Pancake Tuesday' poster: a cartoon chef in tall white hat flips a pancake out of a frying pan, with date label 'TUESDAY 1ST MARCH' Vintage Betty Crocker cake-mix print ad showing a hand holding two eggs next to a frosted layer cake. Headline: 'Betty Crocker Cake Mixes bring you that Special Homemade Goodness... BECAUSE YOU ADD THE EGGS YOURSELF.' VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Where enterprises are running and planning to run AI Surrealist AI-generated slop illustration from Otiose's 'AI Slop Me' tool Hand-illustrated card from Recode Project, recreating a vintage computer-graphics specimen card Pen-and-ink fantasy illustration of fighters and adventurers gathered at a guild hall noticeboard A cartoon taco character with a smiling face holds a knife and waves. A brown box with a vintage illustration of a woman and the text “PHILIPS” is visible. A Philips box features a cartoon figure kicking a soccer ball with a shovel. A cardboard box with a red and white illustration of a lightbulb and the text “PHILIPS”. A chair and ottoman are covered with a "Restafval" (Recycle Waste) banner next to a public waste bin. Stack of paper napkins printed with the Meson del Jamon restaurant logo from Torrenueva, Granada. Apple AirPort Express, the small white square base station. A crowd at Monkigras 2026 - small developer conference - listening to a speaker. Forrester AI Value Matrix: a two-axis chart plotting AI value against measurement, used as a framework for assessing AI ROI. Texas-Mexican accordion player Santiago Jimenez Sr. with his accordion. Amsterdam street scene: a person in a blue jacket walks near two underground waste containers. Bikes parked along a railing, wisteria blooming on a building to the right, a stone block in the foreground. Slide titled 'Will PaaS platforms ever take off?' showing three platform screenshots labeled 2007 (Heroku), 2015 (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and 2022 (Tanzu Application Platform), with a Kelsey Hightower tweet reading 'Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms.' Coté on stage at Devoxx, hands raised mid-gesture, in front of a busy slide of cloud-computing stack pyramids and PaaS/IaaS diagrams. Coté on stage at SREDay Amsterdam in front of a slide listing platform capabilities including 'AI-Ready dev framework' and 'Self-service model access.' Four-person panel at Cloud Foundry Summit 2019, 'The Path to Cloud Native for Business Success' slide behind them. Coté on the right in a sad-face t-shirt. AI-generated absurdist scene: a brown horse rears over a panicked astronaut who rides a pelican mounted on a bicycle. A yellow road sign reads 'WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.' Debris - a slice of pizza, a can, a cowboy hat - flies through the air. A police car pursues in the background. Stylized illustration of a darkened street at dusk: utility poles and power lines crisscross a teal-green sky with an orange sun setting behind a dark hillside. A glowing Chevron sign and scattered storefront lights dot a curving wet road, with a red-tipped traffic cone in the foreground. Screenshot of a blank Microsoft Word document. A small black-and-white figure of a climber rappels down the page from the top toolbar, suspended on a thin rope - illustrating breaking out of the Word UI. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is worn, wooden, bistro-style chair sits askew on a brick-lined sidewalk near a canal, surrounded by parked bicycles. Gartner DBMS Market Share Ranks 2011-2025 - a spaghetti chart of crossing colored lines tracking 30+ database vendors' ranks over 14 years, with a 2025 churn index of 42. Kitchen countertop still life: a silver De'Longhi espresso machine pulls a fresh shot into a glass mug, flanked at left by a glass storage jar and a bottle of red wine, and at right by a stainless-steel electric kettle, two sweet potatoes, a roll of paper towels, and an air fryer. Facade of a grey-stucco Athens apartment building in warm late-afternoon light: three stacked rows of small wrought-iron Juliet balconies, tall french doors with rolling shutters, and a terracotta-tile roof visible on the neighboring building at right. Oil painting of an Amsterdam harbor on an overcast day: a row of tall stepped-gable canal houses across the water, a laborer near a smoking brazier on the foreground quay, moored barges and stacks of timber, a steamer puffing white smoke behind a small green dock office. Pastel painting of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz at night, c. 1929: neon signs including MAUXION glow yellow, red and blue above a rain-slick street; the pentagonal traffic-light tower stands at center-right, surrounded by crowds of pedestrians with umbrellas. a typical tinker platform Illustration from 'The Edge Not Taken' on unsung.aresluna.org. Vertical stack of eight vintage erasers with varied typography - Milan, a Japanese rainbow 7-colour eraser, an MTT telephone card eraser, Milk Chocolate and Swiss Sweet Chocolate candy-themed erasers, a Hi-now Eye Ball eraser, a Universal II 505/80, and a pink Dixon Gem 20. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is discarded, ornate wooden chair, painted a faded blue, lies on a sidewalk near a canal and brick wall. Sandstone sculpture of a human-fish hybrid from Lepenski Vir, displayed in a museum case Three people are engaged in an online video call, each using headphones and microphones. It is a Software Defined Tech podcast recording with Brandon, Matt, and Coté. Diagram showing three stages of Tanzu Platform agent foundations: identity creation via SSO, isolated agent sandbox with elastic runtime, and secure MCP gateway routing to approved MCP servers. A nine-card grid of ornate fantasy-style Tanzu trading cards in vivid colors, each card showing a portrait of a Tanzu figure framed in metallic borders with stats and elemental icons. A Marlboro Red cigarette pack resting on a graffiti-tagged utility box among fallen autumn leaves, the pack's warning label reading 'Smoking increases the risk of being sent back in time to rescue humanity from Skynet.' Two uniformed individuals are entering a room, both wearing similar hats and looking surprised. Dunkin Donuts Presents Time To Make The Donuts 1984 TV Commercial Dense black-and-white view of the Moon's cratered surface, overlapping impact craters of many sizes with a prominent ray crater at center-right, bright ejecta streaks radiating outward across the regolith. Vintage Pan Am airline luggage tag in orange and cream, marked AUS / AUSTIN in bold navy lettering, with route code PA-AUS, reference numbers 2770-51213 and 552-181, the Pan Am globe logo, and a SORTING SYMBOL B arrow at the bottom. Earth rising over the lunar horizon, a crescent of blue and white against the blackness of space, with the grey cratered surface of the Moon in the foreground Windows 3.1 Program Manager running on a modern PC, showing open program groups including WinG SDK, QuickTime for Windows, and Microsoft Reference, with Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia displayed in the foreground. A modern RGB-lit PC tower is visible to the left of the monitor. Flighty global airports status map showing major issues at Seattle Tacoma, Dubai, and Harry Reid, with minor issues at Shenzhen, Rome Fiumicino, Humberto Delgado, and LAX Flighty app showing Seattle Tacoma airport with major issues - departures 8 minutes late on average, arrivals 1 hour 13 minutes late, with runway delay trends and satellite map Flighty app showing Amsterdam Schiphol airport operations - normal operations, 91% departures on time, 84% arrivals on time, with delay trend charts and satellite map Kellogg's Cereal City website circa 1997. A vibrant illustration features Kellogg's Cereal City attractions, including Tony the Tiger dancing with children, surrounded by colorful buildings and a race car. Digital painting of a man in a black puffer jacket, beanie, and glasses standing next to a giant popcorn box, against a teal background Earth from Orion spacecraft showing two auroras and zodiacal light, April 2, 2026 A humorous multiple-choice CAPTCHA asking users to declare they're not a robot in various witty ways A surreal book cover featuring a large skull looming over scenes of people, by Tadami Yamada Chart showing estimated effect of quality internal platforms on key outcomes. Positive effects on individual effectiveness, organizational performance, product performance, code quality, and team performance. Slight increase in software delivery instability and burnout (undesirable). Near-zero effect on software delivery throughput. Line chart showing Java web framework usage from 2021 to 2025. Spring dominates at ~65-80%, dipping slightly in 2025. 'None' sits around 20-25%. Quarkus, Ktor, and JSF cluster near 5% or below. Diagram comparing microservices (what K8s was tuned for: stateless, loosely coupled, horizontally scalable, rolling updates, placement-agnostic, ~5K-node benchmark target) versus AI training (what we actually run: gang-scheduled all-or-nothing, pinned to TPU slice/rack, weeks-long restart-averse, fabric- and topology-aware, outside the tuned envelope). A dimly lit Victorian parlor. An elderly couple at a round table - the father seated, the mother standing beside him - look toward a young woman in an ornate black dress with floral embroidery who stands in the doorway, dramatically illuminated. A small dog sits at her feet. A spiral notebook page filled with handwritten notes in blue and black ink, with several lines heavily crossed out. The visible entries appear to be a numbered list of ideas or themes. VMware by Broadcom booth display showing the VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service architecture diagram, with workflows for data scientists, developers, and platform engineers using LLM repositories, model repositories, AI services, source code, Helm charts, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, and VKS clusters. A frosted cake with yellow candy and blue sprinkles sits on a rotating cake stand, alongside party supplies. Auto-generated description: Text and graphics illustrate the drastic reduction in token economics and rising AI compute hardware spending, highlighting a more than 300x decrease in costs since GPT-3's launch. Auto-generated description: A person with cat ears and pink hair stands at a counter in a store, holding a vape pen, with anime-style eyes on their shirt. Auto-generated description: A fantastical magazine cover features a dark, mysterious scene with a wizard, dragons, a skull, and eerie candles. Auto-generated description: A sliced multicolored layered cake is displayed on a plate, surrounded by a knife and several wrapped gifts. Auto-generated description: A large audience is seated inside a spacious, industrial-style venue with a stage and overhead lighting. A group of people is sitting at a bar, including a person with a half-exposed skeletal face. Still from They Live. A hand is drawing realistic shadows and figures of people on a sketchbook, creating a 3D illusion on graph paper. Detail of 'The Architect,' Pejac (2020). A group of people operates and manages large IBM System/360 computers in a retro-style technology facility. Abby Bangser presenting at KubeCon EU 2026. Photo by Daniel Bryant. Conference slide showing the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) + CNCF Internal Developer Platform architecture, with planes for observability, developer control, integration and delivery, resource, and security, mapping tools like GitHub, Harbor, Score, Tekton, Harness, Argo CD, Cilium, Istio, and vDefend across the pipeline. A computer screen displays a website icon, app icons, and the number 5641. Graphics showing prompt engineering only rose from 22% in 2024 to 26% in 2025 Underground waste containers on an Amsterdam street with an abandoned office chair wedged between them Meta's metaverse app will stick around after all. Three avatars sit around a campfire, one plays guitar, and another holds a marshmallow stick. A lone archer stands on a rocky outcrop, holding a bow and arrow. Two men stand before a whiteboard with the words "Can we say another AI buzzword?" written on it. A medieval-style illustration depicts a colorful city with red roofs and blue domes, featuring a small tower. A bustling nighttime cityscape features brightly lit advertisements and signs illuminating a crowded street filled with people. Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929 Auto-generated description: A four-panel comic features a conversation between two stick figures, where one is interrupted while working, resulting in a humorous ending with a crumpled sticky note. A bustling nighttime cityscape features brightly lit advertisements and signs illuminating a crowded street filled with people. Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929 Auto-generated description: A four-panel comic features a conversation between two stick figures, where one is interrupted while working, resulting in a humorous ending with a crumpled sticky note. A Garbage Chair of Amsterdam that is discarded, modern plastic chair sits on a cracked sidewalk beside a canal, showing wear and grime against a brick wall. Auto-generated description: A fantastical ship sails through turbulent, surreal waters surrounded by mythical sea creatures and elaborate, dream-like borders. Peter Klúcik's The Hobbit illustrations.