This Famous Physics Experiment Shows Why the Government Should Support ‘Useless’ Science
Basic research often pays huge dividends—but that’s not why we do it.
Last Week in Kubernetes Development - Week Ending April 6 2025
Week Ending April 6, 2025
https://lwkd.info/2025/20250411
Developer News
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU took place last week in London, along with the CNCF Maintainer Summit. The recordings of the talks would be uploaded to the CNCF YouTube channel soon.
Photographs from the Maintainer Summit can be found in this Flickr album. Photographs from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon are being uploaded here.
If you haven’t done it already, do submit your feedback gfor the Maintainer Summit before April 18th!
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: Release day, April 23
Kubernetes v1.33.0-rc.0 is now available for your testing pleasure.
We are less than two weeks away from the scheduled release date for Kubernetes v1.33!
KEP of the Week
KEP 3619: Fine-grained SupplementalGroups control
This KEP adds a new way to choose correct behaviour with how container runtimes are applying SupplementalGroups to the first container process. Previous to this KEP, supplemental groups attached to containers were defined at two levels in Kubernetes - the OCI image level as well as the Kubernetes API level. The Kubernetes API level PodSecurityContext.{RunAsUser, RunAsGroup, SupplementalGroups} was designed to override the config.User configuration of OCI images. But in the current implementation, even if supplemental groups are defined at the Kubernetes API level, the group memberships defined in the container image for the UID are attached to the container process. This KEP proposes changes to both the Kubernets API and the CRI API to fix this issue.
This KEP is driven by @everpeace and is tracked to graduate to beta in the v1.33 cycle.
Shoutouts
No shoutouts this week. Want to thank someone for special efforts to improve Kubernetes? Tag them in the #shoutouts channel.
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April 11, 2025 at 03:50AM
Contributing to Kubernetes blogs
There are two official Kubernetes blogs, and the CNCF has its own blog where you can cover Kubernetes too. For the main Kubernetes blog, we (the Kubernetes project) like to publish articles with different perspectives and special focuses, that have a link to Kubernetes.
With only a few special case exceptions, we only publish content that hasn't been submitted or published anywhere else.
Read the blog guidelines for more about that aspect.
OpenELA introduces Leapp project for in-place upgrades of Enterprise Linux
OpenELA is extending the functionality of the Leapp upgrade tool to all Enterprise Linux variants. The current upstream version of the open-source project
Maintainer Summit Europe 2025 | Flickr
Explore this photo album by Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Flickr!
This realm of governing could upend any of our careers without notice or any wrong doing | Trump orders probe of 'censorship' by former CISA boss Krebs
Updated: Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories
How People are Really Using Generative AI Now (PDF)
Rocky Linux 9 - Docker - Install Engine - Documentation
sudo usermod -a -G docker $(whoami)
VS Code extension marketplace wars: Cursor users hit roadblocks • DEVCLASS
Users of Cursor, an AI coding editor based on the same open source foundation as Microsoft’s Visual Studio […]
Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it
New research reveals how Americans are thinking about artificial intelligence.
I always love these badges you get when speaking at events | Maintainer Summit EU 2025 Speaker Badge - Credly
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Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.
Reasons Why You Have to Work Upstream | My Open Source Experience Podcast
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geerlingguy/time-pi: Raspberry Pi stratum 1 PTP and NTP timeserver configuration.
Raspberry Pi stratum 1 PTP and NTP timeserver configuration. - geerlingguy/time-pi
Austin's Nerdy Things: Nanosecond accurate PTP Pi server
Nanosecond accurate PTP server (grandmaster) and client tutorial for Raspberry Pi - Austin's Nerdy Things
Introduction In the last two PPS posts (the original in 2021 and the revisit in 2025), we explored how to get microsecond-accurate time with a Raspberry Pi and a GPS module that outputs a once-per-second pulse (PPS). That project was a ton of fun—and borderline overkill for most home setups—but it got us into the […]
Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, tech CEOs say
Companies have long faced external attacks from hackers. Now, thanks to generative AI, another threat has emerged: Employees who aren't who they say they are.
Hartwork Blog · Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 / Expat 2.7.0 released, includes security fixes
MCP Explained for Non-Developers
Learn what Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and how anyone can use it to save time on tasks.
DevOps Toolkit - Ep17 - Ask Me Anything About DevOps Cloud Kubernetes Platform Engineering... w/Jon Shanks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snKWqEDATY8
Ep17 - Ask Me Anything About DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering,... w/Jon Shanks
There are no restrictions in this AMA session. You can ask anything about DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, containers, or anything else. We'll have a special guest Jon Shanks to help us out.
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Rust, Linux and Cloud Native Computing
Even Linus Torvalds admits that integrating Rust into Linux isn't easy, but Greg Kroah-Hartman says it's worth the trouble.
How Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days to beat Trump Tariffs - The Times of India
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The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you)
The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you)
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
Lazarus Expands Malicious npm Campaign: 11 New Packages Add ...
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NASA doubles odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Moon
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Reasoning models don't always say what they think \ Anthropic
Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought
Don’t believe reasoning models’ Chains of Thought, says Anthropic
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Z-Wave is remaking itself to find a new place in your smart home
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Remote Environments with Dev Containers and Devpod: Are They Worth It?
In this video, we dive into the world of remote ephemeral development environments. We explore the Development Containers spec and Devpod as an implementation. Learn how to set up, define, and run Dev Containers, and understand the underlying questions and potential issues with remote environments. This tutorial covers key concepts such as managed vs. self-managed solutions, remote vs. local environments, and the importance of standardization.
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