Dr. Nicole Saphier, Trump's new surgeon general nominee, blends oncology expertise with media savvy. She expresses cautious support for the MAHA movement while upholding evidence-based stances on vaccines, peptides, and breast cancer.
Katherine Szarama named acting director of FDA's CBER after Vinay Prasad's controversial exit; Q&A covers her role, CBER's function, and implications for vaccine/gene therapy regulation.
Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence, finalizing settlement to address opioid crisis with new public-health company.
PFAS chemicals persist in some infant formula due to packaging and environmental contamination, raising health concerns for babies. This Q&A explains sources, risks, testing results, and practical steps for parents to reduce exposure.
FDA approves Axsome's AXS-05 as first treatment for Alzheimer's agitation, offering new hope for patients and caregivers.
Explains problems with linear conversion from cgroup v1 CPU shares to v2 weight in Kubernetes, including reduced priority and granularity issues, and announces improvements.
Explains the Node Readiness Controller: a Kubernetes project that extends node readiness with custom taints, enforcement modes, and integration with tools like Node Problem Detector.
Jordan Liggitt, lead of SIG Architecture's API Governance subproject, explains how Kubernetes balances API stability with innovation, covering REST APIs, flags, configs, and runtime interfaces.
Kubernetes v1.36 adds route_controller_route_sync_total metric for validating watch-based route reconciliation in CCM, reducing API calls and enabling efficient A/B testing.
Key Ingress-NGINX quirks including regex prefix and case-insensitive matching, retirement details, and migration tips to Gateway API with safe translation practices.
Introducing the AI Gateway Working Group for Kubernetes: standards and best practices for networking AI workloads, covering gateway concepts, charter, payload processing, and egress proposals.
How the Kubernetes image promoter was rewritten from scratch, deleting 20% of code, becoming faster and more reliable, all without users noticing.
Learn effective strategies for secure debugging in production Kubernetes environments, including RBAC, short-lived credentials, and JIT access gateways.
Explores how Kubernetes Agent Sandbox provides isolation, lifecycle management, and simplified deployment for long-running AI agents, addressing the operational complexity of StatefulSets.
Ingress2Gateway 1.0 helps migrate from Ingress-NGINX to Gateway API with 30+ annotation support, comprehensive tests, and clear error handling.
Kubernetes v1.36 deprecations explained: API lifecycle, Ingress NGINX retirement, externalIPs deprecation, and migration guidance.
Gateway API v1.5 moves six features to Stable, introduces a release train model, and enhances multi-tenant routing with ListenerSet and ReferenceGrant.
Kubernetes v1.36 (Haru) delivers 70 enhancements (18 stable, 25 beta, 25 alpha) in spring 2026. Logo inspired by Hokusai's Red Fuji; cats Stella and Nacho symbolize community guardianship.
Kubernetes v1.36 makes SELinuxMount GA, speeding up volume mounts but breaking workloads that share volumes between different SELinux labels. Prepare before v1.37 enforces it.
Kubernetes v1.36 GA of User Namespaces enables rootless isolation, ID-mapped mounts for efficient volume handling, and namespaced capabilities, improving security without changing images.