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These compact walking pads fit under your desk and make staying active so much easier.View the full article

Whether you’re going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on.View the full article

The innovative smart baby monitor ecosystem adds a tablet to its lineup. Is it worth overlooking some quirks?View the full article

Most discussions about Model Context Protocol infrastructure ask how to govern thousands of AI tools and monitor which MCP servers are running. This question is table stakes but undershoots the possibilities. A better question is how we can unleash MCP to drive developer creativity from a trusted foundation. The first question produces a phone book of curated, controlled, static resources. The second points toward an AI playground where agents and developers interact and learn from each other. What if private catalogs of MCP servers become composable playlists that encourage mixing, reshaping, and myriad combinations of tool calls? This requires treating MCP catalogs as OCI artifacts, not databases. Cloud-native computing created feedback loops where infrastructure became code, deployments became declarative, and operational knowledge became shareable artifacts. MCP catalogs need to follow the same path. OCI artifacts, immutable versioning, and container-native workflows provide the model because they represent a well-understood approach that balances trust with creative evolution. Trust Boundaries That Expand and Learn iTunes provided a store. Spotify provided a store plus algorithmic discovery, playlist sharing, and taste profiles that improved over time. Private MCP catalogs can enable the same evolution. Today, this means curated, verified collections. Tomorrow, this becomes the foundation for self-improving discovery systems. Tens of thousands of MCP servers are scattered across GitHub, registries, and forums. Community registries like mcp.so, Smithery, Glama, and PulseMCP are attempting to organize this ecosystem, but provenance remains unclear and quality varies wildly. Private catalogs with tighter access controls offer centralized discovery, enhanced security through vetted servers, and visibility into which tools developers actually use. Organizations can build curated subsets of approved servers, add proprietary internal servers, and selectively import from community registries. This solves the phone book problem. When Output Becomes Input The real opportunity is when the work agents do creates shareable artifacts plus organizational learning automatically. Your agent faces a complex problem analyzing customer churn across three data sources. The MCP gateway then constructs a profile capturing the tools, API keys, sequence of operations, and documentation about what worked. That profile becomes an OCI artifact in your registry. Next month, another team faces a similar problem. Their agent pulls your profile as a starting point, adapts it, and pushes a refined version. The customer success team creates a churn profile combining data warehouse connectors, visualization tools, and notification servers. The sales team imports that profile, adds CRM connectors, and uses it to strategize on renewals. They publish their enhanced version back to the catalog. Teams stop rebuilding identical solutions and instead reuse or remix. Knowledge is captured, shared, and refined. Why OCI Makes This Possible Treating catalogs as immutable OCI artifacts lets agents pin to versions or profiles. Your production agents use catalog v2.3 while QA uses v2.4, and they do not drift. Without this, Agent A mysteriously fails because the database connector it relied on got silently updated with breaking changes. Audit trails become straightforward. You can prove which tools were available when incident X occurred. OCI-based catalogs are the only approach that makes catalogs and agents first-class infrastructure fully addressable with GitOps tooling. OCI with containers delivers two benefits that matter for MCP. First, containers provide hermetic but customizable and context-rich security boundaries. The MCP server runs in a sandboxed container with explicit network policies, filesystem isolation, and resource limits. Secret injection happens through standard mechanisms with no credentials in prompts. This is key if MCP servers execute arbitrary code or have filesystem access. Second, containers and the associated OCI versioning appends reusable governance tooling in just the right way, matching other governance tooling in your general container stack and workflow. Because catalogs are OCI artifacts, image scanning works the same. Signing and provenance use Cosign on catalogs just like images. Harbor, Artifactory, and other registries already have sophisticated access controls. Policy enforcement through OPA applies to catalog usage as it does to container deployments. Your FedRAMP-approved container registry handles MCP catalogs too. Your security team does not need to learn new tools. From Phone Books and iTunes to Intelligent Platforms and Spotify Organizations can evolve to dynamic discovery within trust boundaries. An MCP gateway allows the agent to query the catalog at runtime, select the appropriate tool, and instantiate only what it needs. With Docker’s Dynamic MCPs in the MCP Gateway, the agent can also call built-in tools like mcp-find and mcp-add to search curated catalogs, pull and start new MCP servers on demand, and drop them when they are no longer needed, instead of hard-coding tool lists and configs. Dynamic MCPs keep unused tools out of the model’s context, reduce token bloat, and let agents assemble just-in-time workflows from a much larger pool of MCP servers. The longer-term vision goes further. The gateway captures semantic intelligence around how users interact with MCPs, learns which tools combine effectively, and suggests relevant servers based on how similar problems were previously solved. The longer-term vision goes further. The gateway captures semantic intelligence around how users interact with MCPs, learns which tools combine effectively, and suggests relevant servers based on how similar problems were previously solved. Teams both learn from and add to this knowledge feedback loop, Private catalog users discover new MCPs, mix MCPs in useful ways, and develop new ways of doing things,inspired by their own thoughts and by suggestions from the MCP gateway. This process also provides live reinforcement learning, imparting wisdom and context to the system that can benefit and everyone using the gateway. This is organizational memory as infrastructure, emergent from actual agent work that blends human and machine intelligence in unlimited ways.. The container-native approach using private catalogs, dynamic MCP for runtime discovery, profiles as OCI artifacts, and sandboxed execution builds a composable, secure foundation for this future AI playground. How can we unleash MCP to drive developer creativity from a trusted foundation? Treat it like we treated containers but afford it the privileges that AI deserves as agentic, intelligent systems. Private MCP catalogs endowed with semantic intelligence and context understanding, built atop OCI versioned infrastructure, running in safe agent sandboxes, are the first step toward that vision. View the full article

Die Roten welcome struggling Mainz to the Allianz Arena in their penultimate league fixture before the winter break.View the full article

Its cooling vapor chamber is a standout feature for the powerful phone, though its design isn't the best for gaming.View the full article

Stay strong, fair-weather friends—you can keep biking to work even through the darkest, coldest days.View the full article

CNET explored every kind of pet technology to see what we -- and our four-legged friends -- liked the most.View the full article

A little more accessible than the Apple Vision Pro, this Android XR headset could use more polish.View the full article

Cloud gaming remains a pie-in-the-sky idea.View the full article

The high-flying Eagles look to derail Pep Guardiola's title charge, in a rematch of last season's FA Cup final.View the full article

A feisty encounter is expected in the first North East derby in nine years.View the full article

Unai Emery's Villans look to close the gap on Arsenal as they face the Hammers at the London Stadium.View the full article

The Tricky Trees look to pull further clear of the relegation zone as they host Thomas Frank's Spurs.View the full article

These emoji will likely land on your device in the spring.View the full article

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.View the full article

If you've got a home cook on your gift list this year, you've got endless options for gifts they'll love -- and actually use. Our experts have tested and approved dozens of useful, stylish gifts to give this year.View the full article

Here’s everything you need to know about data privacy in sex toys and the apps that connect to them.View the full article

The carol service passed off peacefully despite fears to the contrary. View the full article

At Christmas time we read about King Herod who ruled Judea at the time of Jesus’s birth, and he is the villain of many Nativity plays. But King Herod was a real historical character. This is the story …View the full article

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.View the full article

Ahead of its entry into the US, the European brand with an ex-Ferrari boss and decades of motorsport success has a new EV to take on Porsche and Polestar. WIRED tries it on for size.View the full article

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?View the full article

Regional Aussies – Amity are coming to rumble your local. The Amity Affliction are coming to your doorstep in 2026, and they’re bringing In Hearts Wake, RedHook and Headwreck along for one hell of a heavy road trip. Fresh off last week’s shock cancellation of Park Waves festival, Amity have rallied, announcing a whopping 21-date run across Queensland, NSW, Tassie, Victoria and South Australia this February. If you live even remotely near a pub, a hall, or a tin shed with power, there’s a decent chance they’re playing it. “They’re bringing their full live show to regional stages they haven’t played in years.” It’s also the first Aussie tour to feature their new bassist and clean vocalist Jonny Reeves – whose debut on this year’s single ‘All That I Remember’ was received well by fans. For a heap of punters across the country, this’ll be their first opportunity to see the refreshed lineup in action before the band jet off to the U.S. for April tour dates. After nearly two decades at the top of Australia’s heavy scene – eight studio albums (five #1s!), seven ARIA noms, sold-out world tours and over a billion streams – The Amity Affliction remain one of the country’s most unstoppable forces. And in classic Amity fashion, instead of slowing down, they’re flooring it straight into a huge 2026. Tickets are on sale now and you can cop all the details down below. The Amity Affliction 2026 Regional Tour Dates Thursday February 12 Miami Marketta Laneway, Gold Coast QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Friday February 13 The Station, Sunshine Coast QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Saturday February 14 Powerhouse, Toowoomba QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Wednesday February 18 Mcguires Hotel, Mackay QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Thursday February 19 Magnums, Airlie Beach QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Friday February 20 JCU, Townsville QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Saturday February 21 Ellis Beach Bar & Grill, Cairns QLD w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Wednesday February 25 Dee Why Rsl, Dee Why NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook Thursday February 26 Bar On The Hill, Newcastle NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Friday February 27 Wests, Tamworth NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Saturday February 28 Jetty Beach House, Coffs Harbour NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Thursday March 5 Panthers, Penrith NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook Friday March 6 UOW Hall, Wollongong NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Saturday March 7 Woodport Hotel, Central Coast NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Wednesday March 11 Beer Deluxe, Albury NSW w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Friday March 13 Odeon Theatre, Hobart TAS w/headwreck Saturday March 14 Forth Pub, Forth TAS w/headwreck Wednesday March 18 Eureka Hotel, Geelong VIC w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, heawreck Thursday March 19 The Deck, Traralgon VIC w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook, headwreck Friday March 20 The Pier, Frankston VIC w/ In Hearts Wake, RedHook Saturday March 21 Bridgeway Hotel, Adelaide SA w/ RedHook Tickets on sale now via SBM Presents Further Reading Parkway Drive’s Aussie ‘Park Waves’ Festival Run Cancelled triple j’s Hottest 200 Of Australian Songs: The Complete List Watch The Amity Affliction Take On Turnstile For Their First Ever ‘Like A Version’ The post The Amity Affliction Announce Massive 2026 Regional Aussie Tour appeared first on Music Feeds. View the full article

Spinny is set to be valued at about $1.8 billion post-money in its latest funding round.View the full article