What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

Welcome to the February recap of what’s new on stackoverflow.com. This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges. We’re also taking the opportunity to spotlight a community member in this month’s […]

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Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use

from the don’t-throw-out-fair-use dept Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued. Courts […]

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You Probably Don’t Need Kubernetes for Odoo

I’ve watched Odoo agencies spend months architecting Kubernetes clusters for deployments that were running perfectly fine on a single server with Docker Compose. I’ve seen consultants with three clients hire a DevOps contractor to manage their EKS cluster. I’ve debugged production Odoo outages caused entirely by Kubernetes complexity that had nothing to do with Odoo […]

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