Bulletin for Friday, 30 Aug 2024
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Posts – Never Down, Always Up (1)
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (1)
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward (1)
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Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
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Linear Changelog (1)
- Recommending for Long-Term Member Satisfaction at Netflix
- Improve Your Next Experiment by Learning Better Proxy Metrics From Past Experiments
Shekhar Gulati (2)
- Prompt Engineering Lessons We Can Learn From Claude System Prompts
- Using ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and gpt-4o to Automate Extraction and Explanation of Python Code from YouTube Videos
Timescale Blog (2)
- Implementing Filtered Semantic Search Using Pgvector and JavaScript
- Build a Fully Local RAG App With PostgreSQL, Mistral, and Ollama
- Heart of dark mode: done, and still in progress
- An Ansible primer for DevOps: Infrastructure as Code, part 3
Discord Blog (2)
Metadata (2)
- Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?
- From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how one backend engineer evolved over time
Vallified (2)
Percona Database Performance Blog (3)
- Important Notice: Update Process for Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38 and Earlier
- Percona Server for MySQL Performance Improvements – August 2024
- Addressing Data Size Differences in MongoDB Replica Set Nodes
BLOG@CACM – Communications of the ACM (3)
- Leveraging Computational Thinking in the Era of Generative AI
- The Promises and Possibilities of Scenarios We Can Create
- Increasing Web Resilience
- When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing
- New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’
- Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide
Blog – Hackaday (4)
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Mini Cyclone Tests Reaction Time
- Driven To Over-Engineer a Kids’ Car
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Blind Maze Is Fun For All
- Walking the Plank: Add-Ons for the Bus Pirate
DTN (4)
- Are You Looking at the Right Weather Radar?
- Top Three Problems: How to Solve End-of-Month Reconciliation Issues
- BOLs: Recent Digital Innovations Drive Efficiency
- Three Ways Your Spreadsheets Could Prevent You from Excelling
Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs (4)
- Visualize CockroachDB in Grafana: Introducing the CockroachDB Enterprise data source
- Grafana 11.2 release: new updates for data sources, visualizations, transformations, and more
- How to quickly gain operational insights using Grafana Cloud monitoring solutions
- Gain actionable insights with real user monitoring: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability
- Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography
- How Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale
- RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability
- How PyTorch powers AI training and inference
APNIC Blog (7)
- APRICOT 2025 update
- Tonga Communications Corporation IPv6 project
- VPP with loopback-only OSPFv3: Part 1
- Ipurangi Aotearoa’s (InternetNZ’s) recent work in digital inclusion
- Are differences in RIR RPKI implementations hindering RPKI adoption?
- Event Wrap: btNOG 11
- MANRS readiness now available in DASH
The Fat Pipe - Most Popular Packet Pushers Pods (7)
- TL002: The Philosophical Roots of Leadership
- NAN072: Exploring Internet2’s Network Automation for University and Research Networks
- HS081: What’s Your Strategic Plan for AI Infrastructure?
- HN746: Going Deep on OSPF Route Filtering
- NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Robocalls
- Tech Bytes: Why It’s Time To Say Goodbye To NFS (Sponsored)
- TNO001: Your Team Matters as Much as Your Tech and Tools
- Metrics Driven Development (Practical AI #284)
- Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Changelog Interviews #606)
- When 3rd party JavaScript attacks (JS Party #336)
- The community of gophers (Go Time #329)
- What good programmers worry about (Changelog News #109)
- Threat hunter in the machine (Changelog & Friends #58)
- MySQL performance (Ship It! #118)
- A new smart mask analyzes your breath to monitor your health
- How machine learning is helping us probe the secret names of animals
- A prosthetic leg that feels like a real body part
- Architecting cloud data resilience
- The Download: protecting tech workers, and Canada’s wildfire emissions
- Kamala Harris should stand with tech workers, not their bosses
- Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced more emissions than fossil fuels in most countries
- The Download: introducing: the 125th Anniversary issue
LogRocket Blog (12)
- Using the golden ratio in UX design
- Svelte adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
- Advanced monorepo management with Turborepo 2.0
- An overview of feature-driven development (FDD)
- Leader Spotlight: Making the customer feel like a regular, with Judy Yao
- Where AI enhances UX design — and where it doesn’t
- Combining UX and SEO: An SEO guide for UX designers
- How to implement Coolify, the self-hosted alternative to Heroku
- How can PMs benefit from generative AI
- Leader Spotlight: Creating ‘magical’ customer experiences, with Karapet Gyumjibashyan
- A guide to identifying and improving bad designs
- Zustand adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
IEEE Spectrum (13)
- Celebrate IEEE Day’s 15th Anniversary on 1 October
- Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel
- Robot Metalsmiths Are Resurrecting Toroidal Tanks for NASA
- AI Inference Competition Heats Up
- Ransomware-as-a-Service Is Changing Extortion Efforts
- Essential Skills for IT Professionals in the AI Era
- Can China Challenge SpaceX's Starlink?
- A Match Made in Yorktown Heights
- Erika Cruz Keeps Whirlpool’s Machines Spinning
- NASCAR Unveils Electric Race Car Prototype
- Seaport Electrification Could Slash Emissions Worldwide
- Sydney’s Tech Super-Cluster Propels Australia’s AI Industry Forward
- Video Friday: Disney Robot Dance
- Elasticsearch is open source, again
- How Anthropic built Artifacts
- Quoting D. Richard Hipp
- Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed
- System prompt for val.town/townie
- Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition
- Gemini Chat App
- NousResearch/DisTrO
- Quoting John Gruber
- MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
- Quoting Alex Albert
- Quoting Frederik Braun
- Anthropic Release Notes: System Prompts
- Long context prompting tips
- Building a tool showing how Gemini Pro can return bounding boxes for objects in images
- AI-powered Git Commit Function
- My @covidsewage bot now includes useful alt text
- SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
- Quoting Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO
- Musing about OAuth and LLMs on Mastodon
- Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns
- Explain ACLs by showing me a SQLite table schema for implementing them
- Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
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So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine books. 3939 pages […] (BACK TO TOP)
Using Surrogate Indices to Estimate Long-Run Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Membership Incentives Authors: Levi Boxell, Changyao Chen, Rustin Partow, Mack Sweeney This is the fourth post in a series covering the Economics Team at Instacart and areas we work on. In this post, we will focus on how we use surrogate indices to estimate long-run heterogeneous treatment effects of our membership incentive portfolio.e., the effect of the treatment on LTV. The same multiplier can be used for this.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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There are things we do because they are fun, and things we do because we have to. If I have to do something boring, then I might as well try to make it fun. Like vacuuming the floor. I'm not much of a dancer, but give me a vacuum cleaner and I'll dance across the entire house. When a Spammer Calls If I'm sitting at my desk and the phone rings, I will answer it. More often than not, it's a spammer. However, rather than hanging up on them, I turn it into a game and try to achieve certain goals... (BACK TO TOP)
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We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly whipping [...] The post Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
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Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints. 1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two copies of the same photo, or are they two different pictures? There's no trick here, the answer is "different photos". Since the clock looks different, time must have passed between the two. The update to x advanced time. ↩ (BACK TO TOP)
Most programming languages support floating-point numbers. You typically have the ability to turn a string into a floating-point number. E.g., “3.1416” could be parsed as a number close to pi. However strings typically cannot be represented exactly or at all. For example, “1e-1000” is too small and “1e1000” is too large for even 64-bit floating-point … Continue reading Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about some design considerations for implementing a database throttler. (BACK TO TOP)
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Earlier this year I wrote a post about implementing BPE tokenization in Go , which made it possible to reproduce OpenAI's tokenizer. Today I want to mention a new project I've been hacking on recently: go-sentencepiece - a pure Go implementation of the SentencePiece tokenizer that's used for Google AI's models like Gemma and Gemini. SentencePiece has a canonical C++ implementation and Python bindings (using SWIG). This is what go-sentencepiece is for. There are two parts to this: first is a .pb. (BACK TO TOP)
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Guest post by Steve Huynh, ex-Amazon Principal Engineer (BACK TO TOP)
By Artem Dinaburg Today we’re going to provision some cloud infrastructure the Max Power way: by combining automation with unchecked AI output. Unfortunately, this method produces cloud infrastructure code that 1) works and 2) has terrible security properties. In a nutshell, AI-based tools like Claude and ChatGPT readily provide extremely bad cloud infrastructure provisioning code, […] (BACK TO TOP)
I recently played through Halo: The Master Chief Collection in chronological-ish order. This was mostly straightforward, with one wrinkle: when should I play Halo 3: ODST? ODST’s story begins right at the end of Halo 2’s fifth level, “Metropolis” . The game makes heavy use of flashbacks and some missions take place concurrently with Halo 2’s, making it tricky to know when to play certain levels. If I did it again, I’d probably skip ODST entirely. Other than that, I’m happy with my playthrough. (BACK TO TOP)
pre { white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; text-indent: 1em hanging each-line; font-size: 110%; } In 1931, a lone man murdered math with two shots from a recursive revolver. The two incompleteness theorems punctured permanent holes in our once-pristine mathematical paradise. To this day, landmines lie lurking in the logical landscape. True before... but now it's truer. Historically, men, Socrates, mortality... (BACK TO TOP)
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather than investing time into understanding it. Fortunately, these are universal problems, and there are a handful of useful mental models to avoid both extremes. Often writing nothing is the best available choice.g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Intersectionality, like many academic sociological terms, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in popular discourse. But I found a simple way to approach it by thinking about it with my math brain (BACK TO TOP)
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This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, sometimes the world requires a bit of what Brad Delong calls “Intellectual Garbage Pickup,” namely: correcting wrong, or mostly-wrong ideas that spread unchecked … Continue reading Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? → (BACK TO TOP)
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The second collection of interesting links I've come across (BACK TO TOP)
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Continuous reinvention highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation (BACK TO TOP)
Stealing OpenAI models, why LLM benchmarks are useless for you, how to find value in using AI, and how they poisoned LAION with expired domains (BACK TO TOP)
Artificial intelligence can now do a lot of things. But if you’re worried about it taking your place as a communicator, Russ Altman says you need to question why you’re communicating in the first place. Altman is a professor of bioengineering, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and host of Stanford Engineering’s podcast, The Future of Everything . “If those things are true, it shouldn't be a problem. (00:21:30) Conclusion (BACK TO TOP)
It’s a bold claim for me to say that every developer can benefit from something 40% of them haven’t heard of, but hear me out. I was among… (BACK TO TOP)
In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads books these days so how could I." "I want to write for a magazine but I have no experience writing professionally." "I want to build a company someday but how could someone of my background. Over the course of years. (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog New unique package Michael Knyszek 27 August 2024 The standard library of Go 1.23 now includes the new unique package . The purpose behind this package is to enable the canonicalization of comparable values. In other words, this package lets you deduplicate values so that they point to a single, canonical, unique copy, while efficiently managing the canonical copies under the hood. You might be familiar with this concept already, called “interning” . pooled = strings.Addr structure.. (BACK TO TOP)
When I first delved into machine learning, prompt engineering seemed like a niche area, outside of the scope of what an engineer like me needed to know. Yet, as large language models (LLMs) have evolved, it has become clear that prompt engineering is not only a skill but a critical component in the LLMOps value… (BACK TO TOP)
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Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is available, I will post it here. In the meantime, you can read the slides, if you don’t mind spoilers. For people at the conference who don’t know me, this might be a good time to introduce you to this blog, where I write about data science and Bayesian statistics, and to Probably Overthinking It, the book based on the blog, which was published by... Read More Read More (BACK TO TOP)
Global Streetscapes is a ten-million-row dataset labelling over 300 characteristics of community-sourced street view imagery from 688 cities around the world. These characteristics include how beautiful or boring a street is, what objects are visible and generally what kind of the image was taken in (on a bridge, in a residential neighbourhood, on a forest road, etc..) The source imagery was provided by the Mapillary and KartaView projects. Below is a panoramic shot taken in Tallinn's Old Town. (BACK TO TOP)
Slack channel notifications for custom views You can now receive Slack notifications for any custom issue view in Linear. Use custom views to select any subset of your issues that you're interested in, and then set up Slack notifications to keep your team up to date when issues are added to the view, marked closed, or canceled. HIPAA compliance In addition to SOC2, Linear is now compliant with HIPAA. Request a BAA (Enterprise plans only).g., "initiative does not include..." filter). (BACK TO TOP)
This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations. (BACK TO TOP)
By Jiangwei Pan , Gary Tang , Henry Wang , and Justin Basilico Introduction Our mission at Netflix is to entertain the world. Our personalization algorithms play a crucial role in delivering on this mission for all members by recommending the right shows, movies, and games at the right time. This goal extends beyond immediate engagement; we aim to create an experience that brings lasting enjoyment to our members. Slow to Measure : We only get one signal per account per month.g.g.g. RecSys 2023. (BACK TO TOP)
By Aurélien Bibaut , Winston Chou , Simon Ejdemyr , and Nathan Kallus We are excited to share our work on how to learn good proxy metrics from historical experiments at KDD 2024 . However, the test does not provide enough signal to measure a change in long-term retention, leaving you in the dark as to whether this treatment makes users more satisfied with your service. We may even have several proxy metrics, such as other types of clicks or the length of engagement after click.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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Anthropic published Claude’s System prompts on their documentation website this week. Users spend countless hours getting AI assistants to leak their system prompts. So, Anthropic publishing system prompt in open suggest two things: 1) Prompt leakage is less of an attack vector than most people think 2) any useful real world GenAI application is much … Continue reading "Prompt Engineering Lessons We Can Learn From Claude System Prompts" (BACK TO TOP)
Using ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and gpt-4o to Automate Extraction and Explanation of Python Code from YouTube Videos
Today I was watching a video on LLM evaluation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnbGD677_u0. It is a long video(2.5 hours) with multiple sections. There are multiple speakers covering different sections. In one of the sections speaker showed code in Jupyter notebooks. Because of the small font and pace at which speaker was talking it was hard to follow the … Continue reading "Using ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and gpt-4o to Automate Extraction and Explanation of Python Code from YouTube Videos" (BACK TO TOP)
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction . In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to know exactly why. Even in Denmark, it's now so low (1.5) that the government went from estimating a lack of 5,000 child care professionals to suddenly looking at a 2,000 person surplus by 2035 . At 1.1. (BACK TO TOP)
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That clever and sophisticated beats basic and straightforward most days in the market. Since both clever and sophisticated implies something special, and only what's special command the premium dollar. To feel special. (BACK TO TOP)
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Explore semantic search with filters and learn how you can implement it with pgvector and JavaScript. (BACK TO TOP)
Worried about sharing private information with LLMs? See how to build a fully local RAG application using PostgreSQL, Mistral, and Ollama. (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale has finally joined the dark side. That is to say: we rolled out support for “dark mode” in our admin console. Working on dark mode helped us bring some much-needed consistency to our products for the web. (BACK TO TOP)
Ansible is one of those tools that once you learn it, you wonder why it took you so long to do so. Today's video goes into detail on using Ansible with Tailscale, using Tailscale SSH to simplify the sometimes-complicated story of identity and SSH keys. (BACK TO TOP)
Here's the Discord Changelog from August 28, 2024, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates! (BACK TO TOP)
180 days of games have come and gone! Alex, Emi, Cody, and the newest friend Jeremy talk about what they’ve played lately and their favorite game of 2024 so far. (BACK TO TOP)
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This first part of Chapter 4 of the Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA) book discusses the concepts of data encoding and evolution in data-intensive applications. As applications inevitably change over time, it's important to build systems that can adapt to these changes easily, a property referred to as evolvability (under maintainability) in Chapter 1 of the book . Different data models handle change differently. Let's get started., optimized for CPU access and manipulation. 2. (BACK TO TOP)
As part of our zoom reading group ( wow, 4.5 years old now ), we discussed a paper that uses LLMs for automatic root cause analysis (RCA) for cloud incidents. This was a pretty straightforward application of LLMs. The proposed system employs an LLM to match incoming incidents to incident handlers based on their alert types, predicts the incident's root cause category, and provides an explanatory narrative. The only customization is through prompt-engineering. Let me explain. (BACK TO TOP)
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For too long, businesses seemed to avoid making sustainable changes because they were under the impression that doing so was too costly. Yet, in recent years, it’s become clearer that sustainability isn’t just an important ethical consideration, but it can also influence business success. Indeed, a sustainable business tends to be a more productive business . The wonderful Katie Brenneman writes this week’s article. Thank you, Katie, for writing this for me. Addressing Climate Risks. Conclusion. (BACK TO TOP)
With everything flying towards us each day, we can be forgiven for dropping tasks we know are important, but are not screaming at us to be completed. Tasks such as checking in with a customer or spending some time with our partner to see if they are okay. The problem here is not the occasional dropping of these types of tasks; we stop doing them altogether. We never seem to have time to do them. There's always an excuse. It's a non-negotiable part of my day. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we chat with Avthar Sewrathan, AI Lead at Timescale, about adapting developers’ favorite database management system, Postgres, to support a range of new technologies involved in the GenAI ecosystem, especially vector databases. Avthar details his long history with Postgres and how clients are weighing the build vs. buy question when it comes to choosing a database to support their newly minted GenAI initiatives. (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s episode, we chat with a listener, Geshan Manandhar, who has been working in the world of software engineering for two decades. He started programming in Kathmandu during the days of dial-up. Since then he’s worked across three continents and today is a senior software engineer at Simply Wall Street. He gives his advice on how developers can change with the times and what it’s like to move into the era of serverless containers. (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Stephen Blum, CTO at PubNub has produced an informative video on rqlite. In it Stephen gives an overview of deploying rqlite, as well as showing basic interaction with the API. (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.29.0 bakes more SQLite extensions into the Docker image, as well as improving extension management generally. (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve received numerous reports about issues occurring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when updating to the latest version (currently 2.42.0), or updating to any version from an old version (2.37.1 and before) using the update button on the UI. Symptoms PMM won’t show any notifications on the UI about new available versions if: You’ve […] (BACK TO TOP)
At Percona, we have always prioritized database performance as a critical factor in selecting database technologies. Recently, we have observed a concerning trend in the community edition of MySQL, where performance appears to be declining across major releases, specifically MySQL versions 5.7, 8.0, and 8.4. If you’re interested in learning more about these observations, we […] (BACK TO TOP)
When working with MongoDB replication in environments using the WiredTiger storage engine, you may encounter data size discrepancies between PRIMARY and SECONDARY nodes. When this problem arises, the SECONDARY node uses significantly more disk space than the PRIMARY instance. When this issue first appeared at Percona Support a few years ago, the most notable discussion […] (BACK TO TOP)
The importance of computational thinking increases, and becomes essential, as generative AI applications come to the fore. (BACK TO TOP)
The way we ask a generative AI chatbot a question affects the way it is answered. (BACK TO TOP)
The resilience of Internet applications is reduced by making assumptions about connectivity that do not always hold true. (BACK TO TOP)
Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a text message informing recipients they are not yet registered to vote. A bit of digging reveals the missives were sent by a California political consulting firm as part of a well-meaning but potentially counterproductive get-out-the-vote effort that had all the hallmarks of a phishing campaign. (BACK TO TOP)
Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China. (BACK TO TOP)
The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn't exist at the time. Meaning, they are continuously sending their Windows usernames and passwords to domain names they do not control and which are freely available for anyone to register. (BACK TO TOP)
Round and round goes the red LED, and if you can push the button when it overlaps the green LED, then you win. Cyclone is almost too simple of a …read more (BACK TO TOP)
You know, it feels as though it’s getting more and more difficult to compete for Father of the Year around here. And [Jon Petter Skagmo] just laid down a new …read more (BACK TO TOP)
If you think about it, even difficult mazes on paper are pretty easy. You can see all the places you can and can’t go, and if you use a pencil …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The Bus Pirate multi-tool has held a place of honor in many a hardware hacker’s toolbox for years, and the latest generation of the gadget powered by the Raspberry Pi …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Discover the differences in weather radar: mosaic vs. single site. Learn how to choose the right radar for your needs and make informed weather decisions. The post Are You Looking at the Right Weather Radar? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
When the end of the month rolls around, many accounting team members face it with a, shall we say, “less than enthusiastic” attitude. And who can blame them? Tracking down all those documents is a time-suck, and many times, it requires logging into a supplier portal to try to recreate them. The post Top Three Problems: How to Solve End-of-Month Reconciliation Issues appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
New technologies are emerging that help suppliers identify lost BOLs before customers may realize they were overlooked and ensure the documents are reconciled in a timely fashion. The post BOLs: Recent Digital Innovations Drive Efficiency appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Spreadsheets are essential business tools, but they’re not without their pitfalls and security flaws. Discover three key risks and how you can manage them in our new blog. The post Three Ways Your Spreadsheets Could Prevent You from Excelling appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re excited to announce the addition of CockroachDB as an Enterprise data source for Grafana. The data source, available now in private preview, enables secure and seamless access to the CockroachDB distributed SQL database, while leveraging Grafana’s powerful visualization capabilities. All Enterprise plugins are available in Grafana Enterprise as well as across all tiers of Grafana Cloud, including our generous forever-free tier.png" alt="A screenshot of the configuration editor. (BACK TO TOP)
The Grafana 11.2 release ushers in a new wave of Grafana data sources, updates to visualizations and transformations, and more capabilities in Grafana Alerting as well as authorization and authentication. Plus, for those who are looking to move from on-premises to cloud, there is a new migration assistant for Grafana Cloud in public preview. Grafana 11.2: download now! For even more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation .2. (BACK TO TOP)
Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to start collecting and visualizing your telemetry data. With the fully managed, cloud-hosted platform, even novice observability practitioners can get up and running right away — and Grafana Cloud’s solutions for monitoring dozens of data sources are a big reason why. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the details of these Grafana Cloud monitoring solutions, including what they are, the kinds of insights they provide, and how Grafana Alloy plays a role. (BACK TO TOP)
Gain actionable insights with real user monitoring: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability
One of the biggest challenges observability teams face today is gaining end-to-end visibility into their cloud native apps, including modern browser frontends. Without that visibility, you potentially open the door to bad end-user experiences that can hurt customer satisfaction, reduce search engine discoverability, and interfere with overall business goals. This is the exact challenge we address with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability . Let’s walk through an example. There’s our root cause. (BACK TO TOP)
The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet. Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran [...] Read More... The post Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
At Meta, we’ve been diligently working to incorporate privacy into different systems of our software stack over the past few years. Today, we’re excited to share some cutting-edge technologies that are part of our Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative. These innovations mark a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to honoring user privacy. PAI offers [...] Read More... (BACK TO TOP)
We are introducing a new metric— real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage (e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in [...] Read More... The post RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient [...] Read More... The post How PyTorch powers AI training and inference appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
The APNOG Board regrets to inform that APRICOT 2025 will not proceed in Dhaka. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: Lessons learned during TCC’s IPv6 deployment. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: With a small change to OSPFv3 it may be possible to avoid using IPv4 P2P transit networks. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: How InternetNZ’s infrastructure supports digital inclusion. (BACK TO TOP)
Survey: Network operators are invited to share details of their RPKI adoption journey and what barriers they have faced. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC conducted security training at btNOG 11, held in Thimphu, Bhutan from 4 to 9 August 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
View and track your networks' MANRS readiness scores in APNIC's DASH. (BACK TO TOP)
On this episode of Technically Leadership, we talk about the philosophical underpinnings of leadership. We discuss what it means to hold and drive a vision for a technical organization, how to build a strong team culture, handling layoffs and letting people go, and exploring what philosophy can teach us about leadership. Guest Matt Butcher, CEO ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s episode we delve into Internet2’s mission to advance research and education through high-speed connectivity. University and research networks may have more complicated designs, requirements, and restrictions than you’d expect. We talk about these challenges, along with innovative network automation solutions. The discussion emphasizes the collaborative, member-driven approach of Internet2 and its commitment to ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
AI seems to be changing everything, including your IT infrastructure. Do you have a strategic plan for your AI infrastructure? Today we discuss the merits and challenges of cloud computing, on-premises solutions, hybrid models, and edge computing along with the importance of low latency for real-time AI applications and the potential of edge computing in ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s episode we delve into OSPF filtering. That is, how to filter routes from a device’s routing table in an OSPF environment. This is a tricky business, because OSPF requires an identical database on every device in an OSPF area. That means you can’t stop announcing a route from one OSPF router because you ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Take a Network Break! A US appeals court will let a privacy lawsuit against Google go forward, striking telecom workers are a reminder to test your resiliency planning, and AMD spends nearly $5 billion to acquire systems engineering talent from ZT Systems. Juniper Networks offers deep discounts and other enticements to get network engineers to ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk cloud storage. More specifically, we dive into why it’s time for NFS to sail off into the sunset, particularly for cloud datasets. Our guest is Tom Lyon, an industry legend who has delivered a talk entitled “NFS Must Die.” We talk with Tom about the strengths and weaknesses of NFS, the ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Your team is just as important as your tech and tools in any environment, including NetOps. Garrett Nowak, Senior Director of Network Architecture at 11:11 Systems shares his journey from tier one help desk to a leadership role. He discusses the importance of teamwork, community, and effective leadership in network operations and how he works ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a "Metrics Driven Development" approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more. (BACK TO TOP)
Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. (BACK TO TOP)
Simon Wijckmans from c/side joins Jerod & Nick to discuss the Pollyfill attack in detail. What does it mean for web developers & client-side security going forward? (BACK TO TOP)
On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community. (BACK TO TOP)
Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that 'flow state' is very much a thing. (BACK TO TOP)
Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol' friend, Suz Hinton! It's been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA... but that's not all! (BACK TO TOP)
Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL. (BACK TO TOP)
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Your breath can give away a lot about you. Each exhalation contains all sorts of compounds, including possible biomarkers for disease or lung conditions, that could give doctors a valuable insight into your health. Now a new smart mask, developed by a team at the California Institute of Technology, could help doctors check your breath… (BACK TO TOP)
Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have three: the name their owner calls them (like George); a second, more noble one (like Quaxo or Cricopat); and, finally, a “deep and inscrutable” name known only to themselves “that no human research can discover.” But now, researchers armed with audio recorders and… (BACK TO TOP)
When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most prosthetics are static, cumbersome, and hard to move. Now a new neural interface developed by MIT researchers and colleagues connects a bionic lower limb to nerve endings in the thigh, allowing it to be controlled by the… (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud has become a given for most organizations: according to PwC’s 2023 cloud business survey, 78% of companies have adopted cloud in most or all parts of the business. These companies have migrated on-premises systems to the cloud seeking faster time to market, greater scalability, cost savings, and improved collaboration. Yet while cloud adoption is… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kamala Harris should stand with tech workers, not their bosses —Stephen McMurtry is a Google Software Engineer and Communications Chair of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Tangled up in the contest to be the… (BACK TO TOP)
Tangled up in the contest to be the next US president, there is another battle brewing: Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Valley. In Donald Trump’s corner are venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, along with executives like Elon Musk. In the other are execs like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and SV Angel investing mogul… (BACK TO TOP)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Last year’s Canadian wildfires smashed records, burning about seven times more land in Canada’s forests than the annual average over the previous four decades. Eight firefighters were killed and 180,000 people displaced. … (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the 125th Anniversary issue With this issue, we wanted to celebrate our milestone as a publication without dwelling too much on our own past. Victory laps are for race cars, not magazines.… (BACK TO TOP)
The most magical thing about the golden ratio is how artists and architects have considered the problem of proportion in history. The post Using the golden ratio in UX design appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Let’s discuss Svelte's history and key features, why you might choose it for your next project, and what sets it apart from other frameworks. The post Svelte adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The latest release of the monorepo tool Turborepo includes a new terminal UI, Watch Mode, and completely new docs. The post Advanced monorepo management with Turborepo 2.0 appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
FDD is an agile framework for software development that emphasizes incremental and iterative progress on product features development. The post An overview of feature-driven development (FDD) appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Judy Yao talks about creating a digital experience that makes customers feel as if they were repeat, familiar customers in a physical store. The post Leader Spotlight: Making the customer feel like a regular, with Judy Yao appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Let's talk about how to find the right balance when implementing valuable AI into products without impeding human creativity. The post Where AI enhances UX design — and where it doesn’t appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Both UX and SEO are critical for any business. But did you know that they are also closely related? In this blog, I explore how UX designers can use SEO to improve search result positioning. The post Combining UX and SEO: An SEO guide for UX designers appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
If you’ve been active on Twitter or Reddit lately, you’ve likely seen discussions surrounding Vercel’s pricing model, which has turned […] The post How to implement Coolify, the self-hosted alternative to Heroku appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
AI amplifies your potential when you use it as a co-pilot. However, don’t forget you’re the driver, not the passenger. The post How can PMs benefit from generative AI appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Karapet Gyumjibashyan talks about how going above and beyond to exceed customer expectations can make their experience “magical.” The post Leader Spotlight: Creating ‘magical’ customer experiences, with Karapet Gyumjibashyan appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
As a designer, it’s important that you familiarize yourself with common pitfalls in design and their implications. The post A guide to identifying and improving bad designs appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about Zustand's simplistic approach to managing state and how it compares to existing tools such as Mobx and Redux. The post Zustand adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
IEEE Day commemorates the first time engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas, in 1884. This year the annual event is scheduled for 1 October . Its theme is Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow, emphasizing the positive impact tech can have. IEEE Day, first celebrated in 2010, marks its 15th anniversary this year. Over the years, thousands of members have participated in events organized by IEEE sections, student branches, affinity groups, and society chapters. (BACK TO TOP)
Over the last few years, I’ve added a fair amount of smart-home technology to my house. Among other things, I can control lights and outlets, monitor the status of various appliances, measure how much electricity and water I’m using, and even cut off the water supply in the event of a leak. All this technology is coordinated through a hub, which I originally accessed through a conventional browser-based interface. The heart of my Home Assistant setup is a hub powered by an old PC running Linux. (BACK TO TOP)
In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA spent a lot of time thinking about whether toroidal (donut-shaped) fuel tanks were the way to go with its spacecraft. Toroidal tanks have a bunch of potential advantages over conventional spherical fuel tanks. For example, you can fit nearly 40% more volume within a toroidal tank than if you were using multiple spherical tanks within the same space. Because of their relatively complex shape, toroidal tanks are much more difficult to make than spherical tanks. (BACK TO TOP)
While the dominance of Nvidia GPUs for AI training remains undisputed , we may be seeing early signs that, for AI inference, the competition is gaining on the tech giant, particularly in terms of power efficiency. The sheer performance of Nvidia’s new Blackwell chip, however, may be hard to beat. This morning, ML Commons released the results of its latest AI inferencing competition, ML Perf Inference v4.1. Much like an Olympic sport, MLPerf has many categories and subcategories.flourish.79 95... (BACK TO TOP)
Thirty-five years ago, a misguided AIDS activist developed a piece of malware that encrypted a computer’s filenames—and asked for US $189 to obtain the key that unlocked an afflicted system. This “AIDS Trojan” holds the dubious distinction of being the world’s first piece of ransomware . In the intervening decades the encryption behind ransomware has become more sophisticated and harder to crack, and the underlying criminal enterprise has only blossomed like a terrible weed.C.S...S. Okay. (BACK TO TOP)
Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries worldwide, creating new opportunities in health care, finance, customer service, and other disciplines. But the ascendance of AI raises concerns about job displacement , especially as the technology might automate tasks traditionally done by humans. Jobs that involve data entry, basic coding, and routine system maintenance are at risk of being eliminated—which might worry new IT professionals. Understanding data is also crucial. Fast. (BACK TO TOP)
China launched its first batch of satellites for its Qianfan megaconstellation earlier this month. It now has 18 satellites in orbit, but much more will be needed to build out this network of nearly 14,000 satellites. Qianfan—”thousands sails” in Chinese and also referred to as Spacesail or G60 —is a project run by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST). Last February, the company announced it had raised 6. The aim, SSST says, is to launch all 13,904 satellites by 2030 . (BACK TO TOP)
It pays to have friends in fascinating places. You need look no further than the cover of this issue and the article “ IBM’s Big Bet on the Quantum-Centric Supercomputer ” for evidence. The article by Ryan Mandelbaum, Antonio D. Córcoles, and Jay Gambetta came to us courtesy of the article’s illustrator, the inimitable graphic artist Carl De Torres , a longtime IEEE Spectrum contributor as well as a design and communications consultant for IBM Research .Y. (BACK TO TOP)
Few devices are as crucial to people’s everyday lives as their household appliances . Electrical engineer Erika Cruz says it’s her mission to make sure they operate smoothly. Cruz helps design washing machines and dryers for Whirlpool, the multinational appliance manufacturer., she oversees the development of timers, lid locks, humidity sensors, and other components. More engineering goes into the machines than is obvious. And reliability is key. That’s how I got interested in technology.S.S.” (BACK TO TOP)
NASCAR , the stock car racing sanctioning body known for its high-octane events across the United States, is taking a significant step toward a greener future. In July, during the Chicago Street Race event, NASCAR unveiled a prototype battery-powered race car that marks the beginning of its push to decarbonize motorsports. This move is part of NASCAR’s broader strategy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2035 . C.J. Jared C. Regenerative braking is another key feature of the electric race car.S.” (BACK TO TOP)
According to the International Maritime Organization , shipping was responsible for over 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018. A significant share of those emissions came from seaport activities, including ship berthing, cargo handling, and transportation within port areas. In response, governments, NGOs, and environmental watchdog groups are sounding alarms and advocating for urgent measures to mitigate pollution at the world’s ports. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a sponsored article brought to you by BESydney . Australia has experienced a remarkable surge in AI enterprise during the past decade. Significant AI research and commercialization concentrated in Sydney drives the sector’s development nationwide and influences AI trends globally. The city’s cutting-edge AI sector sees academia, business and government converge to foster groundbreaking advancements, positioning Australia as a key player on the international stage.com.au (BACK TO TOP)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. [ Research Paper from ETH Zurich and Disney Research ] Over the past few months, Unitree G1 robot has been upgraded into a mass production version, with stronger performance, ultimate appearance, and being more in line with mass production requirements. (BACK TO TOP)
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