Bulletin for Friday, 20 Dec 2024
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Linear Changelog (1)
Vallified (1)
Kevin Sookocheff (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
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Computer Things (1)
Metadata (1)
Ayke van Laethem (1)
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Stay SaaSy (1)
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward (1)
taylor.town (1)
John Graham-Cumming's blog (1)
Tech Blog (1)
Svix Blog (1)
Project Zero (2)
- The Windows Registry Adventure #5: The regf file format
- The Qualcomm DSP Driver - Unexpectedly Excavating an Exploit
Latent Space (2)
InfoQ - Articles (2)
- Article: InfoQ Java Trends Report - December 2024
- Article: Software Architecture and the Art of Experimentation
- How we saved over 60% of k8s resources in our frontend platform
- Automating Periodic Data Transfer from an Operational Database to a Data Warehouse
- Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm
- How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click
The Ably Blog (2)
- Scaling Pub/Sub with WebSockets and Redis
- Ably LiveSync: Keep devices in sync with the state of your MongoDB database
DuckDB (2)
- Accelerating AI innovation through application modernization
- The Download: digital twins, and where AI data really comes from
- The role of email security in reducing user risk amid rising threats
- Internationalization and localization: bringing Cloudflare Radar to a global audience
Sourcegraph Blog (2)
- The Virtual Code AI Summit: How AI is transforming software development at scale
- Announcing Sourcegraph’s partnership with DX to measure and improve developer productivity
The Go Blog (2)
- New AWS tool recommends removal of unused permissions
- Understanding the training dynamics of transformers
- Economics Nobelist on causal inference
BLOG@CACM – Communications of the ACM (3)
- Zero-Trust Security in Software Development
- Computation and Deliberation: The Ghost in the Habermas Machine
- AI-Driven Code Review: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Code Quality
Discord Blog (3)
- Discord Update: December 19, 2024 Changelog
- How to Stream Games and Applications to Discord from Desktop or Mobile
- Gift Ideas for the Dedicated Discord User in Your Life
Sentry Blog RSS (3)
- Taking Sentry’s Rollback from Hack Week Project to Production
- Debugging Query Rate Limiting in Sentry
- Using server-side caching to speed up your applications, save on infra costs, and deliver better UX
- Indexing code at scale with Glean
- Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale
- How we think about Threads’ iOS performance
- Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
- Cloud Efficiency at Netflix
- Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale
Understanding AI (3)
- It's the end of pretraining as we know it
- Why large language models struggle with long contexts
- LLMs are much worse than humans at learning from experience
- December Tailscale newsletter
- If I can get Tailscale to work, so can you
- Better node monitoring with new client metrics
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (4)
- Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)
- Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate (17 Dec 2024)
- Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024)
- Pluralistic: The GOP is not the party of workers (13 Dec 2024)
- Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?
- “I wanted to play with computers”: a chat with a new Stack Overflow engineer
- Legal advice from an AI is illegal
- AI agents that help doctors get paid
Percona Database Performance Blog (5)
- Percona XtraBackup 101: Decompress and Decrypt or Decrypt and Decompress?
- Percona Wins 2024 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx
- How To Deal with a AUTO_INCREMENT Max Value Problem in MySQL and MariaDB
- Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0: The Most Performant Ever
- Software Licensing and Open Source: Why Definitions Matter
Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs (5)
- OpenTelemetry: past, present, and future
- Inside Grafana Labs: how we foster a culture of continuous learning
- Grafana LLM plugin updates: choose the large language models and providers that work best for you
- How to securely connect Grafana to Google BigQuery using Workload Identity Federation
- 2025 observability predictions and trends from Grafana Labs
DTN (6)
- Vorschriften und erneuerbare Energien: Wie Manager von Versorgungsunternehmen Compliance und Effizienz in Einklang bringen
- Will Weather Make Holiday Travel Merry or Miserable?
- Garcia Named Managing Editor of DTN Marketwire Editorial Team
- Regulations and Renewables: How Utility Managers Balance Compliance and Efficiency
- The Tech Transformation in Refined Fuels: Empowering Wholesalers for Success
- European Weather Outlook until January 2025
- Mozart to Megadeath at CHRP (Practical AI #300)
- We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Changelog Interviews #622)
- That's Go Time! (Go Time #340)
- The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 (Changelog News #125)
- AI IRL at Honeycomb (Ship It! #134)
- Kaizen! Three wise men? (Changelog & Friends #73)
LogRocket Blog (9)
- Understanding performance metrics specific to UX design
- Working with URLs in JavaScript
- Use case vs. user story: How and when to use each
- Leader Spotlight: Guiding PMs up the career ladder, with Karen Letendre
- Understanding the 5 UX design layer types
- Lazy loading vs. Eager loading
- A guide to integrated product teams
- Leader Spotlight: Fulfilling customers’ emotional needs, with Aditi Jain
- How to use tokens in design systems?
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods (9)
- IPB166: Reflections and Projections for IPv6 in 2024 and 2025
- NAN081: We’re Going To Talk Python To You
- D2DO261: Year in Review: Peak Serverless, K8s Complexity, DevOps Sprawl (and What’s Next)
- HS091: The Game Has Changed: Security Strategy After Salt Typhoon and the Pager-Bomb Hack
- PP044: Optimizing Security and Performance with ADEM and App Acceleration (Sponsored)
- NB508: Google Serves Up Custom AI and Quantum Chips; Nokia Puts Muscle Behind SONiC
- N4N007: Performance vs. Cost
- TNO011: Behind the NetOps Curtain at Cisco Live!
- HN761: Who Are You Building Automation For? An AutoCon2 Roundtable
APNIC Blog (11)
- Event Wrap: npNOG 10
- Event Wrap: PacNOG 34
- Event Wrap: Internet Week 2024
- DNS nameservers
- 2025 Activity Plan and revised Strategic Plan published
- NRO RPKI Program — 2024 in review
- APNIC and NIRs take action on preliminary delegation audit results
- Event Wrap: APIGA Australia 2024
- IXP from scratch: Part 2 — Network and security design
- Event Wrap: 2024 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit
- EC Response to 2024 APNIC Survey published
IEEE Spectrum (11)
- IEEE MOVE: To the Rescue After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
- Latest Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Developer Kit Unlocks AI Computing for IoT Edge Innovation
- Can AI Automate the Writing of Review Articles?
- The Man Behind Hydrail
- IEEE STEM Summit Highlights Resources for Educators
- How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics
- Will Even the Most Advanced Subs Have Nowhere to Hide?
- Trump’s Second Term Will Change AI, Energy, and More
- Jean Sammet: An Accidental Computer Programmer
- Video Friday: Mars Chopper
- Leading AI Companies Get Lousy Grades on Safety
- Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"
- Is AI progress slowing down?
- q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM
- Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects
- Java in the Small
- A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
- A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
- OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo
- Quoting Johann Rehberger
- Quoting 2024 State of JavaScript survey
- Security ProbLLMs in xAI's Grok: A Deep Dive
- Veo 2
- WebDev Arena
- Phi-4 Technical Report
- Preferring throwaway code over design docs
- In search of a faster SQLite
- Quoting Riley Goodside
- 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."
- BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
- OpenAI: Voice mode FAQ
- <model-viewer> Web Component by Google
- OpenAI's postmortem for API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues
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This is Part 5 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a list of posts in the series: Part 0: Introduction Part 1: Elections Part 2: Commands and log replication Part 3: Persistence and optimizations Part 4: Key/Value database Part 5: Exactly-once delivery (this post) In this part, we're completing the implementation of a replicated key / value database based on Raft consensus. In any case, curV is returned... ds .g. (BACK TO TOP)
Personalized sidebar Linear's application sidebar now supports customization to better fit your personal workflows. You can reorder items, hide items you don't use often, and decide how unread notifications should be shown: with a count or dot. The Workspace section includes new links to Teams and Customers (if you've enabled Customer requests). You can also hide items you don't need frequently behind a More menu. You can also drag & drop to reorder items. (BACK TO TOP)
Welkom! Goed inzicht in ons parlement is belangrijk, soms omdat er dingen in het nieuws zijn. En soms juist omdat dingen (nog) niet in het nieuws zijn, maar er binnenkort wel besluiten over genomen gaan worden. De Tweede Kamer publiceert alles wat ze doen via een technische API, en dat is echt geweldig. Hierdoor kunnen we op Internet eigen viewers maken om deze data zo goed mogelijk zichtbaar te maken. (BACK TO TOP)
In our paper, Understanding LLMs Requires More Than Statistical Generalization, we argue that current machine learning theory cannot explain the interesting emergent properties of Large Language Models, such as reasoning or in-context learning. From prior work (e.g., Liu et al., 2023) and our experiments, we’ve seen that these phenomena cannot be explained by reaching globally… (BACK TO TOP)
Overview The past few months have been exciting times for Slack’s CI infrastructure. After years of developer frustration with Jenkins (everything from security issues to downtime to generally poor UX) internal pressure led us to move a majority of Slack’s CI jobs from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. My intern project at Slack this summer involved… The post Migration Automation: Easing the Jenkins → GHA shift with help from AI appeared first on Engineering at Slack . (BACK TO TOP)
In C++, it might be reasonable to represent a URL using a class or a struct made of several strings, like so: struct basic { std::string protocol; std::string username; std::string password; std::string hostname; std::string port; std::string pathname; std::string search; std::string hash; }; To associate each component with an index, we can use an enum class: … Continue reading Accessing the attributes of a struct in C++ as array elements? (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has received several important updates in recent weeks. These updates, spanning versions 8.34.0 through 8.36.0, introduce new features and make significant improvements to the database’s implementation and usability. New Features and Enhancements Enhanced POST […] (BACK TO TOP)
At AWS re:Invent 2023, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels delivered a talk on the laws of frugal architecture . While I initially filed away those insights to review later, a year of cloud architecture experience crystallized a fundamental truth: in cloud computing, cost isn’t just a financial consideration — it is a first-class architectural concern through which we should design and optimize our systems. (BACK TO TOP)
A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in. My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it. We started the unironically daunting San Francisco kindergarten application process. I was diagnosed with skin cancer and had successful surgery to remove it. [Completed] Write another book about engineering or leadership. Either way, it’s complete.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
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Japanese semiconductor manufacturing, EV reliability, indoor air quality, mall to residential conversions, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
Turn any meeting or get-together into a chance for deep connection and collaboration. Whether you’re holding a team meeting or hosting a family get-together, the success of any gathering, says Priya Parker , isn’t about the perfect agenda or venue, but about the intentionality behind how you bring people together. “90% of the success of any gathering happens before anyone enters the room,” says Parker. Episode Reference Links: Priya Parker Priya’s Book: The Art of Gathering Ep. (BACK TO TOP)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog
OpenAI recently published a public writeup for an incident they had on December 11, and there are lots of good details in here! Here are some of my off-the-cuff observations: Saturation With thousands of nodes performing these operations simultaneously, the Kubernetes API servers became overwhelmed, taking down the Kubernetes control plane in most of our … Continue reading Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up → (BACK TO TOP)
Snapshot Isolation vs Serializability MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\(', '\)']]} }; Getting into some fundamentals. In my re:Invent talk on the internals of Aurora DSQL I mentioned that I think snapshot isolation is a sweet spot in the database isolation spectrum for most kinds of applications. Today, I want to dive in a little deeper into why I think that, and some of the trade-offs of going stronger and weaker. This post is going to be a little deeper than the last few.e.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
It's common folklore in the Domain Name System that a delegated domain name must be served by 2 or more nameservers. This guidance raises a couple of questions. (BACK TO TOP)
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Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time to finish the job. The Story so far You can read the last year's newsletter here but here are the high-level notes. The Game of Dreidel Every player starts with N pieces (usually chocolate coins).4x more likely). . . 2 . (BACK TO TOP)
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This master's thesis at Lund University Sweden explores how CockroachDB 's transactional performance can be improved by using tightly synchronized clocks. The paper addresses two questions: how to integrate high-precision clock synchronization into CockroachDB and the resulting impact on performance. However, this approach has limitations, particularly in handling transactional conflicts within a predefined uncertainty interval. They ran into practical challenges during implementation. (BACK TO TOP)
I've made RGB LED earrings, like these: You can find all the instructions on how to program it on the GitHub page. I made these initially because I wanted to wear them myself, but as it turns out they're quite popular. I will soon sell them on Lectronz. (BACK TO TOP)
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path around our planet, but to experience that journey first-hand, we have to enter the cosmos itself. This article has many interactive demonstrations which are best seen on the website . (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/
Introduction: In Episode 3 of the Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes series, Jérôme Petazzoni introduces ZFS, a versatile file system renowned for its features like compression, deduplication, and snapshots. Leveraging ZFS with Kubernetes, Jérôme demonstrates how to create efficient and flexible storage solutions, complete with automated setup and configuration using tools like OpenEBS LocalPV. (BACK TO TOP)
Figuring out what to do is a big part of senior tech roles. Senior Engineers and Engineering Managers often struggle to define technical roadmaps. In reality, good technical vision is often a very simple and boring review of small amounts of data. An easy playbook for technical roadmap development is Problem Driven Development. In short, it means you develop your technical roadmap based on fixing things that are going wrong. It sounds simple, but it can be very empowering.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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Did you know that the Ancient Greek word "anacyclosis" translates to "Markov-chain Monte-Carlo"? (BACK TO TOP)
As the next calendar year nears, friends inevitably broadcast Spotify Wrapped data across the groupchats. Peasants like me receive Apple Music Replay . Follow me at your indiscretion. I'm unsure why, but I meticulously document my album ratings ( in plaintext ). It's easy to grab my top picks of the year: Protip: you can append .txt to any of my essay URLs to fetch the plaintext version. For example, compare /books with /books.txt .jpg -tile 3x3 -geometry 300x300+0+0 wrapped-music-2024.jpg (BACK TO TOP)
For those who know me, I’ve usually been a pretty big fan of WordPress. I even worked for Automattic for a time. I have quite a collection of custom plugins and code to do some pretty interesting things. But now, I think it is time to go; for many reasons. The thing that triggered this […] (BACK TO TOP)
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long improving the implementation. It's the same with AI. Because AI at the moment is like a superb junior programmer. You could read this as a bullish signal for the future of AI programming. I hope that's the case. (BACK TO TOP)
I made another silly Tumblr (to go along with Movie Code and Low Background Steel ). This times it's a Tumblr for all those font disasters and other typographical amusements. Welcome to the wonderful world of badkeming.com : Submissions gladly accepted. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.allendowney.com/blog
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is almost no math — not because I made a special effort to avoid it, but because I found that I didn’t need it. For example, here’s how I present... Read More Read More (BACK TO TOP)
The Overture Maps Foundation is a joint development project that publishes global, open map data. Finding global datasets, outside of OpenStreetMap (OSM), is challenging and when the datasets need to be free, the choices are even fewer and further between. To add to that, OSM won't accept bulk submissions produced by AI; instead, they want every change to be confirmed by a human. But the world of GIS isn't about using a single data provider. GIS is an ecosystem.1 GHz . $ virtualenv ~/.1.40.6 GB. (BACK TO TOP)
An invitation to intellectual humility, scientific curiosity, and collaborative exploration. (BACK TO TOP)
We highlight a key use case for Replicate's webhooks with a speech to image app. (BACK TO TOP)
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Future of Agentic Coding, building boring enterprise integrations, and growing to 1M users (BACK TO TOP)
This report summarizes how the InfoQ Java editorial team and several Java Champions currently see the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2024. We focus on Java the language, as well as related languages like Kotlin and Scala, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and Java-based frameworks and utilities. (BACK TO TOP)
Run experiments using a Minimum Viable Architecture approach to determine if your architecture decisions are on the right track. MVAs also test the viability of an MVP, allowing stakeholders to validate the business value. By Pierre Pureur, Kurt Bittner (BACK TO TOP)
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Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. (BACK TO TOP)
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click "yes" to a Google prompt on his mobile device. (BACK TO TOP)
There is increasing demand for realtime data delivery as users expect faster experiences and instantaneous transactions. This means not only is lower latency required per message, but providers must also handle far greater capacity in a more globally-distributed way. When building realtime applications, the right tools for the job address these requirements at scale. WebSocket has become the dominant protocol for realtime web applications, and has widespread browser support. It offers a persist (BACK TO TOP)
Keep frontend clients in sync with the true state of your MongoDB database. Fan-out updates to billions of clients in realtime, reliably and at low-latency. (BACK TO TOP)
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Business applications powered by AI are revolutionizing customer experiences, accelerating the speed of business, and driving employee productivity. In fact, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Global State of AI report, 89% of organizations believe AI and machine learning will help them grow revenue, boost operational efficiency, and improve customer experience. Take for… (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. Digital twins of human organs are here. They’re set to transform medical treatment. Steven Niederer, a biomedical engineer at the Alan Turing Institute and Imperial College London, has a cardboard box filled with… (BACK TO TOP)
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If you want to stay ahead in today’s dynamic B2B marketing environment, keeping up with industry trends and ensuring team productivity is at its peak is the key. You must streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and adopt trend-driven strategies to remain competitive. The wonderful Katie Brenneman writes this week’s article. Thank you, Katie, for writing this for me. Harnessing Productivity Tools for Campaign Success. Tools like Asana, Monday. It’s about becoming a trailblazer. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a copy of an email I sent to all my students at my Learning Centre. I felt it was important that I wanted to share it with you, too. Enjoy. It took me years to learn why daily and weekly planning is critical to being productive and fitting in everything we want to do. Before I became consistent with planning, I was all over the place. Days were dictated by other people and events, which created enormous backlogs in emails and messages. Plan Your Week With Me: The Weekly Planning Matrix. (BACK TO TOP)
As threats evolve, SOC teams must adapt their operations. With Cloudflare’s holistic approach to managing user-based risk, SOC teams can operate more efficiently and reduce the likelihood of a breach. (BACK TO TOP)
Internationalization and localization require more than translation: tone, images, date/time and number formatting, among other items, need to be considered. (BACK TO TOP)
2025 is gonna be a year of agents. I'm more bullish on it than ever. -Alex Albert, Anthropic The first-ever Virtual Code AI Summit, https://events.codeaisummit.com/ brought together some of the sharpest minds in software engineering, AI, and developer productivit... (BACK TO TOP)
Software development becomes more complex every year. Enterprise developers deal with growing codebases, distributed teams, and sprawling dependencies, leading to developers spending more time trying to understand their codebase rather than focusing on what they love to do - writing code and tackli... (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results Alice Merrick 20 December 2024 .chart { margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-right: 1.5rem; width: 800px; } blockquote p { color: var(--color-text-subtle) !important; } .quote_source { font-style: italic; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { .chart { border-radius: 8px; } } Background Go was designed with a focus on developer experience, and we deeply value the feedback we receive through proposals, issues, and community interactions. I love the 1.50.g. (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API Michael Stapelberg 16 December 2024 [ Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is Google’s language-neutral data interchange format. See protobuf.dev .] Back in March 2020, we released the google.golang.org/protobuf module, a major overhaul of the Go Protobuf API . This package introduced first-class support for reflection , a dynamicpb implementation and the protocmp package for easier testing. That release introduced a new protobuf module with a new API.pb.pb.g. (BACK TO TOP)
IAM Access Analyzer feature uses automated reasoning to recommend policies that remove unused accesses, helping customers achieve “least privilege”. (BACK TO TOP)
Theoretical analysis provides insight into the optimization process during model training and reveals that for some optimizations, the Gaussian attention kernel may work better than softmax. (BACK TO TOP)
In a keynote address at the latest Amazon Machine Learning Conference, Amazon academic research consultant, Stanford professor, and recent Nobel laureate Guido Imbens offered insights on the estimation of causal effects in “panel data” settings. (BACK TO TOP)
The zero-trust security model is a proactive approach to overcoming potential threats and enhancing application security. (BACK TO TOP)
People interacting only with the Habermas Machine to develop policy neglect the relational and interpersonal dynamics crucial to democratic deliberation. (BACK TO TOP)
AI-driven code review tools use deep learning and natural language processing to understand coding patterns and offer suggestions. (BACK TO TOP)
Here's the Discord Changelog from December 19, 2024, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates! (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to stream your game or applications to your friends on Discord, what the options you’ll see when setting up your stream mean, and which PC and mobile platforms you can stream from. (BACK TO TOP)
Gift Nitro this holiday season and receive one of three Avatar Decorations for yourself! Plus, plenty of gift ideas, for those who game through the night to those who decorate their profile just right — let’s dig in! (BACK TO TOP)
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following abstract: Rhino: Low-latency Key-value Database in Rust Rhino is a key-value database optimised for low-latency edge workloads. It is built on top of FoundationDB and written entirely in Rust. (BACK TO TOP)
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo , an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well as they continue to push one of the most hard-core Rust code I’ve ever seen :) The talk had the following abstract: (BACK TO TOP)
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract: Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors We’re transforming elfo, our Rust actor system, into a distributed mesh of services. Learn how we tackled message serialization, compression, and back-pressure to optimize for high-frequency trading. (BACK TO TOP)
❗❗If you’re a developer that uses Sentry and you’re reading this in 2024, stop reading and head to rollback.sentry.io to get your very own Rollback! Just a few ... (BACK TO TOP)
Snuba, the primary storage and query service for event data that powers Sentry in production, has historically been doing rate limiting under the hood, making i... (BACK TO TOP)
If you’ve ever been floored by a sub-100ms response time, you’ve likely got caching to thank. Caching is the unsung hero of performance, shaving precious millis... (BACK TO TOP)
We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is important, explain the rationale for Glean’s design, and run through some of the ways we’re using Glean to supercharge our developer tooling at [...] Read More... The post Indexing code at scale with Glean appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well past the halfway point and still going. We’re sharing some of the tradeoffs we’ve made to support automating our transition to Kotlin, seemingly simple [...] Read More... The post Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
How did the Threads iOS team maintain the app’s performance during its incredible growth? Here’s how Meta’s Threads team thinks about performance, including the key metrics we monitor to keep the app healthy. We’re also diving into some case studies that impact publish reliability and navigation latency. When Meta launched Threads in 2023, it became [...] Read More... The post How we think about Threads’ iOS performance appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
This article is the first in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. We kick off with a few topics focused on how we’re empowering Netflix to efficiently produce and effectively deliver high quality, actionable analytic insights across the company. Subsequent posts will detail examples of exciting analytic engineering domain applications and aspects of the technical craft. (BACK TO TOP)
By J Han , Pallavi Phadnis Context At Netflix, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our cloud infrastructure needs, such as compute, storage, and networking to build and run the streaming platform that we love. Our ecosystem enables engineering teams to run applications and services at scale, utilizing a mix of open-source and proprietary solutions. In turn, our self-serve platforms allow teams to create and deploy, sometimes custom, workloads more efficiently. (BACK TO TOP)
Part 1: Understanding The Challenges By: Varun Khaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , Hugo Marques Introduction At Netflix, we manage over a thousand global content launches each month, backed by billions of dollars in annual investment. Ensuring the success and discoverability of each title across our platform is a top priority, as we aim to connect every story with the right audience to delight our members. (BACK TO TOP)
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LLM training techniques are evolving, and that has huge implications. (BACK TO TOP)
Transformer-based LLMs get less efficient as context windows grow. (BACK TO TOP)
Could test-time training give AI models this important capability? (BACK TO TOP)
Product updates, notes from the community about how folks are using Tailscale, and some upcoming events where you can meet our experts in December 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
Will Moore, who recently joined our team as Communications Lead, shares how he came to enjoy Tailscale after a sometimes-frustrating history with networking tech. (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale client metrics are now available for local or remote examination, and can be directly ingested by Prometheus or any compatible monitoring system. These are especially useful for keeping tabs on the health and connectivity of subnet routers, and we think they’ll be an immediate upgrade for users that rely on those, such as users with site-to-site network configurations or teams using Tailscale with Kubernetes. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital." Capitalists hate capitalism.thebignewsletter.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate: A new bumper crop, with many more to come! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Today, in 2024, the flames have died down, and out of the ashes a new public domain is growing. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits: No one wants to have a fire, but you need to plan for one anyway. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. That includes social media sites. Economists call this the "network effect. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The GOP is not the party of workers: Which is why the Democrats should be. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. All elites are bad for working people, so any attack on any elite is, in some narrow sense, "pro-worker.archive.npr.wosu. (BACK TO TOP)
It's time to delegate to the robots. (BACK TO TOP)
Ben and Ryan catch up with Nenne Adaora “Adora” Nwodo, who recently joined Stack Overflow as a platform engineering manager. From her childhood fascination with computers to her years as a software engineer at Microsoft, Adora shares her evolution as a technologist. (BACK TO TOP)
Mark Doble, CEO of Alexi, an AI-powered litigation platform, joins Ben to talk about GenAI’s transformative effect on the legal world. Their conversation touches on the importance of ensuring accurate results and eliminating hallucinations when AI tools are used for legal work, how lawyers (like the rest of us) can adapt to GenAI, and what Alexi’s tech stack looks like. (BACK TO TOP)
Dan Parsons, co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at Thoughtful AI, talks about how his company is using AI to simplify how providers get paid by insurance companies. (BACK TO TOP)
This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper way of doing things without the need to run a test when in doubt. That said, I must emphasize that, as always, testing everything before deploying to production is essential. Let’s dive into the story: […] (BACK TO TOP)
As organizations turn to the cloud for more and more products and services, many are discovering that the majority of these offerings come with hidden, yet significant, costs. This is especially true in the database space, where the increasing popularity of public database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions has left many organizations grappling with the unforeseen consequences of […] (BACK TO TOP)
An application down due to not being able to write into a table anymore due to a maximum allowed auto-increment value may be one of the worst nightmares of a DBA. Typical errors related to this problem in MySQL will look like this: [crayon-6767266bc88eb980352256/] or [crayon-6767266bc88f2766937556/] While the solution could be easy and fairly quick […] (BACK TO TOP)
MongoDB Community Edition 8.0 has been available since October. At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Percona Server for […] (BACK TO TOP)
Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the modern world. Some would like to see noncompetitive licenses such as the Server Side Public License (SSPL) or Elastic License considered open source. Others approach this by thinking about ethics and “using software for good and […] (BACK TO TOP)
Here’s something most people probably didn’t have on their 2024 bingo cards: the terms “gossip” and “scandalous details” popping up on an episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent. (Truth be told, the most scandalous detail to come out of the episode might be that Matt still owns a zip drive cable . . . Note: The following are highlights from episode 9, season 2 of “Grafana’s Big Tent” podcast. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.m. I know I need distributed tracing.com . (BACK TO TOP)
“What did you learn today?” It’s a question many of us heard as a child. Maybe a parent asked you on the way home from school, or a sibling around the dinner table, or even a curious aunt or uncle at a family gathering. But when was the last time someone asked you, as an adult, what you actually learned at the end of a day? The truth is, as we grow older, the expectation to be constantly learning diminishes. Since our early days as a company, we’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning. (BACK TO TOP)
At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to empower users with the tools they need to build their own observability solutions. Our big tent philosophy embodies this mission by allowing you to choose the tools and technologies that best suit your needs. In this post, we want to share an update to our LLM plugin that reflects this philosophy in action. As of the 0.10.png" alt="A screenshot of Flame graph AI."width="948"height="918"/> The update we made in the 0.10.g.g., gpt-4o).g. http://vllm. (BACK TO TOP)
Umesh Pawar is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Searce, and is also the co-organizer of the Grafana and Friends Delhi Group. Umesh has been focused on infrastructure and app modernization, as well as observability solutions including the Grafana LGTM Stack, for the past two years. With the Google BigQuery data source plugin for Grafana, you can easily query and visualize data from BigQuery directly in Grafana.svc.id.svc.id. If you are using a Helm chart, just edit this code to values.yaml.iam.iam.svc. (BACK TO TOP)
From AI to eBPF, 2024 reshaped the observability landscape. As we peer into 2025, Grafana Labs’ experts predict another year of innovation that will redefine how teams understand and optimize their systems, from profiling to platform engineering. Their insights align with what the community is saying, according to early responses from our third annual Observability Survey. Profiles and traces converge Profiling had a big year in 2024 with the addition of continuous profiling to OpenTelemetry . (BACK TO TOP)
Vorschriften und erneuerbare Energien: Wie Manager von Versorgungsunternehmen Compliance und Effizienz in Einklang bringen
Erfahren Sie, wie wichtig es ist, die Einhaltung von Vorschriften mit betrieblicher Effizienz in Einklang zu bringen und wie wichtig genaue Wettervorhersagen sind. The post Vorschriften und erneuerbare Energien: Wie Manager von Versorgungsunternehmen Compliance und Effizienz in Einklang bringen appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Millions of travelers take to the roads, rails, and skies during the holidays. Find out if weather events will make travel this year merry or miserable. The post Will Weather Make Holiday Travel Merry or Miserable? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Maria Eugenia Garcia, a resourceful journalist with decades of experience covering oil markets in Latin American and U.S. markets, is the new managing editor of the DTN Marketwire editorial team. Garcia leads a team of DTN experts who provide insights for DTN ProphetX®, DTN Fuel Buyer®, DTN Fuel Seller®, Progressive Farmer®, MyDTN, and DTN Online. The post Garcia Named Managing Editor of DTN Marketwire Editorial Team appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
This comprehensive overview explores the regulatory landscape, the importance of balancing compliance with operational efficiency, and the transformative power of accurate weather predictions. The post Regulations and Renewables: How Utility Managers Balance Compliance and Efficiency appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Digital solutions are revolutionizing refined fuels wholesaling, boosting efficiency, profitability, and market advantage. Embrace the transformation. The post The Tech Transformation in Refined Fuels: Empowering Wholesalers for Success appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Get the latest seasonal forecast for Europe with insights into the potential impacts for confident planning and decision-making. The post European Weather Outlook until January 2025 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Daniel and Chris groove with Jeff Smith, Founder and CEO at CHRP.ai. Jeff describes how CHRP anonymously analyzes emotional wellness data, derived from employees' music preferences, giving HR leaders actionable insights to improve productivity, retention, and overall morale. By monitoring key trends and identifying shifts in emotional health across teams, CHRP.ai enables proactive decisions to ensure employees feel supported and engaged. (BACK TO TOP)
Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he's working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details. (BACK TO TOP)
Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That's right, this is Go Time's finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won't regret it! We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉 (BACK TO TOP)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month! (BACK TO TOP)
Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more. (BACK TO TOP)
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)! (BACK TO TOP)
You'll need to read this blog through and through to know what’s working and what’s not in your design. In this one, I break down key performance metrics like task error rates and system performance. The post Understanding performance metrics specific to UX design appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Break down the parts of a URL and explore APIs for working with them in JavaScript, parsing them, building query strings, checking their validity, etc. The post Working with URLs in JavaScript appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
As a product manager, you express customer needs to your development teams so that you can work together to build the best possible solution. The post Use case vs. user story: How and when to use each appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Karen Letendre talks about how she helps her team advance in their careers via mentorship, upskilling programs, and more. The post Leader Spotlight: Guiding PMs up the career ladder, with Karen Letendre appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Users see a product; designers see layers. The 5 UX design layers — strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface — help build UIs step by step. The post Understanding the 5 UX design layer types appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this guide, explore lazy loading and error loading as two techniques for fetching data in React apps. The post Lazy loading vs. Eager loading appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
An IPT isn't just another team; it's a strategic approach that breaks down unnecessary communication blockades for open communication. The post A guide to integrated product teams appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Aditi Jain discusses listening to your consumers’ emotional needs and using that to create an experience that goes beyond just transactional. The post Leader Spotlight: Fulfilling customers’ emotional needs, with Aditi Jain appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
This blog's all about learning to set up, manage, and use design tokens in design system — all to enable scalable, consistent, and efficient collaboration between designers and developers. The post How to use tokens in design systems? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this end of-the-year episode of IPv6 Buzz, we review the significant developments in IPv6 throughout 2024 and share projections for 2025. We discuss the introduction of a new documentation prefix, analyze IPv6 usage statistics, and review No NAT November. For 2025, we explore the possibilities of updates to RFC 6724 and global adoption of ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s episode, we’re going to talk Python. Host Eric Chou is joined by Michael Kennedy, the founder of Talk Python Training and host of the Talk Python To Me podcast. The discussion covers the evolution of Michael’s podcast and training business, the impact of platforms like TikTok on learning, and the importance of community ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Join us today for a look back at this year’s developments in cloud security and DevOps. We ask if serverless computing has peaked, why Kubernetes continues to be so hard, whether cloud repatriation is a real trend, and whether the DevOps role has become too darn big. We also explore the future of cloud computing, ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Recent events have driven home a simple fact: neither your devices nor your network services can be trusted totally, and they could all be turned against you, possibly fatally. Join us as we discuss the harsh realities of the evolving cybersecurity space, and how enterprise leaders in and out of IT need to change their ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Autonomous Digital Experience Management, or ADEM, measures network and application performance from the user perspective and gives network and IT teams visibility into the entire data path—including the home user network, first mile and last mile, and the WAN. On today’s Packet Protector, we learn how ADEM can complement your network and security efforts with ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Take a Network Break! This is our final show for 2024. We start with critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti and OpenWrt, and then discuss what effect a proposed bill from US Senator Ron Wyden would have on telecom security (short answer: more paperwork but unlikely to improve protection). Extreme Networks announces a new AI platform that ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
When building your network and buying equipment, is performance or cost more important? On today’s episode, we discuss the balance between performance and cost in selecting networking equipment. We also cover other considerations, including why you should understand client and network needs, the fluid nature of pricing, and the necessity of creative problem-solving. Bonus material: ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Ever wonder how large conferences such as Cisco Live! manage their on-site network operations? Today’s podcast guest, Jason Davis joins host Scott Robohn to discuss history of network operations at Cisco Live!, and the intricacies, challenges, and strategies involved in setting up and managing network operations for such a large event. Episode Guest: Jason Davis, ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Today’s Heavy Networking comes to you from the AutoCon2 tech event being held in Westminster, Colorado. This episode was recorded in conference room on site at AutoCon2 in November, 2024. The format? Roundtable. Four network automators have raised their hand and brought topics they want to discuss. Those topics include: Crafting tools to “listen” to ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC staff presented and conducted training at npNOG 10, held in Pokhara, Nepal from 25 to 29 November 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC actively participated at PacNOG 34, held in Apia, Samoa from 25 to 29 November 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC met with APNIC Members and key stakeholders from the Japanese Internet community while attending Internet Week 2024 in Tokyo, Japan from 19 to 27 November 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
How recursive resolvers handle DNS queries and how can administrators optimize nameservers for performance and resilience? (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC's 2025 Activity Plan is now available. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: Key learnings from 2024 research and priorities for 2025. (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC has begun its planned delegation audits. (BACK TO TOP)
Joyce Chen presented and participated as a mentor at the inaugural APIGA Australia, held from 20 to 21 November 2024 in Melbourne Australia. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: In principle, an IXP consists of a single broadcast domain, but in practice it has to operate several services securely to provide reliable peering services to its members. (BACK TO TOP)
Pablo Hinojosa presented at WIC 2024, held from 19 to 22 November 2024 in Wuzhen, China. (BACK TO TOP)
The APNIC EC has published its response to the 2024 APNIC Survey. (BACK TO TOP)
When Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the Southeastern United States in September and October 2024, their winds—as high as 290 kilometers per hour—destroyed houses and buildings, uprooted trees, took down power lines, and damaged roads. The storms also led to massive flooding throughout the region. The vehicles made the situation more bearable for the hurricane survivors and first responders. The three vehicles in the IEEE MOVE program provide U.S.” MOVE-3’s design meets crucial needs. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Qualcomm . In a move set to transform the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has introduced its Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 developer kits, designed to put advanced AI edge computing power into the hands of developers everywhere. This kit is available as Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2, based on the Qualcomm QCS6490 , or the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Lite, based on the Qualcomm QCS5430 . The kits also come with Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5. (BACK TO TOP)
Scientific literature reviews are a critical part of advancing fields of study: They provide a current state of the union through comprehensive analysis of existing research, and they identify gaps in knowledge where future studies might focus. Writing a well-done review article is a many-splendored thing, however. Researchers often comb through reams of scholarly works. They must select studies that aren’t outdated, yet avoid recency bias. Enter artificial intelligence.” (BACK TO TOP)
IEEE Life Senior Member H. Stan Thompson has lived a couple of professional lives. For decades, he was a planning engineer and futurist at Bellsouth Telecommunications , which was formed from the merger of two Regional Bell Operating Companies around the time AT&T (“Ma Bell”) was forced to break up in 1984. When he retired in 1996, Thompson assumed he’d live out his golden years puttering around Mooresvile, N.C., the Charlotte suburb he calls home.C.Va., is up and running.S.D. Today, St. (BACK TO TOP)
The annual IEEE STEM Summit in October brought together a record number of preuniversity educators; IEEE volunteers; and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics enthusiasts. They shared resources and ideas and attended sessions to learn how to inspire the next generation of budding engineers and technologists. The free virtual summit, held 23 to 25 October, attracted more than 1,000 attendees from 118 countries. Other sessions introduced participants to TryEngineering resources . (BACK TO TOP)
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon . Innovation often begins as a spark of an idea—a simple “what if” that grows into something transformative. But turning that spark into a fully realized solution requires more than just ingenuity. It requires resources, collaboration, and a relentless drive to bridge the gap between concept and execution. At Amazon, these ingredients come together to create breakthroughs that not only solve today’s challenges but set the stage for the future. (BACK TO TOP)
The modern race to build undetectable submarines dates from the 1960s. In that decade, the United States and the Soviet Union began a game of maritime hide-and-seek , deploying ever-quieter submarines as well as more advanced tracking and detection capabilities to spot their adversary’s vessels. That game continues to this day but with a wider field of players. In the coming months, the U.S. Navy plans to homeport the USS Minnesota on Guam .S.K. and Australia using U.S.S. and U.K.S. Navy.S.S.S.” (BACK TO TOP)
U.S. presidential administrations tend to have big impacts on tech around the world. So it should be taken as a given that when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, his second administration will do the same. Perhaps more than usual, even, as he staffs his cabinet with people closely linked to the Heritage Foundation, the Washington, D.C.–based conservative think tank behind the controversial 900-page Mandate for Leadership (also known as Project 2025). Currently, U.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. (BACK TO TOP)
Jean Sammet rarely let anything get in the way of her professional goals. As a young student, she was barred from attending prestigious all-boys schools, so she pursued her love of mathematics at the best institutions she could find that were open to girls and women. Following her college graduation, she became one of the first programmers at Sperry , an electronics manufacturer in New York, despite having virtually no prior experience with computers. “It was a great college. Still is.S.S. (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. Chopper would be about the size of an SUV, with six rotors, each with six blades. It could be used to carry science payloads as large as 11 pounds (5 kilograms) distances of up to 1.9 miles (3 kilometers) each Martian day (or sol). [ ergoCub ] (BACK TO TOP)
The just-released AI Safety Index graded six leading AI companies on their risk assessment efforts and safety procedures... and the top of class was Anthropic , with an overall score of C. The other five companies—Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Zhipu AI—received grades of D+ or lower, with Meta flat out failing. “The purpose of this is not to shame anybody,” says Max Tegmark , an MIT physics professor and president of the Future of Life Institute , which put out the report.S.S.” (BACK TO TOP)
Bulletin by Jakub Mikians