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Libertas Software Research Ltd, founded one year ago, has grown from a concept into a business with real clients and products, focusing on building custom software tailored to how businesses operate. Founder Adrian empha…
In this "No Dumb Questions" article, Stack Overflow's infrastructure tech lead Josh Zhang explains that cloud computing is essentially using "someone else's computer" to avoid the high costs and complexity of managing ph…
This article is a behind-the-scenes look at how a story about ICE using Palantir to track 20 million people on iPhones was reported. The journalist, Joseph, explains he gathered information by speaking to four conference…
In a two-part episode recorded at HumanX, Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen discusses how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, shifting observability's focus to capturing the right telemetry. Resolve AI founder Sp…
Release of datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0, a plugin for Datasette that works with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to enforce per-user or global spending limits on LLM usage. It provides an example configuration sh…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also reimagined Firestor…
The article describes how GitHub's Issues Performance team modernized navigation by shifting from server-rendered pages to a client-side caching system. They built a caching layer using IndexedDB, implemented a preheatin…
A Reddit user on r/DHExchange offering to sell a database of over 150,000 labeled images of human feces, collected from 25,000 users of his AI-powered poop analysis app. The poster sought advice on monetizing the dataset…
The article describes how Cloudflare engineers resolved a performance slowdown in their billing pipeline caused by a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse after migrating to a new partitioning scheme. The migration aimed to en…
Creation of a blog using OpenAI Codex desktop, highlighting its Markdown session transcript export feature. It provides a link to the session that built the blog and references issue 179. The post is tagged with topics i…
Google Cloud has developed a method to significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of LLM-powered SQL functions in databases by using lightweight "proxy models." These proxy models, which are trained on-the-fly and util…
Google AI is being used to build safer and more resilient transportation systems, with a primary focus on achieving "Vision Zero" to reduce fatalities. Key strategies include shifting from reactive to proactive safety me…
The cost of fiber-optic cable has risen sharply due to increased demand from both the AI-driven data center boom and military use in drone warfare, particularly in Ukraine and Russia. Combatants now use fiber-optic cable…
At the SAP SAPPHIRE 2026 conference, Google Cloud announced a suite of new integrations and infrastructure upgrades to unify enterprise data for AI, including a direct connector between SAP Business Data Cloud and BigQue…
Extreme AI training loads create a "power paradox" where massive GPU clusters generate high-frequency, abrupt power spikes that legacy grid infrastructure and backup systems cannot handle. To solve this, Ampace and Eaton…
The article explains how Chrome's Manifest V3 (MV3) forces developers to completely rethink browser extension architecture, particularly for offline-first apps syncing with Google Drive. Key adaptations include moving fr…
In the mid-2010s, the startup Chartbeat developed a novel analytics feature that tracked real-time user activity on webpages down to the pixel level, primarily targeting major news sites. However, the feature ultimately …
At HumanX, Neo4j CTO Philip Rathle discussed with Ryan how knowledge context enhances AI agents, arguing that a model-only approach is unsuitable for enterprises due to issues like stale training data. He explained that …
Updates to Google Cloud's Database Center, a unified management tool for its database fleet, now enhanced with Gemini-powered AI for observability and optimization. Key features include AI-driven recommendation validatio…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locations nationwide under a no-bid contract with Bi2 Technologies. The system will allow …