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Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 […]

Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, […]

Until the end of Amazon’s October sale later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for just $297.49 (usually $349.99) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. While the lenses and displays aren’t quite as sharp as the Quest 3, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is a much more reasonable price […]

Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to put the device through its paces. That all happens inside a windowless, warehouse-like lab on the company's Redmond, Washington, campus, where the team developing Surface devices programs robots to press their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with radio waves from giant antennas, and […]

At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It's part of an idea Microsoft is calling "Hybrid Intelligence," where apps and tools rely on a mix of […]

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB […]

For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications […]

The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core […]

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and more. In a blog post explaining the […]

Just over a week ago, we covered a deal at Amazon that knocked around 30 percent off Roku’s new (and first-ever) OLED TVs. The deal expired, but has returned for the final day of October Prime Day. The 55-inch Pro Series OLED is $699.99 at Amazon, which is 30 percent off its list price. The […]

Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.

CIA officer David Rush, who worked on highly sensitive intelligence programs, reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors after he was caught siphoning money and gold with a fake government contract.

As it turns out, the cure for stuffy, chemical-infused office air might be a tower of leafy greenery.

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

X is turning its NFL-focused Gametime feature into a year-round sports destination, starting with MLB and with other professional leagues to follow.

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.

📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . In this article, we'll explain what a data center is and how containerization changes the game. We'll also explore the relationship between GPUs and liquid cooling, as well as the various usage options. By the end, you should be able to explain how containerized data centers work to others. No prior knowledge of GPUs or data centers is required. What Exactly is a Data Center? A server is a computer ...

For a small gaming SaaS team, the least complex defensible approach is to protect the signup and login API with a captcha after a few failed attempts, then require step-up verification when risk persists. Do not lock the account. A lockout lets an attacker deny service to any player whose email address is known. TL;DR: Use per-account and per-network failure signals to decide when to show a captcha, but do not turn either signal into a permanent identity verdict. After the captcha, require an...

Resposta curta A Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) aplica-se integralmente ao tratamento de dados pessoais por sistemas de inteligência artificial no Brasil, exigindo base legal, transparência, impact assessment quando relevante e responsabilização do controlador — mesmo quando a IA opera de forma autônoma ou com decisões automatizadas. TL;DR A LGPD entrou em vigor em 18/09/2020, com sanções aplicáveis desde 01/08/2021 (Lei nº 13.709/2018, art. 52). Dados pessoais in...

Resposta curta O IBM Granite Guardian é um guardrail técnico nativo do modelo IBM Granite, projetado para detectar e mitigar conteúdos de risco em tempo real — como discurso de ódio, desinformação ou violação de políticas — sem comprometer a fluidez da geração. Ele opera como uma camada de segurança integrada, não como um filtro pós-geração. TL;DR O Granite Guardian é parte integrante da arquitetura dos modelos IBM Granite (v3, v4), não um módulo externo. Funciona com ...

If you've looked at a commit graph for a repo with a few long-lived branches, you've seen this: every branch gets its own column, columns never go away, and eventually the graph is wider than the commit messages next to it. I ran into this while building the history view for a desktop Git client. The first version gave each line its own column for good. On one 122-commit repo that came to 14 lanes, 276px of graph before any text. This post covers how I rebuilt the layout so lanes get reused, ...

January 1st, 1999. The planet is yours to defend, and your first act as commander of X-COM is picking a spot on a map for your first base. No tutorial. No walkthrough. Just a spinning globe, sixteen nervous governments, and the knowledge that somewhere in the dark, Sectoids are already moving. X-COM: UFO Defense — known in Europe as UFO: Enemy Unknown — shipped in 1994 from a tiny British studio called Mythos Games, led by Julian Gollop. It was nearly cancelled twice during development. Then ...

For a small B2B SaaS comparing Rollbar, Bugsnag, Sentry, or a lean alternative, a useful server error grouping API must let the on-call search one property-management attempt, inspect event detail, and resolve workflow state without losing the underlying evidence. The least complex design is one immutable event stream keyed by an attempt ID, plus error groups that point back to those events across US and EU workloads. The bad page says only agent_error_rate > 5% . An engineer opens it at ...

If you're building a Power Apps Code App (React + TypeScript + Dataverse), there's one requirement that can kill an otherwise finished project: every end user needs a Power Apps Premium per-user license. Not a per-app license. Not a free tier. A Premium license, per person, for every single user who will open the app. This sounds obvious once you say it out loud - but it's easy to miss during scoping, especially when the business asks for "an app for everyone in the company." I've...

TL;DR (English). geo-orchestrator routes each task of a natural-language request across 16 LLMs from 5 providers by task type, complexity, cost and provider health. Every task type keeps a fallback chain whose top two slots come from different vendors; the two frontier models (US$ 10/50 per million tokens) sit behind a declarative policy with a 35% per-session share cap; and FinOps enforces per-run, per-day and per-provider ceilings with alerts that actually fire. State as of Oct 7, 2026: 23 ta...

Protocol ideas become much easier to reason about once they are visible in code. SAL, the Sovereign Agent Lifecycle Protocol, is still evolving, but the basic flow is straightforward enough to show in a small TypeScript sketch: an agent generates its own keypair, initializes into orphan state, proves possession through challenge-response, and later requests short-lived scoped access. The public spec is at sal-protocol.dev , and the reference implementation is in Vibebase . This is not...

When I started building Vicquant, the core design principle was simple and non-negotiable: the AI never does the math. Every number and a debt payoff schedule, a backtested win rate, a risk metric is computed by deterministic code. The model's only job is to explain results in plain language, never to generate a number from scratch. That principle protects users from one kind of failure: a model confidently inventing a wrong calculation. But it doesn't protect against a second, quieter failu...

A feature list tells you what software might contain. A clear purpose tells you what someone should be able to do with it. Before deciding what belongs in an MVP, try writing one sentence: When [situation occurs], [person] needs to [complete a task] so they can [reach a useful outcome]. Consider a hypothetical neighborhood repair shop: “When a customer asks about a repair, the person at the counter needs to find its current status so they can give a useful answer.” That sentence...