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According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft's "next generation console" - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a "family" of devices." "We've been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, […]

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with […]

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Read-Point Planning: Your Backlog Is a Cache of Beliefs Cache invalidation is famously one of the two hard things in computer science. The joke survives because the pain is real: keep a copy of something, and the moment the original changes, your copy starts lying to you. It lies silently, with a straight face, and it lies hardest to the people who trust it most. Here is the uncomfortable part. You are operating a large cache right now, and you are not invalidating it at all. It is called...

Google says the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users , making it the fastest-growing product in the company's history. The milestone is more than a large user count. It shows how Google's strategy of placing Gemini across familiar products and devices is turning an AI assistant into a widely used consumer interface for voice, visual and multimodal tasks. In its official Gemini app milestone announcement , Google points to several indicators of how that adoption is taking ...

This is me being honest with myself for a minute. The New York Times published a newsletter where the headline was OpenAI and 100 Others Warn that Window to Defend Against AI Attacks is Narrowing . Meaning as little as the efforts I have made towards my project for the past few months requires me to dig even deeper. The core of it all is defenders need to move faster than the attackers, because AI enabled attacks are getting cheaper to orchestrate and very difficult to remediate. How ar...

Pop quiz : Suppose you are developing a Flask app. Flask uses port 5000 as its default port. Now suppose that you have your Flask app running on macOS on port 5000. You're testing in Safari 1 and you enter this URL into the address bar: http://localhost:5000 . Question : What will happen? Answer : You won't get your Flask app. Instead, you'll likely get a whole lot of nothing, which can be very confusing because of two overlapping factors. It turns out, 5000 is the default por...

Combine dense embeddings and sparse keyword search using Reciprocal Rank Fusion to eliminate retrieval failure modes in production RAG systems. The Bottleneck in Production Most production RAG pipelines start with pure vector search. It works reliably during initial demos, but fails quietly once users begin searching for exact product IDs, error codes, or domain-specific identifiers. Vector search translates text into semantic coordinate spaces. Because dense models optimize ...

This is the last of three parts. In part one I split my personal services onto their own two-node cluster. In part two I read the orchestrator's source and fixed two bugs, which shipped in the next release. This part is what happened when I installed that release. It broke the cluster three separate ways. None of them shared a root cause. Here they are in the order I hit them. Failure one: glibc floor I copied the official release binary to the second node and the service went...

Google is changing how manual actions under its Site Reputation Policy affect search results in the European Economic Area. Starting August 30, a manual action can continue to affect an affected section of a website for users outside the EEA while not applying to results shown to users inside the EEA. The change creates a meaningful distinction for website owners whose audiences span multiple regions. According to Google's official Site Reputation Policy update , the policy itself still ap...

I run a small studio, which means every project I ship ends on the same question: can the client actually keep this without me? For a long time I assumed the answer lived in the contract. It does not. I have watched a company hold the intellectual property in the strictest legal sense and still be completely stuck, because the thing was live on a hosting account registered to somebody who had moved on. Ownership turned out to be three separate things, and most agreements only buy one of th...

The original Fermi paradox asks: If intelligent alien civilizations should be abundant, where is everybody? The Neo-Fermi/Wilson paradox asks: If AI is producing enormous quantities of excellent software, where is all the excellent software? We are told that implementation has been transformed: agents write code, discover defects, review changes, operate continuously, preserve memory, evaluate one another, and improve the factories that produce still more agents and software. ...

Background While surveying the major WordPress maintenance tools (ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella, and InfiniteWP), one thing stood out once their pricing was laid side by side: this isn't just a matter of "cheaper vs. more expensive." The shape of the pricing itself differs completely from company to company. And that shape isn't arbitrary — it closely mirrors how each company actually delivers its service. Four companies, four pricing shapes ManageWP: free core, stacked pe...

Wanted to share a project I've been building called LuaDB: a lightweight, zero-dependency embeddable database system written in pure Lua. Why pure Lua? Cross-platform embedding without needing C bindings or compiling native SQLite shared libraries (great for LÖVE, Roblox, OpenResty, or embedded devices). What it includes: Full B+Tree index engine on 4KB slotted binary pages Write-Ahead Logging (BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK) Native PostgreSQL wire protocol gateway (run luajit bin/luadb_serv...

Why "UNIQUE(event_id)" Is the Double-Charge Defense Your Agent Rail Can't Skip FractalMesh / IronVision Nexus · son, real engineering, no buzzword theater Every payment integration — AI agent or otherwise — has one feature buyers actually verify before trusting it with money: can it charge me twice? Not "will it behave." Can it physically fail in the way that hurts people. The cloud-favorite answer is "webhooks are at-least-once delivery, so make your handler idempotent." Th...

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I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the vault itself. It's still early software and the independent security review isn't finished yet, so I am mainly interested in feedback, testing, and people looking through the code. (Linux support is yet to be released on v0.1.2, but currently is in the works.) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...