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How a 1999 paper defined the AMPED web server architecture. See how separating control flow from I/O shapes modern caching, performance & system design

Learn how dynamic LLM routing cut AI API costs by 57% by matching prompt complexity to the right model instead of defaulting every request to premium AI.

AI products will fail in ways normal software does not. Learn how failure UX, fallback paths, and honest uncertainty protect user trust.

Meet Data Horizon, Hub, and Deploy Humans, three projects solving problems in AI infrastructure, developer documentation and conversational analytics.

I launched two similar job boards, but Google indexed one and rejected the other. Here is what I think went wrong and what I would do differently.

MAGA is loudly calling for the former White House chief medical adviser to end up in prison. WIRED asked legal experts to weigh in on whether that’s even possible.

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn't be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry […]

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google responded to Digital Digging's AI-altered images, saying, "We […]

Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis based on family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like paying full fare? Woot has Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for Switch on sale for $52.99 (usually $59.95). Sort of like Animal Crossing, but more off-kilter, this unique game sees you building and managing relationships […]

No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these autonomous robots pose are […]

Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a "Google Pixel Tag" that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing about the Pixel Tag that describes the gadget as an item tracker with a speaker […]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause "a loss of vehicle directional control," as reported earlier by Reuters. The preliminary investigation includes the 2018-2020 Model 3 and 2021-2023 Model Y, according to a filing from the NHTSA's Office […]

Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border […]

We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live, but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest AirTag. Right now, you can pick up a four-pack for $89 ($10 off) at Amazon and Target, matching the bundle’s all-time low price. If you’re a member, Costco also has […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

The new funding brings Index's total available investing capital to $3.5 billion.

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

I Put goose in CI to Draft Entire’s Weekly Release Notes When I joined Entire, I noticed my boss spending a chunk of time every week writing detailed release notes, called Dispatches at Entire. It looked like a painful process. Each Dispatch had to cover changes across several repositories, explain why those changes mattered, credit external contributors, and carefully avoid leaking anything that was not public yet. I offered to take it over. I had solved a similar problem before, so I fi...

I Stopped Building More Tools and Started Building Better Ones (Toolora Journey) A few days ago, I shared my side project Toolora, a collection of developer and everyday tools. One piece of feedback completely changed my roadmap. Instead of adding more tools, someone told me: "Build one tool so good that developers actually bookmark it." That made me rethink everything. Over the last 2 days, I stopped adding new features and focused entirely on improving the existing experience. 🎯 What ...

A QR code can look perfect in your browser and still fail on a printed flyer behind glass, on a wrinkled shipping label, or under a flickering streetlight at dusk. When you treat generation as a one-step drop into a designer, you skip the constraints that decide whether the code is actually scannable in the field. This article walks through the engineering decisions that show up after you hit "download" — the ones that decide whether your audience scans cleanly or gets a "Could not read code" er...

Installation Linux / macOS pip install worldnews-cli worldnews Windows If pip isn't in your PATH: py -m pip install worldnews-cli py -m worldnews Or: python -m worldnews Built With Python Textual feedparser Rich Links Website https://nishal21.github.io/News-CLI/ PyPI https://pypi.org/project/worldnews-cli/ GitHub https://github.com/nishal21...

What The GIF is a free, in-browser GIF and video editor that never uploads your file. Drop in a video, a photo, or an existing GIF and turn it into a clean GIF, MP4, or APNG, with frame-accurate trimming, a multi-clip timeline, captions, filters, and more. The entire conversion runs inside your browser tab, so nothing is ever sent to a server, and the site's security policy enforces that. It does what ezgif does, but private: no signup, no account, no watermark, no install. No need to worry ...

I build a legal-tech product where an AI assistant answers questions about real cases: client names, national IDs, IBANs, phone numbers, the lot. That conversation goes to an LLM I do not control. Sending it raw is not an option. The obvious fix, a pile of regexes that blank out anything that looks like an ID, breaks in two directions at once. It has false positives (it redacts things that were not IDs) and false negatives (it misses the ones with odd formatting), and worst of all it is one-w...

Three words that engineers use interchangeably and shouldn't: Migration is a one-time move — different system, different schema, run once, archive the scripts. Conversion is what happens inside a migration when the shape of the data has to change (types, keys, business rules). ETL is a continuous integration pattern — extract, transform, load — running forever between two systems that both stay alive. This post is about how I've done all three, in real projects, across two eras of...

This article it is about the follow repository . I hope you all have a moment to understanding more about it and feel the fun of knowledge. Have you ever stopped to think about how the Google search bar works? It is something we use every day, millions or even billions of users per day, writing letter by letter and almost with no response time to see the possible searches, words being corrected, suggestions happening, mentions of nearby events, suggestions based on your history, it is a ma...