Authority cited by FTC just a "housekeeping statute," US judge in Texas rules.

Sociologists have shown that “third places” such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods…

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Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.

Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.

A simple & elegant experiment tracking framework that integrates persistence logic & best practices directly into Python - amakelov/mandala

This post covers the design and creation of the Floppy8, a microcomputer and cartridge system which fits inside a floppy drive. To see it in action, checkout this video! The Floppy8 plays 4K movies and games on custom cartridges, features wireless controllers…

Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast!

We are…

You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.

For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already:…

The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence

OpenFeature is an open specification that provides a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging that works with your favorite feature flag management tool or in-house solution.

Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?

The AWS Secrets Manager Agent is a local HTTP service that you can install and use in your compute environments to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory. - aws/aws-secretsmanag...