There are no secrets” is Palantir’s conference motto. Yet how its software actually works in real-world use remains a secret to outsiders.

I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. The underlying technology is fascinating - thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit delivering broadband almost anywhere. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's an excellent…

Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…

Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank.

About 14 years ago I set up DNSSEC . I've been running it on all of my domains ever since, without issue. First using bind9 and then later using  PowerDNS...

Many business leaders think that a stricter return-to-office policy will cause a surge in productivity. But in reality, the data tell a different story.  Across practitione…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in software development,...

How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.

Claude Code skills that build complete Godot 4 projects from a game description - htdt/godogen

NVIDIA today launched the NVIDIA Vera CPU, the world’s first processor purpose-built for the age of agentic AI and reinforcement learning — delivering results with twice the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional rack-scale CPUs.

Ethan Brown has said, “It’s just not the moment for plant-based meat," following Beyond Meat's rebrand to Beyond The Plant Protein Company

Large language models (LLMs) are growing increasingly capable, prompting recent interest in LLM teams. Yet, despite increased deployment of LLM teams at scale, we lack a principled framework for...

First open-source code agent for Lean 4.

I saw this Mastodon post from Andy Wingo recently: in these days of coding agents and what-not, i often think of gerald sussman's comm...

Investigative data journalism: quantifying fixable waste in US healthcare, one issue at a time. Open-source analysis of CMS, OECD, and federal datasets. $98.6B in savings identified so far. - rexro...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a proposal to scrap the ​requirement for companies to report their earnings every quarter ‌and giving them the option to share results twice a year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Oxyde ORM is a type-safe, Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a high-performance Rust core designed for clarity, speed, and reliability. - mr-fatalyst/oxyde

Musk's AI chatbot has created millions of fake sexualised images, experts say.

Adding a type system to an existing dynamic language is a great exercise in showing all of the different ways type systems restrict the expressive power of programming languages. In this article, we will discuss one of said examples by exploring a potential…