Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith was recently notified her last day in the role would be April 28, 2026. (Defense Department) A recent opinion column I wrote as the Stars and Stripes ombu

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Durham-based American Efficient $722 million and ordered the company to repay more than $410 million in “

6 min read Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app — an account, a way to pay, and an API token. Un

Physics is humanity’s finest tool for understanding the world around us, a rich and wonderful framework deserving of our highest reverence. I recently used it to simulate a bunch of cells fighting to

All photos by Mike Kelley from his “Life Cycles” series It might not be the most important story in the world right now, as our species takes its first halting steps into a brave new world of technol

In two earlier posts I walked through the idea of LLM knowledge bases and then how to build one by hand using nothing more than markdown files, a few prompts, and an agent that follows a repeatable lo

Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Global’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which would

Silverfort researchers discovered that the Agent ID Administrator role in Microsoft Entra ID could silently take ownership of any service principal in your tenant — including those holding Global Admi

Asha Sharma confirmed Xbox will wind down Copilot on mobile and halt console development entirely, as the new CEO also outlined sweeping leadership changes in a memo to staff on Tuesday aimed at rever

A male house sparrow. Photo by Edoddridge via Wikimedia Commons Most city dwellers have been woken up at some point by the chirping of birds outside their apartment window, but a new study in the Jou

We learned earlier this month that Google and Anthropic had inked a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today, The Information reported that An

This website which you're on right now is free (as in beer), free (as in freedom), open source software called Nonograph. It cost about $600 USD to release, mostly due to two initial security reviews.

Posted 5/4/2026 At Andon Labs, we deploy AI agents into the real world, giving them real tools and real money, to show the current capabilities of AI. After the success of Andon Market in San Francis

Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra M

Finding 01 Meat eaters stay in relationships 40% longer Members who identified as meat eaters had a median return time of 26.3 months, compared to 18.7 months for vegans and vegetarians — a differen

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Who needs source code? I use Audiobookshelf (abbreviated ABS) for all my legal audiobooks that I bought legally, and I really like it. I also use the Smart Audiobook Player (abbreviated SABP) Android

Coinbase is the latest tech company to gut its workforce as part of an AI-centric restructuring. The company will lay off approximately 14 percent of its total headcount, CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in

In a new legal battle in the AI space, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and ot

There’s a certain comfort in seeing a pull request pass all checks. Green builds, no failing tests, everything looks solid. But here’s the uncomfortable question: what exactly did your tests cover?

I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the mat

I’ve written in the past about the cultural mismatch between Microsoft and IBM during the collaboration on OS/2, with the Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless bureaucracy an

DigiCert last week announced that certificates fraudulently obtained from its internal support portal after a cyberattack were revoked. The attack, the company said in a detailed report, occurred on

Companies make it too challenging to report security bugs and data leaks. Having a dedicated security email address could save your company from a damaging hack. Last year, I had dinner with a friend

I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprise

At Oblique, we run our backend on Google Cloud Run. It's a great fit for what we need: a Go binary, a Postgres database, and a handful of background jobs that sync data from upstream identity provider

We ran a benchmark comparing two ways of letting an AI agent operate the same admin panel, with the goal of putting a price tag on vision agents (browser-use, computer-use). Here is what we measured,

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The open web is a critical platform for applications that handle highly sensitive data, from private communications to financial transactions and medical records. Traditionally, servers are trusted to

Security researchers have found a security issue in Lix. This issue has been assigned CVE-2026-44028. Important note : The issues are different between Lix and CppNix but it seems there was confusion

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Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between us

One of the most frequent questions we receive on Facebook is: is this a photo of the aurora? So in this blog post, we’re going to list a few questions that you should ask yourself to help determine if

Why speculative decoding? The technical reality is that standard LLM inference is memory-bandwidth bound, creating a significant latency bottleneck. The processor spends the majority of its time movi

New car market rises 24.0% in April as market recovers from last year’s negative tax change impact. Two millionth electric car registered, with robust 26.2% market share during low-volume month. 202

I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte ( https://airbyte.com/ ). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents ( https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/