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Wednesday August 20, 2025. 11:30 AM
As US labor and inflation data seemingly worsen, the White House refrain is “no panicans”—in other words, no room for panic. That isn't keeping everyone in Trumpworld from getting the jitters.
In previous articles I introduced connascence—the idea that code coupling can be described and quantified—and discussed five kinds of static connascence. In this article, we’ll wrap up our tour of connascence with a discussion of the deeper kind of connascence,...
One way to measure the scope of the generative AI boom is financially, and another is in terms of public awareness. Both are nearly unprecedented, even in the realm of high tech. Data center build-outs in support of AI expansion are expected to be in the region of $364...
Every developer knows how hard it is to redistribute a Python program as a self-contained, click-and-run package. There are third-party solutions, but they all have drawbacks. PyInstaller, the oldest and best-known tool for this job, is crotchety to work with and requires a...
If you’ve contacted a company recently it’s more than likely that you have encountered some form of AI either online or over the phone. We spoke to Priya Vijayarajendran, CEO of ASAAP to find out how AI is transforming real-time customer service interactions in the...
Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly...
US tech stocks sold off as warnings that the hype surrounding AI could be overdone hit some of the year's best-performing shares. From a report: Nvidia, the chips group that has surged to become the world's first $4tn company on the back of AI, fell 3.5 per cent on Tuesday,...
Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald's staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger's marketing...
Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deploy AI models.…
India Dispatch: The strongest case for India is not merely that it is young, but that it still has time, and it may be the only continental-scale economy that still has it in abundance. India won't cross the demographic threshold for an 'old' country -- a median age of 41 -- ...
Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.…
Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is manufacturing more of its iPhone 17 phones for the US in India instead of in China, and for the first time, the full lineup of new models will ship from India at launch, according to Bloomberg. The company is also working on a...
Electricity prices have increased at more than double the inflation rate over the past year, according to NPR reporting. Florida Power & Light customers face monthly bills exceeding $400 during summer months, prompting the utility to seek a 13% rate increase over four years...
Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.…
Pakistan's internet connectivity dropped to 20% of normal levels Tuesday, affecting the country's 116 million internet users, according to NetBlocks. The outage primarily impacted backbone operator PTCL. It's unclear what caused the outage. The Wireless and Internet Service...
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code if you don’t understand ...
Markdown – or, more accurately, incompatible variants of Markdown – is everywhere, but that doesn’t mean everybody likes it. It’s the lowest common denominator of light markup languages, with a lot of well-documented issues, and Karl Voit decided to write a long and detailed...
The latest preview of Microsoft’s planned.NET 10 application development platform is now available, featuring a source generator for XAML and improved translation for parameterized collections in Entity Framework Core. This preview was unveiled August 12 and can be...
Google's AI Overviews has returned fraudulent customer service phone numbers in multiple reported incidents. A Reddit user reported their friend received a fake number when searching 'Swiggy [an Indian food delivery firm] customer care number,' leading to attempted...
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