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Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference
A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.
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Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
Get the tools and support you need to transform your CAD and 3D data into immersive, interactive apps and experiences with Unity Industry.
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. We’ll also explain how to mitigate and defend against these attacks, and we’ll introduce Anamorpher, our open-source…
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Code review can be better
Slightly unusual genre today: a negative result about our git-review tool for a different take on code review process, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
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Zig 0.15.1
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Pixel 10 Phones
Learn more about the new Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL phones announced today at Made by Google.
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OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
Banner announcing OPA creators joining Apple
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Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Why we dropped Playwright and switched to raw CDP for faster, more capable browser automation.
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Sequoia backs Zed
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
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Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix
Today, we're introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context.
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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion.
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Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) conducted a large-scale, unconditional block targeting TCP port 443 on August 20, 2025. This report documents the measurements and analysis we conducted of that event.
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Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
We discoverd a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allows users to access files without getting detected or appearing in the audit log.
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D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs.
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Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)
Learn what a semantic layer is, why it matters, and how to build a simple one with DuckDB and Ibis using just YAML and Python | Reading time: 22 min read
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CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...
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How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
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450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
Introduction Readyset is designed to serve queries from cached views with sub-millisecond latency. This post focuses on the cold path—cases where a cache miss forces execution against the base tables. In these scenari...
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Positron, a New Data Science IDE
We are excited to introduce Positron , a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context…
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PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks
PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take over PyPI accounts through password resets.
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XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
In this blog, we share a new finding in the XZ Utils saga: several Docker images built around the time of the compromise contain the backdoor. At first…
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How to Think About GPUs
We love TPUs at Google, but GPUs are great too. This chapter takes a deep dive into the world of GPUs – how each chip works, how they're networked together, and what that means for LLMs, especially compared to TPUs. While there are a multitude of GPU architectures from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and others, here we will…
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Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
EPFL researchers have developed a new way to design complex, curved three-dimensional shapes using flat materials such as paper, aluminum sheets or plastic, combining creative thinking with a new computational algorithm.
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The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed
When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.
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Why we still build with Ruby
Why we still choose Ruby on Rails in 2025: Learn how Lago scales millions of API events with Rails, Go, and Rust, balancing developer speed, concurrency, and performance.
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SystemD Service Hardening
Discover additional security options for systemd units, to include quadlets. These options are everything from system permissions, time manage, BPF, syscall & seccomp filters, etc., all to make your system more secure.
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It’s OK to block ads (2015)
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most ads from appearing when you use websites or apps that would…
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ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison
See how ClickHouse’s update speed stacks up against PostgreSQL on the same data and hardware.