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The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding
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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination
Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in…
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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne
Learn how XBOW achieved #1 performance in autonomous penetration testing by validating real exploits and outperforming human pentesters in speed and accuracy.
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Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
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The NO FAKES act has changed, and it's worse
A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression
New study finds rumination can cause those with depression to get ‘stuck’ on thoughts, limiting their ability to mentally juggle options available to them when making decisions.
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Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
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Modeling the World in 280 Characters
An exploration of the mindset, methods, and motivations behind crafting tiny, expressive shaders that combine code, art, and constraint.
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MCP is eating the world
Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn’t magic or revolutionary. But, it’s simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.
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US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
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Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs.
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Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive…
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The FPGA turns 40
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first commercially viable FPGA introduced in 1985 was the Xilinx XC2064, which provided developers with 64 configurable logic blocks, each with a three-input look-up tables. From tiny…
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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
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Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
In the second part of our series, let's dive deeper into some of Solid Queue's more advanced features.
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Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)
Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972.
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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech
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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
Confused by LLMs, RAG, & AI Agents? We break down the spectrum of AI system design with a familiar resume-screening example to show the leap in capabilities (and complexity) at each level.
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The Zed Debugger Is Here
From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.
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TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
Leading U.S. companies Apple, Ford, Medtronic, NVIDIA and SpaceX strengthen partnerships with TI to unleash the next era of American innovation
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Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
New research provides first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.
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Remote MCP Support in Claude Code
Connect your favorite development tools and data sources securely to Claude Code through remote MCP servers. Today, we’re announcing support for remote MCP servers in Claude Code.
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Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
File parsers in Go contain unexpected behaviors that can lead to serious security vulnerabilities. This post examines how JSON, XML, and YAML parsers in Go handle edge cases in ways that have repeatedly resulted in high-impact security issues in production systems. We explore three real-world attack scenarios…
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