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The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
Explore A2A, Google's new open protocol empowering developers to build interoperable AI solutions.
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Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.
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A guide to reduce screen time
An extensive guide with over 40 tips to learn how to reduce your screen time. Understand the causes and meet your objectives with these tools and techniques.
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Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies
Most of the Firefox User Interface (UI), including the address bar and the tab strip, are implemented using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript plus some additional custom components like XUL. One of the advantages of using web technologies for the front end is that it allows rendering the frontend…
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PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)
Boost PostgreSQL full-text search speed by 50x with simple optimizations. Use VectorChord-BM25 to accelerate and better BM25 ranking in postgres.
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How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds
Woodpecker drumming may not be as immediately distinctive as birdsong—but by carefully listening to speed, duration, and rhythm you can still tell many species apart. Here are some tips.
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How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs
By: Cheng Xie, Bryan Shultz, and Christine Xu
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Better typography with text-wrap pretty
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.
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Tailscale has raised $160M
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.
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How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority
With Trump’s return and the CLOUD Act, U.S. access to European data is a growing risk. Discover why open-source solutions and a solid cloud infrastructure are the only way forward to digital sovereignty.
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Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
Gemini Live with video and screen sharing is now rolling out to Android mobile devices.
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20 years of Git
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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LLMs understand nullability
The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider…
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Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
In August 2020 we were commissioned to recover a cache of locked QText documents from the mid-90s. This is the process of analyzing the encrypted documents and reverse engineering a DOS-era Hebrew-English word processor written in Turbo Pascal.
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The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks
Fire trucks across all environments are unique, but what key features change? Learn about the differences between municipal and airport fire trucks now.
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SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but face significant challenges in widespread deployment due to…
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
Body doubling is a productivity technique where an individual works on their tasks alongside someone else. Find out how ADHDers can use this strategy to their advantage.
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We are still using 88x31 buttons
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…
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North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
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A year of Rust in ClickHouse
This story is about how ClickHouse supports Rust components in the C++ code base and the challenges we had to overcome.
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The Llama 4 herd
We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
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Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
A novel technique for implementing dynamic language interpreters in Go, applied to the Vitess SQL evaluation engine
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Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
Sweeteners can kill drug resistant bacteria
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Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
The EU can support the development of homegrown social media platforms to ensure European Union's digital sovereignty and shield it from foreign interference
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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
From black screens and boot issues to rendering quirks and PAC puzzles, here’s what we learned getting iOS to finally say hello.
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