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How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email
Stripped of reliable electricity, WiFi, and communication channels back home, our team immersed themselves in the local environment for twelve weeks while they built a platform that could succeed in this challenging setting.
Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions
Docker announces significant upgrades to its subscription plans, delivering more value, flexibility, and tools for customers of all sizes.
How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs
Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.
Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first
The message below on return-to-office plans was shared by Andy Jassy with Amazon employees today.
Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series. The "first sale" doctrine expresses one of...
Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. Should users be concerned?
37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other
A few years ago we launched the 37signals Job Board to answer a question we heard all the time: “Do you know where we can find a programmer or a designer? We need to hire one but we don’t know where to find one.” Since then, over 5,700 jobs have been posted, and many positions hav…
MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters
How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All
In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.
When XML in Word Became Illegal
Plus! A Sonos v. Google surprise, a 101 case rejects cert, and Celgene's REVLIMID
Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Introducing Google Building Maker
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters
Bursts of brilliance happen for almost everyone. Explore the “hot streaks” of thousands of directors, artists and scientists in our graphic.
What Every Hardware Startup Should Know About the Electronic Component Landscape
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Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.