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I wrote my first line of Rust in June 2015, a month after Rust 1.0 landed. Coming from C, Python, and JavaScript, I never looked back. Two Rust-based startups and 500k lines of Rust later, here are some reflections on the milestone.
The future of AI is hybrid, utilizing the respective strengths of cloud and client while harnessing every Windows device to achieve more. At Microsoft, we are reimagining what’s possible by bringing powerful AI compute directly to Windows devices,
ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.0.0! This is a major release, and is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Kea.
After my previous post on ARM exploitation, where we crafted an exploit for a known vulnerability, I decided to continue the research on a more modern IoT target. In this follow-up post, I will take you through building a considerably more complex binary exploit. We will explore the path from firmware extraction and…
Discover how Google modernized YouTube's iconic red hue with accessibility and motion design in mind.
Strengthening customer trust: Walmart is eliminating synthetic dyes and 30+ ingredients from U.S. private brand foods.
Conscious unbossing - 52% of Gen-Z professionals don’t want to be middle managers
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash price increase offers a warning about the economics of AI inference and the limits of ever-cheaper intelligence.
Discover why we built Vectroid, a serverless vector database that delivers exceptional accuracy and low latency without compromising on cost. Learn about our approach to solving the traditional tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and cost in vector search.
[POSTECH, KAIST, and Gyeongsang National University achieve a record-breaking energy density of 1,270 Wh/L]
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…
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
Turn-Taking is a big challenge AI Voice Agents are rapidly evolving, powering critical use-cases such as customer support automation, virtual assistants, gaming, and remote collaboration platforms. For these voice-driven interactions to feel natural and practical, the underlying audio pipeline must be resilient to…
The design of SQLite was inspired by the design of TCL, both in the way it handles datatypes and in the formatting of its source code. The index use case for SQLite was in a Tcl/Tk application for an industrial company. From its inception, SQLite has always depended heavily on TCL. These days, SQLite no longer uses…
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. We shouldn’t need to prove we’ve suffered...
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Permeable materials in homes can retain volatile organic compounds for up to a year
An open letter from current and former CISOs, security leaders, and practitioners asking the public, employers, journalists, and policymakers to retire outdated security advice.
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.
An Open Letter To JD Vance From A Former CIA Officer On The Counterintelligence Risks Of Smartwatches Mr. Vice President, Congratulations on your ascendancy to the Vice President of the United States of America. While we are an apolitical platform, we wish you nothing but success, the country depends on you. In a rec
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