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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
Learn about the eleven lessons, from two decades, shared by site reliability engineers at Google, essential SRE lessons and core principles of SRE.
Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.
SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
A blog by and for database architects.
Sublime Text 3 Beta
The first beta of Sublime Text 3 is now available to download for registered users. Some feature highlights are below, followed by our new pricing and upgrade policies, and system compatibility for Sublime Text 3.
GPT-5.2-Codex
GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
With mere days left before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House, President Barack Obama’s administration just finalized rules to make it easier for the nation’s intelligence agencies to share unfiltered information about innocent people. New rules issued by the Obama administration...
Using Google without a Google+ profile
Over the next few months, we’re going to be making some important changes. Here’s more about what you can expect.
SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to...
Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
On October 7th, Toyota revealed a partial copy of their T-Connect source code had been accidentally exposed for 5 years, including access to data for over 290,000 customers.
Ember-1
Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B benchmark performance in a 5.9GB footprint, with multimodal and agentic capabilities.
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
I quit my job as an engineering manager at Oracle in early June 2021. I had a bit of savings and a few contract opportunities so I decided to see how far I could get building an app I've wanted for years as a manager. I have never built my own app before and I've never built a desktop app before.
Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
Today, we’re announcing new requirements for bulk senders that will help keep Gmail safer and more spam-free.
Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Meet motorola signature 27, Motorola's most advanced flagship smartphone ever with next-gen AI, industry-leading tech, & a distnctive design.
Coursera to combine with Udemy
Highly Complementary Capabilities Will Create a Leading Technology Platform, Redefining Skills Discovery, Development, and Mastery for Learners and Organizations at Scale Unites Udemy’s Dynamic AI-Powered Skills Development Marketplace with World-Class University and Industry Brands Under the Coursera Ecosystem…
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
Announcing ARC Prize - a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
Hello Spicy Compatriots, I know this is not typical on a business blog, but I want to share what happened to potentially help someone in a similar situation. If you have followed my twitter account since December, you might know that I was robbed by my Uber driver. He intentionally drove off with my backpack…
Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
Every week, a new AI model climbs to the top of a benchmark leaderboard. Companies cite these numbers in press releases. Investors use them to justify valuations. Engineers use them to pick which model to deploy. The implicit promise is simple: a higher score means a more capable system.
A Difficult Situation
Explore the latest company news, product updates, technical tutorials, and best practices from Twilio, the industry-leading customer engagement platform.
Sudo for Windows
Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a
Veo 2: Our video generation model
Our leading video generation model