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Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and culture jamming to...
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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Update 11/19/24: The Senate Judiciary Committee is still scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please express your continued opposition through our action center, linked below. A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent...
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.
Information on a security incident involving Dropbox Sign.
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
We're thrilled to announce that PartyKit, a trailblazer in enabling developers to craft ambitious real-time, collaborative, multiplayer applications, is now a part of Cloudflare
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Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.
Increased accessibility and cost-efficiency for developers enables you to build a wider range of applications using Google's advanced AI technology.
Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing budgets worldwide. This column examines a problem within this rapidly expanding advertising market – influencer cartels, in which groups of influencers collude to increase advertising revenue by inflating each other’s engagement numbers. Influencer…
At Ubicloud, our managed cloud service enables us to run PostgreSQL for others. We open sourced our implementation, so we thought this was a good opportunity to talk about its features. This blog post summarizes features commonly available in a managed service. It also describes interesting differences between running…
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic and new driving nuances associated with operating in one of…
PMF Method from First Round is a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders increase their odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Read about the four levels of PMF in this preview of PMF Method content.
The demand for computing power in the AI era is increasing at an unprecedented exponential rate. Luckily, for the past several decades, the miniaturization of CMOS transistor technology following Moore’s law has allowed much of this exponential growth to be accounted for by increasing computer efficiency.
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
We've open sourced the code for Project Gameface so developers and enterprises can leverage it to build new experiences with increased accessibility.
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a federal district court did just that in the latest iteration of Oracle v. Rimini, concluding that...
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
Announcing Liquid Foundation Models: state-of-the-art local AI with a smaller memory footprint and faster inference.
