History of CAD
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A "Brief" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg
How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs
By: Cheng Xie, Bryan Shultz, and Christine Xu
Czech police forced to turn off facial recognition cameras at the Prague airport
The shutdown of the facial recognition cameras at the Václav Havel Airport in Prague came after years of criticism from EDRi member IuRe.
Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs
Transformer²: Self-Adaptive LLMs
A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
In the second part of our series, let's dive deeper into some of Solid Queue's more advanced features.
This Month in Ladybird February 2025
Block rendering until CSS is ready, OpenSSL and curl adoption continues, Firefox DevTools protocol support lands, and aarch64 Linux joins CI.
AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.
Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds
Research highlights how a lack of vegetation and shade exposes vulnerable residents to heightened health risks.
The Miracle of Wörgl
When entertaining the idea of communities issuing their own money (called complementary currencies ), people often wonder if that idea has been successfully done before. In doing our research into the concept, we encountered a number of stories where communities issued their own currency and produced a prosperity…
Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study
Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice
HTAP is Dead
Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.
Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster
Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.
The weaponization of travel blacklists
[A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate…
Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
Researchers at Rice and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled a physics-based model of magnetic resonance relaxation that bridges molecular-scale dynamics with macroscopic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals, promising new insight into how contrast agents interact with water molecules.
Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe
Protect your organization with Idira®. Modernize identity governance, automate access reviews, and secure every identity across your hybrid cloud environment.
Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions
Make Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most.
Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data
The new, publicly accessible database contains more than a million infectious disease incidence counts dating back to 1903.
Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm
When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.
How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure
Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security...
OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10
A list of OWASP's Non-Human Identities Top 10 risks for 2025
Why top firms fire good workers
Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.
The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California
[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog]