For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it charitably, idiot-
In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
Engineering and computing researchers create simple metal tags with unique ultrasonic fingerprints to detect door openings and other movements.
Swift Package Index is now part of Apple. Here's what that means.
Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been…
I recently jailbroke my 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite. While my motivation probably should have been "breaking free from Amazon's clammy and tightening grip", the truth is I wanted a way to use it as a clock on my nightstand. I found this project and figured I could just make some adjustments to the code. And that…
Isaac 1 is a mobile robot for the home — designed and assembled in San Francisco. Five colorways, private by design, and capable of far more than folding.
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI.
Why controlling total luminance is a better bet
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem introduces an impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of …
Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, rolling out on Pro, Max, and Ultra plans. Hand over the task and Claude does the work. You keep the final say.
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
My ISP was tampering with my DNS queries and handing back bogus IP addresses. Here are the misconceptions about DoH, DoT and DNSSEC that followed, and the setup I actually run.
I became a citizen of Japan. Let me share about it. Some is my anecdotal experience, some my opinion, and some facts. Parsing which of these is what in each sentence is not going to happen. EDIT: I have seen some online reaction to this, and appreciate your kind comments. If you are thinking abou
Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost
Wikipedia faces existential challenges from generative AI companies. Do researchers and teachers in higher education have an ethical duty to defend it?
Vite+ Beta brings the tools needed to create, develop, check, test, and maintain modern web projects into one fast and consistent workflow.
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+
By Nihar B. Shah
Rhombus version 1.0 is now available! Install: https://rhombus-lang.org/download.html More information: https://rhombus-lang.org/ Why a new language? https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (copied below) Frequently Asked Questions: https...
A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses.
We set up a MITM proxy and captured the decrypted HTTPS traffic from the official White House iOS app. On a single browsing session it contacts multiple Elfsight domains, sends your device fingerprint to OneSignal, and loads Google DoubleClick ad tracking. The privacy manifest says it collects nothing.
How an undefined behavior in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!
Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.
Burak Güngörs lab where he does some stuff
