Earlier this year, a user at Practical ZFS asked a deceptively simple question: I have a Proxmox pool of three four-wide RAIDz1 vdevs. Whenever my VM is running, all twelve... Read More

Microsoft’s new version of Outlook introduces some controversial data-sharing features

The European Union’s biggest banks have spent years quietly creating a new way to pay that could finally allow customers to ditch their Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. cards — the latest sign that the region is looking to dislodge two of the most valuable financial…

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development…

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG monitor what you are watching even when you are using the screens to display a feed from a connected laptop or video game console

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The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

Scale of Sam Altman’s proposed investment plans considered ‘absurd’

Unless your servers can print for some reason

How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.

Greenwich, an experiment in collaborative curation

Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.4.1 has been released and is available for download. It is a feature and bugfix release, and was originally published on 2024-09-27. 3.4.1? — What happen…

What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes…

When thinking of LLM evals especially in the context of RAGs, it occurred to me that there are two kinds of distinct responses people get from LLMs: informational and instructional.

In the movies, spies are usually ripped hunks who carry lots of gadgets, like James Bond and Jason Bourne. That’s rarely the case in real life, however. When the Office of Strategic Services,…

Generative AI giants are playing in a different universe than the rest of startupland.

Jingjing invited me to her office and asked me to wait for her to finish work before we headed out to dinner together. At the time, she was working in a

Iconic British actress Maggie Smith — known globally for her roles in 'Harry Potter' and 'Downton Abbey' — has died at the age of 89