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Large Language Model (LLM) agents, acting on their users' behalf to manipulate and analyze data, are likely to become the dominant workload for data systems in the future. When working with data,...

Incident report of a recent attack campaign targeting GitHub Actions workflows to exfiltrate PyPI tokens, our response, and steps to protect your projects.

Probably—and safety organisations are beginning to take note

Luo et al. develop a “living” microbial cement supercapacitor by embedding electroactive
microorganisms into cement matrices. This biohybrid system enables charge storage,
remains functional even after microbial inactivation, and can be reactivated via nutrient…

The words of first Czech President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk were unveiled in a live broadcast Friday.

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological ...

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this…

Discover Seattle Ultrasonics, a startup founded by culinary technologist Scott Heimendinger. We're on a mission to make happy home cooks, and we're starting by building a better knife.

I am working on a product that uses Azure in the back-end for LLMs and Audio Models. Just like how I test the code for every release, every time I add or update things on the system prompts for calibration or new features I also test the conversational…

An explanation of how Linux handles system calls on x86-64 and why they show up as expensive operations in performance profiles

Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like Coachella, GoPro, and Rivian.

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Apple's iPhone 17 Pro uses vapor chambers to keep cool, joining other high performance smartphones. How does this cooling tech work?