When a couple alerted Airbnb to a spy cam in an outlet extender, they thought the listing would be yanked and they’d get a full refund. Wrong on both counts.

Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial - anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely…

the psql client version 18 comes with pipelining, which can speed up client-server communication. In this post, let's see how it works and how much can be g...

My career in data started as a SQL Server performance specialist, which meant I was deep into the nuances of indexes, locking and blocking, execution plan analysis and query design. These days I’m more in the world of the open table format such as Apache…

A Lisp Interpreter for Linux Shell Scripting, written in C++. - gue-ni/redstart

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Academic presentation videos have become an essential medium for research communication, yet producing them remains highly labor-intensive, often requiring hours of slide design, recording, and...

Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project

Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.

We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…

LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual tuning.

Exploring Odin Through a Tiny Key-Value Store with Pub/Sub

Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.

(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.)

We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work to get us that specification. Part education…