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A viral post on X from veteran programmer and former Google engineer Steve Yegge set off a rhetorical firestorm this week, drawing sharp public rebuttals from some of Google’s most prominent AI leaders and reopening a sensitive question for the company: how deeply are its own engineers really using the latest generation of AI coding tools? The debate began after Yegge summarized what he said was the view of his friend, a current and longtime Google employee (or Googler), who claimed the Gemini AI-firm's int
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Halting customs at Newark — one of the busiest international hubs in the U.S. — would be a logistical nightmare for airlines. Read more ›
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A fresh document scanning experience is rolling out to Google Drive on Android devices. With this update, users can scan multiple pages at once and Drive will split them into separate docs automatically. There is also duplicate detection to make sure you aren’t scanning the same page multiple times, and Auto Best Frame to ensure... Read the original post: Google Drive’s New Document Scanning Experience Rolling Out Read more ›
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A Turkish company claims volcanic spray technology reduces drone radar visibility using inexpensive materials and simplified stealth application methods. Read more ›
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Insurtech major PB Fintech’s cofounders Yashish Dahiya and Alok Bansal together sold 38 Lakh shares of the company via multiple… Read more ›
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Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits.MeMo, a framework from researchers at multiple universities, encodes new knowledge into a dedicated smaller memory model that operates separately from the main LLM.The modular architecture works with both open- and closed-source models and sidesteps the complexity of RAG pipelines and... Read more ›
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If you're a young movie director, you get your start on YouTube. Next: graduating to movie theaters, and crushing the competition. Read more ›
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MSI's MPG OLED 322URDX36 is the world's first Triple Mode gaming monitor, switching between 4K 360Hz, 2K 520Hz, and FHD 680Hz. Read more ›
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Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me. Read more ›
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Keep your identity safe for $10 per month — Norton LifeLock is 16% off right now Read more ›
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Only around half of the workers using AI regularly have had any formal training from their employers. Read more ›
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The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck. Acer says it's a "streaming-first handheld and companion device," like a PlayStation Portal for your PC. Announced at Computex on Friday, it's launching in Q4 2026 with a 7-inch (1920 x 1200) display, Wi-Fi 6, just 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and […] Read more ›
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Earbuds with a clip-on design that makes them look a little like clip-on earrings are the latest trend in true-wireless earbuds. Here are my current top picks. Read more ›
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Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium. Read more ›
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'Game of Thrones' was mostly beloved until that last season, but her filmography also includes Marvel's 'Secret Invasion,' 'Terminator Genysis,' and 'Solo: A Star Wars Story.' Read more ›
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Vertu is on a foldable phone kick – following the Quantum Flip, the luxury brand has now launched the AlphaFold globally, its first book-style foldable. And while it has the requisite premium materials, this phone’s sole focus is on boosting your productivity with AI. Well, not your productivity – not unless you happen to have $6,880 lying around. And that’s the cheap version, the Alligator Skin Gold & Diamond costs... Read more ›
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When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities. In reality, the limited information provided by the retrieval interface is often the primary limiting factor.Researchers at multiple universities propose a technique called direct corpus interaction (DCI) that lets agents bypass embedding models entirely, searching raw corpora directly using standard command-line tools.The limits of classic retrievalIn classic retrieval systems such as RAG, d Read more ›
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On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account.Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified the package was built in a CI environment, confirmed a valid certificate was issued, and recorded everything in the transparency log. What it cannot do is determine whether the person holding the credentials... Read more ›
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There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any existing postmortem template. The agent initiated an action. The action was technically correct given the agent's context. The context was incomplete. The infrastructure cascaded. And, by the time the incident review happened, three teams were arguing about whether it was an agent failure or an infrastructure failure, because the frameworks... Read more ›
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Over the past two decades, technical debt meant outdated architecture, messy code, and poorly maintained documentation. That definition is no longer sufficient in the AI era, where failure modes are more subtle and often non-linear. AI systems are introducing new layers of technical debt that live across prompts, models, and data dependencies — making these layers less visible, harder to measure, and often more dangerous than traditional debt.A crisis hiding... Read more ›
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The attacker who hit the most financial services organizations over the past 12 months never phished a password. They called an IT support line, convinced an employee to reset their MFA, and registered their own device on the network.CrowdStrike’s 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape Report, released this month and covering activity from April 2025 through March 2026, identified Mutant Spider as the single most active threat to the financial services... Read more ›
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For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI's GPT-5 family, Anthropic's Claude Opus, and Google's Gemini Pro have clustered within a narrow band on Scale AI's SWE-Bench Pro leaderboard, making it nearly impossible for engineering leaders to determine which agent will actually perform best inside their codebases.On Monday, a startup called Datacurve released... Read more ›
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The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably most alarming, conclusion of DataGrail's Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026, released today.The San Francisco-based privacy platform analyzed 2,400 popular business software providers and found that 63.6% of vendors that prominently advertise AI capabilities do not disclose... Read more ›
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Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it's working is because they built the infrastructure first.And the pharmaceutical manufacturer is seeing promising early results: AI is generating marketing drafts that are “99% right” when it comes to compliance, shrinking review cycles from months... Read more ›
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Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses. Now, MiniMax is again raising the eyebrows of AI power users and developers around the... Read more ›
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Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rarely crossing multiple jurisdictions. This structural mismatch is driving the realization across boardrooms and governments that data sovereignty is not only core to critical infrastructure, but its implications determine the trajectory of the global economy.The scale of change is forcing the issue.... Read more ›
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