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The Problem That Built an Industry

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Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips

The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.

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My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative

Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Normally, that kind of ou

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You don’t have to spend more than $50 on a great USB-C dock for your Switch 2

Nintendo seemingly designed its latest console to be a mystery for third-party accessory makers. With the Switch 2, the company changed the wireless protocol for connecting controllers to the new syst

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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

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Your agent can DROP TABLE, read /etc/passwd, and drain a wallet. By default, nothing stops it.

AI agents are incredible. They write code, query databases, call APIs, manage infrastructure, and now — thanks to protocols like x402 and AP2 — they can spend money autonomously. But here's the gap n

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The System Went Down

The system went down. One leader opened Slack. The other opened the logs. Same title. Same years of experience. Same team size. The difference was proximity to the system they were responsible for. I

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I Built a Side-by-Side Base64 / URL / HTML / Encoder and Finally Stopped Confusing Them

I Built a Side-by-Side Base64 / URL / HTML / Encoder and Finally Stopped Confusing Them There are only four text encoding schemes you run into daily on the web. And yet the moment you feed

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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Building a Multimodal Cross Cloud Live Agent with ADK, Amazon EKS, and Gemini CLI

Leveraging the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and the underlying Gemini LLM to build cross cloud apps with the Python programming language deployed to the EKS container service on AWS.

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Building a Linux Kernel Module in Rust: Zero Panics in 14 Months Production

How Rust’s type system prevented 23 memory safety bugs that crashed our C kernel module weekly Building a Linux Kernel Module in Rust: Zero Panics in 14 Months Production How

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Demons and pinball are a perfect match

There's one very specific reason I keep a Wii U handy, and that's so that I have an easy way to play the classic pinball game Devil's Crush. Over the years, it has become a comfort game for me. I'm no

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How Iran out-shitposted the White House

In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding the zone with video a

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The Meeting Skill No Coding Bootcamp Teaches You

For the first three years of my career, I was invisible in meetings. I'd sit there, listen, nod, and leave. Sometimes I had an idea but didn't say it — I figured someone more experienced would say it

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AI Paradigms: From Symbolic Rules to Neural Networks and Intelligent Agents

Cross-posted from Zeromath. Original article: https://zeromathai.com/en/artificial-intelligence-paradigm-en/ AI is not one fixed idea. It has evolved through several paradigms, and each paradigm refl

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🐍 Python Teaching Assistant — preview v1.0.3 is on the way.

🐍 Python Teaching Assistant — preview v1.0.3 is on the way. Not a hotfix. Not a cosmetic cleanup. v1.0.3 is a core refactor — methodically rebuilding the logic that powers every lesson, so every fut

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I Stopped Letting AI Code For Me. Here's What I Actually Learned.

Hey, I'm a final-year CS student from Tunisia. I started learning programming two years ago. Like most beginners I didn't know where to start, so I used AI for ideas. Then for code structure. Then for

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JGuardrails: Production-Ready Safety Rails for Java LLM Applications

A system prompt is a request. Guardrails are enforcement. Shipping an LLM feature in a Java service is the easy part. Keeping it safe in production is where things get interesting. You write a ca

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DeFiLlama API is Great, But Here Are 5 Alternatives Worth Knowing

DeFiLlama API is Great, But Here Are 5 Alternatives Worth Knowing Let me get this out of the way upfront: DeFiLlama's API is excellent. It's free, open-source, and covers TVL data for virtu

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WP Bannerize Pro v1.13.0 — Your Banners Just Got Sharper, Safer, and More Flexible

WebP support, 6 security hardening fixes, responsive flexbox layouts, and PHP 7.4 compatibility — the biggest quality release yet. Introduction A user asked: "Would it be possible to con

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