Product Teams vs. Project Teams: Their Role in Agile Environments

Many headlines and opinions reflect concerns about the effectiveness of agile methodologies in workspaces. People these days want something, and they want it immediately. We’ve learned to live with instant gratification, and the same thing is required from software development teams. They must produce results, and they must do it quickly. If someone is skeptical … Read more

Augmented Linked Lists: An Essential Guide

How Does a Linked List Work? A linked list is a data structure where the fields of each data are connected by pointers instead of offsets. It consists of a main element that stores the first and last elements, so-called node elements, containing all necessary user fields (such as a phone, owner, company, etc.) and … Read more

Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Although there’s no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core processors, the company is trying to make things somewhat better for customers who are stuck with potentially damaged chips by extending their warranty for two additional years. “Intel is committed to making sure all customers … Read more

gRPC-Secret: Mastering Deadlines, Timeouts, and Custom Contexts

gRPC, an open-source remote procedure call (RPC) framework, enables efficient and scalable communication between services. One crucial aspect of gRPC is the management of deadlines, request timeouts, and the propagation of context, including custom structures. Understanding these mechanisms helps ensure that services respond promptly, resources are not wasted on operations that exceed a reasonable time … Read more

Intel to lay off 15,000 employees

Intel announced it would layoff more than 15% of its staff, or 15,000 employees, in a memo to employees on Thursday. The massive headcount is part of a large plan to reduce spending by $10 billion in 2025, following a dismal second quarter earnings report and outlook. “Our revenues have not grown as expected – … Read more

Net neutrality is on ice

#STK473 Net Neutrality Net neutrality is officially on hold after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule from taking effect. The court granted a stay, extending an earlier temporary pause. This time, net neutrality will be blocked until the court says otherwise after reviewing the petitions from broadband providers who opposed the rule. … Read more

98% of Data Strategies Fail: Let’s Fix It

Picture this: You’re Gordon Ramsay, the world-renowned chef, walking into yet another restaurant for your hit show “Kitchen Nightmares.” The owner boasts about their state-of-the-art kitchen equipment, the diverse menu, and the talented staff. But as you dig deeper, you find a chaotic kitchen, a confused team, and dishes that are all presentation and no … Read more

Is the Honeymoon With Generative AI Over or Just Beginning?

The advent of Generative AI was presumably the most paradigm-redefining event for not just the technology industry but humanity itself. From industries across the board to governments seeking to leverage its abilities, Generative AI promised to make unheard-of productivity and efficiency levels possible. The fact that it was able to analyze humongous quantities of data … Read more

AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’

Following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against music generation startups Udio and Suno, Suno admitted in a court filing on Thursday that it did, in fact, train its AI model using copyrighted songs. But it claimed that doing so was legal under the fair-use doctrine. The RIAA filed the lawsuit … Read more

Information Overload: How AI With Research Content Curation Could Lead the Way

Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded with such a high volume of information from various sources. This massive influx of data, coupled with the development of content generation from AI, undoubtedly gives us greater access to knowledge than we’ve ever had before. However, it also brings in the problem of information overload. Think of a typical … Read more