Month: February 2025

Uber sues DoorDash, alleging anti-competitive tactics

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Ride-share giant Uber filed a lawsuit Friday against DoorDash, accusing the delivery outfit of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive deals. Uber alleges in the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of California, that its chief rival bullied restaurants into only working with DoorDash. Uber claims that DoorDash, which holds the largest share of … Read more

AI’s Hallucinations Are Over

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First of all, let me describe the problem. I am a software developer, and I don’t use AI to write code just because of hallucinations. For creating pictures or writing texts they are not so critical, but for the task of writing code, they are overkill. I have identified two subproblems. Firstly, it is difficult … Read more

SEC Asks Court for Coinbase Case Deadline Extension, Citing ‘Potential Resolution’ Prospects

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Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hinted at a potential settlement with Coinbase in a late Friday court filing, citing the regulator’s new crypto task force. The SEC asked a federal appeals court to extend its deadline to respond to Coinbase, which filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling last month. District … Read more

AI Alexa and AI Siri face bugs and delays

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Amazon and Apple are struggling to put generative AI technology in their digital assistants — Alexa and Siri, respectively — according to a pair of reports that came out on Friday. Amazon hoped to release its new Alexa during an event in New York on February 26. Now Amazon plans to delay the release of … Read more

Google’s Android-based earthquake detector had a false alarm

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Google has disabled its Android earthquake detection feature in Brazil after many smartphone users in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro received false emergency alerts on Friday morning, Android Police reports. The alerts of a nonexistent 5.5 magnitude earthquake were sent to devices around 2AM this morning, and pinpointed earthquakes in the country’s Ubatuba and … Read more

Pull Request Testing on Kubernetes: How to Test Locally and on GitHub Workflows

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Imagine an organization with the following practices: Commits code on GitHub Runs its CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions Runs its production workload on Kubernetes Uses Google Cloud A new engineer manager arrives and asks for the following: On every PR, run integration tests in a Kubernetes cluster similar to the production one. It sounds reasonable. … Read more