Zillow property listings no longer show risk of fires, floods, and storms

Zillow has stopped publishing climate risk ratings for sales listings that show the likelihood of properties being impacted by extreme weather, The New York Times reports. The feature introduced by the real estate listings site last year used data from risk-modeling company First Street to forecast which homes are most vulnerable to floods, wildfires, wind, … Read more

Why We Post Less on Social Media but Scroll More

The internet has never felt louder, yet the people inside it have never been quieter. Open any app, and your feed is a wall of ads, viral clips, AI-generated faces, and hyper-polished “content,” but the messy, everyday life updates from actual friends seem to have vanished. I have felt this change in my own circles. … Read more

Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models and Defense Mechanisms

In the past few years, surprisingly, Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced very rapidly, from search engines and chatbots to assistants for enterprises. Although these models are very good at understanding and even writing text, new security risks are posed by their complexity. First, adversarial inputs are created by attackers that can disturb the normal behavior of a model. Unlike normal vulnerabilities and weaknesses in … Read more

The AI Agent That Could Break BI in the Future – And the One That Could Save It

A Conceptual Scenario Based on Emerging Patterns in Enterprise Analytics. Prologue – The Future Awakens In the emerging future of analytics, dashboards will not be simply “opened”. They will be activated – instantly, conversationally, and continuously updated by autonomous BI agents that anticipate user needs long before any interaction occurs. These agents will run insights … Read more

Netflix kills casting from phones

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,” and instead … Read more

The Most Ruthless System Architect You’ll Ever Hire is an LLM

The hardest part of software engineering isn’t writing code. It’s realizing, three months into a project, that the foundational architecture you chose is fundamentally incapable of handling the required scale. Traditional design reviews are imperfect. Your colleagues are busy, they have their own biases, and they might hesitate to tear down your ideas too aggressively. … Read more

Supercharging AI Workflows: Distributed Document Processing with Node.js, Python, and RabbitMQ

When your monolith AI service starts choking on documents Imagine a document-processing service that handles PDF uploads, extracts text, runs sentiment analysis, and generates summaries. Under normal usage it performs well until… the day a user uploads 500 documents at once! Suddenly, the Node.js server stalls for 20 minutes, blocking other requests and leaving users … Read more

How BTCC Scaled from 2 Million to 10 Million Users While Building a Web3 Financial Ecosystem

Can crypto exchanges grow without compromising security and transparency? BTCC, founded in 2011, tested this question by scaling from 2 million users in 2022 to over 10.16 million by October 2025. The platform’s trajectory offers insight into how exchanges compete in an industry where global crypto ownership reached 560 million people in 2025, up 34% … Read more