Month: December 2025

DOJ appears to bungle Epstein Files redactions

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The Justice Department has blamed its delayed release of some so-called Epstein files on needing more time to redact sensitive information, like details identifying the victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But at least some of the redactions so far released appear to mistakenly disclose information meant to be obscured from the public. A … Read more

New York’s landmark AI safety bill was defanged — and universities were part of the push against it

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A group of tech companies and academic institutions spent tens of thousands of dollars in the past month – likely between $17,000 and $25,000 – on an ad campaign against New York’s landmark AI safety bill, which may have reached more than two million people, according to Meta’s Ad Library. The landmark bill is called … Read more

Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there

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The livestreams connected to more than 60 of Flock’s AI-powered surveillance cameras were left available to view on the web, allowing someone to see live feeds of each location without needing a username or password, according to findings from tech YouTuber Benn Jordan and 404 Media. Flock is a technology company that works with thousands … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP (12/23/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 23, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Transistor was Successfully Demonstrated in 1947, Argentina Announced Its Biggest Debt Default in History in 2001, The Federal Reserve System was founded via Federal Reserve Act … Read more

Overcoming Training Costs in Index Advising: The Need for IA2

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works 2.1 Traditional Index Selection Approaches 2.2 RL-based Index Selection Approaches Index Selection Problem Methodology 4.1 Formulation of the DRL Problem 4.2 Instance-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Index Selection System Framework of IA2 5.1 Preprocessing Phase 5.2 RL Training and Application Phase Experiments 6.1 Experimental Setting … Read more

Evolution of Index Selection: From Traditional Greedy Approaches to IA2

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works 2.1 Traditional Index Selection Approaches 2.2 RL-based Index Selection Approaches Index Selection Problem Methodology 4.1 Formulation of the DRL Problem 4.2 Instance-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Index Selection System Framework of IA2 5.1 Preprocessing Phase 5.2 RL Training and Application Phase Experiments 6.1 Experimental Setting … Read more

Reducing TPC-H Workload Runtime by 40% with IA2 Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works 2.1 Traditional Index Selection Approaches 2.2 RL-based Index Selection Approaches Index Selection Problem Methodology 4.1 Formulation of the DRL Problem 4.2 Instance-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Index Selection System Framework of IA2 5.1 Preprocessing Phase 5.2 RL Training and Application Phase Experiments 6.1 Experimental Setting … Read more

How Last Samurai Standing adds kinetic action to the Battle Royale formula

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Last Samurai Standing begins with a familiar premise. Desperate samurai dispossessed by the restoration of the emperor enter into a deadly game for a life-changing cash prize – all for the entertainment of anonymous elites. Unlike its inspirations Battle Royale and Squid Game, however, Last Samurai Standing‘s violence is chaotic, fast-paced, and kinetic, though it … Read more

DynamoDB: When to Move Out

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ScyllaDB offers a high-performance NoSQL alternative to DynamoDB, addressing throttling, latency, item size limits, and cloud lock-in. With larger mutation sizes, predictable low-latency throughput, and compatibility via ScyllaDB Alternator, teams can scale efficiently while maintaining flexibility and minimizing operational complexity as workloads grow.

The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular

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Happy Holidays! As we like to do on The Vergecast, we take this time of year to see our families, relax and recharge, and go extremely deep into a specific technology that matters right now. This year, we picked the tiny chip in all your devices that is suddenly a precious and expensive commodity: RAM. … Read more