Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is

The Hidden Tax of Dirty Data on AI Performance — and a Developer’s Shortcut to Fixing It You’ve trained a customer segmentation model, but it’s clustering addresses from different states together. Your recommendation engine is suggesting products to customers in countries you don’t ship to. Your fraud detection system keeps flagging legitimate international transactions. Sound … Read more

TikTok US is mostly back up and running

As we moved into the third day of the TikTokalypse, the app appears to have finally stabilized in the US, as we verified that it’s possible to consistently publish new videos and even have other people watch them. That hasn’t been a simple task since the service started having problems early Sunday morning, but on … Read more

The promise and peril of a new online shooter

The routine is familiar by now. A new online shooter with bright, colorful graphics launches and rockets up the charts despite the fact that you maybe haven’t even heard of it. Or maybe it just has a really forgettable name. But everyone seems to be talking about it, and it’s free, so you figure you … Read more

The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models

When talking about different management models, it’s common to divide them culturally — by nationality or mindset. The most well-known example you’ve probably heard many times is the difference between “Eastern” and “Western” teams, where the Eastern model is, on average, characterised by higher power distance and higher uncertainty avoidance, while Western Europe tends to … Read more

An Architectural Pattern for Running Java Components Inside .NET 8

Modern digital platforms are rarely built using a single technology stack. At the architectural level, enterprise systems are increasingly composed of heterogeneous ecosystems, where services written in different programming languages must interoperate reliably under performance, scalability, and operational constraints. Designing such systems requires more than implementation skills—it demands architectural judgment around integration boundaries, execution models, … Read more

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we’re supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it’s my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of … Read more

Pornhub will block new users in the UK next month

Pornhub will soon begin restricting UK users from accessing its website in response to the country’s “failed” online safety regulations, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The site’s owner, Aylo, says it will block users who haven’t already verified their age on the platform starting February 2nd, 2026, as reported earlier by 404 Media. As … Read more