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The Next AI Race Will Start at the Application Layer

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For the past several years, the artificial intelligence landscape has sold a story of a high-stakes arms race. The logic was simple: bigger models and more data would pave the road to true intelligence. But this narrative, while compelling, misses the ground truth that engineers have been living. The real story isn’t a glamorous race … Read more

A Practical Guide to Prompt Engineering for Today’s LLMs

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The overlooked communication skill that decides whether or not AI performs at scale. Prompt engineering is both creative and precise. Good prompts come from clear intent, structured testing, and constant refinement through an organized engineering and testing process. Early work with large language models depended on trial and error. Today, prompting has evolved into a … Read more

Vine walked so TikTok could run

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What are thooooose? Well, they’re my Vines, the six-second videos that helped mint a generation of famous comedians and also kicked off the era of endlessly looping vertical video that has consumed us all ever since. If you weren’t there at the time, most Vines might seem utterly nonsensical. But if you were on the … Read more

Inside Ethereum’s Fusaka Hard Fork: PeerDAS, New Gas Limits, and the Road to Cheaper L2s

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The Fusaka hard fork, scheduled for activation on December 3, 2025, is Ethereum’s next major network upgrade after Pectra, and it marks one more scaling step taken by the crypto giant. The Pectra EIPs focus on improving performance, security, and developer tools. PeerDAS (EIP-7594) makes data availability more efficient by letting nodes verify blobs without … Read more

The app that will instantly improve your Windows PC

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about prediction markets and Hilary Duff and Matt Belloni and yeast, … Read more

Apple TV wants to go big

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming competition, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2022, Apple won an Oscar. The company behind the Mac and … Read more

The TechBeat: Solving 3D Segmentation’s Biggest Bottleneck (11/23/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Boredom Paradox: How Risk-Averse Engineering Built the Internet’s Most Resilient Companies By @drechimyn [ 6 Min read ] This article … Read more