IP geolocation accuracy can’t be judged by consensus alone, as many providers rely on outdated WHOIS data. IPinfo uses ground truth datasets and physics-based methods like ProbeNet for precise results. A proper evaluation involves verified ground truth, RTT triangulation, and clear metrics, ensuring data accuracy beyond trust or majority opinion.
San Francisco, California, August 1st, 2025, CyberNewsWire/–Comp AI, an emerging player in the compliance automation space, today announced it has secured $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission of transforming how companies achieve compliance with critical frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA. The funding round was co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures, … Read more
I feel like we’re at a point where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) feels almost synonymous with GenAI engineering. Anthropic introduced MCP in November 2024, revolutionizing GenAI engineering. It brought us to the point where, as engineers, we can implement various tools based on our use case, and direct the LLM of our choice to … Read more
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Bitcoin stores value. Ethereum builds the future. Here’s why When I first entered crypto, people kept telling me: “Bitcoin is digital gold, Ethereum is just silver” At that time, I simply accepted it. Bitcoin was the king, Ethereum was number two. But after spending months exploring Web3, building dApps, writing about DeFi, and seeing what’s … Read more
What is EKS Auto Mode? EKS Auto Mode is a management enhancement for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) that simplifies the operational management of Kubernetes clusters and extends AWS’s control beyond the cluster itself. It automates the setup and management of the infrastructure required for running workloads, including compute, networking, storage, and scaling, while integrating … Read more
S3 storage has a way of getting messy and expensive faster than you expect. Amazon’s lifecycle rules promise an easy way to keep things tidy, but their one-size-fits-all, timer-based approach can backfire. One wrong setting, and a dataset you needed this morning is buried in deep storage, leaving your applications stuck and your team scrambling. … Read more
Modern automotive systems rely on complex Electronic Control Units (ECUs) to manage a range of functionalities. Ensuring the reliability and correctness of these systems requires robust testing strategies at the firmware level, especially for low-level drivers. This article explains how to build a Factory Test Code (FTC) framework to validate low-level software APIs in a … Read more
The Protective Umbrella We are taught that liability is something to avoid at any cost. You are allowed to sleep well at night knowing that if something unforeseen goes wrong, you are covered. This cosy feeling is certainly worth a few bucks a month. An entire industry exists to take that burden off our shoulders. … Read more
Go is well known for how it supports and models concurrency in its ecosystem. Providing constructs like Channels, WaitGroups and Goroutines to build concurrent programs. One thing that kept me intrigued was how this would work in a serverless system; in this case specifically AWS Lambdas. Your runtime is not long lived, lasts only as … Read more
Prologue My name is Alexey, and I’ve been building software for almost half of my life – around 14 years now. I’ve seen my share of hype cycles, panics, and so-called “revolutions.” And today, we’re facing a new one: LLMs, artificial intelligence, GPT, Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Midjourney, Claude… the list grows weekly. And let me … Read more
What happens when the law speaks without a speaker? In regulatory, clinical, and financial domains, language increasingly operates without referent and without subject. Documents that once required authorship and deliberation are now generated, compiled, or executed by systems that simulate neutrality. This paper asks: What is lost when legal grammar runs without judgment? The core claim: … Read more
In the world of movies, fewer statements ring truer than the iconic journalistic quote, “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword”. Movies themselves are proof of this quote, although some of them embody and reflect it in their plots. Whether as a subplot or the basis of the entire story, there is something satisfying about … Read more
Introduction: The Heartbeat of Your Content Strategy In the vast digital landscape, simply attracting visitors to your website is no longer enough. The true measure of content success lies in how deeply users engage with what you’ve created. Customer engagement metrics are the pulse of your online content, revealing whether your audience finds it valuable, … Read more
I’m sitting here, scrolling the news, reading yet another “blocked,” “restricted,” “forbidden.” Am I the only one annoyed by this? Our internet freedom is shrinking, turning what used to be a basic right—free communication—into a privilege. And messengers? They stopped being messengers long ago. Now, they’re just social networks in disguise. Remember when WhatsApp was … Read more
Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! This week, TypeScript 5.9 streamlines developer workflows with minimal configurations and deferred imports, ZhipuAI’s GLM 4.5 showcases incredible coding capabilities including building Space Invaders games, and Node.js 22.18 LTS solidifies production reliability while Node.js v24 pushes performance boundaries. Plus, we’ve got some … Read more
Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the Thirtieth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! This week, Alibaba launched insane new video generation model, OpenAI transforms ChatGPT into an interactive tutor, and this Chinese open-source model is crushing all benchmarks With this, we’ll also explore some under-the-radar tools that can supercharge your development workflow. Alibaba’s New … Read more
Trust, Trace, Repeat: The One Rule That Makes AI Worth Listening To It begins, as most things now do, with a question. Not always a profound one. Sometimes it’s simply where to eat. What to say in an email. Whether the scan means anything. The machine answers—fast, certain, eerily polite. And in the silence that … Read more
Imagine if someone printed 1 million stickers, but every week, they took a few thousand and tossed them into a fire —permanently gone, never to be stuck anywhere. That’s basically what “token burning” means in the world of cryptocurrency. Since crypto tokens live on a digital ledger, when someone decides to “burn” some of them, … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma Warmup: Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Deterministic Mechanisms Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Randomized Mechanisms and 5.1 Proof … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma Warmup: Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Deterministic Mechanisms Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Randomized Mechanisms and 5.1 Proof … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma Warmup: Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Deterministic Mechanisms Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Randomized Mechanisms and 5.1 Proof … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma Warmup: Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Deterministic Mechanisms Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Randomized Mechanisms and 5.1 Proof … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma Warmup: Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Deterministic Mechanisms Impossibility of UIC + MIC + Global SCP for Randomized Mechanisms and 5.1 Proof … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Hao Chung∗, Carnegie Mellon University (haochung@andrew.cmu.edu); (2) Tim Roughgarden†, Columbia University and a16z (crypto tim.roughgarden@gmail.com); (3) Elaine Shi∗, Carnegie Mellon University (runting@cs.cmu.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Contributions 1.2 TFM Incentive-Compatibility Notions: A Cheat Sheet Definitions 2.1 Transaction Fee Mechanism 2.2 Incentive Compatibility Notions Preliminary: Myerson’s Lemma … Read more
A few years ago, if someone mentioned Artificial Intelligence in a product design meeting, they’d likely be met with skeptical glances or a cautious “let’s not overcomplicate things.” Today? AI isn’t just welcome at the UX table; it’s practically running the show. We’re in a new era where the user experience is no longer just … Read more
In an age of hyperconnectivity, Europe faces an unexpected crisis: loneliness. The EU Loneliness Survey 2022 reveals that 13% of Europeans feel lonely most or all the time, while 35% experience it regularly. Despite the digital revolution, authentic human connection seems to be unraveling—replaced by surface-level engagements that lack emotional resonance. This paradox lies at … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Radio Shack Announced TRS-80 Computer in 1977, Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005, Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, and we present you with these top quality stories. … Read more
Your phone is more powerful than a desktop computer from five years ago. The latest flagship Android devices pack neural processing units, multi-core CPUs that would make 2019 laptops jealous, and RAM configurations that seemed impossible just a few years back. So why does it feel like we’re barely scratching the surface of what’s possible … Read more
High-Quality Games Are Getting Lost In the past few years, the gaming industry has seen a tidal wave of investment. Tens of billions of dollars have flowed into studios and publishers—more than ten times the historical average. The result is exactly what you’d expect: an explosion of high-quality content. From 2019 to 2023, the number … Read more