Tech

Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate

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Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an audience member cut her short. “I’m terrified,” a man shouted. “AI data centers are destroying our climate. They are poisoning our water.” Collins brushed off the outburst, tying the man to her Democratic challenger, … Read more

Fed Holds Rates at 3.75%–4.00% in a 10–2 Vote: How QQQ, SPY and Bitcoin Reacted

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The Federal Reserve kept its target range at 3.75% to 4.00% on October 28, 2026, pausing six weeks after its September hike. Two officials, Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, dissented in favor of another quarter-point increase. Markets now see a December hike as likely: CME FedWatch priced an 85.0% chance after … Read more

Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web

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The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work – but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger … Read more

AI-Assisted Reconciliation of Enterprise Data: Detecting and Explaining Cross-Platform Discrepancies

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Deterministic checks find the gaps. AI helps people understand them. Last quarter’s revenue was $14.6 million. Or $14.2 million. Or $14.1 million. The ledger says one thing. The Lakehouse table feeding your BI says another. The dashboard the board looked at this morning says a third. None of the three numbers is obviously wrong, and … Read more

What the Heck is Hardcharger?

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Introduction A while back, I wrote What the Heck is GizmoSQL?, about Philip Moore’s project that took DuckDB, an in-process library, and turned it into a proper server with concurrent sessions, authentication, TLS, and an Arrow Flight SQL endpoint. It solved a real problem. DuckDB is fantastic, but it lives in your process, and when … Read more

Intel says it’s selling every affordable laptop chip it can make

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During Intel’s latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips “is outstripping supply.” According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has “seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake. It’s coming exactly at the right time because it’s cost-optimized and we’re seeing a … Read more

Your Billing Migration is Really a State Machine

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A customer opens their inbox and finds two invoices for the same subscription. Another customer shows up in the retention report as a churn, except they never cancelled. Their payment failed, the subscription lapsed in the billing system, and the lapse got recorded as a lost customer. I led the architecture on a migration that … Read more