Solana gives you three ways to let someone else act on your funds, and each one grants a different power. A stake authority can point your stake at a validator but can never withdraw it. An SPL Token delegate can send your tokens to any address, up to a cap you set. A liquid staking … Read more
Speculation around a deal started circulating last week. | Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images DoorDash has announced that it’s buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery thanks to Instacart’s established grocery marketplace and retailer partnerships, with Instacart CEO Chris … Read more
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one … Read more
The update improves 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction, adds clipping and skybox controls, and introduces mesh generation from point clouds. SHARE3DCAM, a developer of SLAM LiDAR scanning solutions, today announced the release of V2.7. The update brings a major upgrade to 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstruction and introduces mesh generation, giving reality capture professionals new ways … Read more
Cloud infrastructure management is undergoing a significant transition from static configurations to dynamic, autonomous systems. As enterprise environments expand, the traditional methods of manual provisioning and reactive incident response are increasingly difficult to scale. Organizations are now exploring AI-native control planes to manage complex, distributed systems without relying on manual intervention. Harish Babu Guttikonda, a … Read more
Introduction: The Problem Is Larger Than the Vehicle The development of autonomous vehicles has largely focused on making the individual vehicle more intelligent. Better cameras, better radar, better lidar, larger neural networks, better maps, more training data, and increasingly sophisticated systems for interpreting the environment around the vehicle have collectively pushed autonomous driving substantially forward. … Read more
Imagine checking a used car before buying it. The page returns zero traffic fines. Three sources answered successfully; a fourth timed out. If the interface presents one reassuring green total, it has quietly converted a technical failure into a claim about the car. The database may be available, the API may return HTTP 200, and … Read more
The day a whole region vanished from the dashboard A few years ago I was asked to look at an executive dashboard that tracked sales pipeline across global regions. One region showed zero pipeline. Not low. Zero. Nobody had noticed, because there was nothing to notice. The nightly job ran on schedule. No alert fired. … Read more
Comments
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a “long-term goal” of pushing the computer industry to create “a fully domestic supply chain.” Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no … Read more
Comments
The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don’t like AI, and it’s not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and … Read more
Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure’s quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.
A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The … Read more
Key Takeaways Published evidence on AI coding productivity is genuinely mixed — from a 55.8% speed-up on a greenfield task to a 19% slowdown for experienced developers in mature codebases — so an enterprise rollout must measure its own outcomes rather than assume a gain. Agentic tools differ from autocomplete because they act: they read … Read more
I started working on Blue-Eye because I was curious about something: how difficult would it actually be to build an image moderation model that could compete with the commercial APIs everyone uses? If you’re building anything that allows user-uploaded images, content moderation eventually becomes a problem you have to deal with. The straightforward approach is … Read more
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Key Takeaways Admission control sits on the critical path of every resource creation, so any synchronous global dependency on its read path quietly becomes a fleet-wide failure domain. One should distinguish between policy choices that can evolve gradually and those that quickly alter consumer statistics. An impeccable system should compute overcommitment indices, predict demand, and … Read more
Key Takeaways The outline should be handled as structured model output: a title paired with paragraph IDs, rather than as text. That small shift makes it machine-checkable for grounding. The hybrid labeling should be compared to an extractive-only and to a generative-only labeling on the same held-out data set when possible; the current version of … Read more
Key Takeaways ● CDS (Custom Transactional Services) views for OData exposure, custom RAP-based services, and SAP API Business Hub published APIs present solutions to different problems that, in a mature environment, should be used together rather than one being the default. ● By transaction complexity, we mean RAP for anything beyond CRUD; by consumer … Read more
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.