Fragments Dec 11
Why does AI write like⊠that (NYT, gift link). Sam Kriss delves into the quiet hum of AI writing. AIâs work is not compelling prose: itâs...
WeiterlesenWhy does AI write like⊠that (NYT, gift link). Sam Kriss delves into the quiet hum of AI writing. AIâs work is not compelling prose: itâs...
WeiterlesenA high severity Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability has been found in React Server Components and Next.js. Deno has implemented mitigations in Deno Deploy. Immediate upgrades are required...
WeiterlesenSetting up a local Deep Learning environment can be a headache. Between managing CUDA drivers, resolving Python library conflicts, and ensuring you have enough GPU power,...
WeiterlesenAn interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.
WeiterlesenHave you ever wished you could just poke the browser vendors and say, “Hey, I need this!”? Well, now you can.
WeiterlesenGoogle DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research
WeiterlesenIâm Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. Itâs free, open-source software that should run anywhere,...
WeiterlesenThe Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.92.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software....
WeiterlesenWeâre joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the worldâs first logistics system that serves all people equally...
WeiterlesenLast newsletter of the year! First some news on Logic for Programmers. Thanks to everyone who donated to the feedchicago charity drive! In total we raised...
WeiterlesenAnyone who uses AI systems knows the frustration: a prompt is given, the response misses the mark, and the cycle repeats. This trial-and-error loop can feel...
WeiterlesenHi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens...
WeiterlesenTelecommunications networks are undergoing a cloud-native revolution. 5G promises ultra-fast connectivity and real-time services, but achieving those benefits requires an infrastructure that is agile, low-latency, and...
WeiterlesenThe CSS animation-timeline property accepts a view() function which, in turn, returns a timeline of how much of an element is visible in the part of...
WeiterlesenDeepening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era
WeiterlesenPython inner functions are those you define inside other functions to access nonlocal names and bundle logic with its surrounding state. In this tutorial, youâll learn...
WeiterlesenIn software engineering, we often talk about the âiron triangleâ of constraints: time, resources, and features. You can rarely fix all three. At many companies, when...
WeiterlesenIn this quiz, youâll test your understanding of the Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? tutorial. By working through this quiz, youâll revisit how...
WeiterlesenThe Trump administration has effectively unwound the Biden era chip controls by selling the H200 to China; I agree with the decision, which is a return...
WeiterlesenThis release includes `dx` for running package binaries, more granular permissions, source phase imports, faster type checking with `tsgo`, native source maps, `deno audit`, and much...
WeiterlesenGenerative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables LLMs to run commands and use...
WeiterlesenMicrosoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles...
WeiterlesenCanonical is pleased to announce an expanded collaboration with AMD to package and maintain AMD ROCmâą software directly in Ubuntu. AMD ROCm is an open software...
WeiterlesenA decade has passed since Yogyakarta proudly hosted the first openSUSE.Asia Summit in Indonesia â and in 2026, we are returning to where the excitement first...
WeiterlesenThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released almost exactly a year ago by Anthropic, and today, MCP is enjoying quite a moment, with strong growth in...
WeiterlesenThe convergence of digital transformation and the GenAI revolution creates an unprecedented opportunity for accelerating progress in precision health. Precision immunotherapy is a poster child for...
WeiterlesenThis article is a sponsored by Accessible UX Research Smashing Library expands again! Weâre so happy to announce our newest book, Accessible UX Research, is now...
WeiterlesenThe Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality...
WeiterlesenFrom Adam, prototyped in Chrome Canary 145: h1 { text-grow: per-line scale; } Danny discussed this a while back when looking at different approaches for fitting...
WeiterlesenFunctional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is the evaluation of functions. But how does Python support functional programming? In...
WeiterlesenSystematically evaluating the factuality of large language models with the FACTS Benchmark Suite.
WeiterlesenAn interview with MoffettNathanson’s Michael Nathanson about Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. and the Hollywood end game.
WeiterlesenIf I were to divide CSS evolutions into categories, we have moved far beyond the days when we simply asked for border-radius to feel like we...
WeiterlesenApply now for the Flock to Fedora 2026 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, the submission deadline for the Flock CfP is Monday, February...
WeiterlesenRead about various happenings with Baseline during November 2025.
WeiterlesenThe Cloudflare platform is a critical system for Cloudflare itself. We are our own Customer Zero â using our products to secure and optimize our own...
WeiterlesenWhy AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropicâs acquisition of Bunâs creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldnât get Claude to...
WeiterlesenHello, my name is Isoken, Iâm a software engineer and product manager from Nigeria. I am excited and grateful to begin this journey as an Outreachy...
WeiterlesenThe week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the...
WeiterlesenDebian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-seventh month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian and my eighty-eighth...
WeiterlesenThis series of posts will guide you through building a simple game using Deno. Each post corresponds to a stage in the development process, gradually introducing...
WeiterlesenI would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. Just when I opened my code editor and...
WeiterlesenA lot happened last month in the world of Python! The core developers pushed ahead on Python 3.15, accepting PEP 810 to bring explicit lazy imports...
Weiterlesen5G continues to transform the telecommunications landscape, enabling massive device density, edge computing, and new enterprise use cases. However, operators still face significant cost pressures: from...
WeiterlesenListen to this post: Log in to listen Warner Bros. started with distribution. Just after the turn of the century, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner...
WeiterlesenThis is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the communityâs blog feed aggregator are from...
WeiterlesenYour senior management is excited about AI. Theyâve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. Theyâre convinced that AI will transform your organization,...
WeiterlesenHello there . I am a software developer and tester. Some of my interests include bash scripting , website full-stack development and also open source software...
WeiterlesenNote: This post was updated with additional details regarding AWS Lambda. Last year we announced basic support for Python Workers, allowing Python developers to ship Python...
WeiterlesenI started learning Go this year. First, I picked a Perl project I wanted to rewrite, got a good book and ignored AI tools since I...
WeiterlesenBy now, the /usr-merge is an old transition. Effectively, it turns top-level directories such as /bin into symbolic links pointing below /usr. That way the entire...
WeiterlesenTLDR: You can now find a list of Rust contributors that you can sponsor on this page. Same as with many other open-source projects, Rust depends...
WeiterlesenGoâs embed feature lets you bundle static assets into an executable, but it stores them uncompressed. This wastes space: a web interface with documentation can bloat...
WeiterlesenYeah, again three months have passed since my last (trivial) post, and I really donât know where the time has flown. I suppose the biggest problem...
WeiterlesenAround a year ago I wrote about Guix Container Images for GitLab CI/CD and these images have served the community well. Besides continous use in CI/CD,...
WeiterlesenIt’s done! It’s over! I’ve graduated, I have the scroll, I’m staring at the eye-watering prices for the official photographer snap, I’m adjusting to post-thesis life....
WeiterlesenA sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian...
WeiterlesenMy Journey Through the LFX Linux Kernel Mentorship Program When I first decided to apply for the Linux Foundationâs LFX kernel mentorship program, I knew it...
WeiterlesenI created the latest Wikipedia language edition, the Toki Pona Wikipedia, last month. Unlike most other wikis which start their lives in the Wikimedia Incubator before...
WeiterlesenNick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how theyâre impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropicâs acquisition...
WeiterlesenWeb components, as imagined in 1998 from a never-adopted specification: Componentization is a powerful paradigm that allows component users to build applications using âbuilding blocksâ of...
WeiterlesenIn my last piece, we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, they must trust it. We talked about trust being...
WeiterlesenWhat are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run...
WeiterlesenThe below is one out of five topics from The Pulse #154. Full subscribers received the below article two weeks ago. To get articles like this...
WeiterlesenEvery year at CES, we try to go beyond showing technology; we want to give you an experience. This time, itâs the story of how in-vehicle...
WeiterlesenUpdating Rust’s Linux musl targets to 1.2.5 Beginning with Rust 1.93 (slated for stable release on 2026-01-22), the various *-linux-musl targets will all ship with musl...
WeiterlesenSummary On December 5th, the crates.io team was notified by Kush Pandya from the Socket Threat Research Team of two malicious crates which were trying to...
WeiterlesenNote: This post was updated to clarify the relationship of the internal WAF tool with the incident on Dec. 5. On December 5, 2025, at 08:47...
WeiterlesenChina-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time...
WeiterlesenAV1âââNow Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts Streaming video has become an integral part of our daily lives. At Netflix,...
WeiterlesenMy Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. I had a bit less time than usual, because Freexian collaborators gathered in Marseille this month...
WeiterlesenThe Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it...
WeiterlesenScientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.
WeiterlesenRob Bowley summarizes a study from Carnegie Mellon looking on the impact of AI on a bunch of open-source software projects. Like any such study, we...
WeiterlesenAmazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe...
WeiterlesenDebian packages: debian-cd: Bugs: replied to #1120055: Please include ifenslave, vlan and possibly bridge-utils to netinst CD firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #1106074: include potentially non-redistributable C&M firmware...
WeiterlesenWelcome to the report for November 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project! These monthly reports outline what weâve been up to over the past month, highlighting...
WeiterlesenStream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...
WeiterlesenOrganizations face a challenging trade-off when adapting AI models to their specific business needs: settle for generic models that produce average results, or tackle the complexity...
WeiterlesenToday, Iâm happy to announce new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI for popular AI models, such as Amazon Nova, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Llama, and Qwen. The...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing two new AI model training features within Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: checkpointless training, an approach that mitigates the need for traditional checkpoint-based recovery by...
WeiterlesenA critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been found in React Server Functions and Next.js. Deno has implemented mitigations in Deno Deploy. Immediate upgrades are...
WeiterlesenCloudflare has deployed a new protection to address a vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC). All Cloudflare customers are automatically protected, including those on free and...
WeiterlesenThis tutorial will teach you how to use Gemini CLI to bring Googleâs AI-powered coding assistance directly into your terminal. After you authenticate with your Google...
WeiterlesenWelcome to the 23rd edition of Cloudflareâs Quarterly DDoS Threat Report. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of...
WeiterlesenIn this quiz, youâll test your understanding of the How to Use Googleâs Gemini CLI for AI Code Assistance tutorial. By working through these questions, youâll...
WeiterlesenAs with libvirt 11.10 a new flag for backup operation has been inroduced: VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN. According to the documentation âIt instructs libvirt to avoid termination of the...
WeiterlesenSummary On December 2nd, the crates.io team was notified by Olivia Brown from the Socket Threat Research Team of two malicious crates which were downloading a...
WeiterlesenStarting earlier this year, a group of us set on a crazy quest: to author a “Rust vision doc”. As we described it in the original...
WeiterlesenOne word that keeps cropping up when I talk with software engineers who build large language model (LLM)-based solutions is âevalsâ. They use evaluations to verify...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing two new capabilities for Amazon S3 Tables: support for the new Intelligent-Tiering storage class that automatically optimizes costs based on access patterns, and...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing three new capabilities for Amazon S3 Storage Lens that give you deeper insights into your storage performance and usage patterns. With the addition...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to further remove barriers holding AI agents back from production. Organizations across industries are already building on...
WeiterlesenModern applications increasingly require complex and long-running coordination between services, such as multi-step payment processing, AI agent orchestration, or approval processes awaiting human decisions. Building these...
WeiterlesenManaging database environments demands a balance of resource efficiency and scalability. Organizations need flexible options across their entire database lifecycle, spanning development, testing, and production workloads...
WeiterlesenSince Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans, customers have been able to lower the cost of running sustained workloads while maintaining the flexibility to manage...
WeiterlesenToday weâre expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans...
WeiterlesenToday weâre announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs...
WeiterlesenToday, Iâm excited to announce that Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with significantly increased scale and production-grade performance capabilities. S3 Vectors is the first...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing the general availability of an additional 18 fully managed open weight models in Amazon Bedrock from Google, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, Moonshot AI,...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing the availability of new memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances powered by a 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor. These...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing the public preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that helps you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues...
WeiterlesenSince we announced Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow in June 2024, our customers have been using MLflow tracking servers to manage their machine learning (ML) and...
WeiterlesenToday, weâre announcing the ability to access your data in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this...
WeiterlesenChronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
WeiterlesenThe pandas DataFrame is a structure that contains two-dimensional data and its corresponding labels. DataFrames are widely used in data science, machine learning, scientific computing, and...
WeiterlesenAbout 15 years ago, I was working at a company where we built apps for travel agents, airport workers, and airline companies. We also built our...
WeiterlesenMany thanks to our donors, sponsors and to all the people who support our project. Cinnamon Menu The new Cinnamon menu received symbolic category icons. This...
WeiterlesenBaseline in action is a new series developed to help developers learn how to use Baseline features together to build better user experiences.
WeiterlesenAs the founder of the openSUSE Innovator initiative, and a member of the openSUSE and Intel Innovator communities, I maintain my ongoing commitment to bringing cutting-edge...
WeiterlesenMatheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to...
WeiterlesenBehind every emerging technology is a great idea propelling it forward. In the Microsoft Research Podcast series Ideas, members of the research community at Microsoft discuss...
WeiterlesenAdd easier SSH, Taildrop, and secure connectivity to a Kindle that’s ready to do much more.
WeiterlesenEvery classical computer reduces the world to 0s and 1s. That binary framework has carried us from calculators to supercomputers, but some problems demand checking through...
WeiterlesenDive into quantum computing fundamentals with this quiz. Youâll practice key ideas like superposition, measurement, entanglement, and how quantum and classical systems work together. Youâll also...
WeiterlesenSoftware package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed in November had a steady rhythm and delivered both user-visible improvements and deeper technical fixes across the stack. Plasma 6.5.3...
WeiterlesenWe’re happy to announce that as of today Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. When we started Replicate in 2019, OpenAI had just open sourced GPT-2,...
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