The AI industry’s race for profits is now existential
Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses...
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A new kind of arsenal: commercial satellites
he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts. It is building a strategy around the assumption that it will. The...
Read more“I have big respect for them” – PUBG’s boss looks to old foe Fortnite to secure the future of its battle royale
“When we first started, there was a shooter genre, and there was a subgenre within that which was battle royale,” says Taeseok Jang, Krafton’s head of...
Read moreHow to complete the Working Together quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Get two arch enemies to work things out.
Read moreTrump’s emergency orders pushing coal power are “illegal” as well as dumb
At one time, the US electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too...
Read moreUber’s Hive Federation Decentralizes 16K Datasets and 10+ PB for Zero-Downtime Analytics at Scale
Uber has decentralized its Hive data warehouse, migrating 16,000 datasets totaling over 10 petabytes using pointer-based federation. The migration ensures zero downtime, strict ACL enforcement, improved...
Read moreSelecting a Date Range in CSS
A date range selector lets users pick a time frame between a start and end date, which is useful in booking trips, sorting info by date...
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RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up
In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place “XIP” kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on...
Read moreCould We Actually Terraform Mars? A New Scientific Roadmap Lays Out the Blueprint—And the Risks
Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s,...
Read moreThe FBI Didn’t Answer Texts From Minnesota Investigators for Days After Renee Good’s Killing
Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by...
Read more3D PRINT 2026: The Leading Additive Manufacturing Trade Show in France with 150+ Exhibitors
From June 2 to 4, 2026, Lyon will host 3D PRINT, an event exclusively dedicated to additive manufacturing. As the only professional trade show in France...
Read more[$] A flood of useful security reports
The idea of using large language models (LLMs) to discover security problems is not new. Google’s Project Zero investigated the feasibility of using LLMs for security...
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