Anthropic and the Pentagon
OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by...
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You can already save up to $50 on the new M4 iPad Air
In case you missed it, Apple announced a host of new devices this week, including both a new phone and a cheaper laptop. It also unveiled...
Read moreThe case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers
A venture capitalist is running his entire company on twelve Markdown files. No web application. No workflow engine. No orchestration runtime. Just structured documents in a...
Read moreClimate change sucks, but at least it won’t kill your EV battery
If you’ve spent more than five minutes driving an electric vehicle, chances are good you’re a convert. But most people haven’t driven an EV, and surveys...
Read moreReverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor...
Read moreApple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance’s Chinese apps
While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other...
Read moreZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server
For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that...
Read moreWeasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance
OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival...
Read moreVideo Friday: A Robot Hand With Artificial Muscles and Tendons
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...
Read moreApple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is...
Read moreWith Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?
Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a major shakeup in the Artemis Program, intended to put the nation on a better path back to the...
Read moreScaling Global Storytelling: Modernizing Localization Analytics at Netflix
Valentin Geffrier, Tanguy Cornuau Each year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss...
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