Countdown to IEEE’s Annual Election
This year’s annual election, which begins on 17 August, will include candidates for IEEE president-elect and other officer positions up for election. To see who is...
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M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon
As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally,...
Read moreOur Favorite Upgraded Gaming Headset Is $20 Off
The Razer BlackShark V3 Pro has excellent noise-canceling and spatial audio for focused gamers.
Read moreConfluent adds A2A support, anomaly detection, and Queues for Kafka in major platform update
Confluent recently unveiled support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for inter-agent communication. The platform’s implementation of the popular protocol allows users to employ...
Read moreGoogle launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest Gemini 3 model yet
Two weeks after launching Gemini 3.1 Pro, its most capable AI model yet, Google on Tuesday launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest model in the Gemini...
Read moreIntel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake’s Xe3 B390
Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel’s new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its...
Read moreGoogle’s Chrome browser moves to a two-week release cycle
Google on Tuesday announced that its Chrome browser will move to a faster release cycle later this year, with a new major version launching every two...
Read moreMicrosoft Locks Down Discord Server Over “Microslop” Posts
Microsoft banned “Microslop” on its Copilot Discord community, locked the server, and then blamed spammers.
Read moreOpenClaw rocks to GitHub’s most-starred status, but is it safe?
OpenClaw is in the ascension. This open source autonomous AI agent has this year surpassed Linux on the GitHub all-time star leaderboard. The project has now...
Read moreGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
Read moreCBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements (404 Media)
This 404 Media article looks at how the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) is using location data from phones to track the location of...
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Free Books
Spinning a lot of plates this week so skipping the newsletter. As an apology, have ten free copies of Logic for Programmers. These five are available...
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