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Dirk Eddelbuettel: binb 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
The eight release of the binb package, and first in two years, is now on CRAN and in r2u. binb regroups four rather nice themes for...
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[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees
Modern database and filesystems make pervasive use of B-trees, which are tree structures optimized for storing sorted lists of keys and values on block devices. Dolt...
Read moreWomen sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
A little over a year ago, MG was leading the relatively normal life of a twentysomething in Scottsdale, Arizona. She worked as a personal assistant and...
Read moreLinux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller
The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD...
Read moreClose-In Planets Act as “Bouncers” to Create Rogue Worlds
Rogue planets sound like rare travelers amongst the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to forever wander the interstellar void. But...
Read moreSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents), Debian (chromium, dovecot, and kernel), Fedora (chromium, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, emacs, glow, jfrog-cli, openbao, pyp2spec, python3.6, rust-rustls-webpki, vhs,...
Read moreHuawei could seize China’s AI chip crown in 2026 as Nvidia’s H200 shipments stall in regulatory limbo — Beijing pushes homegrown AI hardware dominance in a market projected to hit $67 billion by 2030
Huawei is reportedly on track to become China’s top AI chip supplier as Nvidia faces export restrictions and customs delays. Analysts forecast China’s domestic AI chip...
Read moreIndustrial Applications on Display at RAPID 2026: CERATIZIT & 3D Systems
Applications are where it’s at in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. At the recent RAPID+TCT in Boston, I met with a few companies to learn about...
Read moreIntroducing Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant
When we first launched Workers eight years ago, it was a direct-to-developers platform. Over the years, we have expanded and scaled the ecosystem so that platforms...
Read moreA Virtual Agent team at Docker: How the Coding Agent Sandboxes team uses a fleet of agents to ship faster
I work on Coding Agent Sandboxes, aka “sbx” at Docker. The project provides secure, microVM-based isolation for running AI coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex,...
Read moreStarcloud seeks more orbital data center funding shortly after unicorn status
Starcloud is looking to raise at least $200 million in a deal that would double the two-year-old orbital data center startup’s valuation to about $2.2 billion,...
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