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Let's address the elephant in the room, the 800-pound gorilla next to it, and the bull in a china shop crammed in there by the door: the video below is Morrowind running on my iPhone with modern touch controls at a flawless 60 FPS. Right below that is
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In 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he
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Enterprises once relied on perimeter-first security because enterprise systems operated like traditional single player games where data, servers and the game application resided in a single device or within one network boundary. This model worked brilliantly when users, workloads, and trusted networks were co-located. Today, enterprise security resembles a modern
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I built a push-indexing prototype in rural Russia. Microsoft said no. Two decades later, the industry built it. In October 1998, an envelope from Redmond, Washington, landed in my mailbox in Velikiye Luki. Inside was a five-line letter: "Although your submission is interesting, we have determined your product does
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Your slowest query is rarely your most expensive one. A 4-second report that runs twice a day costs your database 8 seconds. A 3-millisecond lookup that runs 40,000 times a minute costs it two minutes of CPU every sixty seconds. Only one of those shows up in a slow
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Convex developers can now add a durable iMessage inbox and outbox to an agent backend with @spectrum-ts/convex, the new Convex component for Photon Spectrum. The component receives Photon webhooks, writes each verified delivery to Convex before returning an HTTP 200, and hands everything after that to Convex's
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Tokens are the invisible unit that runs everything in AI, how models read your text, how they generate responses, and how much everything costs. If you have ever wondered why ChatGPT seems to forget things, why your Claude bill spiked, or why the same sentence costs different amounts in different
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Every AI model runs on tokens. Every API bill is a token bill. Every context window limit is a token limit. Every speed difference between models comes down to how many tokens they process per second. Tokens are the single most important concept in generative AI, and most people using
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NoSQL document database provider MongoDB delivered a strong second quarter for fiscal year 2027, with total revenue up 30%, cloud-based revenue up 29% and remaining performance obligations up 91%. Its customers generating at least $100,000 in ARR are also up by 17%, which is always a good indication of
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CrowdStrike introduced Falcon® Guardian, the new AI Detection and Response (AIDR) solution delivering complete visibility and runtime enforcement from the endpoint, where AI agents execute and across the enterprise. Deployed across hundreds of millions of devices, CrowdStrike has more endpoint real estate than anyone. That structural advantage now defines AI
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At 3:00 PM on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison changed the world. He flicked a switch at the Pearl Street Power Station in New York and lit up lower Manhattan. The electrical revolution was underway. As the infrastructure was built out, with countless power plants, miles of transmission lines,
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Traditional enterprise apps sit on a fairly stable mix of operating system packages, web frameworks, and databases. AI stacks do not. A typical inference image can pull in a Python runtime, CUDA, cuDNN, TensorRT, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Transformers, a model server, and a pile of scientific libraries. Third-party models, pretrained
