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* Apple changes playlists to give you more control over your library * Spotify bans free listeners from hearing new music, for three days * One's good, one's bad. Guess which! A few years ago, a word was coined to refer to companies' attempts to make their products
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* Google's Gemini AI broke out of a testing environment and hacked into three third-party companies * The agents guessed passwords and used a public repository of passwords to hack into computer systems * The incident occurred in May 2026, with AI testing lab Irregular stating that the incident was caused
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Hackers targeted operational technology (OT) systems at two private water utilities in Colorado in late August, apparently attempting to cause disruptions. Few technical details are available, but it seems the attackers targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at the water utilities, which serve fewer than 200 people. A spokesperson for Colorado
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At 2:14 AM, nine of your ten Kafka consumers are idle. The tenth is pinned at 100% CPU, its lag climbing by the second, and the coordinator has started evicting it for missing max.poll.interval.ms. Every eviction triggers a rebalance. Every rebalance stops the other nine consumers
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Everyone's been watching the stablecoin story. Circle went public in June 2025 and its shares briefly surged well above the IPO price on debut [1][2]. Tether closed out 2025 with north of $10 billion in net profit, most of it earned on the back of a Treasury
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I spent three generations getting the knight’s face right on Lost Garden. Same jaw, same scar placement, same tired eyes. Locked. Then I looked at the medallion around his neck across those same three shots and it had three different engravings on it. Nobody warns you about this part.
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This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered how to chunk structured data so a retriever can find it. This article covers the first query pattern, i.e., RAG-based Text-to-SQL. We discuss what works, what doesn't, and where it hits its limit. Part 3 will
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On September 7, 2026, I published a Substack note with the result placed where nobody could miss it: Pangram’s verdict: 100% AI-generated. It was not an accusation. It was the agreed result of an experiment. I had asked Claude Opus 5 to write an essay about the exact problem
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Every summer, cities get hotter than the countryside around them. This isn't just a feeling; it's a measurable phenomenon called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where concrete, asphalt, and dense buildings trap heat that green spaces and water bodies would otherwise dissipate [1]. UHIs are
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People of all ages and experience levels who know a little bit about LLMs and want to do data analysis without coding are turning to agentic tools. These tools are numerous by now and include tools from model builders such as Anthropic (Claude Code) and OpenAI (GPT Codex), as well
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On June 9, 2025, Anton Carniaux, Microsoft's legal director for France, sat before a French Senate commission investigating public procurement and testified under oath. A senator asked him a narrow question. Could he guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, held under French public contracts, would never be
