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AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 8 min read

Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI-Driven Layoff Decisions

26 former Meta employees allege AI scoring systems—not managers—decided who got laid off. Here's what that means for anyone who wants to work in tech.

Applied Computing Bets $20M on AI for Oil and Gas

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 6 min read

Applied Computing Bets $20M on AI for Oil and Gas

Applied Computing raised $20M to build a foundation AI model for oil, gas, and petrochemical plants. Here's why that's more complicated than it sounds.

Room-Temperature Quantum Materials Are Here

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 7 min read

Room-Temperature Quantum Materials Are Here

LSU physicists built a quantum material that works at room temperature. Here's what that actually means for quantum computing, and why it matters right now.

Woman smiling at camera with quantum computing concepts listed (Qubits, Gates, Measurements, Circuits) and circuit diagrams…

Quantum Computing Basics: Qubits, Gates, and Qiskit

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 8 min read

Quantum Computing Basics: Qubits, Gates, and Qiskit

Dr. Katie McCormick's Qiskit primer walks beginners through qubits, superposition, entanglement, and running real circuits on IBM quantum hardware.

Workers in blue uniforms disassemble smartphone components on an assembly line in a bright factory, with circuit boards…

Inside the Smartphone: 120 Years of Hidden Engineering

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 8 min read

Inside the Smartphone: 120 Years of Hidden Engineering

Professor Hannah Fry tears apart a modern smartphone to trace 120 years of engineering history — from Marconi's radio waves to a 200-million-pixel camera sensor.

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Bun Rewrote Its Codebase from Zig to Rust in 11 Days

AI. Jai Trivedi2 months ago· 6 min read

Bun Rewrote Its Codebase from Zig to Rust in 11 Days

Bun used 64 parallel Claude agents to port 535,000 lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days. The results were real. The fallout with Zig's creator was realer.

Videorc LIVE Tested: Multistream Works, Chat Doesn't

Jai Trivedi·2 months ago

Videorc LIVE Tested: Multistream Works, Chat Doesn't

OrcDev tested Videorc LIVE streaming simultaneously to YouTube, X, and Twitch. The broadcast worked. The comment aggregation didn't. Here's what that gap means.

DuckDB 1.5 Review: Features, Limits, and Real Use Cases

Rachel "Rach" Kovacs·2 months ago

DuckDB 1.5 Review: Features, Limits, and Real Use Cases

DuckDB 1.5 adds a new VARIANT type, geometry support, and a refreshed CLI. Here's what changed, what didn't, and when it's actually the right tool.

A man in a green shirt stands next to cartoon characters with an axe near a surveillance camera, illustrating privacy…

Flock Safety Cameras: Crime Tool or Privacy Risk?

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 9 min read

Flock Safety Cameras: Crime Tool or Privacy Risk?

Flock Safety's license plate readers are spreading fast. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer breaks down what they actually capture—and what's at stake.

Webhooks, Event Gateways, and the Chaos of Vendor Latency

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 9 min read

Webhooks, Event Gateways, and the Chaos of Vendor Latency

Hookdeck founder Alex Bouchard argues webhooks are just the visible tip of a messy event-driven architecture iceberg. Here's what that actually means.

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 7 min read

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Apple filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic theft of hardware trade secrets via former employees. Here's what we know.

EU Tells Meta to Fix Addictive Instagram Features

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 6 min read

EU Tells Meta to Fix Addictive Instagram Features

The EU is threatening Meta with fines up to 6% of global revenue over infinite scroll and autoplay. Here's what that actually means for your Instagram experience.

Woman with glasses smiling next to a glowing graph diagram labeled "Dijkstra's Algorithm" with nodes S, A, B, C, D, E, F…

Dijkstra's Algorithm: A History and How It Works

Dijkstra's Algorithm: A History and How It Works

How a 1956 coffee break in Amsterdam produced one of computing's most enduring algorithms—and what Dijkstra's method actually does under the hood.

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Building a Bitmap in C and Who Really Needs This

Building a Bitmap in C and Who Really Needs This

Dr. Jonas Birch's bitmap tutorial in C reveals a quiet gap in how systems programming knowledge gets transmitted—and who's filling it, and why.

pg_durable Brings Crash-Proof Workflows to PostgreSQL

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 6 min read

pg_durable Brings Crash-Proof Workflows to PostgreSQL

Microsoft's pg_durable extension lets PostgreSQL handle durable, crash-proof workflows natively—no Temporal, no cron, no external queue. Here's what that actually means.

Pokémon Go at Ten: AR's One Durable Success Story

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 5 min read

Pokémon Go at Ten: AR's One Durable Success Story

Pokémon Go turns ten this week. A look at what it actually got right—and why the AR industry it was supposed to launch mostly didn't follow.

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's AI Oversight Trust

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 5 min read

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's AI Oversight Trust

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust. Here's what his economic expertise actually means for AI governance—and what it doesn't.

UN AI Summit: Big Room, Bigger Questions on Governance

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 6 min read

UN AI Summit: Big Room, Bigger Questions on Governance

193 countries met in Geneva to tackle AI governance. The warnings were credible. The robots were cool. The binding rules? Still not there.

Surgeons Used Humanoid Robots to Operate on Pigs

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 7 min read

Surgeons Used Humanoid Robots to Operate on Pigs

Humanoid robots remotely controlled by surgeons removed gallbladders from live pigs. Here's what the milestone actually means—and what it doesn't.

Five Powerful Rust Capabilities Worth Knowing About