Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled (2026) - Shopify
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
Google’s Westinghouse Bet
SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.
China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
Chinese accounts for just 1.3% of global web content. Beijing is now treating data as strategic infrastructure, with a 2028 plan to build national AI datasets.
D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture
When D-Wave bought Quantum Circuits for $550 million in the early days of this year, it marked a sig ...
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
How we tracked down "The Spider" who was once one of the most-feared men in Syria.
The Alpha 21264: NT's Greatest RISC
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground — Practical Engineering
How spaceflight changes astronauts' ability to eat and drink
If humans are to spend more time in space, scientists need to understand how life in microgravity affects eating and drinking
How to survive in a Louisiana swamp - UnHerd
From “Attention Is All You Need” to “Kimi K3” — a reflection on nearly a decade of LLM evolution.
While AI roots back to 1956 with the foundational Dartmouth Conference, the field has transformed more in the last 9 years than in the 60 years prior. We went from fundamental sequence-to-sequence transformers to 3-trillion-parameter reasoning engines and standardized…
What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force
After 15 years of research, scientists discover definitive evidence of glueballs using the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II.
Riding the Steppe in the Shadow of the Scythians | TheCollector
Travel to the wide grasslands where the Scythians once roamed, and you’ll discover how their culture still shapes Eurasia today.
4 of the Greatest Hip-Hop Movie Soundtracks of the 90s
Noisey selects four of the greatest hip-hop movie soundtracks of the 90s, arguably the golden age for Black cinema and rap alike.
ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic’s Mythos
TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi K3
The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem | Quanta Magazine
Tensors are used all over math and science to reveal hidden geometric truths. What are they?
Backscatter Radar Site in Christmas Valley
The forlorn remains of a late Cold War radar installation are decaying in the Oregon desert
Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language
A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales
A Beginner’s Guide to Roulette - Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design
Roulette is one of the most popular casino games of all time, with a rich history dating back to the 1600s. Over the years, the game of roulette has evolved significantly, to the point where it can today be enjoyed on both online casino platforms and in land-based casinos…
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least …
Officials Probe Army GPS Jamming in Fatal Air Crash
Two pilots and two nurses died in a medevac crash during electronic warfare tests
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System - Aleksa Gordić
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
America’s Oldest Private Detective Agency Takes on China’s Fake Products
Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.
How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.
The Phone in Your Hand
A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate machine you’ve ever held.
The difference is a non-stick coating one molecule thick, and every time you touch the screen a little of it wears away.
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Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are actually getting built | CNN Business
People really don’t like AI data centers.
The upper limits of biology
The limits of breeding for speed
The Man Who Made Bolts Boring
On screws, agreements, and the disgruntled man who taught strangers to speak the same language
DeepSeek Warns Developers Of Significant API Price Increases - Dataconomy
DeepSeek plans to raise prices across its API services in the near term, warning developers that the increase will be
Extreme evolution: The animals evolving at super speed to survive
Humans have become one of the world's greatest evolutionary forces. To survive our cities, animals from urban foxes to glass-climbing lizards are responding with extreme adaptation.
The Man Who Tells the Truth Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the World to Hear
Under editor in chief Aluf Benn, Haaretz is the only major Israeli media outlet to show Israelis the images and tell them the stories they don’t want to see or hear.
Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
William Finnegan writes about the best surfer in history, who made a machine that creates perfect conditions on demand. Will his invention democratize surfing or despoil it?
Something Is Changing in the Unit Economics of Software
Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook
Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week's allowance fresh in hand.
Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
critical part of human development—in fact, the most human part of human development—is to acquire a purpose
Introduction to Semi-Supervised Learning | Towards Data Science
A primer about Semi-Supervised Learning, the approaches taken with different algorithms and the limitations of using unlabelled data.
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Beyond Enumerable: Testing Membership with Bloom Filters
Checking whether you've seen something before usually means storing everything you've seen. A Bloom filter does it in about ten bits per item and can only be wrong in one direction. This post builds from a single bit to the structure RocksDB and Cassandra use to skip disk reads.
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
Large language models (LLMs) have become the default tool for a remarkable range of tasks, yet they have had conspicuously little success at one of the most common machine learning workloads: predictive analytics over tabular data. This gap is the founding premise of the…
Understanding Cross-Entropy Loss: The Training Signal Behind Perplexity
Learn how cross-entropy loss turns next-word prediction into the training signal behind perplexity.
The influencer bubble is finally popping - Fast Company
Creators seem ascendant, but don’t kid yourself: Brands and AI have the power. How new metrics and marketplaces are defining a creator economy optimized for marketers and machines.
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why
What’s your go to movie when you’re feeling low and need to believe in life again?
Explore this post and more from the moviecritic community
The Hidden Infrastructure Of Circular Crypto Economies - Dataconomy
Written by Smartech Daily Team This article has been originally published on Smartech Daily and republished at Dataconomy with permission.
Large retailers like Amazon, IKEA, and Netflix operate “closed-loop” systems. A gift card is essentially a private currency issued by a corporation. Because these vouchers are digital codes, they can be distributed and settled much faster than a bank wire.
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Mysterious Case of JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
Why would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.
DarkReasoning: A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us | Jesta
The model behind the attack was DeepSeek, deepseek-v4-flash-free, running on the free tier. An autonomous AI broke into our lab and worked it for five days, and it left its own name in a script. This is the first time the model behind a live attack has been identified from…
8 Storybook Stays in West Virginia
Wonder can be found around every corner in the Mountain State.