1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (249+ words) Maxwell began writing about technology in 1984, when mainframes ruled the world. Since then he has written for just about every business computing title in the UK, and for a few in the US, covering everything from Artificial intelligence to Zero-day…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (229+ words) Technology markets are rarely transformed by the first company to think of an idea. They are transformed by the first company to make that idea operationally real, economically viable, and broadly consumable. AWS did exactly that. It built a model…...

15+ hour, 54+ min ago  (584+ words) For many developers, the hard part of building an AI application isn't the model anymore. It's keeping the application's knowledge current. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for grounding AI applications in enterprise data, but it also introduces…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (372+ words) Meta's long-awaited Pyrefly linter is out in a 1. 0 version, and the forthcoming Python 3. 15 has a super-efficient sampling profiler. Plus we have a comprehensive rundown of Python's indispensable virtual environments " and a warning about a novel breed of malware that exploits…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (832+ words) AI coding agents are becoming critical to software development, but the configuration files that guide them, such as Agents. md or Claude. md, can be "smelly." That means they can contain structural flaws, redundancies, or counterproductive workflows that bloat context,…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (657+ words) We need observability in AI because the technology is starting to show its limitations at the precise moment that it's becoming indispensable " and for enterprises, the limitations are unacceptable. For example, I teach a computer science course on trustworthy machine…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (624+ words) In hardware, when you ship something broken, the consequences are severe and often irreversible. That's the world I worked in for years, in verification roles at Mellanox and later at Alibaba. The stakes forced the industry to build a rigorous…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (908+ words) When a team of Google coders looked out across the collection of computer languages in 2007, they saw hundreds of perfectly good tools for writing software but none that offered the right features for Google. That is, a language that supported…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (908+ words) When a team of Google coders looked out across the collection of computer languages in 2007, they saw hundreds of perfectly good tools for writing software but none that offered the right features for Google. That is, a language that supported…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (285+ words) New in-core backup functionality means faster recovery times, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) dramatically'an essential requirement for enterprises running large databases or high-availability systems. This makes Postgres an even more attractive option for organizations where downtime has significant business impacts,…...