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Having learned that Baidu is stealing my first name for its AI chatbot launching this month, let’s talk about the name Ernie for a bit. (Can I stop them?)

Brian Green re-lives the 1980s with dozens of fully operational vintage PCs at home.

Is the current arrangement of keys on the keyboard the most efficient and intuitive solution? Open source aims to address this question with a circular one-handed keyboard.

The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company. One interesting problem we have is that we’ve exploded in popularity. It sounds like a good problem to have! But we’ve pushed the platform past what it was originally built to do. We’ve put a lot of work and resources into...

A recent Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) study indicates that 84% of codebases contained at least one known open source vulnerability — an increase of 4% from last year.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

With their ability to reveal the connections between different data points and sets, knowledge graphs can help support IT and DevOps. Here's how they work. #knowledgegraphs #data

Well, you can’t. Right? That’s the received wisdom. You have to post on social media to direct people to your blog because nobody has RSS feeds any more, nobody curates what we used to grudgingly c…

One of the things I love and hate about the API universe is that if you live by APIs, you will often times die by APIs, unless you can perpetually dial in just the right balance across how much value you generate, keep for yourself, or make accessible to others. I’ve fictionally written about how APIs are just the Sentinels from the Matrix, in that they first began as construction bots helping humanity, and then once the Matrix took control of humanity, their roles changed. Of course, this is fiction, but in reality (not the simulation) APIs can be both assistive, value creating resources for both producers and consumers, but their polarities can also be reversed, rapidly turning them into invasive value extracting sentries.

The GraphicalEmoji hack - Xe's Blog

In Mapping the wider fediverse I showed how a new table added to the Mastodon plugin — mastodon_domain_block — enables queries that find which servers are moderating which other servers…

We know, as you do, that artificial intelligence is driving a lot of spending at IT organizations and is probably the fundamental driver of spending by

The API gateway is the front door to your applications and can also support your move to the cloud

Bringing compute to the edge only solves half the problem, especially if you’re making calls to a centralized database somewhere in a far away cluster.

Happy Women's History Month! Today we're sharing the story of Hedy Lamarr, who was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s as well as an inventor who holds the patent for frequency hopping, which is used in

Programmers possess skills and abilities that go beyond just their knowledge of programming languages.

The cloud has done a great job of creating building blocks that can be pieced together to build anything. But the blocks they provide are too small.

Posted on Thursday 9 Mar 2023. 378 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Before and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Russia's Internet Research Agency purchased tens of thousands of Facebook ads in an effort to stoke division among Americans. Their effect on the election is hard to quantify. But their reach is undeniable.

By Benson Ma, ZZ Zimmerman With contributions from Alok Ahuja, Shravan Heroor, Michael Krasnow, Todor Minchev, Inder Singh

For Kai Hackbarth and his team at Bosch, there exists the ability to bring real-time analytics into their applications that can handle lots and lots of data.

Don’t be fooled by its perceived “power”

A one-page summary, and this time we mean it.

The traveling circus didn’t have to appeal to everyone. They rode into town with the elephants, the bearded lady and the Tasmanian Devil, and the people who came, came. Once the folks who wan…