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Earlier in November, former President Donald Trump shocked the world with a decisive victory in the United States presidential election, defying initial expectations. Additionally, the Second Shigeru Ishiba Cabinet was inaugurated in Japan as the country’s first minority government in 30 years. These developments and the continued erosion of democracy in Hong Kong have drawn […]
Building AI responsibly is crucial. That’s why we created the Responsible GenAI Toolkit, providing resources to design, build, and evaluate open AI models. And we’re not stopping there! We’re now expanding the toolkit with new features designed to work with any LLMs, whether it’s Gemma, Gemini, or any other model. This set of tools and […]
Meanwhile, coaches’ and universities’ power to keep athletes on the team and have them participate has significantly decreased. Ever since the NCAA permitted college athletes to get paid by companies that use their names, images and likenesses, athletes have tested the limits of their increasing power. Source link
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed we’re in the solar maximum, a period of increased solar activity that could lead to more auroras. Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a fivefold surge in whooping cough cases. And a new study suggests that some microbes might be using […]
October 18, 2024 Ben Popper chats with Keith Babo, Head of Product at Solo.io, about how the API security landscape is changing in the era of GenAI. They talk through the role of governance in AI, the importance of data protection, and the role API gateways play in enhancing security and functionality. Keith shares his […]
Intercom is rolling out a major evolution of our database architecture moving to Vitess – a scalable, open-source MySQL clustering system – managed by PlanetScale. For many years, Intercom has used Amazon Aurora MySQL as our default database. With the addition of our custom sharding solution for high scale data, Aurora MySQL has allowed us […]
I’ve recently started a new job that uses Python. The last time I professionally Python’d was 15 years ago, writing backends for mobile apps I worked on. At the time, I was still a novice developer, only a couple years out of college. While I’ve returned to Python from time to time for tiny throwaway […]
Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low gravity, and may pose a threat to astronauts Source link
16 min read · Sep 10, 2024 By Karthik Yagna, Baskar Odayarkoil, and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. This allows data to be sent to the device from backend services on demand, without the need for continually polling requests from the device. […]