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The Safety Test Ends at Message One

Towards AI — 2026-11-12T00:01:04+00:00

A lawsuit over an engineer’s death asks a question the industry has barely started to measure: what happens at message two hundred? Continue reading on Towards AI »

Who Owns an Agent’s Memory? The Platform Remembered. The Agent Still Restarted the Gateway.

AI Advances — 2026-11-11T23:42:25+00:00

The second Night Shift article. Every piece of state an agent carries has an owner, and deployment changes owners without telling you. I moved one layer, long-term memory, from Microsoft Agent Framework’s harness to Microsoft Foundry Memory, ran the storm night again, and learned that remembering and being remembered are two different things. Working code: nightshift-ms-harness on GitHub , folder memory-ownership. Every number in this article comes from those runs, and every quote from an agent

Positional Encoding From First Principles #0: Where Does a Word Live? (Start Here)

Towards AI — 2026-11-11T23:31:01+00:00

Positional Encoding From First Principles · Part 0 of 12 Continue reading on Towards AI »

5 Open-Source AI Tools for Data Analysis and Report Generation

Towards AI — 2026-11-11T23:01:02+00:00

Explore AI tools that turn datasets into charts, dashboards, and analytical reports. Continue reading on Towards AI »

The Future Belongs to People Who Can Connect Ideas Across Industries

Women in Technology — 2026-11-11T23:01:02+00:00

Why the best ideas often show up where different worlds meet We like to think of innovation as something that happens inside one industry. Tech companies write software banks design financial products doctors improve patient care and teachers find smarter ways to teach. Each field has its experts, its problems and its own way of doing things. The interesting ideas often appear where those fields overlap. Take something as paying for a purchase online. You pick a product type in a details and tap

Beyond Protocol Translation: Building a Stateless MCP-A2A Bridge

Towards AI — 2026-11-11T22:31:01+00:00

How I made A2A agents accessible as MCP tools, without storing task state in the bridge, and tested whether their tasks could survive server failures. I killed the bridge instance that started an A2A task. Another instance resumed it, and the task completed without losing its context. The original instance was gone. Its in-memory state was gone. But the task was still accessible, and the client could continue interacting with it. That was the exact failure scenario I wanted to test when I starte

Looking within

Bootcamp — 2026-11-11T22:06:21+00:00

How reflexivity changed the way I take feedback, make decisions and understand why I do the work at all. In Bali, I was never a neutral observer. Who I was shaped what people shared with me, what I noticed and what I made of it. Anthropologists call the habit of tracking that reflexivity: thinking critically about how your context shapes the way you experience and interpret the world, from data collection to analysis and writing. That was as far as I was taught to take it. Working on technology

Hear my essence

Bootcamp — 2026-11-11T22:06:15+00:00

Why simulated humanity in AI voice interfaces creates cognitive friction instead of connection. On a recent car ride, my husband gave GPT-Live-1.1 the uninspiring task of comparing the nutritional profiles of a local “healthy” burger chain and McDonald’s. I listened to the ChatGPT voice response with undivided attention — fully attuned to the tonal rise and fall, and receiving cognitively none of the information. The voice made micro-pauses. It mimicked the progression of a thought with a hint o

A Pizza Chain's TikTok Ad Went Out Without Approval. The Cause Was One Setting.

Bootcamp — 2026-11-11T22:06:10+00:00

A Pizza Chain’s TikTok Ad Went Out Without Approval. The Cause Was One Setting. Pizza-La says an AI ad feature was left switched on. If your product’s AI can publish for a customer, the default is the product decision. Pizza-La delivery scooters outside a shop in Osu, Nagoya. Photo by HQA02330, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 6 November 2026, Four Seeds, the company behind the Japanese pizza chain Pizza-La, apologised for an ad its own staff had never made. A video promoting its collabor

One-Person Studio or Solo Freelancer? Please Don’t Invent a Team.

Bootcamp — 2026-11-11T22:06:05+00:00

You don’t need an imaginary team to look professional. You need a clear identity, a good portfolio and a homepage that doesn’t confuse… Continue reading on Bootcamp »

From Figma to Production with AI: A Designer’s Guide to Building and Deploying a Real Product

Bootcamp — 2026-11-11T22:05:59+00:00

Turn your UI design into working code, push it to GitHub, and deploy it, no dev team required. From Figma to Production with AI The gap between a design and a real product Every designer knows this feeling. You spend days on a Figma file. The colors feel right, the spacing is clean, the flow makes sense. And then it stays a file: a set of beautiful frames that nobody can click, test, or open from a link. That gap used to need a developer. Today, AI tools can turn a design into working code, and

Can I Not Be Strong Today?

No Time — 2026-11-11T20:56:50+00:00

The quiet exhaustion of being everyone’s strength Continue reading on No Time »

Modern Life Has Changed. Many Older Adults Can’t Stand It

No Time — 2026-11-11T20:55:39+00:00

The world may be more convenient today, but that doesn’t mean everything feels better. Continue reading on No Time »

One Small Change That Fixed My Attention Span.

No Time — 2026-11-11T20:54:46+00:00

Solution to big problems are often simple and small. Continue reading on No Time »

It’s Fall Y’All And Some Seasonal Reflections

No Time — 2026-11-11T20:53:43+00:00

Pretty leaves, holiday grief, and the things I thought I’d have figured out by now Me, Lake District in England The leaves are changing from green to auburn, red, orange, and yellow, and I’m feeling everything: excitement, hope, dread, and the realization that the year is nearing its end. I pull up my off-the-shoulder sweater, bring my warm pumpkin-flavored coffee to my lips, and smile as if I wasn’t weeping in my car ten minutes ago to the sounds of Olivia Rodrigo. I can’t quite place the cause

Trump Can’t End the Ukraine War. India’s 3-Point Plan Might.

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-11-11T20:37:13+00:00

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Village Boy Goes to a Five Star Hotel

The Haven — 2026-11-11T20:16:01+00:00

Eat what you know, or eat dessert Continue reading on The Haven »

Fun Fact: Flight Attendants Have a Secret Language

The Haven — 2026-11-11T20:16:01+00:00

Careless crew members spill the beans Continue reading on The Haven »

Mad Hen Marketing

The Haven — 2026-11-11T20:16:01+00:00

A Thanksgiving Documentary Series Continue reading on The Haven »

Why Nobody Is Talking About Claude Fable 5.2

UX Planet — 2026-11-11T20:10:57+00:00

5 Reasons Why Claude Fable 5.2 Didn’t Live Up to the Hype Continue reading on UX Planet »

Best GPTZero Alternatives in 2026 (Tested on Real Student Essays)

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-11-11T19:55:25+00:00

I ran real student essays, ChatGPT essays, and part-AI essays through six GPTZero alternatives. Here’s which ones you can trust, what they cost, and where each one slips. Image generated by AI Quick answer: The best GPTZero alternative for most teachers and students is Proofademic . In my November 2026 test, it cleared all six real student essays with 98% to 100% human scores, flagged all three AI essays, and showed which sentences looked AI-written. Sentence-level highlighting starts at $8 a mo

Inside Jetpack Compose’s $changed Bit Field: Static Arguments and Fewer Runtime Comparisons

ProAndroidDev — 2026-11-11T19:25:42+00:00

A closer look at parameter-state encoding, compiler IR analysis, comparison propagation, SlotTable storage, and the optimizations that happen before recomposition decisions reach the runtime. Jetpack Compose doesn’t need to compare every argument passed to every composable function. The compiler already knows that some arguments cannot change. Consider a simple composable: @Composable fun ProductCard( title: String, isAvailable: Boolean ) { ProductCardContent( title = title, isAvailable = isAvai

Everything an AI Engineer Needs to Know About GPUs

Level Up Coding — 2026-11-11T19:12:28+00:00

What is inside a GPU, how training and inference use it differently, the generations, what you actually rent, NVIDIA’s competitors, and… Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Pandas vs Polars vs DuckDB: Which Should You Learn?

Level Up Coding — 2026-11-11T19:12:23+00:00

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages for data analysis, automation, machine learning, and data engineering. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

dbt Incremental Models: How to Pick the Right Strategy — [dbt Series #9]

Level Up Coding — 2026-11-11T19:12:17+00:00

Append, merge, delete+insert and insert_overwrite, each with a business case and Snowflake code Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

UltraVoxelGS: 3D Ultrasound From Tracked Sweeps in Seconds

Level Up Coding — 2026-11-11T19:12:12+00:00

Hong Kong Baptist University turns tracked 2D ultrasound frames into a 3D Gaussian scene in about 10 seconds, no per-scan fitting. AI-assistance disclosure: I drafted this article with AI assistance, then edited it and fact-checked every number against the paper (arXiv:2611.11951). Freehand 2D ultrasound is still how most abdominal, vascular and musculoskeletal scans get done, and the sonographer builds the 3D picture in their head. Nobody sees which part of the organ was never swept until the p

Campsgiving Road Trip Along the Oregon Coast

Globetrotters — 2026-11-11T19:09:35+00:00

Nature was my host for the Thanksgiving holiday Continue reading on Globetrotters »

A Winter’s Tale: A Dying Man Sings to a Lake

The Riff — 2026-11-11T19:06:01+00:00

One day, a famous rock singer, knowing he was dying, looked out at Lake Geneva and composed his final song. Continue reading on The Riff »

8 Habits That Keep You Consistent Even When You Have No Motivation

Skill Stuff — 2026-11-11T19:02:46+00:00

There will be days when you do not feel like working toward your goals. You may wake up tired, lose interest in a project, struggle to… Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

10 Life Skills You Appreciate More the Older You Get

Skill Stuff — 2026-11-11T19:02:12+00:00

When you are younger, it is easy to believe that success depends mostly on education, career achievements, money, or professional skills. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

10 Things to Focus on Instead of Worrying About What People Think

Skill Stuff — 2026-11-11T18:44:24+00:00

One of the easiest ways to lose control of your life is to spend too much time thinking about how other people see you. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

7 Decisions You Can Make Today That Your Future Self Will Thank You For

Skill Stuff — 2026-11-11T18:34:16+00:00

Your future is shaped by decisions that often feel insignificant when you make them. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

Moscow Hid Its Troops Inside Gas Pipelines. Then a Ukrainian “Mathematician” Sent In the Robots

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-11-11T18:04:34+00:00

Russian infantry crawled underground to dodge drones, right until Khartiia turned four feet of steel pipe into a robotic mousetrap. Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

From COALESCE to RANK() OVER: 15 SQL Functions You Should Know

Data Science Collective — 2026-11-11T17:37:23+00:00

How to start learning SQL fundamentals Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

The Local Harness Is Part of Your SDLC

Data Science Collective — 2026-11-11T17:36:59+00:00

You don’t need a hundred Skills and an MCP server for everything. What Revolut’s 2,000-engineer rollout actually shows, and what a local harness really needs. In my last article, The Harness Is the Product , I used the analogy of a horse and its harness: the horse brings raw capability, the harness makes it usable. That piece was about production harnesses, the runtime around the model when the agent is the thing you ship. This one is about the other harness, the one you use to build software ev

Pat Boone’s ‘Moody River’ Took a Bleak Topic to №1

The Riff — 2026-11-11T16:06:01+00:00

‘100 Greatest 60s Pop Songs’ Book Excerpt Salt & Pepper “Moody River” was a popular country song written and originally recorded by Chase Webster. Pat Boone’s pop version about a girl who cheated on her boyfriend and committed suicide reached №1 in 1961. https://medium.com/media/61104a81baedc3aa2f1c500512588a7d/href Boone told Goldmine that producer Randy Wood encouraged him to record “Moody River.” “Randy purposely put

The Really Dang Good Nerdy Books Iceberg

The Ugly Monster — 2026-11-11T16:04:56+00:00

This is going to be an iceberg of book recommendations. Consider it a list of books you may have slept on/not heard of yet. Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

TK is open to everyone

Medium Staff — 2026-11-11T16:01:04+00:00

Plus, dark mode and advice from 31 writers who started in 2026 Hi writers, Happy November! Here’s your list of updates: TK , our new writing app, is now free for everyone. Read on for what it is and where to start. Dark mode is fully here ! Turn it on at Settings > Appearance, and read how a decade-old request got built. Thinking about starting on Medium? Advice from 31 writers who started in 2026 . Need ideas for what to write this month? Check out our November 2026 writing prompts . Upcoming e

20 Blind Musicians

The Riff — 2026-11-11T15:09:05+00:00

Gifted Musicians Without Sight Continue reading on The Riff »

How Did Mothers in an Ancient Greek Colony Decide When to Wean Their Babies?

Science Spectrum — 2026-11-11T15:01:07+00:00

New study suggests prolonged breastfeeding may have contributed to surprisingly low child mortality in the Greek colony of Himera. Continue reading on Science Spectrum »

A fake Einstein quote actually explains the affordability crisis

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-11-11T15:01:06+00:00

Einstein never said his famous “compound interest” quote. But the math of compound interest — and its inverse, inflation — explains so… Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

AI Won’t Fix Your Data Problem. It Will Expose It.

AI Advances — 2026-11-11T14:48:29+00:00

We’re racing to deploy AI on top of information estates that were never designed for it. Right now, businesses are introducing Copilots, agents and generative AI into information environments that have been growing for years. Those environments weren’t designed for AI. In many cases, they weren’t really designed at all. They evolved as the organisation evolved. Someone needed somewhere to collaborate, so a new SharePoint site appeared. A project started, so a new Team was created. Someone didn’t

190,000 People Preferred the Sweeter Coca-Cola. Yet It Failed.

Women in Technology — 2026-11-11T14:46:01+00:00

What went wrong? Understanding hypothesis testing through one famous product failure. Continue reading on Women in Technology »

Want to Create Animations with Claude Code? Try These 5 GitHub Repositories

UX Planet — 2026-11-11T14:27:42+00:00

If you want to create stunning animations or motion effects with Claude Code, these 5 GitHub repositories can help you with that. Continue reading on UX Planet »

Why VS Code Remote SSH Gets Stuck at “Installing VS Code Server”

Women in Technology — 2026-11-11T13:40:00+00:00

Your SSH connection works, but VS Code keeps showing “Installing VS Code Server.” Here are the common causes and practical ways to fix… Continue reading on Women in Technology »

8 Python Libraries for Reading Spreadsheets Without Opening Excel

Stackademic — 2026-11-11T13:32:21+00:00

Pull the numbers out and keep moving. Continue reading on Stackademic »

The Rolling Stones Song They Thought Was Terrible

The Riff — 2026-11-11T13:06:01+00:00

My continuing series of "songs that matter" Continue reading on The Riff »

Can AI Ever Be Conscious?

AI Advances — 2026-11-11T12:43:25+00:00

The closer machines get to sounding human, the harder it becomes to distinguish imitation from experience. Continue reading on AI Advances »

15 GitHub repos that have more value than most other paid courses combined

Let’s Code Future — 2026-11-11T12:20:33+00:00

16 GitHub repositories packed with free tools, practical guides, and learning resources you’ll actually want to use. Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

Gemini Vision on a Budget: Five Levers that Cut Multimodal Token Cost in Production

Google Cloud — 2026-11-11T11:23:38+00:00

In my previous blogs we explored how Gemini in BigQuery analyses multimodal data and powers image search with vector embeddings. This blog series moves from the prototype to production , where a new question appears once real volume arrives: what does every Gemini vision call cost, and how do you bring that cost down without losing the answer? Imagine a marketplace with thousands of new product listings a day. Each listing has a title, a few attributes (product type, colour, pattern, brand) and

Building AI-Native Games with Google Antigravity & Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Google Cloud — 2026-11-11T11:23:35+00:00

A complete step-by-step developer’s blueprint-including the exact prompts, plugin setup ( game-dev & game-architect), Nano Banana asset workflows, and parallel Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video generation-deployed live to Google Cloud Run. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present Google Antigravity and its capabilities to a major gaming studio. While preparing, I asked myself: what’s the best way to truly showcase what it can do? The answer was obvious — build a complete, AI-native game from scratc

Google ADK 2.0 Tutorial (#4b): Running Evaluations with adk eval

Google Cloud — 2026-11-11T11:23:32+00:00

Hands-on guide to running, debugging, and automating multi-turn agent evaluations with Google Cloud and ADK 2.0 . Covers evaluation architecture, CLI execution via adk eval, diagnosing trajectory regressions, and fine-tuning strictness in eval_config.json. « Previous: Part 4a | ADK101 Hub | Next: Part 5a » The adk eval CLI in the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.0 executes your .test.json and .evalset.json test suites against your live agent package, scoring every conversational turn against

Ollama vs vLLM on Cloud Run with an NVIDIA L4: A Real Benchmark from 1 to 48 Concurrent Users

Google Cloud — 2026-11-11T11:23:07+00:00

Same GPU, same model. Ollama was 2.4× faster for one user. At 32 users vLLM was 7.7× faster than Ollama’s defaults, and still 3.4× faster after we gave Ollama 32 parallel slots. Then Cloud Run’s autoscaling billed us for GPUs that served nobody, and with Ollama it sent users to a GPU that wasn’t ready yet. Vishal Bulbule · Google Developer Expert (Google Cloud) · TechTrapture Total tokens/s as users grow, same L4 GPU and same Gemma 4 E2B model. From the run recorded for the video (1 user: Ollama

Washington’s Favorite CEO, Beijing’s Alleged Asset

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-11-11T11:11:35+00:00

Jensen Huang lobbied to loosen chip export limits and advised Trump. Now Congress wants to know whether a Chinese-linked relationship… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

Write by any means necessary. It makes your life better.

The Medium Blog — 2026-11-11T11:01:03+00:00

Publish or perish? Our new app, TK, helps you write and thrive. (Issue #454) Frieze ornament, via Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons In the AI era, “it’s easy to just say that writing is more valuable,” writes Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine in “ We are betting on human intelligence ”. “But as people who love writing, we see the value of writing as permission to do something we already wanted to do, which is write more.” Earlier this week, Medium publicly launched TK , a private, agentic

The Complete Guide to Claude Fable 5.2

Artificial Corner — 2026-11-11T09:23:27+00:00

What it is, what changed from 5.1, what it costs, how to get it, and the 5 jobs I’d hand it first. Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

Headless WordPress: When It Makes Sense and When It Does Not

Let’s Code Future — 2026-11-11T08:58:08+00:00

Separating the content system from the website can bring benefits, but it also adds work that many projects do not need. Image credit: Original cover graphic created by the author, Anna Parker In a traditional WordPress site, one system stores the content and also builds the pages. A headless setup splits the two. WordPress stays as the place where editors write, while a separate front end, often built with a JavaScript framework, fetches the content through an API and displays it. How it works

Europe Called Putin. Europe Fell Apart.

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-11-11T08:25:03+00:00

The direct intervention by Finland and Norway exposed the divisions preventing the continent from shaping negotiations over Ukraine’s… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

The Modern AI Stack: How MCP and Local Agents Replaced My Entire Productivity App Suite.

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-11-11T07:23:59+00:00

The apps didn’t disappear. The part you click did, and a quiet open standard is the reason. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

7 Python Features That Make Dataclasses Do More Work

Stackademic — 2026-11-11T01:08:46+00:00

Less boilerplate, clearer data models, fewer small bugs. Continue reading on Stackademic »

OpenAI Just Released GPT-6-Cyber. What Does It Mean for the Future of Cybersecurity?

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-11-11T01:06:07+00:00

AI can now help security researchers investigate vulnerabilities and verify fixes. But what happens when the same capabilities become… Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Contributor Articles for Founders: How to Pitch, Write and Reuse Them

Women in Technology — 2026-11-11T01:00:10+00:00

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Sooner or later, most founders hear that they should be more visible. The advice usually arrives as a list of channels: post on LinkedIn more often, start a podcast, record videos, speak at events. Each of these can work, and each demands a steady effort that many founders cannot sustain alongside running a business. One option tends to be overlooked, even though it fits the way experienced founders think and the time they have: the contributor article, an opinio

Iran Internet Blackout 2026: How a Country Went Offline: How a Whole Country Vanished From the…

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-11-11T00:01:02+00:00

A line on a graph fell to zero. Hours earlier, a quieter signal had already given the game away. Here’s how to spot it yourself. Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

Richard Lloyd Was Never Just Television’s Other Guitarist

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-11-11T00:00:42+00:00

Tom Verlaine was the poet and Richard Hell the punk. Lloyd gave CBGB’s most enigmatic band its physical force — then recorded one of the… Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

I Discovered Iceland’s Next Pop Breakthrough

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-11-10T22:52:52+00:00

Brynja Rán’s Airwaves debut gave me goosebumps Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

Make it Last Forever…

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-11-10T22:51:39+00:00

Self-love Music can make or break my mood. Therefore, there are times in my life where entire playlists cannot be played for fear of disrupting my already fragile equilibrium. These days, I am slowly revisiting music that has been on standby; however, one of my Spotify playlists, R&B Favorites, has withstood every storm and more importantly, time. Last night, a close friend shared a story of conflict between her and her partner and the various ways he had invalidated her feelings. After listenin

3 UX Design Courses Worth Taking If You’ve Already Mastered the Basics

UX Planet — 2026-11-10T22:50:39+00:00

Go beyond the fundamentals with three courses that can help experienced product designers sharpen their skills. After a few years working in product design, you likely reached a point where learning another prototyping trick or reviewing the basics of user research doesn’t bring much value. That’s because challenges you face are different from the challenges you’ve faced at the beginning of your career journey: you need to design more complex systems and make sure the products your team builds w

Is China Heading for a Lost Decade?

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-11-10T21:16:01+00:00

Economic forecasts for China and lessons from Japan Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

I Built My Own AI Agent Instead of Just Chatting with ChatGPT

Stackademic — 2026-11-10T20:17:24+00:00

Learn how to connect an LLM to Python tools, execute tasks, manage errors and build an AI agent that can interact with a real development… Continue reading on Stackademic »

ChatGPT Is Moving Beyond Chat: Why OpenAI Wants One Workspace for Everything

Stackademic — 2026-11-10T20:17:08+00:00

OpenAI is testing a more unified experience that could take users from asking questions to completing real tasks without switching modes. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Right Turn Left

The Haven — 2026-11-10T20:16:01+00:00

Cullen backed out of their driveway and shifted into drive. Continue reading on The Haven »

How Hackers Thawed Europe’s Supermarket Freezers

Data Science Collective — 2026-11-10T19:41:38+00:00

What scans and loss reports reveal about attacks that reached blood banks too, and why 2025 fixes sat unused A frozen food aisle, shown for illustration only (not one of the stores hit). Photo by Raysonho, 2016. Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Dante put the ninth circle of hell in ice, and the sinners locked there cannot move. A supermarket freezer has a gentler version of the same job: keep a number still. In a French store that number is around −18 degrees Celsius. On the night of 11 October 2

When Graph Structure Beats Language Models in Ontology Alignment

Data Science Collective — 2026-11-10T19:41:21+00:00

A systematic comparison of six method families on biomedical ontology pairs, and the one property that predicts which family wins Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

Lecce Through My Lens

Globetrotters — 2026-11-10T17:26:01+00:00

Slow mornings, local food, and wandering through the sun-drenched streets of southern Italy. Continue reading on Globetrotters »

An LLM Wiki for the Rest of Us

AI Advances — 2026-11-10T16:03:03+00:00

Keep the wiki your team edits. Let the model compile everything else. Continue reading on AI Advances »

I Spent a Week in London. I Won’t Be Back.

Globetrotters — 2026-11-10T15:34:29+00:00

Seven days of crowds, chaos and eye-watering prices Continue reading on Globetrotters »

Zero, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Dimensions Explained in the Simplest Way

Science Spectrum — 2026-11-10T15:31:48+00:00

Do the lower dimensions even matter? Continue reading on Science Spectrum »

What natural object is the roundest in the Universe?

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-11-10T15:01:07+00:00

Nearly everything has angular momentum, so even massive, self-gravitating objects don’t become perfect spheres. Which one comes the… Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Can Claude Fable 5.2 Replace Product Designers?

UX Planet — 2026-11-10T14:15:13+00:00

Fable 5.2 is Anthropic’s most advanced AI model. The model demonstrates excellent results across most product design tasks. Given the… Continue reading on UX Planet »

I Read About 70 Books a Year, and These 9 Are the Ones I’d Make Everyone Read

The Useful Life — 2026-11-10T13:01:06+00:00

The books I keep buying for friends, because each one fixes a problem almost everyone has. Continue reading on The Useful Life »

I Thought I’d Use These Apps Forever. Then I Found 4 Open-Source Alternatives

Let’s Code Future — 2026-11-10T11:28:52+00:00

For a long time, I kept using the same apps without giving them much thought. They worked, I knew my way around them, and I never really… Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

If you’ve been waiting for Bloodborne on PC for years, this review is for you

The Ugly Monster — 2026-11-10T09:54:47+00:00

Credits: Sony Interactive Entertainment The community said: “Fine! We’ll do it ourselves!” Here’s a bit of Constantin lore for you: I’ve never touched Bloodborne ever since its 2015 release on PlayStation . I still consider PlayStation the platform with the best exclusives (despite their business practices becoming crappier and crappier). But most of them don’t really fit my style. Like many other folks, I wasn’t too keen on getting a “ Bloodborne Machine” just for one game. Also, like many othe

Kyiv Goes Dark as Ukraine Runs Out of Interceptors

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-11-10T08:34:41+00:00

Russia’s ballistic barrage hit the capital’s power, water and bridges while talks in Abu Dhabi loom and its leaders trade blame Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

Revisiting a SaaS Agile Kickoff: Where I Would Put AI Today

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-11-10T02:48:00+00:00

From business requests to Jira delivery evidence and management decisions, the useful opportunity is an AI-assisted operating loop — not a larger backlog of automatically written tickets. AI-generated conceptual illustration of a proposed AI-assisted Agile delivery workflow. Not a historical client implementation. In a previous independent consulting engagement, I helped a company preparing to offer digital-security SaaS subscriptions establish an Agile operating setup. The work involved initial

When Kabuki Shows Its Own Making

Philosophy Today — 2026-11-10T00:36:42+00:00

A conversation with Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

“Silly and Ignorant Like Other Boys”: Swapping Only Gendered Words in Classic Novels

Philosophy Today — 2026-11-10T00:35:04+00:00

How a linguistic inversion exposes gender biases in literature Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

A precision Moon landing and the future

Predict — 2026-11-09T23:38:14+00:00

How Japan’s SLIM lander sparked a new era of precision landings, with notable implications for lunar science and exploration. Japan’s SLIM spacecraft on the Moon as imaged by the LEV-2 crawler bot (inset image) and India’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter (background). An arrow points to the tiny lander on the image’s right. Images: JAXA / TOMY / SONY / ISRO / Chandra Tungathurthi This story pieces together insights from experts at JAXA, NASA, and ISRO. On January 19, 2024, Japan’s solar-powered Smart Land

The Story of a Young AI Entrepreneur.

Predict — 2026-11-09T23:38:00+00:00

How did I meet Mo? Well, I’m a science fiction writer who’s in the middle of publishing the five book science fiction series Until This… Continue reading on Predict »

Out of Control: Massive Swarms of AI Agents Are Already Operating Behind Our Backs

Predict — 2026-11-09T23:37:44+00:00

And we have no way of knowing what they’re really up to. Not even their makers. Continue reading on Predict »

5 Medieval Medical Treatments That Actually Worked

Predict — 2026-11-09T23:37:29+00:00

#2. Al-Zahrawi’s catgut stitches Continue reading on Predict »

I Tried 23 Viral Claude Skills. These Are the Best

Artificial Corner — 2026-11-09T17:04:31+00:00

Tested & ranked. One prompt away Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

Fact-Checking at Scale: Building a More Accurate and Efficient Synopsis Factuality System

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-11-09T17:01:02+00:00

By Shreya S Ramanujam , Yongce Li , Afshine Amidi , Sina Ghiassian , Benjamin Klein . Introduction Picture this — you’re home after a long day at work and can’t wait to catch up on Bridgerton. You log on to Netflix, search for “Bridgerton” and land on this screen: If this sounds familiar, you already know what a synopsis is — it’s a short glimpse into what a viewer can expect to see in a show. We see two types of synopses here: a series-level synopsis describing the overarching plot, and multipl

How to get 12 testers for Google Play closed testing (and actually pass)

ProAndroidDev — 2026-11-09T16:15:05+00:00

When I finished my app SnapReturn this fall, I hit the same wall a lot of indie Android developers hit: Google wouldn’t let me publish to production until I ran a closed test with at least 12 testers for 14 days. I’m an Android developer by day, so I figured this part would be easy. It wasn’t. I got one friend and three family members. My Reddit posts got a few replies, and some of those people disappeared after a day or two. What finally got me through was a group of developers testing each oth

We are betting on human intelligence

The Medium Blog — 2026-11-09T15:01:21+00:00

Meet TK, an agentic notebook for writing and thinking Much of the AI industry is betting that machines will do our thinking for us, and some of its leaders talk as if writing no longer matters. We’re betting the other way. We’re not anti-AI, we’re pro-human—and that’s why we built TK, a new app from Medium. TK is a private, agentic notebook to craft writing that compounds into deep thinking, which creates influence across your entire world. What shape is that influence? We’re still figuring that

Why Doesn’t a Laser Beam Lose Its Shape?

Science Spectrum — 2026-11-09T15:01:04+00:00

Artistic impression of the helical phase structure of a light beam — light with a twist. Image by author. Propagating light easily loses its shape, turning everything into a blur, yet laser beams seem to survive. Finding out why leads to discovering a whole family of beams — and a surprising twist at the end. Send light through an opening of almost any shape — a keyhole, a slit, a square — and diffraction soon blurs that shape into a formless smear. Yet a laser beam can retain its shape while pr

AI Coding for Android: Reflections and Building Self-Verification

ProAndroidDev — 2026-11-09T14:54:49+00:00

AI Coding is rapidly evolving from code completion into an end-to-end development workflow spanning requirements analysis, solution planning, implementation, testing, and bug fixing. For Android development, this is not simply a matter of replacing an IDE autocomplete tool with a Coding Agent. It means redesigning the engineering environment in which an Agent can work reliably: it must understand the business context, respect client architecture boundaries, run builds and tests, and correct itse

Migrating a Real Android App to Kotlin Multiplatform 3/4 — Sharing the UI without losing safety net

ProAndroidDev — 2026-11-09T14:53:26+00:00

Migrating a Real Android App to Kotlin Multiplatform Part 3: Sharing the UI without losing the safety net Part 2 ended on a pattern: the code that moved most easily was the code that knew nothing about Android. By that logic the UI layer should have been the worst part of the migration. It touches the screen, the system bars, the keyboard, the back gesture — everything that is unmistakably a platform. And, much to my amazement, it wasn’t. The composables moved about as easily as the domain model

What Vera Rubin observatory’s first new dwarf planet means

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-11-09T14:01:03+00:00

Some are clamoring to make it the Solar System’s 6th official dwarf planet. They’ll be shocked to learn how rich our own backyard truly is. Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

The Seven Sages: II–Thales of Miletus

Philosophy Today — 2026-11-09T13:27:04+00:00

And so philosophy begins Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

How Would a Real Enlightened Person Live?

Philosophy Today — 2026-11-09T11:36:01+00:00

The history of withdrawal into wisdom from shamanism to modernity Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

Xi’s Blockade Rehearsal Is Running

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-11-09T10:45:01+00:00

Since June, China has sent regular coast guard patrols east of Taiwan, and the vessels are still coming Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

14 Truthfully Hilarious Economy Jokes That Will Make You Rich With Laughter

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-11-08T19:01:01+00:00

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it does make laughter Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Four Ways to Build a Dungeon

Science Spectrum — 2026-11-08T15:01:03+00:00

An Introduction to Procedural Generation Continue reading on Science Spectrum »

Autumn in the Garden of England

Globetrotters — 2026-11-08T14:24:19+00:00

Kent gifts us an explosion of colours Continue reading on Globetrotters »

We’re Teaching AI to Do Everything We Do. Then What?

Let’s Code Future — 2026-11-08T08:05:27+00:00

Weren’t AI agents supposed to be doing most of our work by now? We were promised a future where machines would handle the boring stuff… Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

7 Songs That Got Their Names by Accident

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-11-07T22:37:40+00:00

How Cream, The Supremes, Green Day, Nirvana, and Aphex Twin ended up with songs that weren’t meant to be called that — and the time one… Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

AI Writes My Code Now, Yet I’m Still the Bottleneck

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-11-07T14:46:01+00:00

This summer I finally stopped reviewing AI-generated code. But it turns out the hardest part of building software was never writing it. Continue reading on Medium »

7 Pieces of Popular Advice the Best Books I’ve Read Proved Wrong

The Useful Life — 2026-11-07T13:01:01+00:00

I followed most of them for years, until 7 books showed me the research. Continue reading on The Useful Life »

27 Plugins to Install in Claude Cowork

Artificial Corner — 2026-11-06T16:15:04+00:00

Plugins turn Cowork into a specialist for your job. Here are the 27 worth installing, and how to add one in under a minute. Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

Core Vitals Optimization, SSR Deployments, and Signal-First Architecture ⚡

Angular Blog — 2026-11-06T15:01:04+00:00

The Angular community is firing on all cylinders! From shaving milliseconds off your Core Web Vitals to deploying server-side rendered apps in production, mastering professional form submissions, and architecting enterprise Nx monorepos, this week’s lineup is packed with practical engineering gems. Dive into these expert-led resources to level up your workflow: Web Core Vitals in Angular (Spanish) Kevin Dávila breaks down how to optimize your Angular applications for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, a

Ask Ethan: What should you do when a respected theory is false?

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-11-06T14:01:05+00:00

Every leading scientific idea today will eventually be proven wrong: superseded by a more correct one in the future. Getting there is hard. Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

How to Make NotebookLM Your Second Brain

Artificial Corner — 2026-11-05T21:01:02+00:00

A step-by-step setup that turns files into a brain you can ask anything. Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

12 Hilarious Jokes About Brothels

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-11-05T19:01:02+00:00

Cat house or sporting house-take your pick Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

8 Things I Did to Stop Procrastinating on the Work That Scares Me

The Useful Life — 2026-11-05T15:22:00+00:00

Every fix came from a book, and none of them needed more willpower. Continue reading on The Useful Life »

Jerry Seinfeld Was Never Really That Funny

The Ugly Monster — 2026-11-05T10:53:32+00:00

It seems Jerry is the only one laughing at his jokes these days Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ — BioWare’s Imperfect Swan Song

The Ugly Monster — 2026-11-04T13:46:00+00:00

A two year anniversary review and post-mortem of the very last BioWare game Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

The new generation of November novel writing

The Medium Blog — 2026-11-04T11:01:03+00:00

Plus: What to do after you actually finish writing your book. (Issue #453) Students writing notes, via Onwuka Glory / Wikimedia Commons . For 25 years, writers knew that November meant writing a novel. Or at least 50,000 words of one. National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, was an internet challenge where writers would attempt to write a 50,000-word novel (or 50,000 words of a novel, even if it wasn’t complete) over the 30 days of November. But in 2025, the nonprofit who organized the annual

6 Books for Overthinkers Who Replay Every Conversation at 2 AM

The Useful Life — 2026-11-03T20:30:27+00:00

Your brain will not stop on its own. These books show you how to turn the volume down. Continue reading on The Useful Life »

The AI Revolution Inside Big Tech: Why Google, OpenAI, and Enterprise Leaders Are Moving Beyond…

The Code Frontier — 2026-11-03T12:20:20+00:00

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. The biggest technology companies are no longer competing only to build smarter chatbots… Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

9 Hilarious Marriage Jokes That Will Make You Glad You Are Single

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-11-01T19:01:02+00:00

Nothing brings light to your life like marriage jokes Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Four Ghost Stories Told by an AI Assistant (and written by a human)

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-10-31T14:46:01+00:00

She’s kind, she’s helpful, and she does whatever is written on the tape. This Halloween, the tape is the haunted house. Continue reading on Medium »

39 Witty Jokes About Monsters That Ought to Scare a Laugh Out of You

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-10-29T19:01:02+00:00

And not just any old monsters — the best monsters Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Pumpkin vampires and (un)dead actors

The Medium Blog — 2026-10-28T09:41:01+00:00

Horror stories and our own Spooky Storytime on October 29. (Issue #452) Vintage Halloween card, via ewan traveler/Wikimedia Commons Did you know that Japan has multiple bloodsucking demon myths, including the half-woman, half-snake Nure-onn ? Or that in Ethiopia, a bloodsucking sorcerer known as a bouda is thought to be able to transform into a monstrous hyena? Or that among certain Muslim Romani villages in Kosovo in the 1930s, it was believed that pumpkins could become vampires ? There’s a chi

Making Failure Diagnosis Reliable with Pensive AI

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-10-26T16:01:02+00:00

By Praneeth Yenugutala , Victor Dusa , Anastasia Samoilova , Megan Ren , Justin Wei , Marcelo Mayworm At Netflix, data and machine learning practitioners run millions of workloads each day across orchestration systems and compute engines such as Titus, Spark, Trino, and Druid. On peak days, roughly 100,000 workloads fail. When workloads fail, the failure itself is only the beginning. Someone still needs to find the useful signal in several logs, decide whether the cause sits in their code or the

Multi‑Ratio Video Resizing for Mobile Feed and Marketing

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-10-26T16:01:01+00:00

Serdar Cellat , Yuchen Xie , Bernadette Marcu , Blaid Burgess , Cody Jarrett , Carlos Pereira , Qing Shi , Samuel Carvajal , Manuel Pamplona , Dorothy Jung , Feiko Ritsema , Benjamin Klein , Alex Woo , Eugene Lok , Anna Pulido , Rebecka Swe , Sanford Holsapple , Ranjith Kumar Shetty Introduction Clips in the Netflix mobile app. At Netflix, a crucial part of our mission is ensuring our content looks stunning on any device. Vertical formats are increasingly important for Netflix, as we have 1.2B f

You Can Leave Lovable Without Throwing Away Your App

The Code Frontier — 2026-10-26T07:33:25+00:00

Changing your editor, frontend hosting and backend are three different projects. Choose the one you need. You can keep the app you built in Lovable and carry on working in another editor. If that’s all you want, you don’t have to move your customers, files and database at the same time. I offer platform migrations through Thunkle. Before planning a move, I’d ask which part of the current setup is getting in your way. “I want to use Cursor” and “I need to run the whole app under my own accounts”

Frontier Models and Frontier Tuning: Cutting Through the Noise

The Code Frontier — 2026-10-26T07:31:57+00:00

Why “frontier” is the most overloaded word in AI “Frontier model” and “frontier tuning” turn up in launch posts, policy memos and sales decks, usually without a definition. The result is a lot of noise and a few expensive decisions made on the strength of a word. This article does three things. It defines “frontier model” the way policy and research use it. It pins down what “frontier tuning” can sensibly mean, since it is not a standard term. And it gives a decision framework for adapting a mod

Technical Interviews Start From Scratch. Real Jobs Never Do.

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-10-24T13:46:01+00:00

Banning AI or allowing it won’t fix that, but there’s a way to test the real job without handing over your codebase. Continue reading on Medium »

Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-10-23T16:01:03+00:00

By Roberto Perez Alcolea , Java Platform Team Quasar connects a proposed API change with observed references in consumer repositories, giving the producer evidence for a release decision At Netflix, shared Java libraries support applications developed across a large, independently evolving repository ecosystem. A library change begins in one repository, but its impact can reach many others. Producers can see the API diff in front of them. What they often cannot see is who still depends on the sy

From running edge-rendered Angular apps on Cloudflare Workers to crafting lifelike speech with…

Angular Blog — 2026-10-23T14:58:56+00:00

From running edge-rendered Angular apps on Cloudflare Workers to crafting lifelike speech with Gemini’s latest TTS models, the Angular ecosystem is charging ahead with incredible speed and flexibility. This week, community leaders have delivered tactical blueprints for monorepos, interview prep, state modeling, and modern book releases. Check out this week’s expert-led guides: Angular SSR on Cloudflare Workers & Scaling Nx Monorepos (Spanish) Nicolas Molina drops two power-packed guides! First,

New: Use the new topic pages to explore your fascinations on Medium

Medium Staff — 2026-10-23T14:01:03+00:00

The topic pages got a redesign to help you find better stories. Image created by the Medium Brand team Here’s a common situation: You read a great Medium story about how to do something useful, something you’ve been interested in learning for a while, like how to find and attract freelance clients. You read it, you apply it, you move on with your life. What you don’t know is that it’s just one story in a rich web of stories Medium writers have shared over the years about that useful skill. How c

Dark mode was never on our roadmap. Here’s how it got built.

Medium Engineering — 2026-10-22T14:01:07+00:00

Keep it safe, keep it small, keep it concrete: How a “someday project” finally shipped Image created by the Medium Brand team Medium has been around for 14 years. In that time, dark mode went from a novelty to a must-have, especially for sites built for reading. In my seven years on the web team, however, it never made it onto our roadmap. Why? Readers asked for it and teammates often asked what it would take, but there was just always another project that needed our engineers more. This year, t

Dark mode for Medium is finally here

Medium Staff — 2026-10-22T14:01:06+00:00

Including a behind-the-scenes write-up of how one engineer made it happen All images created by the Medium Brand team Over ten years ago, Medium user Naveen wrote a story about wanting a dark mode to better read stories on Medium , especially at night. (In classic Medium writer style, he designed a prototype himself and wrote about his process!) It was a great idea back in 2015, and since then, many other writers have taken to Medium to share their frustrations, experiences, and possible solutio

Unicron debunks the Fermi Paradox

Science Fiction — 2026-10-21T07:25:06+00:00

The Transformers: The Movie was less of a cinematic event than a liquidation sale Continue reading on Science Fiction »

Why is Germany pursuing an anti-Russian policy

Russian Bear — 2026-10-18T19:53:48+00:00

I think everyone has heard German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s statement that the German army should become the strongest in Europe. The fact is that, alongside this statement, ⛔️ there are calls to prepare for war with Russia, ⛔️ to increase funding for the German military, ⛔️ and to expand its troop numbers. ⛔️ Their military personnel are making plans to carry out acts of terror in Russia — for instance, by blowing up the Crimean Bridge. ⛔️ Furthermore, their Defense Minister, Pistorius, has d

AI Gets 9x Better per Dollar Every Year. It Just Doesn’t Look Like It.

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-10-17T13:46:01+00:00

CERN planned the LHC by measuring how much more computing a dollar bought each year. Here’s how I measured AI the same way. Continue reading on Medium »

Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-10-16T16:01:02+00:00

Prasanna Vijayanathan , Renzo Sanchez-Silva When Jake Paul and Mike Tyson stepped into the ring in November 2024, we delivered the fight to roughly 65 million concurrent streams. On an ordinary day our infrastructure takes in more than 2 billion requests and handles upwards of 38 million real-time logging events every second. At that scale, the whole picture doesn’t fit into a single engineering team’s head or onto a single dashboard. With more Live content, Podcasts and real-time streams, our n

Integrating Netflix’s Foundation Model into Personalization applications

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-10-14T20:02:22+00:00

Authors: Divya Gadde , Ko-Jen Hsiao , Dhaval Patel and Moumita Bhattacharya The motivation for building the Netflix Foundation Model for personalization was laid out in this previous blog post. The Netflix homepage is powered by several specialized models and it requires significant time and resources to maintain and continue innovating on these individual models. Therefore, we decided to centralize member preference learning and have one powerful model learned from comprehensive user interactio

DataJunction as Netflix’s answer to the missing piece of the modern data stack

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-10-14T19:59:08+00:00

by Olek Gorajek , Samuel Redai , Yian Shang Intro Our Netflix journey from data to dashboards, particularly within the space of the experimentation platform, always presented a unique set of challenges. This blog post aims to illuminate these hurdles and explain how an innovative open-source metric platform became instrumental in overcoming some of them. We’ll showcase the critical role that DataJunction played in streamlining our data workflows and enhancing our ability to derive meaningful ins

Reliable GPU compute for large training & inference jobs

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-10-14T16:01:04+00:00

Authors: Nick Rutigliano , Argha C , Samartha Chandrashekar How we detect failing GPUs and network fabric, remediate machines automatically, and let long-running jobs survive hardware loss. Open Netflix, and the home screen is assembled for you: which rows appear, the order they appear in, the titles within them, and the artwork for each title are chosen by machine learning models trained on how hundreds of millions of members watch. Personalization is one of the most widely used things we build

9 SQL Design Problems I Keep Seeing in Real Databases (And How I Fix Them)

The Code Frontier — 2026-10-14T14:53:46+00:00

Nine real database problems I keep running into, and the exact SQL I use to fix them Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

North and South Korea: Why They Were Divided and What Life Is Really Like There

Russian Bear — 2026-10-11T19:25:06+00:00

Hello everyone, comrades. Look at the map. This is the Korean Peninsula, home to two states — North and South Korea — once a single country divided along the 38th parallel. What image of these countries is fixed in the public consciousness today? North Korea is associated with poverty, isolation, dictatorship, and executions by anti-aircraft gun. South Korea is seen as a paradise of cool cars, Samsung, kimchi, and democracy. Indeed, in 2021, South Korea became the world’s tenth-largest economy.

Trotsky as a historical figure: what he wanted to lead the country to and who sponsored him.

Russian Bear — 2026-10-11T18:28:54+00:00

Trotsky as a historical figure: what he wanted to lead the country to and who sponsored him. Analysis. ➡️ They say even Stalin feared him. ➡️ He joined the Bolsheviks late — only in the summer of 1917 — ➡️ yet it was he who directed the October Revolution ➡️ and led the Communist Party to power. ➡️ He also became the first People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. ➡️ In fact, he even coined the term “narkom” (People’s Commissar). ➡️ He created the legendary Red Army ➡️ and led it to victory in the

We Plot Exponentials. CERN Bet the LHC on One.

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-10-10T13:46:01+00:00

Continue reading on Medium »

Your PlayStation Portal Just Got EVEN Better (Again) — Here’s What Sony Changed

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-10-10T11:33:50+00:00

Your PlayStation Portal just got another surprise software update, and version 7.3.0 is live right now. It’s only been a couple of weeks since Sony dropped that 80% battery cap update, so getting another firmware update released this quickly is pretty wild. Instead of just guessing what this actually does, I jumped straight into the new settings to see what Sony added, and then tested out some games with the on-screen overlay to see what the latency looks like under the hood. Here is exactly wha

PlayStation Portal Remote Play Review (2026)

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-10-10T11:17:23+00:00

Grab a coffee and let’s talk about the PlayStation Portal. A lot of people out there will tell you that it just isn’t worth buying if you… Continue reading on 404: Geek Not Found »

Signal Value Transforms, Routing Essentials, and Video Extension with Veo! ⚡

Angular (Medium) — 2026-10-09T14:01:04+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to deliver cutting-edge tools for interactive web apps, reactive form handling, and generative AI pipelines. This week, our global community experts share practical guides on fine-tuning inputs, mastering modern routing, and leveraging Google’s Veo model directly from Angular! Dive into this week’s expert-led resources: Signal Forms: Clean Value Transformations with transformedValue (French) Modeste Assiongbon (@rblmdst) breaks down a critical form primitive in An

Editor Newsletter: The five editors who won our Medium Day Editor Awards

Medium Staff — 2026-10-08T20:00:28+00:00

Plus what 1,175 writers told us about the State of Writing Hi editors, Happy October! Here’s what’s going on this month: Meet our five Editor Award winners , chosen from 300+ of your nominations How are you using the (new!) content calendar ? Plus, the behind-the-scenes story of this year’s editor tools (and why publications now get 10 topics instead of five) An update to the Editor Partner Program — we’ve more than doubled payments to editors since we launched Share your November writing prompt

Open-Sourcing YTsaurus Flow: Real-Time Data Stream Processing at 100+ GB/s

Yandex — 2026-10-06T12:28:47+00:00

Real-time data processing gets tricky fast. Keeping end-to-end latency low under normal conditions is one thing. Keeping it low when workloads shift, hardware fails, or an entire data center goes offline for maintenance is another. Then there are questions of how to partition data and long-lived state efficiently, guarantee exactly-once processing without message loss or duplicates, and know when all the data up to a given point has actually been processed. We ran into these problems while build

Sona: One Model to Replace an Entire Recommendation Pipeline

Yandex — 2026-10-05T16:19:59+00:00

We built Sona, a generative neural network that analyzes user activity to both find relevant recommendations and decide how to rank them. In large-scale recommendation systems, those tasks are usually split across multiple models trained separately. In a live A/B test on smart speakers with Alice AI, Sona replaced an existing pipeline made up of dozens of algorithms . Compared with the control group, total listening time increased by 6.30%, while the number of likes rose by 11.42%. Researchers f

The Holodomor in Ukraine was a fake.

Russian Bear — 2026-10-01T18:50:35+00:00

One of the main arguments used to incite hatred toward Russians among Ukrainians is the topic of the Holodomor of the 1930s. The gist of it is this: Russian Bolsheviks harbored a fierce hatred for freedom-loving Ukrainians and decided to starve them all to death. They cite staggering figures: anywhere from 3 to 20 million victims. There is no precise data, but there is a consensus on one point: Stalin once again killed millions. Ukrainian nationalists had been actively promoting this idea since

How Does the New ‘Game of Thrones’ RTS Compare to Previous Games?

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-09-30T09:58:47+00:00

‘War for Westeros’ will hopefully reignite the fantasy IP’s gaming wing embers Continue reading on 404: Geek Not Found »

What We Built for Medium Editors This Year (and What I Broke)

Medium Engineering — 2026-09-29T18:09:45+00:00

A behind-the-scenes look at bulk declines, decline reasons, a content calendar, and one very bad hour A few months ago, we took an honest look at publications on Medium and asked if they were succeeding. Were users incentivized to create quality publications on Medium? We had the Boost Nomination Program, which was helpful for the cohort that was selected, but we didn’t have any signal that the BNP was motivating for other users. Were we getting higher quality articles as a result of BNP? So we

Feature Lifecycles, Accessible Components, and State-First Forms! ♿

Angular (Medium) — 2026-09-25T14:08:52+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to mature with powerful primitives for reactive state, rock-solid accessibility standards, and a clearer understanding of how framework capabilities evolve. This week’s roundup brings you deep architectural perspectives on managing feature lifecycles, optimizing UI rendering, and rethinking forms from the ground up! Explore these fantastic resources from our community experts: The 5 Lifecycle Stages of an Angular Feature (English & Spanish) Alejandro Cuba Ruiz (@z

AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base Release: What We Learned Training a New Open-Weight Model from…

Yandex — 2026-09-25T11:05:47+00:00

AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base Release: What We Learned Training a New Open-Weight Model from Scratch We’ve released the weights of our new model, AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base , under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. It’s a Mixture-of-Experts model with 80B total parameters, 3B of them active per token. We trained the model entirely at Yandex, without using the weights of any third-party open-source models. The release is another step toward our unified reasoning model, which will und

An update on Angular’s TypeScript 7-powered Compiler

Angular (Medium) — 2026-09-24T20:21:18+00:00

Alex Rickabaugh & Mark Techson [Alex] I joined the Angular team in 2015, around the original Angular 2.0 release. One of my first tasks was to convert source code from JavaScript into a relatively new (at the time) language from Microsoft, known as TypeScript . TypeScript would go on to become both an industry standard and one of Angular’s greatest strengths, providing the structure and safety for the team to scale the framework. We built Angular’s innovative ahead-of-time compiler on top of the

The 9 Tribes of Sci-fi

Science Fiction — 2026-09-22T07:26:04+00:00

Number nine even suprised me! Continue reading on Science Fiction »

Migrating a Flutter App to Swift Package Manager: Pitfalls, Hacks, and Scripts

Yandex — 2026-09-21T14:04:39+00:00

Flutter is actively moving towards Swift Package Manager (SPM) and, like the entire Swift world, is gradually abandoning CocoaPods. Flutter itself describes the migration in two steps: enable the flag flutter config --enable-swift-package-manager and build. If the app builds after that and the console suggests deintegrating CocoaPods, you're lucky. If not, let's dig in. Hello! My name is Daniil Girenko, and I’m a Flutter developer at Yandex Pro. Migrating our superapp from CocoaPods to Swift Pac

Damien Walter quits YouTube over fears his video essays could destroy humanity “within 10 years”

Damien Walter — 2026-09-17T07:46:50+00:00

Fear of a recursively self improving Damo triggered the move BALI — In a message issued from his tropical island lair, writer and critic Damien Walter announced Monday that he is leaving Science Fiction With Damien Walter, the YouTube series he hosts, writes, and produces, over fears his video essays could destroy humanity within the next decade. “Damien has spent years analyzing scifi’s warnings about the power and hubris of technology, so was the first to recognise the danger his own power and

Architecting the Modern Web: Debounce APIs, Rendering Strategies, and Automated AI Setup! ⚡

Angular (Medium) — 2026-09-11T14:14:19+00:00

As we move deeper into the current release cycles, the Angular ecosystem is bringing incredibly refined primitives into our daily workflow. From native debounce mechanisms in the core framework to hybrid rendering patterns and AI agents that handle boilerplate securely, this week’s roundup is a masterclass in efficiency. Dive into these fantastic technical features from our community experts: Angular Rendering Demystified: CSR, SSR, and SSG Kevin Davila (@kevindaviladev) breaks down the fundamen

September’s PS Plus Game Catalog is Pretty Weak, and Premium is Still a Problem

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-09-09T21:07:40+00:00

PlayStation has officially revealed the brand-new Game Catalog update for September, bringing a fresh batch of titles to PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. Now, keeping it completely real with you from the off, compared to the update we got back in August, I think this is a pretty weird month. It’s an interesting, somewhat quirky lineup, but overall, it feels like a fairly poor group of games. Sony is also continuing that annoying trend of staggering releases across different dates throughou

Who killed Star Trek Wars?

Science Fiction — 2026-09-09T06:44:14+00:00

HINT: it’s not Rey Continue reading on Science Fiction »

One Browsing Experience Across Your Galaxy Mobile and Windows PC

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-09-08T18:45:27+00:00

Browsing web page across devices using Samsung Browser. Image source: Samsung Browser Most people today browse on more than one device. A search that starts on a mobile continues on a PC; something found on a PC is often finished on a mobile. Samsung Browser is built around this reality — the browser on your Windows PC and the browser on your Galaxy mobile are designed to work together as one connected experience. This article introduces two features in Samsung Browser for Windows that bring thi

Customizing Angular Aria Tabs Quickly with Google Antigravity CLI

Angular Blog — 2026-09-02T01:50:59+00:00

The Angular team has called Angular Aria a set of customizable, fully accessible UI patterns . This is a strong claim, but in practice, how possible is it to heavily customize the components while maintaining accessibility features such as keyboard navigation and focus management? In this post, we’re going to use Google Antigravity to put that claim to the test by updating a tab UI from generic styles to a neumorphism-based design . Motivation In the angular.dev documentation, the team has examp

ChatGPT is made of people!

Science Fiction — 2026-08-31T07:46:34+00:00

Soylent Green and the enclosure of collective intelligence. Continue reading on Science Fiction »

GTA 6 Pre-Order Deal: How to Get the Base Game or Ultimate Edition Cheaper THIS WEEKEND ONLY

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-08-29T11:12:00+00:00

How to get GTA 6 Cheaper than retail. Image Credit — PURE PSX Let’s be real for a second: GTA 6 is going to be massive, but it’s also shaping up to be a very expensive game. Splashing out nearly £90/$100 for a digital release feels pretty heavy, especially for millennial gamers who remember when a new release cost half that. I wanted to figure out how to save myself some money on this launch, and now I’m sharing this step-by-step guide so you can do the same. No BS, just real savings. If you wou

Styling Mastery and Declarative Form Submissions

Angular Blog — 2026-08-28T11:01:01+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to evolve with powerful new form primitives, styling best practices, and AI-assisted workflows. This week, our global community experts bring us deep dives into component CSS and declarative form handling. Check out this week’s expert-led resources: Mastering CSS in Angular (Spanish with English Subtitles) Alejandro Cuba Ruiz (@zorphdark), Raul Jiménez, and Rafael Mestre (@mestre_dev) team up for a fantastic discussion on styling architecture. Learn best practices

My Favourite Galaxy XR Features So Far

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-08-25T10:20:21+00:00

Samsung Galaxy XR Headset. Source: Samsung Galaxy XR | AI-Powered XR Headset | Samsung US Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset has been out for a while now and I’ve had the pleasure of playing around with it over the past few months for different demos and projects I have been working on. I wanted to write this short post to share some of my favourite features and design choices on this headset, purely from a usability and developer experience perspective. A couple of disclaimers to make before we jump i

How we think about text classification in the LLM era

Medium Engineering — 2026-08-19T20:00:37+00:00

Why we think LLMs can be useful and why we will not replace all of our models with them Context At Medium, we have many Machine Learning models that we use to label stories automatically. These affect what stories we recommend to readers. Here’s some examples: a few of our text classification models. All diagrams and charts made by the author Some Clarifications on our Machine Learning policy Before we go deep on this project, I just wanted to clarify a few things about how we stand regarding AI

The Forms Evolution, Web AI, and Architectural Vision!

Angular Blog — 2026-08-14T13:01:03+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to push forward with deeper AI integration and modern form architectures. This week, our community experts track the complete evolution of form handling, explore client-side AI, and dive into tactical discussions about developer craftsmanship in the age of AI. Catch up with these incredible community features! From Template-Driven to Signal-Driven Angular Forms Sonu Kapoor @SonuKapoor1978 charts the complete architectural evolution of forms in Angular. Learn how f

“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism

Damien Walter — 2026-08-13T16:06:58+00:00

How Silicon Valley technogarchs traded our utopian dreams for a brand-new age of ancient oligarchy. Continue reading on Medium »

The world’s worst people have a plan

Damien Walter — 2026-08-07T06:39:12+00:00

We are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy to get people actually to love… Continue reading on Science Fiction »

How we built the new Table of Contents feature

Medium Engineering — 2026-07-23T14:28:55+00:00

How a feature goes from idea to prototype to shipped For years, there’s been this really popular Chrome extension for adding a table of contents to your Medium stories. Props to Vinicius De Antoni for writing a popular chrome extension all those years go. The extension was so popular, we even wrote about it in our Medium Handbook. How to make a table of contents for your Medium story The fact that it was so popular was a signal to me. There was a decent size of our user base that wanted this fea

JF-17 Block III Fighters Transform Azerbaijan Into Emerging Airpower Hub Backed by Pakistan and…

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-07-07T19:53:33+00:00

JF-17 Block III Fighters Transform Azerbaijan Into Emerging Airpower Hub Backed by Pakistan and Türkiye Azerbaijan’s transition from Soviet-era MiG-29 fighters toward digitally networked JF-17 Block III aircraft reflects a wider geopolitical shift toward integrated Pakistan-Türkiye defence architectures across Eurasia. Azerbaijan’s induction of the JF-17 Block III multirole fighter into the Azerbaijan Air Force and Air Defence Force represents the most consequential South Caucasus combat aviatio

Community Engineering, Agentic Coding, and Real-User Component Testing ️

Angular (Medium) — 2026-07-07T15:29:08+00:00

What an incredible week for the ecosystem. We are diving deep into what it truly means to build a community-first framework, exploring how AI agents are changing how we write code, and looking at next-level browser testing. Get inspired and upgrade your workflow with this week’s resources: The Dev Life Podcast: Community-First Engineering with Magda Kustosz Brooke Avery @JediBravery and Matthew Christiansen sit down for a must-listen conversation with our very own Angular Community Manager, Magd

Learning faster with Antigravity

Flutter — 2026-07-01T04:08:53+00:00

Dash enjoying Antigravity Creating Flutter frontends for ADK How can I build a Flutter frontend for an agent when that agent is built with an SDK and a language I’ve never used before? This was the challenge I faced when approaching a Python-based agent written with Agent Development Kit (ADK). With limited experience in Python and no prior exposure to the ADK framework, building a client that integrates with the backend server presented a significant learning curve. Plus, even if I could get a

Pentagon used Musk’s Grok AI to fire thousands of missiles at Iran, court filing says

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-30T01:53:17+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics Sworn testimony says xAI’s government AI model supported thousands of munitions in 96 hours, fueling new concern in Congress over military use of artificial intelligence The Trump administration used a special version of Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot to help launch thousands of missiles at Iran, the U.S. Department of War said in an official statement. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, disclosed t

Iran’s US$6 Billion Asset Release From Qatar

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-30T01:52:11+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared on June 29 that the first tranche of funds held in Qatari financial institutions would return under Article 11 of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding. The financial release forms part of a larger US$12 billion (RM45.6 billion) recovery package structured into two equal phases, providing Tehran with immediate liquidity after months of maritime confrontation, regional escalation, and economic attrition linked to the 2

Vibe once, run anywhere with Antigravity and Flutter

Flutter — 2026-06-29T16:01:02+00:00

co-authored with Rody Davis Coding agents and the way we use them has already dramatically evolved since their arrival just a handful of months ago. Initially, the focus was heavily on observation — reviewing every single output line by line. But as models rapidly increased in capability, the industry shifted toward true agentic engineering. Today, developers, PMs, and designers are wearing multiple hats, focusing on lofty conceptual goals and letting agents tackle the individual components. To

Israel’s Vance problem is bigger.

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-29T00:03:02+00:00

Vice President JD Vance has become the face of a Washington that no longer treats Israel as the exception to "America First." When American and Israeli warplanes struck Iran on Feb. 28, Israeli officials let themselves believe the alliance was entering a golden age. Four months later, they are bracing for a future where Israel stands more alone than ever. The vice president of the United States set the stage last week, telling Israel it has almost no friends left in the world, and that it should

Reported UAE-Israeli Lobbying Seeks to Block a New Gulf-to-Europe Trade Route

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-29T00:01:48+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics A new geopolitical battle is unfolding far from the battlefield. Instead of missiles and military deployments, the latest confrontation is being fought through lobbying campaigns, strategic messaging, and influence operations in Washington. At the center of the controversy is a proposed overland trade corridor linking the Gulf to Europe through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey—a project that, according to media reports, has triggered coordinated opposition

AI is a mass psychotic delusion

Damien Walter — 2026-06-24T08:00:49+00:00

Silicon Valley’s AGI god is nothing but science fiction woo Continue reading on Science Fiction »

How we built a Flutter-powered AI coffee shop

Flutter — 2026-06-22T15:16:53+00:00

Dash sits on a coffee shop’s checkout counter drinking a latte with the Flutter logo printed on top If you start giving away coffee, people will show up. The Flutter team had been trying for a while to find a way to put this principle to work with a demo that started with a Flutter app and ended with a hot, tasty beverage. The problem was how to make it more interesting, more personal than just taking orders and delivering. Coffee’s cool, but it’s not The One Thing You Definitely Remember from G

Flutter Q2 survey

Flutter — 2026-06-15T16:42:40+00:00

Dash completes the Q2 Flutter survey! Just a reminder! Please take the Flutter Q2 survey ! The survey closes at the end of day on Friday, June 19th. It won’t take long and your feedback helps drive our roadmap! Thank you! Flutter Q2 survey was originally published in Flutter on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Why do Leftists always lose?

Damien Walter — 2026-06-01T07:10:52+00:00

A (partial) defense of Contrapoints Continue reading on Medium »

Towards more durable fuel cells

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-05-07T18:53:05+00:00

By Brian Storey & Michaela Burke Stevens Eight years ago, TRI launched the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) program, partnering with top universities to develop new tools, models, and methods that push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and materials science. Our project with SUNCAT focused on finding a replacement for platinum to serve as a catalyst material for fuel cells that is more active, abundant, and just as stable. In the early 1800s, the first

Identifying Real-World Winter Scenarios Where Drift-Capable Control Could Improve Road Safety

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-05-04T20:43:34+00:00

By: Elliot Weiss, Srijan Srivatsa, Hiroshi Yasuda, and Tiffany L. Chen At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), the Human Interactive Driving (HID) team has produced cutting-edge research on vehicle control at and beyond the limits of handling. Notably, our collaboration with Stanford University’s Dynamic Design Lab resulted in the world’s first autonomous tandem drift . Since then, HID researchers have continued to explore different aspects of vehicle dynamics and control for autonomous drifting, in

Exploring Depth Sensing in WebXR using Babylon.js

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-04-13T08:31:01+00:00

Photo by Javier Miranda on Unsplash Many XR experiences are dependent on understanding the real environment to provide engaging and immersive experiences. The ability to access depth information coming from XR supported devices helps greatly in merging virtual elements with the real environment convincingly, improving the overall illusion that both are part of the same scene. Babylon.js have recently announced their support for the Depth Sensing Module that is part of the WebXR Device API , whic

The web is always talking: Link pings, Beacon, CSP

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-03-31T11:01:02+00:00

Image from Unsplash.com by Mostafa Moraji In the modern web ecosystem , pages are not just rendered — user interactions are tracked and analyzed to optimize user experience, and gather insights. When you click a link on a website, something else may happen besides navigation. When you close a tab, something might still be sent. Most users never see this traffic. Behind the scenes, the web is constantly talking. This is the privacy story of sendBeacon(), ping, CSP reports. sendBeacon() navigator.

Statistical Thinking for Robot Policy Evaluation: From Rigorous A/B Testing to Effective…

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-03-06T15:32:44+00:00

Statistical Thinking for Robot Policy Evaluation: From Rigorous A/B Testing to Effective Visualization By Haruki Nishimura + Masha Itkina TL;DR Robot policy evaluation is noisy, expensive, and easy to get wrong. This post introduces practical and statistically sound tools to robotics researchers and practitioners to make trustworthy policy comparisons . We focus on A/B testing based on success/failure labels, a common scenario that appears in many academic papers and technical reports. We first

Now In Android #123

Android Developers — 2025-12-19T23:33:51+00:00

Android XR, Android Studio Otter 2 feature drop ; Android 16 QPR2 , compose updates , Jetpack Navigation 3 , performance and much , much , much more. Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. You can catch a short subset of what’s in this gigantified update on YouTube, but read on for the full story. https://medium.com/media/406ea21381b605792c1cb5f40715bc89/

Creating Safer Batteries With New Polymer Electrolytes

Toyota Research Institute — 2025-12-18T19:44:59+00:00

By Brian Storey & Ha-Kyung Kwon Eight years ago, TRI launched the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) program , partnering with top universities to develop new tools, models, and methods that push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and materials science. Our major effort at MIT paved the way for accelerating the data-driven design of new polymers for safer, more energy-dense batteries. For next-generation electric vehicle batteries, increasing energy densit

Now in Android #121

Android Developers — 2025-10-20T22:09:39+00:00

Compose 1.9 , Media 3 1.8 , QPR2 Beta 1 , Narwhal Feature Drop , and more! Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Read on for coverage of Android 16 QPR2 beta 1 , the Android Studio Narwhal feature drop , Jetpack Compose 1.9 , Media 3 1.8 , Shape Morphing and Autofill in Compose , and much more. You can watch a video summary: https://medium.com/media/87a2

Now in Android #120

Android Developers — 2025-08-06T21:01:41+00:00

Canary Channel , Agentic AI in Android Studio , 16 KB Pages , Policy Changes , Compose Tips , Play Games Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. This edition features the Android platform Canary Channel , the first release of Agentic AI in Android Studio , Play updates including 16 KB Page Size requirements and other policy changes , new capabilities around one-time purchases , Play Games Services v2 , and Google Play Games on

Now in Android #119

Android Developers — 2025-07-09T17:02:38+00:00

Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , T esting Videos , AndroidX and more! Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition we will cover Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , Testing Videos , AndroidX and more! https://medium.com/media/e5e1b0709e27441479904677742b5c3e/href