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Cloudflare Enhances AI Inference Platform with Powerful GPU Upgrade, Faster Inference, Larger Models, Observability, and Upgraded Vector Database

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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), a leading connectivity cloud company, announced powerful new capabilities for Workers AI, the serverless AI platform, and its suite of AI application building blocks, to help developers build faster, more powerful and more performant AI applications. Applications built on Workers AI can now benefit from faster inference, bigger models, improved performance analytics, and more.

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Mechanical Magistrates, The Gavel Comes Down On Legal Software

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

While the deployment of big data analytics in the legal business has matured, the encroaching spectre of artificial intelligence hasn’t gone unnoticed.

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Top 6 LLMs that Support Function Calling

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Introduction OpenAI’s latest models, like GPT-o1 and GPT-4o, excel in delivering accurate, context-aware responses across diverse fields. A key factor behind the advancements in these Large Language Models (LLMs) is their enhanced utility and the significant reduction in common issues like hallucinations. Techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhance accuracy and reduce hallucinations by allowing models […] The post Top 6 LLMs that Support Function Calling appeared fir

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Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI

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The ABC has found critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ecovacs devices.

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission

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The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.

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The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms

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Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing.

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Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say

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Engineers have created a superstrong concrete alternative using simulated Martian or lunar soil, potato starch and salt.

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Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

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The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress.

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Starbase: SQLite on the Edge

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SQLite on the edge.

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Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial

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If you’re familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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I Stayed

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My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics. What I do know is that, when given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic.

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"Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

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Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

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A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas

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It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review

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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

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Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP

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Whats New in Apache Airflow 3.0 –– And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment

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The advances developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have already been applied to 10,000 stroke patients in hospitals in Germany and Belgium

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Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel

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Microtext for the Commodore might have been lost forever if not for the sleuthing of Christian Simpson's Retro Recipes.

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Weird Nonfiction

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Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.

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What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples?

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Why do many code examples, especially tutorials, use the names "Foo" and "Bar" so often? It is almost a standard.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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ISPs ‘Betrayed’ Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible

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Fresh amendments to Italian law were passed by Senators this week and their effects will soon be felt on the IPTV piracy battlefield. Covered in detail in our earlier report , this advanced legal weaponry is incapable of dealing with distant pirate IPTV services. Instead, it mainly targets communications infrastructure, much of it operated by rightsholders’ supposed allies – ISPs – who were given no say in the matter.

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Scaling Laws of Optimization

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Show HN: Brisa Framework launch is here | The Web Platform Framework

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Brisa is a web platform framework that provides a refreshing development experience.

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The deconstructed Standard Model equation

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The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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A closer look at Stephen King's famous critique of "The Shining" movie

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Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” has become nothing short of a cult classic, with the iconic, tilde-shaped eyebrows of Jack Nicholson wormed into the psyches of multiple generations. The movie has become one of the most renowned and culturally significant adaptations of one of Stephen King’s horror novels, an author with over 40 of his books.

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Whence 'N'?

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Buildroot

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Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025 have arrived, bringing new AI features and ditching the lifetime license.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Forage conservation is a neglected nitrous oxide source

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Abstract. Agricultural activities are the major anthropogenic source of nitrous oxide (N2O), an important greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance.

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Compiling and running sqlite3-rsync from a branch

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Today I heard about the sqlite3-rsync command, currently available in a branch in the SQLite code repository. It provides a mechanism for efficiently creating or updating a copy of a SQLite database that is running in WAL mode, either locally or via SSH to another server.

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King vs. Kubrick: The Origins of Evil (2020)

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The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data

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The Data Visualisation Catalogue, helping you find the right data visualization method for your data

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri