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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

Analytics Vidhya

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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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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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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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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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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"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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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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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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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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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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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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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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Quantum Advantage for NP Approximation

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The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked for the hundredth time? the thousandth? whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutionize industries by finding better solutions to NP-hard optimization problems.

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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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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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It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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HPy – A better C API for Python

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What is HPy? HPy provides a new API for extending Python in C. In other words, you use #include instead of #include. What are the advantages of HPy?

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WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)

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WordPress Plugin Mirror System Proof Of Concept. Contribute to centminmod/wordpress-plugin-mirror-poc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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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Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers

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Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and justifying exclusion and violence. These dynamics are alarmingly pervasive, spanning from the extreme historical examples of genocides against minorities in Germany and Rwanda to the ongoing violence and rhetoric targeting migrants in the US and Europe.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions

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I recently completed an either 9 month or 2 month search for a new job, looking for Staff-level engineering positions for the first time in my career. I live.

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Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debugging

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Directly seeing the values for local variables in your stacktrace is invaluable for debugging — in fact it's one of the main reasons Bugsink is so useful. However: what actually gets captured depends on how you write your code: simple functions with local variables are much easier to debug than complex classes or overly-inlined code.

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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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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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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.