Teams create prompt debt when they hand-tune prompts. They turn natural-language instructions into fragile specs, spend more time adjusting wording, and tie the application to one model... read more  

Cisco executives plan to acquire WideField Security so Cisco teams can add identity and session telemetry to agentic AI security operations... read more  

The AI platforms are running the drug-dealer's algorithm, with subsidies resulting in overwhelming demand for their products. Estimates show that the cost of generating tokens ranges from $8 to $14 to generate $1 in revenue. Companies transitioning to token-based pricing have seen significant increa.. read more  

Token generation speed is constrained by the speed at which the relevant HBM can be read, depending on model size and pipeline setup. Model sizes feasible for each year between 2023 and 2031 range from 10T in 2026 to 1.4 quadrillion in 2031, with pretraining compute and HBM specifications playing es.. read more  

Datadog says engineers can use AI-assisted refactoring for critical migrations when they own the data model and use tests to limit each rewrite to one method. Engineers should keep system design and optimization in human hands... read more  

DRAM buyers are switching to DDR2 as suppliers run short of mainstream memory, and some device makers are redesigning products around the legacy chip... read more  

Postgres was developed by Michael Stonebraker and based on the Ingres database system, following ideas from Ted Codd for relational databases. Postgres introduced support for abstract data types, leading to its widespread adoption and compatibility with modern cloud infrastructure. Despite its succe.. read more  

AWS would give developers a middle tier between Lambda functions and ECS or EC2. You get per-VM identity, network addressability, and stronger process isolation while keeping Lambda's burst model. The runtime would fit workloads that need warm state, longer-lived workers, per-tenant sandboxes, proto.. read more  

Model intelligence and tradecraft have progressed a lot in the year that's passed since I last tried something similar. There's a lot of hype around the research Anthropic is publishing; however, cost and privacy are still problems. When there's no guarantee that a thorough job was performed, this t.. read more  

Operated as a public good, .self TLD will be designed and implemented according to human-centered principles to enable anyone to take full ownership of their data... read more