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With the rapid growth in vectorized datasets, production-grade vector search technology is racing to keep up. Here’s the latest.

The newest wave of AI research is changing everything

Posted on Wednesday 20 Mar 2024. 2,867 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

On March 7, 2024, tailscale.com was unavailable for approximately 90 minutes due to an expired TLS certificate. We were able to identify and address the issue quickly, and the downtime was mostly limited to our marketing materials and documentation; still, we would like to explain exactly what happened, what the impact was, and what steps we’ve taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

A discussion came up on the Hackaday Discord PCB design channel about resistor networks, and it got me thinking about whether we (the hacker community) use them in designs or not. These handy devic…

How GitHub became a version control monopoly

SASE protects users regardless of location through zero-trust network access (ZTNA), an access control method that provides access via continuous, session-based identification and authentication.

Managing, maintaining and deploying applications and infrastructure securely and consistently remains an incredibly complicated challenge.

Remember the “year of mobile”? That was the five-year period from roughly 2007 to 2012, when industry pundits annually declared that everything was about to change because of the smart …

We’re sure you’ll agree that there are many annoying things on the Web. Which of them we rate as most annoying depends on personal view, but we’re guessing that quite a few of you…

To create personal, ultra-responsive experiences that users expect, your data architecture must be able to adapt dynamically to their preferences.

Quality of experience aligns IT and engineering teams to true user experience, refocusing observability to customer and business outcomes.

How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before T…

You can’t read the news today without another pundit excitedly reporting how AI is going to take every job you can imagine. Of course, AI will change the employment landscape. It will take so…

A Bayesian approach to captchas can reduce user frustration and more often distinguish humans from bots.

Platform engineering isn’t solely about the tools and components but also about alignment within the organization and a special focus on understanding user needs.

Dealing with forces outside our control led us to develop a solution on top of OpenSSL as an interface between it and NGINX called OpenSSL Compatibility Layer.

Over the past few months, we’ve asked ourselves a simple question, with a less simple answer:

We are working every day to deliver simpler, faster and better services for people and businesses.

I built a webring for personal websites.

Large vision models may seem attractive, but domain-specific models can get you farther.

In the era of generative AI, copyright won’t be enough. In fact, it’s the wrong place to look.

Infrastructure is expanding in almost every possible way, and this creates more of a burden on every aspect of IT, specifically DevOps.

Let's discuss the marketing spin and the actual technical meaning of the words ‘test observability.’

We paid for the development of full text RSS feeds for Ghost-based publishers. Now we can offer them to our paid subscribers, and other Ghost sites can use the service too.

404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce