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Acrolinx Launches New AI Capabilities To Unlock Enterprise Content Potential

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Acrolinx, a global leader in SaaS enterprise content governance, launched new generative AI capabilities designed to maximize productivity benefits while mitigating the risks that AI poses. After a successful Beta program with over 20 enterprise customers, Get Suggestions, AI Assistant, and AI Guardrails are publicly available to empower all organizations to use AI confidently and securely.

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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI engineers

Eugene Yan

What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.

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How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Programmers have spent decades writing code for AI models, and now, in a full circle moment, AI is being used to write code. But how does an AI code generator compare to a human programmer? A study published in the June issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering evaluated the code produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT in terms of functionality, complexity and security.

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What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues

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The blinding headaches are poorly understood — a mouse study suggests that the content of spinal fluid is a trigger for pain. The blinding headaches are poorly understood — a mouse study suggests that the content of spinal fluid is a trigger for pain.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The Curious Case of Fullers Library and Its Deceptive Link Requests

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This isn’t strictly writing-related, but it is the kind of weird rabbit hole I enjoy going down, and it’s a writer (and artist) who drew my attention to it. The writer got in touch to share an email with me.

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London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail

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Growing cities around the world are creating “rapid regional rail” systems that allow residents to commute across metro areas at high speeds. Will the US get on board?

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Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro

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When you think of Italian herbs, cilantro (also known as coriander) is probably not the first one that comes to mind. Yet crack open the fifth-century Roman.

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The staggering science and art behind Wimbledon's legendary grass courts

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Neil Stubley, head of courts and horticulture at Wimbledon, is responsible for the battlefield that some of the most epic matches in tennis lore have ever been played on.

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When the CIA turned writers into operatives

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A new show about the Cold War, “Not All Propaganda Is Art,” reveals the dark, sometimes comic ironies of trying to control the world through culture.

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Investors Pour $27.1B into A.I. Startups, Defying a Downturn

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Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.

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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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New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google

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The so-called JEST approach is up to 13 times faster and 10 times more efficient—which could mean lower energy demands.

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Is the 10k-Year-Old Yonaguni Monument a Man-Made Marvel or Nature's Art?

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Nestled along the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan, are enigmatic submerged ruins that have captured the fascination of researchers and ignited fervent debates. Believed to date back approximately 10,000 years, the origin of the Yonaguni monument remains shrouded in mystery. Hotly debated among experts, some asserting that these formations are unmistakably man-made, while others, adopting a more conservative stance, attribute their creation to the forces of natural phenomena.

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Eddy Cue: 'After 36 years at Apple, I'm still learning every day'

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In a new interview Eddy Cue has spilled the beans on what his daily use hardware is, what Apple execs actually do, and like the most.

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With Nothing to Do

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It was eight years ago that I lived through some of the worst weeks of my life as a professional software engineer. I was working for a small startup that was about to be acquired. Or about to go bankrupt. There was no other possible outcome anymore. Acquired or bankrupt, it was one of these two and every week for several months the odds would tip from one to other and back again.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate

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Congress can grant any American permission to be a pirate. A.J. Jacobs found out what happens when you apply.

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Tokens are a big reason today's generative AI falls short

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Tokenization, the process by which many generative AI models make sense of data, is flawed in key ways.

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Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

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Open source Python framework for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations

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TypeScript's new isolated declaration feature is a game changer for sharing code among developers. It significantly simplifies the process of packaging your code for consumption whilst reducing the time to create type definition files from minutes, sometimes even hours, down to less than a second.

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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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The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

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Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm

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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Concept of Nought

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“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.

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Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI

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fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

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The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive

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The steel man is the opposite of the straw man. It's being charitable, and building up the best possible form of the argument for the other side.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.

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Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?

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Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers.

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The Next New Thing: architecture's gulf between the traditional and the modern

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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before

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Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete

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The differences make sense in terms of what we know about social behaviour and the introvert-extravert personality dimension.

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Properly testing concurrent data structures

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There's a fascinating Rust library, loom, which can be used to thoroughly test lock-free data structures. I always wanted to learn how it works. I still do! But recently I accidentally implemented a small toy which, I think, contains some of the loom's ideas, and it seems worthwhile to write about that. The goal here isn't to teach you what you should be using in practice (if you need that, go read loom's docs), but rather to derive a couple of neat ideas from first principles.

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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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Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

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Amazon giving refunds for business bot, will focus on home version instead.

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Against the Burden of Knowledge

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Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong

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Why haven't biologists cured cancer?

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It's not because they're not good enough at math

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Numeronymize

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A Keyboard Maestro macro for shortening words with the number of letters between the first and last.

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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.