Wed.May 07, 2025

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IBM and Oracle Expand Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Partnership

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IBM is working withOracle to bring watsonx, IBMs portfolio of AI products, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Leveraging OCIs native AI services is designed “to fuel a new era of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across the enterprise,” the companies said.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Next Orders For Self-Service Software Development

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

When it works properly, we know that self-service gasoline pumps, self-service supermarket checkouts and even self-service automated hot food and drink delivery machin.

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Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

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A Chinese forum user has discovered that Gigabyte silently added NVMe SSD boot support to the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard via a firmware update.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

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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CoreWeave Completes Acquisition of Weights & Biases

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LIVINGSTON, N.J., May 5, 2025 — CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV) today announced that it has acquired Weights & Biases.“Today’s announcement accelerates our ability to power AI innovation with the scale, performance, and expertise that meets the demands of accelerated computing.

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD

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A pioneering clinical study found that pairing vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with traditional therapy eliminated PTSD diagnoses in all participants up to six months post-treatment.

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Introducing Web Search on the Anthropic API

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Today, we're introducing web search on the Anthropic APIa new tool that gives Claude access to current information from across the web.

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IBM Think 2025 Showcases Watsonx.data’s Role In Generative AI

MoorInsights for Forbes

IBM has evolved the watsonx.data platform to address roadblocks in scaling generative and agent-based AI, especially the need to bridge structured and unstructured data.

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CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

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How Querying Apache Iceberg Metadata Can Elevate Your DataOps Strategy

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Unlock the full potential of Apache Icebergs metadata tables to enhance your data platforms reliability, observability, and operational efficiency. Through practical examples with AWS Glue jobs, this blog demonstrates how to query Icebergs metadata tables using SQL and turn hidden information into actionable insights. Youll learn to monitor data file changes, audit data growth patterns, and reduce troubleshooting timewithout adding new tools or unnecessary complexity.

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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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So Much Blood

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but how much exactly?

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Better bacteria game

Koaning.io

I got Gemini to a pretty good version of [bacteria]([link]

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Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Calif. colleges

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Fun with bayes: peegeem

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There's a dataset with numbers related to smoking, age and health outcome

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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

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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

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Online music retail was thriving by 1996, thanks to sites like Music Boulevard and CDnow. But music downloads and streaming was more of a challenge as David Bowie discovered in September 1996.

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OpenAI for Countries

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Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next

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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

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Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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WeightWatchers Files Bankruptcy, Adapts to Chemically Induced Weight-Loss Future

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Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

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Explore how to generate and edit images with Gemini 2.

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Open source Google Analytics replacement

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Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.

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He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. (2022)

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June Huh wasnt interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to maths highest honor.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk

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Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, is purchasing the audio business of health technology company Masimo for $350 million in cash.

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My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

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It began with a sparka dormant passion reignited after many years away from motorcycling. Life had steered me in different directions, away from the saddle, but something deep inside pulled me back to the thrill and freedom that only riding offers. Returning to motorcycling after such an extended hiatus was daunting yet exhilarating. I vividly recall my first CBT session: the nerves, the good-natured laughter at my clumsy mistakes, and the sheer joy when everything finally clicked into place.

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Getting Older Isn't What You Think

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Getting old creeps up on you. Its not sudden. Theres no dramatic moment where you wake up and realise youre not getting any younger. No its more like a slow progression.

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Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go

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Proposal Details I propose the addition of a new GOOS target, such as GOOS=none, to allow Go runtime execution under specific application defined exit functions, rather than arbitrary OS syscalls, enabling freestanding execution without.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

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KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

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U.S. Jury Orders NSO Group to Pay $168M in WhatsApp Spyware Case

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OpenSearch 3.0 Released

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Latest iteration bolsters open, scalable, community-driven search and analytics, enabling sustainable innovation SAN FRANCISCO May 6, 2025 The OpenSearch Software Foundation, the vendor-neutral home for the OpenSearch Project,

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Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Your Enterprise. Your AI.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?