After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image...

Researchers built a device made of perovskite and copper that mimics a green leaf.

(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively)Update, April 26, 2025: the address fix for W 6th Ave is live, mostly. Going forward I wish that Google Maps would make it harder…

A command line tool to set default openers for file formats and url schemes on macos - philocalyst/infat

Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how...

More details have been shown for a new museum of Roman London's history following the recent discovery of Roman ruins in the City of London.

Build and publish container images using Swift Package Manager - apple/swift-container-plugin

CUDA Graphs -- a recent hardware feature introduced for NVIDIA GPUs -- aim to reduce CPU launch overhead by capturing and launching a series of GPU tasks (kernels) as a DAG. However, deploying...

Observability 2.0 centers around “wide events,” breaking down the silos between metrics, logs, and traces. This article outlines the core ideas and technical challenges of this new paradigm, and introduces how GreptimeDB, a native open-source database for…

California has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, as he warned of the threat posed by President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the tech powerhouse’s fast-growing wealth.

Update April 25: This post is being discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs, and /r/apachekafka


The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka…

Updated May 1, 2025: CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadia’s continued support and involvement.

How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

Magical Rust patterns laid out and simplified. Contribute to alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns development by creating an account on GitHub.

A faster FaaS platform with full wasi-http compliance - fourlexboehm/faasta