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Technology Connextras (the second channel where I put stuff sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnextras

Technology Connections on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/techcon…

The online message board's lawyers say UK safety laws shouldn't apply to a business based in the US.

The failure mode that stalls “AI for data” efforts or "AI on my APIs" efforts isn’t psychedelic hallucination—it’s confident inaccuracy: plausible answers that are wrong in subtle and costly ways.

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess u…

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The Trump administration says it’s reviewing more than 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation.

Balancing performance and efficiency is a central challenge in large language model (LLM) advancement. GPT-5 addresses this with test-time routing, dynamically assigning queries to either an...

Let's say that you've visited a website and want to share it with your friends. At the bottom of the article is a list of popular sharing destinations - Facebook, BlueSky, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, HackerNews etc. You click the relevant icon and get taken…

Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns

Waymo is getting one step closer to starting its engine in New York City.

I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor who is the only person who can ever figure out how to solve…

and massive B2B opportunities

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond C...

The agency said it’s concerned that farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy a tiny fraction of the country’s productive acres.

I replaced my ChatGPT personalization settings with this prompt a few weeks ago and promptly forgot about it:


Be extraordinarily skeptical of your own…

Scientists at UCSF have uncovered a surprising culprit behind brain aging: a protein called FTL1. In mice, too much FTL1 caused memory loss, weaker brain connections, and sluggish cells. But when researchers blocked it, the animals regained youthful brain…

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