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Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

Traditional fuzzy matching fails when joining tables with typos, missing columns, or dynamic data. I show how combining string similarity, LLM reasoning, and web search achieves near 100% accuracy at a reasonable cost, and share the results in the everyrow…

Discover how a self-tuning strategy planner using Thompson Sampling optimized OpenFGA performance and slashed tail latency in multi-tenant environments.

A native command-line interface for working with Apple Core ML models on macOS - schappim/coreml-cli

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A medieval cargo ship of extraordinary size has been found in the waters off Copenhagen. Built around 1410, Svælget 2 is being called the world’s largest cog, and its remarkably preserved remains are revealing new details about medieval shipbuilding and Northern…

Brex and Capital One are joining forces in the largest bank-fintech deal in history. CEO Pedro Franceschi shares what this means for the future of finance.

New metrics of AI usage provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.

FIPS images alone won’t ensure compliance. Learn how prebuilt native deps can bypass your crypto boundary—and how to build, test, and ship FIPS-compatible apps.

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly…

This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.

Record once, automate forever. 100X Bot transforms screen recordings into powerful automations for hiring, SEO, sales, and marketing teams.

Bugs Apple won't fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.

The Cscript Style Guide - A valid but opinionated subset of C. - domenukk/CScript

I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and…