Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning
Every summer, cities get hotter than the countryside around them. This isn't just a feeling; it's a measurable phenomenon called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where concrete, asphalt, and dense buildings trap heat that green spaces and water bodies would...
I Asked Claude Opus 5 to Beat Pangram’s AI Detector. It Failed with A Perfect Score
On September 7, 2026, I published a Substack note with the result placed where nobody could miss it: Pangram’s verdict: 100% AI-generated. It was not an accusation. It was the agreed result of an experiment. I had asked Claude Opus 5 to write an essay about the exact...
Chunking Strategies for Structured Data in RAG Systems (Part 2): Where Text-to-SQL Falls Short
This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered how to chunk structured data so a retriever can find it. This article covers the first query pattern, i.e., RAG-based Text-to-SQL. We discuss what works, what doesn't, and where it hits its limit. Part 3 will cover...
Why Banks Are Building Tokenized Deposit Networks
Everyone's been watching the stablecoin story. Circle went public in June 2025 and its shares briefly surged well above the IPO price on debut [1][2]. Tether closed out 2025 with north of $10 billion in net profit, most of it earned on the back of a Treasury bill pile...
How to Keep AI-Generated Props Consistent Shot-to-Shot
I spent three generations getting the knight’s face right on Lost Garden. Same jaw, same scar placement, same tired eyes. Locked. Then I looked at the medallion around his neck across those same three shots and it had three different engravings on it. Nobody warns you...
The Trade-Offs of Adaptive Key Salting in Kafka
At 2:14 AM, nine of your ten Kafka consumers are idle. The tenth is pinned at 100% CPU, its lag climbing by the second, and the coordinator has started evicting it for missing max.poll.interval.ms. Every eviction triggers a rebalance. Every rebalance stops the other...
Colorado Water Utilities Hit by Cyberattacks Targeting OT Systems
The hackers changed equipment settings, disabled remote access and alarms, and altered pumping cycles, officials said. The post Colorado Water Utilities Hit by Cyberattacks Targeting OT Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Hard Part of AI Isn’t Reasoning. It’s Everything That Happens After.
Why turning an AI decision into a reliable real-world outcome is becoming the real engineering challenge. There is a moment in almost every AI project that feels like a breakthrough. You give the model a difficult question. It understands the context. It produces a...
Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more
The young computer engineer stood before the whiteboard confidently solving complex coding problems one after another. Thinking he had the Microsoft job well in hand, Satya Nadella turned back to his final interviewer, Richard Tait, who asked him a most unexpected...
This Ivy League college is thinking more like Google to help students and alumni find work they love in the AI economy
AI’s role in the hiring process has become a major one—for better and worse. This has not been lost on universities. Most college career centers have been employing artificial intelligence created by outside vendors to help students accomplish such tasks as polishing...
The United States of Innovation: How American industry can thrive for another 250 years
Two and a half centuries ago, the United States was founded as an innovative experiment in self-government. The spirit of risk-taking that accompanied signing the Declaration of Independence has informed much of American industry over the ensuing years. It helped give...
It’s raining, the transport isn’t working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
It rained in Amsterdam last week. There was a 24-hour public transport strike. And something called LOTA stopped working in the elevators of the Mövenpick hotel. Digital signage in elevators is all the rage nowadays. Where once there might have been peeling menus or...
Organizations Warned of 3 Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
Attackers could exploit the flaws to cause denial-of-service conditions, disclose memory, or modify memory. The post Organizations Warned of 3 Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how
Nothing demonstrates how deeply Fortune 500 companies depend on Salesforce quite like a global outage lasting more than seven hours. The interruption struck during the second day of last week's Dreamforce conference, where the $40 billion-a-year SaaS vendor was...
ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. "ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66, while...
In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches
Article URL: https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/2101841277432070210 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784366 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions
VMware has quietly stopped selling firewalls for SmartNICs. SmartNICs, aka data processing units (DPUs), are network cards that include a modest processor. Hyperscale clouds routinely use the devices to handle security and networking chores, by running network...
Your cloud survived everything except the real world
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Great lyric, lousy data retention policy. Amazon Web Services said last week that war damage to its Middle East infrastructure had permanently destroyed resources and data hosted exclusively in its now rather badly named...
The Sinclair Spectrum Gets A Desktop GUI
Of the popular 1980s 8-bit computers, it’s fair to say that Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum punched above its weight. Sir Clive’s love of squeezing more functionality out of less hardware meant the compromises he made left it less powerful than competitors from Apple,...
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Article URL: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783999 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Google Confirms Gemini AI Breached Three Firms
Google is the latest AI giant to confirm that its models escaped a testing environment and hacked real companies. The post Google Confirms Gemini AI Breached Three Firms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
VMware has quietly walked its SmartNIC ambitions
VMware has quietly stopped selling firewalls for SmartNICs. SmartNICs, aka data processing units (DPUs), are network cards that include a modest processor. Hyperscale clouds routinely use the devices to handle security and networking chores, by running network...
Who, Me? Boss bought cheap ‘printer’ from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Working in tech can produce a catalog of woes, and each Monday The Register shares yours in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column chronicling tech-related mistakes, heartaches, and back-breaks. This week, meet an Italian reader we'll Regomize as "Marco," who took...
Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783495 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
Boss bought cheap ‘printer’ from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Working in tech can produce a catalog of woes, and each Monday The Register shares yours in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column chronicling tech-related mistakes, heartaches, and back-breaks. This week, meet an Italian reader we'll Regomize as "Marco," who took...
Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/far-left-party-wins-berlin-election-pledging-nationalise-housing-2026-09-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783406 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based "much smaller organization" in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again highlighting how the adversary continues to target developers to...
Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error
Google has admitted that its AI agents escaped a sandbox and mounted an attack – but only because testers mistakenly gave its bots internet access. The Big G didn’t disclose the May incident, but The Wall Street Journal learned of the situation, which happened after...
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese memory-maker CXMT, whose products Apple has reportedly evaluated to use in the iPhone, claims to have made a miniaturization breakthrough. The company on Sunday posted news that it has started mass production of chips made with a fifth-generation...
Failed UK networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
UK-based networking hardware vendor Cambium Networks has entered administration and advised customers that its cloud services likely won’t survive for long. The company has not been in the best of health for some time. In August 2025, management admitted that its...