Zebec Introduces “Earn on Pay” Capability With Solstice’s USX
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 13th, 2026,/Chainwire/--Zebec Network, a leading onchain payroll and payments platform, today announced a partnership with Solstice Finance, an institutional yield protocol on Solana, to introduce USX across its payroll ecosystem,...
How to Scale Engineering Teams Without Scaling Their Problems
When engineering teams grow, so do the challenges. When teams scale, the promise of rapid innovation is real, but so is the risk of losing shared context and creating bottlenecks that slow everyone down. For engineering leaders, the challenge isn’t just shipping more...
Zmanim-WP Shortcodes for Seasonal Hours and Misheyakir
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. This blog series is designed to help you dig deeper into the plugin and understand what it does, how it works, and whether it’s right for your...
How LLMs Are Trained After Pretraining: SFT, Reward Models, and RL Without the Alphabet Soup
For a long time I mixed all of this up. Exactly one thing was clear in my head: there's SFT, where you train the model to predict token after token. After that it turned into soup. RLHF, PPO, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, reward model, value function. A pile of three- and...
System Design Interview Prep in 2026: Why Knowing the Concepts Isn’t Enough Anymore
If you've done a system design interview in the last year, you've probably noticed the bar moved. It used to be enough to sketch a load balancer, mention a cache, and name-drop "horizontal scaling." Interviewers nodded, checked a box, moved on. That's not what's...
Can You Use AI-Generated Video Commercially? Here’s the Checklist, Tool by Tool
I almost delivered a paid cut built from three different AI tools without checking whether all three actually let me sell the result. The clips looked fine sitting next to each other in the timeline. The paperwork behind them did not. Most AI video and voice tools do...
Robot Dogs Are Leaving the Lab: What Quadrupeds Reveal About Embodied AI
Disclosure: I represent AI Robot Supplier, which lists quadruped robots and other advanced technology products. This article discusses a product category connected to my work. Robot dogs once looked like expensive laboratory experiments built mainly to impress...
Beyond PageRank: Lessons from Google’s Search Stack for Modern LLM Systems
PageRank is often remembered as a ranking algorithm. But Google’s deeper contribution was architectural: a search stack that separated crawling, indexing, and ranking into modular stages, pushed heavy computation offline, and kept query-time serving lean. Those same...
Don’t Hire a Designer in 2026. Here’s Who You Actually Need
The hire that quietly costs you a quarter You're about to open a product designer role. Strong portfolio, good taste, five years of experience, the usual. Before you post it, let me describe what happens next, because I've watched it from the inside. Weeks one to...
Bring-Up Engineering Is Where Hardware Meets Reality: Lessons from DPU Platform Development
Bring-up is where clean architecture diagrams meet real hardware. On DPU-class and high-speed data-center platforms, the hard failures rarely stay in one layer. A link issue can look like firmware. A firmware issue can look like a PHY problem. A PHY problem can...
FCC Blacklists Foreign Humanoids and Robot Dogs
The FCC has expanded its national-security Covered List to include foreign-made humanoid robots and robot dogs, joining previously restricted Chinese telecom equipment from firms like Huawei and ZTE. New models with cameras, sensors, and network connectivity are...
Building Buildhorn for Shipaton 2026: Week Two Progress
It’s the 2nd week of Shipaton and I thought it was a good time to take a moment to document my progress on the submission. Note: This is the 2nd post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from the beginning you can...
Building a Real Estate Listings App with Filestack
In real estate, the photos are the product. A buyer scrolling a results page won’t read your description if the cover image looks like it was shot on a flip phone. A detail page that ships a 4MB hero over LTE loses them before scroll. Doing images well usually means...
Connecting Your Inbox to an AI Agent Is Not Model Training
I was on a call with a client a few weeks ago. They run a media company. We were building their AI system. Connecting data sources. Writing skills. Getting the team ready to use the thing at scale. We were about to connect calendar and email. Then they stopped me....
Enhancing Software Design Credibility: Avoiding Clickbait Titles When Discussing Abstract Data Types
Introduction: The Hidden Foundation of SoftwareBeneath the surface of every well-designed software system lies a concept so fundamental, yet so often overlooked, that it shapes the very architecture of code: Abstract Data Types (ADTs). This isn’t just another...
At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones
You might think that the information-security professionals who show up in August at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas would know to bring their A game to that gathering. But every year, the administrators of the show’s Network Operations Center (NOC) see a...
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol’s Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
EPISODE 15: The Boss has popped into Mission Control to remind us to send him the numbers he needs for his monthly management report. Once's he's gone the PFY sighs, makes up a set of numbers, appends believable exponents, adds some fancy sounding units to the end and...
Over 1,000 Charities Hit by Beacon CRM Data Breach
The root cause of the incident is believed to be a compromised AWS access key that was exposed in publicly available JavaScript build artifacts. The post Over 1,000 Charities Hit by Beacon CRM Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The surprising reason AI layoffs hurt worker productivity
Business leaders and investors face a deepening paradox: Companies are pouring more money into artificial intelligence than ever, but they’re not seeing the gains in productivity that they expect. Even CEOs are starting to admit this disconnect. One Atlanta Federal...
Ukrainian drone attacks force Russia to protect its nuclear submarines with low-tech netting
New satellite images reveal nets covering Russian submarines to protect them against Ukrainian drones. It’s a confirmation that no Moscow asset is free from Kiev’s attacks anymore, not even its prized nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet. It is also yet another...
A Baconian approach to the mostly Aristotelian corporate AI. And what that means for your business
I have been writing for several months about what I see more and more as the central problem in enterprise AI. I’m seeing it not just from an academic perspective: Of course, I’m a university professor with more than 30 years of experience, but I’m also the director...
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Scotland's public prosecution service has warned 300 staff that their personal information may have been caught up in a cyberattack on one of its suppliers. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) disclosed the incident on Thursday, saying an unnamed...
Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun
Article URL: https://www.frandroid.com/marques/xiaomi/3211257_photo-de-leclipse-on-a-perce-a-jour-la-petite-triche-du-xiaomi-17-ultra-qui-confond-la-lune-et-le-soleil Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295515 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Microsoft and LinkedIn just analyzed the future of work and AI. It all points to one key skill set
Algorithms can now write code, draft legal contracts, and generate entire marketing campaigns in seconds. As artificial intelligence automates increasingly complex work, it’s easy to assume technical expertise will become the defining trait of great leadership. The...
Apple proposes taking a 5-to-15 percent cut from external App Store payments
Apple and Google still aren't done facing Epic Games in court.
14,000 Trezor Customers Impacted by Data Breach at ShipMonk
Hackers stole the customers’ shipping information, including names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. The post 14,000 Trezor Customers Impacted by Data Breach at ShipMonk appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Phones should have a ‘guest lock’ feature
Article URL: https://curvise.net/the-phone-features-i-cant-believe-we-dont-have/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295895 Points: 10 # Comments: 15
Mauchly and Eckert’s Other Computers
If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. People who know will tell you that the two were behind the famous ENIAC, which may or may not have been the...
Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain
Article URL: https://www.elttam.com/blog/ruby-4-0-universal-rce-deserialization-gadget-chain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295238 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Why Books Don’t Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021)
Article URL: https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2021-01-30-why-books-dont-work-constructivism-over-transmissionism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295666 Points: 4 # Comments: 1