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When I was beginning to learn about networks, I didn't know how many things in my daily life depended on them โ from texting on WhatsApp to watching YouTube. I still vividly remember when I learned that computers communicate with one another. It was ...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:When you became a developer, you didnโt imagine youโd be spending a big chunk of your time parsing vulnerability reports, getting stuck in security review cycles, or rerunning CI jobs because the pipeline flagged a dozen โcritical issues,โ half of which are false positives. Youdidnโtsign upfor this.Youwerenโteven given a choice,but here you are:
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:A few weeks ago, I floated a Google Form with a simple, almost laughable question: "Post your silliest AI-related doubts, as silly as: What even is AI?"
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:As organizations rely more on open-source and third-party components, software supply chain security has become more crucial than ever before. Software bills of materials (SBOMs) are a practical solution for gaining visibility into software components, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring license compliance. This Refcard covers the essential elements of SBOMs, their key formats, open-source tools for automating...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:When you think about human evolution, it's astonishing how far we have come. From hunters and gatherers to a world where we can now order food with a tap, get one-day delivery, and call a taxi instantly. Part of the story here is how cognitive evolution led to the invention of tools and technology that transformed the way we live today. As humans evolved, Technology has evolved through different eras as well, each...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:As a generation characterized as "digital natives," the way Gen Z interacts with and consumes knowledge is rooted in their desire for instant gratification and personalization. How will this affect the future of knowledge management and the technologies of tomorrow?
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Learn how to build your first space in minutes and customize Copilot to match your team's unique coding style and workflows. The post GitHub Copilot Spaces: Bring the right context to every suggestion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Serverless computing, app development, and deployment have been completely revolutionized by its unparalleled scalability and cost efficiency. Infrastructure management abstraction, which is provided by serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions, allows developers to concentrate on building their functionality while the cloud provider takes care of scaling, patching, and...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:In large-scale applications, the synergy of a robust frontend and a high-performance backend is essential. By leveraging Angular for rich, maintainable UIs and Node.js (often with frameworks like Express or NestJS) on the backend, teams can ensure both high throughput and responsive user experiences. Modern SPAs (Single-Page Applications) by default offload much rendering to the browser, which can slow initial load and...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Have you ever tried to analyze the sentiment of a long-form document like a financial report, technical whitepaper or regulatory filing? You probably noticed that the sentiment score often feels way off. Thatโs because most sentiment analysis tools return a single, aggregated sentiment scoreโusually positive, negative, or neutralโfor the entire document. This approach completely misses the complexity and nuance...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:So, somewhere along the way, API tooling has lost the plot. One tool for specs. Another for tests. A third one for docs. Then, a parade of SDKs, mocks, CI scripts, and shiny portals nobody really asked for. All served up by platforms that charge you a fortune while flying in celebrities to play "developer advocate" at their overblown conferences. And the ones who don't do all of that just end up differing from it in...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Large language models (LLMs) possess an impressive ability to generate text, poetry, code, and even hold complex conversations. Yet, a fundamental question arises: do these systems truly understand what they are saying, or do they merely imitate a form of thought? Is it a simple illusion, an elaborate statistical performance, or are LLMs developing a form of understanding, or even reasoning? This question is at the...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Abstract When we talk about making AI systems better at finding and using information from documents, we often focus on fancy algorithms and cutting-edge language models. But here's the thing: if your text extraction is garbage, everything else falls apart. This paper looks at how OCR quality impacts retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, particularly when dealing with scanned documents and PDFs. We explore the...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Hello, the attached devlog covers a concept I have seen quite a bit from (game) developers enthusiastic about data-oriented design, which is region-based memory management. An example of this pattern is a program allocating a very large memory region on the heap and then placing data in the region using normal integers, effectively using them as offsets to refer to the location of data within the large region. While it...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Read on to see the latest features coming to Stack Overflow for Teams Business users!
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Modern chat applications are increasingly incorporating voice input capabilities because they offer a more engaging and versatile user experience. This also improves accessibility, allowing users with different needs to interact more comfortably with...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:When you're building Java applications, especially with frameworks like Spring Boot, itโs easy to overlook proper exception handling. However, poorly managed exceptions can make your application harder to debug, more difficult to maintain, and a nightmare for anyone dealing with production issues. In this post, weโll explore how to handle exceptions effectively by avoiding generic catch blocks, using custom exceptions,...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:There are five levels of LeetCode, and most people are stuck at levels one and two. Many of you can solve LeetCode problems but still cannot get a job. Why is that? Whether you like it or not, coding interviews are a competition. There are other people who are interviewing for the exact same position as you. At the end of the day, it's all about what your level is compared to them.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:In an age of information overload, AI assistance, and rapid technological change, the ability to think clearly and reason soundly has never been more valuable. This handbook takes you on a journey from fundamental logical principles to their practica...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:I'm curious to hear from developers who have gone through this: What were the actual reasons that made your team switch technologies, frameworks, languages, or tools in a production app? Was it due to performance issues? Maintenance pain? Team experience? Scaling challenges? Ecosystem problems? Also, if you didnโt switch when you probably should have, what held you back? Would love to hear some war stories or insights...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Apache Doris, a high-performance real-time data warehouse, has been gaining significant attention in the OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) space in recent years. With its strong query performance, real-time data processing capabilities, and flexible data models, it is widely used in scenarios such as business intelligence, user behavior analysis, and real-time monitoring. The rise of DeepSeek, on the other hand, has...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Large Language Models (LLMs) are significantly changing the way we interact with data and generate insights. But their real superpower lies in the ability to connect with external tools. Tool calling turns LLMs into agents capable of browsing the web, querying databases, and generating content โ all from a simple natural language prompt. In this article, we go one step beyond single-tool agents and show how to build a...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Weโve just released Mochi v0.8.0 - a small, statically typed language designed for clarity, simplicity, and portability. In this release, we added support for compiling to ten more languages: C, C#, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Ruby, Rust, Scala, and Swift. Itโs still early and currently supports basic control flow and expressions, but weโre actively working on expanding support for memory management and FFI across all...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Over the past decade, web development has undergone a silent revolution, quietly reshaping the digital world landscape. The browser compatibility issues that once kept developers awake at night have become relics of the past, thanks to the wave of standardization led by Chrome. The era of jQuery, characterized by its rudimentary approach, has long been illuminated by component-based frameworks like React, Vue, and...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Reduce context-switching, minimize manual work, and accelerate resolution times with these new AI-powered features. The post 5 tips for using GitHub Copilot with issues to boost your productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:OpenStack is a popular open-source cloud platform. Through this article, I plan to provide a guide for creating a basic OpenStack cloud at home! The OpenStack cloud nodes can be generally divided into two categories:
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Corrado Bรถhm was just a postgrad student in 1951 when he pulled off something that still feels unbelievable. He wrote a full compiler by hand without using a compiler and without even having access to a proper computer. At that time, computers werenโt easily available, especially not to students. Bรถhm had no machine to run or test anything, so he did everything on paper. He came up with his own language, built a model...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Po was supposed to be practicing the Dragon Scrolls. Instead, he wasโฆ well, eating. Shifu (arms crossed): "Po! Again? Training time, not dumpling time."
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Did you know cloud security was one of the most evident challenges of using cloud solutions in 2023? As businesses increasingly depend on Cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications, securing sensitive data in the Cloud becomes non-negotiable. Organizations must ensure their technology infrastructure meets the highest security standards. One such standard is SOC 2 (Systems and Organization...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:If you want to transform your career and become a data-driven decision maker, this course is for you. freeCodeCamp.org just published a comprehensive Google Cloud Data Analytics course on our YouTube channel. The course was developed by Google Cloud ...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) are improving our learning, working, and decision-making processes. There is a cost involved in this change, though. With an eye toward cognitive offloadingโthe process by which we assign mental tasks to outside aids like digital assistants, search engines, or recommendation systems. In this article, I examine a2025 studyby Michael Gerlich. It provides a thorough and...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Lately, companies, in their efforts to engage in real-time decision-making by exploiting big data, have been inclined to find a suitable architecture for this data as quickly as possible. With many companies, including SaaS users, choosing to deploy their own infrastructures entirely on their own, the combination of Apache Flink and Kafka offers low-latency data pipelines that are built for complete reliability....
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Disclosure: I work at CyberArk and was involved in this research. Just finished analyzing the Model Context Protocol security model and found some nasty vulnerabilities that could bite developers using AI coding tools. Quick Context: MCP is what lets your AI tools (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) connect to external services and local files. Think of it as an API standard for AI apps. The Problems: Malicious Tool...
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Itโs Javaโs 30th anniversary! Ryan welcomes back Georges Saab, Senior VP of Development for the Java Platform Group and Chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board, to reflect on Javaโs changes over the last five years.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Observability is a game-changer for CI/CD pipelines, and itโs one of the most exciting aspects of DevOps. When I started working with CI/CD systems, I assumed the hardest part would be building the pipeline. But with increasingly complex setups, the ...
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