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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that YouTube generates more revenue from Xbox games than Microsoft itself, highlighting a struggle to monetise its gaming division despite significant investment. This comes as Bloomberg reported last week that Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, along with si
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: Is ‘ripen at home’ fruit the supermarkets’ idea of a joke? I’ve been struggling to get my head around the
Segway’s high-end robotic lawn mower is great at mowing—with the right environment and preparation.
Yoshiaki Kawajiri's beloved anime film 'Ninja Scroll' is coming back to theaters for the first time in years, and in 4K!
Our expert sports fan made a detailed guide on what sports you can watch on Apple TV in multiview and how to do so. Plus, some tips for non-Apple TV users too.
I break down the details surround free phone deals to tell you exactly what's you're getting yourself into and if they're legit.
Both wired and wireless connections should be more reliable now.
Amazon Prime Days kicks off on June 23, but you can save big on your next laptop right now. Here are 5 early Prime Day laptop deals worth your money.
Claude Code plugins made my setup feel more connected, more useful, and much less like a simple chatbot.
The new Sonos Play can act as a portable speaker inside and outside your home.
GBase 8a, as an MPP analytical database, does not use WAL transaction logs. Instead, it relies on the dedicated gcrcman tool for snapshot backups. This guide covers cluster‑level, database‑level, and table‑level backup/recovery, along with scheduling strategies and common issues. GBase 8a omits tran
TL;DR — We swapped Mattrx's inter-service REST calls for Kafka topics (multi-tenant marketing analytics SaaS, .NET 9 / ASP.NET Core, Azure SQL, ~3,200 req/sec peak). Over 8 weeks: end-to-end ingestion failures 1.9% → 0.18% (−90%), ingestion p95 180 ms → 8 ms (−96%), events lost on downstream outage
From Vibe Coding to Production: How to Build a Traceable PRD-to-Prompt Workflow for Shipping Maintainable AI Code A concrete, repeatable workflow that closes the gap between AI-generated prototypes and production deployment by linking Product Requirement Documents directly to agent prompts and enfor
A bot was firing Subscribe and Purchase events from Telegram straight to Meta's Conversions API, and every call came back with a 400: "error_user_title": "Missing Messaging Channel Parameter", "error_user_msg": "A messaging channel parameter is required when provided action source is business_messag
If you bill per result, there is one design decision that quietly decides whether customers trust you: what you do when you could not get an answer. Most usage-billed APIs collapse the world into two states. The call worked, or it failed. Valid or invalid. Found or not found. That binary is where th
Embeddings are behind search, recommendations, and most of modern AI, and they are usually explained with intimidating diagrams. The core idea is simple and worth building yourself: an embedding turns a thing (a word, a document, a product) into a list of numbers (a vector) so that similar things en
Nearly 65% of enterprise AI failures in 2025 traced back to context drift or memory loss during multi-step reasoning. Not model capability issues. Not hallucinations from weak training data. The agent simply lost track of what it was doing because its context window filled up with conversation histo
Look, the Developer's Guide to AI Translation Without Going Broke I still remember the first time I looked at my translation API bill. Three hundred and forty-seven dollars. For one week. Just for translating product descriptions into four languages. That's when I went down this rabbit hole, and her
I told myself it would be fine. I had been using AI coding assistants for suggestions and autocomplete for months — and it worked great. So when a new project came up with a tight deadline, I thought: why not let AI handle the whole backend? I set up a Cursor workspace, wrote a detailed spec, and hi
Autonomous AI agents are powering everything from customer support to high-frequency trading—but as they gain more control, the threats grow sharper. Too many agent security stacks depend on brittle prompt instructions, leaving gates open for jailbreaks and unintended command execution. Kakunin’s ne
