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Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Chiu-wai expresses concerns about AI's impact on cinema, calling it a "double-edged sword" that could lead to job losses and a focus on "popcorn movies" lacking soul. He laments the decline of big-screen viewing, preferring films be experienced in cinemas. Leung also t
Universal has scooped up Barker's next original feature after the already-completed 'Anything but Ghosts.'
Norway will reportedly ban young kids from using AI in schools.
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Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The f
France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at
AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harva
Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching m
The productivity numbers are real. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code — these tools genuinely changed what a developer can ship in a day. Engineering teams saw their sprint baselines recalibrate upward by 40% within two quarters of adopting AI coding assistants. That is not marketing copy. That is
Microservices Without the Mystery | Achour.dev How microservices actually work: service-owned databases, how relationships hold up when every service owns its own data, and when not to reach for them. achour.dev
Originally published on lavkesh.com When Linus Torvalds wrote Git in 2005 he wasn’t chasing a buzzword; he needed a system that could handle thousands of kernel contributors pushing changes every day. Git gives each developer a full copy of the repository, history and all. That means you can commit,
We kept a plaintext file of hostnames, one per line, and a monitoring script read the file and pinged each host every five minutes. When a host failed to respond, the script sent an email alert. The system had been running for months and it worked — we had caught three actual outages with it, which
Objects are one of the most important concepts in JavaScript. Almost everything in JavaScript revolves around objects. Objects help us store related data together and represent real-world entities such as: Students Employees Cars Mobiles Products Users Animals An object is a collection of properties
Originally published on lavkesh.com I think people underestimate PowerShell, seeing it as just another shell for automating Windows. But it's actually one of the best scripting languages for systems work, and it's underutilized outside Windows shops. The reason is that PowerShell is object-oriented,
Ten weeks ago I launched a niche reference site on a fresh .in domain. No backlinks, no budget, no audience. Just a Next.js static export sitting on Cloudflare Pages. I expected the usual story: Google ignores you for months while you claw your way out of the sandbox. Instead I got a result I haven'
Warum das alte VPN‑Modell heute ein Sicherheitsrisiko ist „Ein VPN ist wie ein Schloss an der Haustür – es hält nur das große Böse draußen, aber lässt jeden, der den Schlüssel hat, ins Haus.“ Das klingt provokant, trifft aber den Kern: Unternehmen setzen noch immer ausschließlich auf VPNs, weil sie
One of the biggest advantages of JavaScript is the ability to create multiple objects with similar properties and behaviors. Writing each object manually becomes repetitive and inefficient. To solve this problem, JavaScript provides Constructor Functions. A constructor is a special function used to
When you build a marketplace that connects two sides, manufacturers on one side and distributors on the other, the first instinct is often to reach for machine learning to rank matches. We went the other way. The core of Hell of a Partner is a deterministic scoring function, and that choice has paid
The new Wired Wall Switch Modules fit behind existing switches. | Image: Signify Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. Hue also announced
A TV antenna could be your magic ticket to free World Cup coverage. Here's what you need to know about watching the World Cup free in the USA
