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The article discusses Microsoft's struggles with its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, highlighting that customers are reluctant to purchase or use the company's subpar AI products, which have been plagued by technical issues and a lack of adoption.

IBM has announced plans to acquire Confluent, a leading provider of event streaming and data integration platforms. The acquisition aims to help IBM expand its hybrid cloud and AI capabilities, allowing customers to modernize their data infrastructures and drive business value from real-time data.

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Uber is launching a new data-driven service called Uber Intelligence Insights, which provides marketers with detailed insights on Uber rides and Uber Eats orders. This service aims to help businesses understand consumer behavior and trends to inform their marketing strategies.

Microsoft is increasing the prices of its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 commercial subscriptions, effective March 1, 2023. The price changes are intended to reflect the increased value and expanded capabilities of the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites over time.

This article discusses running Tailscale, a VPN software, on a jailbroken Amazon Kindle device. It covers the process of installing Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle and the benefits it provides, such as secure remote access and the ability to use the Kindle as a network gateway.

The article discusses techniques for debugging AMD GPU issues, including using the Radeon GPU Profiler, inspecting driver logs, and leveraging tools like RenderDoc and PIX to analyze GPU performance and identify potential problems.

The article explores the efforts of researchers and analysts to locate and map North Korea's secretive fiber optic cable infrastructure, which is crucial for the country's communication and internet connectivity, despite its isolation from the global internet.

The article discusses a person's experience with a bad hair dye job, highlighting the importance of researching and choosing a reputable salon to avoid potential disasters with hair color treatments.

The article provides an overview of FoundationDB, a distributed database developed by Apple. It highlights FoundationDB's key features, including its ability to handle large-scale transactions, its fault tolerance, and its use of a custom programming language called Flow.

Google has confirmed the existence of Android-based attacks that cannot be fixed for most Samsung users, highlighting a significant security vulnerability across a large portion of the Android ecosystem.

The article explores a series of tricks and techniques used in creating tiny GLSL demos, including the use of bitwise operations, tricks for cheap trigonometry, and techniques for procedural textures and patterns.

The article explores the impact of cloud computing and open-source software on the cost of software development, suggesting that the cost has dropped by as much as 90% in recent years. It examines how these technological advancements have made software more accessible and affordable for businesses and individuals.

Quanta Books, a new imprint of the Simons Foundation, will publish popular science books on mathematics and physics, with the first titles coming from renowned mathematicians Terence Tao and David Tong.

The article discusses the concept of 'alignment is capability', which suggests that the best way to create AI systems that are beneficial to humanity is to ensure that their capabilities are aligned with human values and interests. It argues that this approach is more effective than trying to limit the capabilities of AI systems.

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The article discusses the use of icons in menus, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of this design choice. It explores how icons can enhance usability and visual appeal, while also potentially introducing ambiguity or accessibility issues if not implemented thoughtfully.

Nova is a new programming language that aims to combine the simplicity and expressiveness of Python with the speed and performance of lower-level languages. It is designed to be a powerful and versatile language for a wide range of applications, from web development to data analysis and machine learning.

The article discusses the importance of accessible toast notifications in web development, providing guidelines and best practices for creating inclusive toast messages that are perceivable, operable, and understandable to users with disabilities.

Hello Everyone! We built SQLFlow as a lightweight stream processing engine.

We leverage DuckDB as the stream processing engine, which gives SQLFlow the ability to process 10's of thousands of messages a second using ~250MiB of memory!

DuckDB also supports a rich ecosystem of sinks and connectors!

https://sql-flow.com/docs/category/tutorials/

https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow

We were tired of running JVM's for simple stream processing, and also of bespoke one off stream processors

I would love your feedback, criticisms and/or experiences!

Thank you