Weekend Reads 081024


Network observability tools provide information on the health and behavior of applications, offer insights into end-user experience, and detect anomalies that are indicative of security incidents.


Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines.


It might be time to get the pens and notebooks back out and shut off the keyboard for a while. Just pretend you’re back in the first grade and don’t have a minicomputer in your back pocket.


Intel has finally provided an update on instability issues on 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs. An update posted by Thomas Hannaford, Intel’s communications manager, pins the instability on an error in the microcode that requests incorrect voltage numbers, leading to instability in the processor.


Separation agreements Meta gave to employees during mass 2022 layoffs are illegal, a US judge has decided, and the reasoning could have implications far beyond Zuckercorp.


In 1940, thirteen percent of the U.S. population lived in suburbs. In 2010, it was half. An analysis by demographer Wendell Cox of population trends during the 2010s showed that 92 percent of all growth in major metropolitan areas was in the suburbs and exurbs ラ a trend that well preceded the pandemic.


Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere.


Two US senators have urged the FTC to probe and potentially prosecute three automakers that allegedly unlawfully sold motorists’ personal data for pennies.


As the COVID-19 pandemic came to an end, a number of large companies pushed for their workers to return to the office five days a week — a policy that prompted many employees to “quiet quit” in protest.


At what was billed as a “fireside chat” at Tel Aviv University in June 2023, the very first question from the audience posed to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever was, “Could open source LLMs (large language models) potentially match GPT-4’s abilities without additional technical advances, or is there a ‘secret sauce’ in GPT-4 unknown to the world that sets it apart from the other models?”


The blame game doesn’t stop there. One link in this chain of infamy hasn’t received the attention it deserves – but this link took what should have been a small hiccup and turned it into a global meltdown.


Now it seems that AI itself might be our best defense against AI fakery after an algorithm has identified telltale markers of AI videos with over 98% accuracy.


Rolls-Royce has cleared a key hurdle in the race to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear power plant as competition across Europe ramps up.