Holes in socks have become a curious sight at this year’s World Cup. The reasons why are a weird mix of biomechanics, perception, and player habits.

We recently built 2draw, a Drawful-style game where players draw on a shared canvas and race to guess each other's drawings, on tldraw, an infinite-canvas SDK for React. We started wondering what it would take to put an agent in that loop, as an opponent or a rival guesser, and dug into how an agent could read and draw on a tldraw canvas. That research turned into: Agent draw, a tool that lets an agent draw to the canvas for you while you present. You can try it right now, or grab the source: -

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.

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We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky, who run the Creators division at United Talent Agency. UTA is an enormous talent agency. Half the people you’ve ever heard speak or perform or who show […]

Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approach detects oversized partitions, splits them smaller units, and routes reads across child partitions. Netflix reported lower read latency from seconds to milliseconds, reduced timeouts, and improved cluster stability while maintaining transparency. By Leela Kumili

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.