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A newly identified species of fungus attacks the famous “zombie mushrooms” that control ants.

"The FCC wants to control who is allowed on the show," ABC ad tells viewers.

Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.

The next season of Formula E will feature a new race format and three new race locations when it starts in December to go with the new Gen4 electric cars. The schedule released today by the FIA includes the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, and the Zandvoort circuit […]

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

Skip the pricey upgrade and save $100+ on the Oura Ring 4.

Public notice of a single "compassionate use" case is odd in every way.

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial.

Performance work has a reputation for being glamorous — the heroic "we cut latency by 80%" story. Most days it's not that. Most days it's a janitorial pass: you go looking for the queries you're firing without realizing it, and you quietly delete them. That was today. One sustained sweep across an app and the package that backs it, chasing the same theme everywhere: stop asking the database for things you don't use. Let me walk through the patterns, because they generalize to any Laravel app of a certain age. First, make the invisible visible You can't fix N+1s you can't see. The first move was wiring up an N+1 detector in the local/dev environment only — beyondcode/laravel-query-detector . It hooks into the request lifecycle, watches your Eloquent relationship loads, and screams (in the console, or as an exception if you want it strict) when it spots the classic loop-and-lazy-load pattern. The "dev-only" part matters. You never want a query detector running in production — it adds overhead and it's a developer aid, not a runtime guard. So it goes in behind an environment check, registered only when the app isn't in production: public function register (): void { if ( $this -> app -> environment ( 'local' , 'testing' )) { $this -> app -> register ( \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\QueryDetectorServiceProvider :: class ); } } Think of it like a smoke detector you only arm while you're cooking. It's noisy by design — that's the point. The noise is a to-do list. Eager loads you don't actually use are just N+1s wearing a disguise Here's the counterintuitive one. We're all trained to fix N+1s by adding with() . But the opposite bug is just as common and almost never gets caught: you eager-load a relationship, and then... never touch it in the view. Index screens are the worst offenders. Someone builds a listing, eager-loads creator and approver so the table can show names, then a redesign drops those columns — but the with(['creator', 'approver']) stays. Now every page load hyd

I've been working as Software Developer mainly focussed on Java and builts many application using Eclipse RCP framework or VS Code Application. Almost all the time I had to deal with multiple large files (either read/generate/validate) them which seemed very difficult and some of them almost impossible as most of them would be dependant on each other and would be referencing each other (just like how java files work together). Now assume client1 requires the same content in multiple Json files and client2 needs it in xml files. We couldn't go on writing a different application or go on adding if conditions and blah blah blah !!!! Wouldn't it be easier if as soon as I execute the application it generates the content in whatever format I choose and also taking care of dependencies/ references (like adding import statements). Additionally integrate with features of IDE and provide proposals, perform validations on the fly. Rela World Examples : Try googling Arxml once (Trust me I've dealing with these files for almost 7 years and it's always a nightmare to debug these) Solution: Xtext framework In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Eclipse Xtext and Xtend to build a simple, readable DSL that automatically generates Java boilerplate for you. Fair Warning: There will be no running executions screenshots or anything. You are gonna have to run it yourself and check the results and of course questions are always welcome in the comments section. But if for some reason you are unable to replicate this then let me know I'll try to explain further. I believe the best way to learn is by doing it yourself. The Goal: What are we building? Instead of writing 100 lines of Java with private fields, getters, and setters, we want our developers to write 5 lines of code in our own custom language (basically you can create your own programming language with your own custom syntax), like this: entity User { var name : String var age : Integer } When this file (assume file extension

The Steam Machine is here, with a base price of $1,049. Yes, that's nearly twice the price of a PS5, but what you're buying here isn't a console but a full-on PC - and a tiny one at that. Valve says it's selling the Steam Machine basically at cost. So we asked ourselves: What would […]

Tonally, the trailer gives strong vibes akin to the director's 2016 feature Hunt for the Wilderpeople .

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how modern incident analysis looks past the "Five Whys" to uncover systemic issues. Learn how engineering leaders can move away from blame, improve Standard Operating Procedures, and design resilient systems that actively protect their engineers. By Sean Klein

The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.

For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite […]

This is not a review of the MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus, the first gaming handheld available with Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme handheld gaming chip. Now that my colleague Sean Hollister is done reviewing the Steam Machine, I'll let him go deep on the new Claw at some point in the future. This […]

Data-Oriented Design in C#: Why Objects Are Slowing You Down In my previous article, we talked about starving the Garbage Collector by moving away from heap-allocated class types and leaning heavily into struct , Span<T> , and ArrayPool<T> . That’s a critical first step, but it only solves half the problem. You’ve stopped the GC from pausing your app, but you might still be leaving massive amounts of CPU performance on the table. Why? Because of how your data is structured. It’s time to talk about Data-Oriented Design (DoD) . The Object-Oriented Trap We are taught from day one to model our code after the real world. If you are building a social network graph, you might write something like this: public class UserNode { public int Id { get ; set ; } public string Name { get ; set ; } public List < Edge > Connections { get ; set ; } } public class Edge { public UserNode Target { get ; set ; } public int Weight { get ; set ; } } This makes perfect logical sense. A user has connections, and those connections point to other users. But modern CPUs don't care about your logical models. A CPU only cares about reading data from memory into its L1/L2 caches as fast as possible. When a CPU reads a byte from RAM, it doesn't just read that one byte; it pulls a whole 64-byte "cache line" under the assumption that you will probably want the neighboring bytes next. When you loop through a List<UserNode> , traversing from object to object, you are jumping randomly across the heap. The CPU pulls a cache line, reads your data, and then has to go fetch a completely different block of RAM for the next node. This is called pointer chasing , and the resulting cache misses are devastating to performance. Enter Data-Oriented Design: Struct of Arrays (SoA) Data-Oriented Design says: Stop modeling the real world. Model the data the way the hardware wants to consume it. Instead of an Array of Structs (AoS) (or an array of objects), we invert the architecture to a Struct of Arrays (SoA) . If we

I was convinced these devices were just clutter. I was proven wrong.

President Trump probably can’t get rid of her yet, but FCC commissioner Anna Gomez still checks her email every day to see if he has. Until then, she wants to stand up for the First Amendment.

Web MCP, DevTools per agenti e Modern Web Guidance: meno hype, più strumenti e metodo. Negli annunci recenti di Chrome è emersa una cosa interessante: al netto delle novità “appariscenti”, ciò che resta più utile per il lavoro quotidiano è quello che migliora workflow, diagnosi e decisioni tecniche . Tre filoni, in particolare, disegnano una direzione chiara: Web MCP , DevTools per agenti e Modern Web Guidance . Di seguito una sintesi ragionata di cosa significano, perché contano per il frontend, e come prepararsi a sfruttarli. 1) Web MCP: il ponte tra agenti e Web (senza incollaggi fragili) Se stai lavorando con assistenti/agentic workflow, oggi il collo di bottiglia è quasi sempre lo stesso: far sì che un agente capisca e usi le capacità del browser e delle app web in modo affidabile. Web MCP punta a risolvere questo punto creando un linguaggio/protocollo comune per esporre “capacità” (capabilities) e strumenti (tools) che un agente può invocare in modo strutturato, invece di basarsi su prompt lunghi, scraping o integrazioni ad hoc. Perché è importante per chi fa frontend Automazioni più robuste : meno script fragili che si rompono al primo refactor del DOM. Integrazioni più standard : se più strumenti parlano lo stesso “dialetto”, il costo di collegare agenti e applicazioni scende. Esperienze utente nuove : assistenti che completano task complessi dentro l’app (es. compilazioni, ricerca guidata, operazioni amministrative) con maggiore affidabilità. Implicazione pratica Inizia a ragionare sull’app come su un insieme di azioni esplicite (es. “crea ordine”, “esporta report”, “filtra dataset”), non solo come UI. Questa mentalità ti rende pronto a esporre capacità in modo sicuro e controllato, quando lo stack lo renderà semplice. 2) DevTools per agenti: debugging e performance nell’era dell’automazione Se Web MCP è il “ponte”, DevTools per agenti è la cassetta degli attrezzi per controllare quel ponte: osservabilità, diagnosi e iterazione rapida su flussi in cui non è