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The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

A quick note on the links below. The DigitalOcean and Vultr links in this article are referral links. If you sign up via them, you get a free credit on your new account (currently $200 over 60 days for DigitalOcean and up to $300 for Vultr) and the author of this article gets a small referral credit too, at no extra cost to you. AWS does not run an equivalent referral program, so the AWS links are normal links. The review below is the author's own evaluation; the credits do not change the recommendations. If you have ever spent a workday watching your website refuse to load, you are not alone. In a recent outage , a single building in Northern Virginia hosting one of Amazon's availability zones (the cloud-industry term for one campus's worth of servers in one region ) got too hot. The hardware shut itself down. AWS calls this a thermal event. Customers around the world have other names for it. Big enterprises ride out outages like this. They have multi-region setups, dedicated SRE teams, and SLA credits that will refund a small fraction of their monthly bill. Small and mid-size businesses do not. They lose a day of revenue, scramble to reassure customers, and then read a post-mortem in a few weeks that explains what went wrong in language that does not help them recover the lost revenue. The cloud was supposed to make small businesses look big. After each new outage, it is fair to ask: is AWS actually the right cloud for small businesses at all? Two providers worth a serious look, DigitalOcean and Vultr , are simpler, cheaper at the entry level, and built around use cases that more closely match what a small business actually needs. Here is what each one does, where AWS is still the right answer, and how to decide. Why AWS hits small businesses harder than big ones When a giant company has an AWS outage, three teams kick into gear. There is the engineering team that fails workloads over to a backup region. There is the customer-success team that updates the status p

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and powerful -- than ever.

The company made its heavily-anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

Model Context Protocol (MCP): Giao Thức Kết Nối Thế Giới Cho Trí Tuệ Nhân Tạo Trong thế giới AI đang phát triển với tốc độ chóng mặt, việc xây dựng các ứng dụng thông minh, có khả năng tương tác linh hoạt với dữ liệu và công cụ bên ngoài là một thách thức lớn. Các mô hình ngôn ngữ lớn (LLM) như GPT, Claude, hay Gemini dù mạnh mẽ nhưng thường hoạt động trong "vùng cô lập", thiếu khả năng truy cập trực tiếp vào các hệ thống bên ngoài theo thời gian thực. Đây chính là lúc Model Context Protocol (MCP) xuất hiện như một giải pháp cách mạng. MCP là một giao thức mở, được thiết kế để tiêu chuẩn hóa cách thức các ứng dụng cung cấp ngữ cảnh (context) cho LLM, giúp phá vỡ rào cản giữa trí tuệ nhân tạo và thế giới thực. Bài viết này sẽ đi sâu vào phân tích Model Context Protocol , từ định nghĩa, kiến trúc, đến các lợi ích và ứng dụng thực tế, giúp bạn hiểu tại sao nó được coi là "ngôn ngữ chung" của tương lai AI. Model Context Protocol (MCP) Là Gì? Model Context Protocol (MCP) là một giao thức mở, được phát triển để tạo ra một chuẩn giao tiếp thống nhất giữa các LLM và các nguồn dữ liệu, công cụ bên ngoài. Hãy tưởng tượng MCP như một "cổng USB" dành cho AI. Thay vì mỗi ứng dụng AI phải viết mã tích hợp riêng lẻ với từng loại cơ sở dữ liệu, API, hay hệ thống tệp tin (mỗi loại một kiểu "phích cắm" khác nhau), MCP cung cấp một giao diện chuẩn. Bất kỳ ứng dụng nào hỗ trợ MCP đều có thể kết nối với bất kỳ nguồn tài nguyên nào cũng hỗ trợ MCP một cách liền mạch. Mục Đích Cốt Lõi Của MCP Mục tiêu chính của Model Context Protocol là giải quyết vấn đề "fragmentation" (phân mảnh) trong hệ sinh thái AI. Trước MCP, việc tích hợp thường diễn ra rời rạc: Mỗi nhà phát triển ứng dụng phải tự xây dựng các "kết nối" tùy chỉnh. Mỗi lần cập nhật mô hình hoặc công cụ có thể làm hỏng các tích hợp cũ. Khó khăn trong việc chia sẻ và tái sử dụng các công cụ AI giữa các dự án. MCP giải quyết những vấn đề này bằng cách cung cấp một lớp trừu tượng chuẩn hóa. Kiến Trúc Và Cách Thức Hoạt Động Của MCP Kiến

I inherited a SQL Server database with 2.3 million rows. Queries took 45 seconds. Users were frustrated. Dashboards timed out. Here is exactly what I did. Step 1: Find the slowest queries I used SQL Server's query store to identify the top 10 worst performing queries. Step 2: Check the execution plan Missing index warnings everywhere. Also saw table scans on a 2 million row table. Step 3: Add targeted indexes Created two non-clustered indexes on the most filtered columns. No over-indexing. Just what the queries actually needed. Step 4: Rewrite the worst join One query was joining 6 tables with a cross apply that made no sense. Restructured to inner joins with proper filter ordering. The result 45 seconds down to 8 seconds. An 82% improvement. Real-time dashboards started working again. Key lesson Check what is actually slow before changing anything. Most people skip this and waste time optimizing the wrong thing. What is your fastest query optimization win?

I inherited a SQL Server database with 2.3 million rows. Queries took 45 seconds. Users were frustrated. Dashboards timed out. Here is exactly what I did. Step 1: Find the slowest queries I used SQL Server's query store to identify the top 10 worst performing queries. Step 2: Check the execution plan Missing index warnings everywhere. Also saw table scans on a 2 million row table. Step 3: Add targeted indexes Created two non-clustered indexes on the most filtered columns. No over-indexing. Just what the queries actually needed. Step 4: Rewrite the worst join One query was joining 6 tables with a cross apply that made no sense. Restructured to inner joins with proper filter ordering. The result 45 seconds down to 8 seconds. An 82% improvement. Real-time dashboards started working again. Key lesson Check what is actually slow before changing anything. Most people skip this and waste time optimizing the wrong thing. What is your fastest query optimization win?

More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night.

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

Google's Angular team has released a repository called angular/skills, focusing on Agent Skills that enhance AI coding agents' ability to write modern Angular code. The repository includes skills for generating code and scaffolding applications, reinforcing current Angular conventions. It serves as a snapshot, aiming to improve AI suggestions by providing updated context. By Daniel Curtis

Just in time for Le Mans, BMW is pulling the cover off its new M performance concept built on the Bavarian automaker's Neue Klasse next-generation architecture. The concept is the debut of a new design language for BMW's M division, signaling a shift toward a more electrified future. The company says it is built on […]

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This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Your Iphone can now celebrate the Solstace! When you have a hammer- everything is a nail! This installment brings a Flutter build running on IOS! A complete IOS App is built using Flutter with Xcode and some Joystick bugs are fixed! What I Built When it comes to Summar Solstace — the place to be is Sweden. It is one of the highlights of the calendar. This project aimed to recreate some of the mystique around the event- just in time for some fresh surestromming! Now you can get it on the GO! In a previous article, the web app was refactored to be Flutter compatible. This installment adds an IOS build from the Flutter code base and deploys it to an Iphone. Code GitHub repo is here: GitHub - xbill9/midsommer-flutter: Midsommer Madness game in Flutter / Web view Midsommer Madness game in Flutter / Web view The first version of the article built the app out as a web based game: Midsommer Madness Then, the app was converted to Android: Android Midsommer Madness And finally to Flutter: Flutter Midsommer Madnesss Game Play The key levels include: IKEA Warehouse: Battle crowded, flatpack-carrying shoppers who throw box projectiles at you. Systembolaget: The state-owned liquor shop crowded with drunk Swedes stumbling and lobbing green beer bottles. Lördagsgodis: Sugar rush Saturday! Dodge hyperactive, strung-out Swedish kids throwing sweet candy projectiles. The Swedish Pub: Sing along with Frank Zappa fans singing “Bobby Brown” (shouting and firing glowing letters B, O, B, B, Y). Volvo Highway: A survival lane-crossing level where… My Lingonberries are ripening- get to work! How do you deploy this? To build for IOS- you need a recent Mac system with Xcode tools installed along with Flutter. You can use standard Mac installs for Xcode and Flutter is available directly or via Homebrew. The build environment will look similar to this: The Makefile included with the project has IOS targets: m3:midsommer-flutter xbill$ make help

I Cut My Next.js + Supabase App Load Time by 73% - Here Are the 5 Techniques That Actually Worked Last month, our SaaS dashboard was embarrassingly slow . 4.2 seconds to load the main page. Users were complaining. Conversion rates were tanking. Today? 1.1 seconds . 73% faster. Here's exactly what worked (and what didn't). The Problem: Death by a Thousand Database Calls Our dashboard showed user projects, team members, recent activity, and notifications. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Each component was making its own database calls. The projects list fetched projects, then made separate calls for each project's stats. The activity feed loaded events, then fetched user details for each event. Classic N+1 query problem, but worse. Technique #1: Strategic Data Fetching Consolidation Before: 47 database calls to load the dashboard After: 3 database calls The fix wasn't fancy. We consolidated related data into single queries using Supabase's nested select syntax: // ❌ Before: Multiple separate calls const projects = await supabase . from ( ' projects ' ). select ( ' * ' ) const stats = await Promise . all ( projects . map ( p => supabase . from ( ' project_stats ' ). select ( ' * ' ). eq ( ' project_id ' , p . id )) ) // ✅ After: Single consolidated call const projects = await supabase . from ( ' projects ' ) . select ( ` *, project_stats(*), team_members(count), recent_activity:activities(*, user:users(name, avatar_url)) ` ) . limit ( 10 ) Result: Dashboard load time dropped from 4.2s to 2.8s (33% improvement) Technique #2: Aggressive Caching with Smart Invalidation Most dashboard data doesn't change every second. We implemented a three-tier caching strategy: // Static data: Cache indefinitely const categories = await supabase . from ( ' categories ' ) . select ( ' * ' ) . cache ({ revalidate : false }) // Semi-static data: Cache with revalidation const userProjects = await supabase . from ( ' projects ' ) . select ( ' * ' ) . eq ( ' user_id ' , userId ) . cache ({ revali

Next.js + Supabase Performance Optimization: From Slow to Lightning Fast Last month, I optimized a Next.js + Supabase application that was frustratingly slow. Initial page load took 4.2 seconds, Lighthouse performance score was 62, and users were complaining. After applying these optimization techniques, we achieved: 70% faster load times (4.2s → 1.3s) Lighthouse score of 96 (up from 62) LCP improved by 65% (3.8s → 1.3s) 50% reduction in database queries Here's exactly how we did it. The Starting Point: Measuring Performance Before optimizing anything, we measured current performance using: Lighthouse (Chrome DevTools): Performance: 62 First Contentful Paint (FCP): 2.1s Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 3.8s Total Blocking Time (TBT): 420ms Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): 0.18 Real User Monitoring: Average page load: 4.2s Time to Interactive: 5.1s Database query time: 850ms average The Problems: Unoptimized database queries No caching strategy Large JavaScript bundles Unoptimized images Blocking render paths Too many client-side fetches Let's fix each one. 1. Database Query Optimization Problem: N+1 Queries The biggest performance killer was N+1 queries. We were fetching posts, then fetching the author for each post individually. // ❌ Bad: N+1 queries (1 + N database calls) async function getPosts () { const { data : posts } = await supabase . from ( ' posts ' ) . select ( ' id, title, author_id ' ) // Fetching author for each post = N queries const postsWithAuthors = await Promise . all ( posts . map ( async ( post ) => { const { data : author } = await supabase . from ( ' users ' ) . select ( ' name, avatar ' ) . eq ( ' id ' , post . author_id ) . single () return { ... post , author } }) ) return postsWithAuthors } Impact: 50 posts = 51 database queries (850ms total) Solution: Use Joins // ✅ Good: Single query with join (1 database call) async function getPosts () { const { data : posts } = await supabase . from ( ' posts ' ) . select ( ` id, title, author:users(nam

The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI's warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly expire on Friday for the first time.

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A few days ago I finished benchmarking something I've been building - a cache-aware, stable, histogram-based sorting algorithm I'm calling BusSort . The results surprised even me. At 100 million elements, it runs ~2x faster than Java's Dual-Pivot Quicksort on random data - while being stable . Dual-Pivot QS is not. The Problem With Quicksort at Scale Quicksort-based algorithms partition elements with random writes across the entire array. At large scales this causes cache thrashing - elements are being written to memory locations all over the place, constantly missing L1 and L2 cache. The larger the array, the worse it gets. The Core Idea Instead of scattering elements globally, BusSort processes data in L1 cache-sized chunks - 4096 integers (~16KB). For each chunk, it does 4 passes: PASS 1 - Scan left-to-right, compute bucket for each element, build a local histogram PASS 2 - Compute local prefix sums (bucket positions within the chunk) PASS 3 - Scatter into a local grouped buffer - because this buffer is L1-sized, all random writes stay in cache ✅ PASS 4 - Copy each bucket's portion to its correct global position With 128-way splitting , recursion depth stays at just ~4 levels even for 100M elements. Base case: Insertion Sort for ≤ 1024 elements. On the benchmark machine (i5-1135G7, 48KB L1 data cache): 4096 × 3 × 4 bytes = 49,152 bytes ≈ 48KB The three working arrays fit exactly in L1. Not a coincidence. Benchmark Results Tested against Arrays.sort(int[]) - Java's Dual-Pivot Quicksort . n = 100,000,000 | Java 17 | i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz Input Type BusSort Dual-Pivot QS Ratio Random 3991ms 8604ms ~2x Sorted 57ms 104ms ~2x Reverse 280ms 166ms 0.6x Nearly Sorted 2452ms 2789ms ~1.1x Duplicates 712ms 2242ms ~2.4x Few Duplicates 1295ms 3185ms ~2.3x All Same 51ms 32ms 0.6x Clustered 1419ms 2242ms ~1.6x Consistently faster on most input types. Stable. Zero comparison overhead. The two losses (Reverse, All Same) are where Dual-Pivot QS has structural advantages - run detecti