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Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

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Elon Musk's gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle's lack of traditional features - many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab "to examine the process and […]

A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

Rank tracking tools love to notify you the instant a number changes. We deliberately don't — our drop alert only fires once an app falls 10 spots or more between two measurements. The tempting, wrong version A 1-spot threshold sounds like the more attentive product. In practice it turns every notification channel into noise: App Store search rank has real day-to-day jitter that has nothing to do with anything you did — a competitor's own rank shifting, a re-index, sampling timing. Alert on every 1-spot move and within a week the alert is something people mute, which defeats the entire point of having one. Why 10, specifically 10 spots is large enough to almost never be pure noise and small enough to still catch a real problem while it's still cheap to fix — a keyword field edit, a screenshot swap, a review-response push. Wait for a 30-spot collapse before alerting and you've waited past the point where the fix is simple. The threshold is symmetric: the same 10-spot rule fires on a jump upward, so a keyword field change you made on purpose gets confirmed by the same mechanism that would have warned you if it went the other way. The trade-off we're making explicit This means small real movements — 3 spots, 5 spots — genuinely don't page anyone. That's intentional, not a limitation we're hiding: an alert system tuned to catch everything catches nothing anyone still trusts by week three. A threshold set high enough that every alert is worth opening is worth more than a lower one that trains you to ignore your own notifications. If you're building anything similar — uptime, price, rank, any noisy time series — the question worth asking isn't "how sensitive can I make this," it's "what's the smallest move that's still cheaper to catch early than to catch late." That number is rarely 1. We build Storelift , where this threshold governs both the in-app alert and the rank-drop email.

The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing machine with a smaller, slimmer Roomba. The two floor cleaners can move around your home together, with the main unit mopping and sweeping larger floor areas and the smaller unit […]

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

Onur Satici explains how Vortex, an open-source columnar file format under the Linux Foundation, revolutionizes high-throughput data loading. He details how cascading lightweight encodings, layout-based segment pruning, and zero-copy memory pipelines eliminate CPU/NVMe bottlenecks to stream S3 data straight to GPUs at speeds up to 60 Gbps without requiring upfront data reprocessing. By Onur Satici

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best. By InfoQ

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.

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Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a […]

You have an orders topic on a Kafka cluster, its values encoded with Avro against a schema in the Schema Registry . You want the orders worth more than fifty euros on a topic of their own, and you have decided to do it with Kafka Streams — a JVM library, your code, your deployment. The schema has five fields: { "type" : "record" , "name" : "Order" , "namespace" : "com.alginte.demo" , "fields" : [ { "name" : "orderId" , "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "customerId" , "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "item" , "type" : "string" }, { "name" : "quantity" , "type" : "int" }, { "name" : "priceEur" , "type" : "double" }]} You want one line of logic over them: quantity * priceEur > 50 . Here is everything standing between that line and a topic of big orders. Seven steps The route Confluent's own examples take, and many projects with them: Get the schema out of the registry and into your repository as an .avsc — or, if your team owns the schema in the repository and publishes it to the registry, the other way round. Whichever copy you call the source, there are now two that can disagree. Add the code generator to your build. Configure it — source and output directories, and the string type. Build , producing Order.java under target/generated-sources . Write the topology against the generated class. Package the application, with the schema, the class and the serde. Deploy it somewhere that runs a JVM. Steps 2 and 3 are this, once — in Maven, though Gradle's equivalent has the same shape: <plugin> <groupId> org.apache.avro </groupId> <artifactId> avro-maven-plugin </artifactId> <version> 1.12.1 </version> <executions><execution> <phase> generate-sources </phase> <goals><goal> schema </goal></goals> <configuration> <sourceDirectory> ${project.basedir}/src/main/avro </sourceDirectory> <!-- without this, string fields generate as CharSequence, not String; Confluent's own examples set it for the same reason --> <stringType> String </stringType> </configuration> </execution></executio

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

AI engineering sounds fancy. New terms are everywhere: agentic development, AI-native engineering, spec-driven development, and now AI harness engineering. Underneath all the terminology, though, something genuinely useful is happening. AI can now help with requirements, challenge a PRD, explore UX ideas, reason about architecture, create implementation plans, write code and validate the result. The obvious question is what AI can do. The more interesting question is whether the way we build software is ready for it. The workflow is changing A workflow we've been exploring breaks development into five stages: requirements, refinement, planning, build and validation . The stages themselves aren't new, but AI can now participate in each one. It can take existing product inputs, help clarify the problem, question assumptions, identify gaps in a PRD and then turn a well-defined requirement into a plan and eventually implementation tasks. This puts more emphasis on the quality of the requirements. A human involved in a project might understand what “improve the experience” means because they've had several conversations about it. An agent doesn't have that shared history. It needs the problem, scope, constraints, edge cases and expected outcome to be explicit. That doesn't mean writing enormous specifications; it means using AI to help make the requirements precise before we start building. AI can actually be a useful, slightly annoying reviewer here, asking what happens when something fails, whether a requirement is testable, whether two parts of the document contradict each other and what we haven't considered yet. It can also help compare different versions of a PRD or have one model review another's output, making gaps easier to spot. The important part is that AI is helping us uncover ambiguity, not making the decisions for us. Maybe coding isn't the bottleneck This becomes more interesting when we look at where teams actually spend their time. Complex work can invo

I've been a die-hard Computer Science fan for as long as I can remember. Right after my 10th standard, I picked up C — that was four years ago. Around the same time, GitHub pulled me in before I even understood what was happening there. I couldn't parse a single line of what people were building, but I could tell something big was going on. That curiosity eventually pulled me into web development, and from there, into almost every corner of tech over the next few years — AI included. Diploma: The Real Lessons Weren't in the Syllabus I just finished a 3-year Diploma in Computer Engineering. Looking back, the biggest lessons weren't in the coursework. They were in hallway conversations — friends and teachers talking about where technology and the market are headed, instead of the usual teenage small talk. Watching how an organization actually runs, what really happens day to day — that taught me more than most subjects did. A Habit I Used to See as a Flaw Here's a pattern about how I work: everything I start, I start from zero — and I don't always go deep. I finish with the basics, then move on. For a long time I saw that as a bad habit. Three years and almost every major technology later, I've changed my mind — it was the fastest way to find out that "a little bit of everything" isn't who I am. What I actually need is to dig into a system until I find the reason it works. Until I do, I can't let it go. Where That Instinct Pointed Me: Cybersecurity That same need to dig eventually pointed me toward something equal parts fun and dangerous — cybersecurity. I'm about three months into this path now, and I'm moving slowly. Not because it's too hard, but because I won't move to the next topic until every dot is connected. Loose ends don't let me sleep. What I've Learned So Far This is still the floor, not the ceiling, but it's real and hands-on: Web authentication attacks — 2FA bypass, broken password-reset logic, username enumeration through timing differences, account lo

I built the pipeline that publishes this site's content in versioned code instead of n8n. Not a philosophical stance against no-code tools, a practical call, and one specific bug is why I still think it was the right one. Why code, not a canvas Four reasons drove it, in order of how much they actually mattered: Review parity. Every change to how a post gets approved or published goes through the same PR review as the rest of the site. A workflow-canvas change doesn't get that by default. Headless operation. Claude Code drives the queue directly, no GUI dashboard sitting between the agent and the task. Existing infrastructure. A Telegram bot already handled approvals; there was no gap a workflow tool needed to fill. One fewer service. Every extra tool in the stack is something else to patch and keep secure. Skipping it was the cheap option, not just the principled one. The bug that proved it On July 20, 2026, a scheduled post silently failed. The Buffer API adapter treated an error response as a normal one, never checked the status, so the X post never actually went out while the pipeline marked it published. Nothing threw, nothing alerted, the queue just quietly lied about what had shipped. I found it the way you'd expect: read buffer.py , saw exactly where the status check was missing, fixed one line. Cheap once you can see it. That's the part I can't picture happening the same way in a workflow canvas. I genuinely don't have a mental model for debugging that failure mode there, a canvas doesn't hand you the same thing a stack trace and git blame hand you in code. You'd be reading node configuration and hoping the tool's own logging caught the edge case, instead of reading the exact line that skipped a check. What this is actually about It isn't code versus no-code as a philosophy. It's about legibility when automation is wrong in a way that doesn't throw an error. A silent-fail bug is the worst kind, because nothing tells you to go look. The only thing that saved

RugOne's newest ruggedized phone has a waterproof action cam that you can remove.