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New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook.

The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.

The outspoken longevity scientist David Sinclair has been predicting that one day, you’ll go to the doctor and get a prescription that will make you 10 years younger. Now MIT Technology Review has learned that he has plans to launch human tests of an oral “reprogramming” drug as part of a $101 million competition organized…

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium's fiercest supporters are current employees from the city's biggest tech giant, Amazon, who joined others to testify in […]

AI coding agents feel sharp when a project is small. They can scan a few files, understand the shape, and make useful changes. In that phase, the project still fits inside the agent’s short-term memory. The architecture is obvious. The dangerous files are nearby. The blast radius is small. But something changes when a project reaches MVP size. The agent still sounds confident, but it starts guessing. It finds a nearby file and assumes it is the right one. It trusts stale documentation. It misses hidden callers. It forgets architecture boundaries. It edits something that was not really part of the task. I kept running into that problem while building larger projects. Source-level guardrails help. A CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, or project instruction file can tell the agent how to behave. But those are still instructions. They are not facts. That is where the idea for CodeMeridian came from. What CodeMeridian is CodeMeridian is a local code knowledge graph for AI coding tools. It indexes a codebase into Neo4j and exposes that graph through MCP, so tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex-style agents, or other MCP-compatible clients can ask better questions before editing. The basic idea is: The assistant is the AI. CodeMeridian is the project map. It does not replace the coding assistant. It gives the assistant a structured way to ask about the codebase. Examples: What calls this method? What tests cover this area? What files are likely in scope for this feature? Is the graph stale before I trust it? How is this frontend component connected to backend code? Why a graph? Code is already a graph. Methods call methods. Classes implement interfaces. Tests cover production paths. Frontend components call API clients. API handlers touch services. Services use repositories. Docs mention symbols. Projects depend on other projects. A normal file search can find text. A graph can answer relationship questions. That matters because many AI coding mistakes are relationship m

Hey, welcome back. Last time we talked about missing parameterization in test scenarios. Today's mistake is similar in spirit. The test runs. The numbers look great. But what you've built isn't a load test. It's a hammer. ⚠️ The script works. The test is inhuman. Real users don't fire requests like a machine gun. They log in. They pause. They read. They click. They pause again. A typical user journey that takes 60 seconds in real life? Without think time, your script does it in just a few seconds. What this breaks Your throughput numbers are fiction. If users complete journeys 30x faster than reality, your RPS is inflated by 30x. You're not measuring capacity — you're measuring endurance under abuse. You stress the wrong things. Realistic concurrency surfaces real bottlenecks. A firehose of instant requests just overloads your connection pool and calls it a day. Production behaves nothing like your test. Because real users think. Your script didn't. 🛠 The fix Add randomized pauses between steps. Every major tool supports it: JMeter: Gaussian Random Timer, Uniform Random Timer etc. k6: sleep(Math.random() * 5 + 3) Gatling: pause(3.seconds, 8.seconds) Locust: time.sleep(random.uniform(3, 8)) 3–8 seconds between actions is a reasonable starting point. Check your analytics for what real sessions actually look like. Before your next run: Pauses between every major action? Randomized, not fixed? Does the timing feel human? If not — you're not testing load. You're testing collapse. Think time is one piece of the puzzle. But realistic load modeling goes deeper — it's about understanding how real users behave, how to translate that into a load profile, and how to design a test that actually reflects production. That's not something you patch with a timer. It's something you build from the ground up. If you want to understand the full system — from load model design to test execution to results that mean something — that's exactly what Performance Testing Fundamentals course

This project presents an offline voice agent that uses Indonesian law data from the Pasal ID API and is optimized for the Indonesian language. It is capable of understanding spoken Indonesian, generating responses in Indonesian, and speaking back in Indonesian without requiring cloud APIs. The system combines Whisper-based speech recognition, Ollama-hosted LLMs, and local text-to-speech models to provide a privacy-preserving conversational AI experience. You can access the project repository here: PasalVA . Usually, when using voice assistant applications, we need to rely on cloud-based services, which creates dependence on third-party providers. An internet connection becomes mandatory, which impacts usability in environments with limited or unreliable network access. In addition, cloud-based solutions require operational costs because requests must be sent to third-party servers. To address these challenges, this project aims to develop a fully local voice agent that is capable of functioning as a voice assistant by eliminating external service dependencies while supporting the Indonesian language. System Architecture The application flow follows a voice assistant architecture with additional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities to retrieve relevant Indonesian laws. User │ ├── Text Query │ │ │ ▼ │ Text Input │ └── Voice Query │ ▼ Microphone │ ▼ Speech-to-Text │ ▼ Text Processing │ ▼ Retrieve Related Laws │ ▼ LLM (Ollama) │ ▼ Response Text │ ├── Display in UI │ ▼ Text-to-Speech │ ▼ Speaker Output The application allows users to either type their query or use a microphone to ask a question. For voice input, the audio is first converted into text using a Speech-to-Text (STT) model. The resulting text, along with directly typed queries, is then processed to remove noise and normalize the input. After preprocessing, the query is converted into embeddings and used to retrieve relevant Indonesian laws from the local knowledge base. The retrieved legal contex

🏆 This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam 🎯 What I Built Turing's Frequency is a browser-based rhythm game where you decrypt encrypted radio signals by listening to musical patterns and recreating them. Each signal carries a message from a historical figure who changed the world — voices that were silenced, ignored, or forgotten, now restored through your rhythm. 🎮 👉 PLAY THE GAME LIVE 👈 📖 The Story The game is set in 1954 , on the desk of Alan Turing at the University of Manchester. A radio crackles with fragmented transmissions — encrypted messages carrying words of Pride , resistance , and identity . You are a student who has found Turing's last notebook, and with it, the key to decrypting these signals. 🌅 The connection to the June solstice: As you decrypt each signal, the screen literally brightens — from near-darkness to a flood of golden light. The solstice is the moment light and dark trade places, and this game makes that transition tangible. 🎬 Video Demo 👆 Watch the full gameplay loop: title → story → rhythm gameplay → decrypted messages → victory screen with solstice light effect. 🕹️ How to Play Key Action 1 2 3 4 Play notes ↑ ↓ ← → Arrow keys (alternative) Space / Enter Advance screens 🎧 Listen to the signal pattern 🎹 Repeat the notes in order 🔓 Decrypt the message 🌅 Restore the voice 💻 The Code The entire game is a single HTML file (~32KB) with zero external dependencies . No frameworks, no libraries, no asset files — just HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. mamoor123 / turings-frequency Turing's Frequency - A Rhythm of Light. June Solstice Game Jam 2026 entry. ⚡ Key Technical Decisions 🔊 Web Audio API for all sound: Every tone is synthesized in real-time using oscillators. The game uses a pentatonic scale (C4, E4, G4, C5) so every combination of notes sounds pleasant. No audio files needed. function playTone ( freq , duration = 0.3 , type = ' sine ' , volume = 0.3 ) { const osc = audioCtx . createOscillator (); const gain = audioCtx . create

A production-minded walkthrough with a live Next.js demo — JSON.parse() vs partial-json + Zod for real-time AI dashboards. canonical: https://gauravthorat-portfolio.vercel.app/blog/react-llm-stream-json-parser

Is it normal to use different styles of figures (colours, backgrounds, grids, etc.) when writing a paper? Personally, I think it looks unprofessional. submitted by /u/Few-Annual-157 [link] [留言]

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Introduction Modern cloud-native systems generate an enormous amount of telemetry data every second. Applications, containers, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, databases, and infrastructure components continuously emit metrics, logs, and traces to help engineering teams understand system behavior and troubleshoot issues. While observability has become essential for operating distributed systems reliably, it has also introduced a new challenge: managing the scale, cost, and quality of telemetry. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has emerged as the industry standard for collecting and processing observability data. It provides a vendor-neutral framework for instrumenting applications and exporting telemetry to different observability backends. However, simply adopting OpenTelemetry is not enough. Without proper optimization strategies, organizations often face excessive telemetry ingestion costs, noisy dashboards, high-cardinality metrics, trace overload, and inefficient debugging workflows. This article explores practical approaches for optimizing observability using OpenTelemetry. It focuses on metrics, logs, and traces individually while also discussing broader optimization strategies across the telemetry pipeline. Understanding the OpenTelemetry observability pipeline OpenTelemetry provides a unified framework for generating, collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data. At its core, the OTel ecosystem consists of SDKs, instrumentation libraries, collectors, processors, and exporters. Applications generate telemetry using OpenTelemetry SDKs or auto-instrumentation agents. This telemetry is then sent to the OpenTelemetry Collector, which acts as a centralized telemetry processing layer. The collector can receive telemetry from multiple sources, enrich it with metadata, apply filtering or sampling, and export it to one or more observability backends. The observability pipeline typically follows this flow: Application → OTel SDK → OTel Collector → Observability Backend The Open

In the hyper-competitive landscape of modern B2B outbound sales, speed-to-lead and outreach capacity are the ultimate drivers of pipeline volume . Yet, traditional Sales Development Representative (SDR) teams face a exhausting bottleneck: reaches and qualifications are limited by human bandwidth . A typical outbound SDR spends up to 80% of their day dialing numbers, navigating IVR phone trees, hitting voicemail, and dealing with incorrect contact records. When an inbound lead submits a form requesting a product demo, the average company takes 42 minutes to respond. By that time, prospect engagement has cooled by over 400%. To shatter this operational limit, modern revenue operations (RevOps) teams are transitioning from rigid auto-dialers and static voice bots to autonomous voice AI sales agents . By pairing the hyper-realistic conversational engine of ElevenLabs with the visual orchestration power of n8n , you can deploy a scalable, context-aware calling agent that handles inbound qualification and outbound follow-up calls in real-time. This technical blueprint provides an end-to-end guide to designing, securing, and deploying a production-grade Voice AI Sales Agent using ElevenLabs Conversational AI and n8n . We will cover how to manage conversation state, execute live database tool calls, secure webhook communication, route calls dynamically, and configure infrastructure to achieve sub-second response latency . The Architecture of an Enterprise Voice Agent Building a conversational voice agent requires a multi-layered system that operates in near real-time. When a human speaks over a telephony network, their voice must be digitized, transcribed, processed by a large language model (LLM), synthesized back into audio, and sent back down the line—all within a fraction of a second. To ensure stability, scalability, and absolute separation of concerns, our architecture decouples the telephony and voice generation layer from the logic and database integration layer . [

Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, and governance” that developers need for production agents, rather than just new model endpoints. By Matt Saunders

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This article was originally published on aicoderscope.com TL;DR : Gemini 3.5 Flash went GA on May 19, 2026 and costs 50% less than Claude Sonnet 4.6 on input tokens ($1.50 vs $3.00/M). It generates code at ~284 tokens per second — roughly 4.7× faster than Sonnet 4.6. Cursor already lists it natively; Cline needs one extra config step. The trap: Flash's default thinking level is "medium," which is slower and pricier than "low," the setting Google specifically tuned for coding and tool-use loops. Gemini 3.5 Flash Claude Sonnet 4.6 DeepSeek V4-Flash Best for Fast agent loops, context-heavy analysis Complex refactors, instruction fidelity Cost-capped high-volume tasks Input / Output per 1M tokens $1.50 / $9.00 $3.00 / $15.00 $0.14 / $0.28 Context window 1M tokens 200K tokens 1M tokens Terminal-Bench 2.1 76.2% — — Output speed ~284 t/s ~60 t/s — Max output per request 65,536 tokens 64K tokens 64K tokens The catch Output at $9/M erodes savings on code-gen 15× pricier output than Flash No vision, MIT-licensed Honest take : Use Gemini 3.5 Flash with Cline for multi-step agent tasks where round-trip latency compounds and context windows run large. Stay on Claude Sonnet 4.6 when you need a hard refactor to land perfectly on the first try — Sonnet's 79.6% SWE-bench Verified score still leads Flash's on correctness benchmarks. The cost math that does and doesn't work Gemini 3.5 Flash charges $1.50 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens. Against Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $3.00/$15.00, the input side is a genuine 2× saving. The output side is almost the same story: $9 vs $15 is 40% cheaper per generated token. Run the numbers on a typical Cline coding session: 8 tool calls, reading 12 files (roughly 20,000 context tokens), generating 500 lines of code output (~7,000 output tokens). Sonnet 4.6: (20K × $3 + 7K × $15) / 1,000,000 = $0.165/session Gemini 3.5 Flash: (20K × $1.50 + 7K × $9) / 1,000,000 = $0.093/session That's 44% cheaper per session. At 50 sessions a m

This article was originally published on aicoderscope.com TL;DR : Cursor Tab (the inline ghost-text autocomplete) breaks in 8 distinct ways. Roughly 70% of cases are fixed in under a minute by checking three things: the toggle in Settings, your extension list for Copilot, and your usage quota. The remaining 30% need a corporate proxy fix or a toggle-restart cycle. After this guide you will: Know which of the 8 root causes matches your specific symptom Have the exact settings path and command for each fix Understand the 2,000-completion monthly cap on the Hobby plan that silently kills suggestions at month-end Honest take : Every "Cursor Tab is broken" thread in 2026 falls into one of these eight buckets. Go through the three-step quick check first — most readers fix it there. The 60-second triage: three checks before anything else Open Cursor and verify these in order. They resolve 70% of cases. 1. Is Cursor Tab actually enabled? Press Ctrl+Shift+J (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+J (Mac) to open Cursor Settings, then go to Features > Cursor Tab . The toggle should be on. If it's off — and this happens more than it should after updates — flip it, restart Cursor, done. You can also check from the status bar at the bottom right of the editor. A small "Tab" indicator shows whether inline completions are active. If it shows disabled, click it to re-enable. 2. Have you hit the free quota? On the Hobby plan, Cursor gives you 2,000 tab completions per month . During active coding at a normal acceptance rate, you can burn through 50–100 per hour. If you're late in the billing cycle, open Settings > Usage & Limits and check the completions counter. Completions reset on your account anniversary date, not the calendar month. When you hit 2,000/2,000, tab completion stops silently — no error, no banner, just nothing appearing. Upgrade to Pro ($20/mo) or wait for the reset. 3. Is GitHub Copilot or Tabnine installed? If you migrated from VS Code with extensions intact, you may have G

The first post went over some of its capabilities. Over the past week Edict went v1.0, adding cursors for reading projections after command dispatch (to close some eventual-consistency gaps), a new type of projection that holds state inside the Orleans grain directly instead of a table, saga timeouts, schedules, an improved skills package and MCP server that ships with Edict, and more. Edict has now grown to over 75,000 lines of code and more than 1000 tests, and contains several deep mechanisms that have been fixed, broken, and fixed again. It is well past the point where I can hold all of Edict in my head. This post is about working with AI on large codebases, which I expect to be the first problem most software engineers have to solve. The context problem Years ago I was talking to a PhD candidate whose area of research was Natural Language Processing (NLP). He explained to me that one of the most difficult NLP problems was context. If a colleague says they need to pop out to pick their kids up from school, a scene can form in your head: one with a school, the layout of the road, people waiting, walking, driving, the environs. You may never have seen the school your colleague mentioned, but you can form a rich scene from your accumulated experience and use it to drive the rest of the conversation with a shared understanding. LLMs ingeniously dodge this entire issue by making it your problem. Just a word-probability machine Strip away the chat window and a Large Language Model (LLM) is doing one thing: predicting the next token. Give it a run of text and it returns a probability distribution over what comes next, samples one, appends it, and repeats. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic then beat it into shape using techniques like supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, which tune those probabilities in meaningful ways. That is why Claude is always telling me "Good framing" or "You've spotted...". It even called me "Bold" on one occasion. The probabilit