2026-07-21

Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

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1 hour ago

Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star

Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star

We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren...

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1 hour ago

Don’t Let Reply Speed Distort Hiring Decisions

When you evaluate job candidates, response speed may influence your judgment more than you realize; a quick reply can make someone seem more competent, warm, and dependable, even when another...

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2 hours ago

What time does Splatoon Raiders release in your time zone?

What time does Splatoon Raiders release in your time zone?

The Splatoon Raiders release time is just around the corner, and you can preload Splatoon Raiders if you pre-order it before launch

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2 hours ago

A new Elder Scrolls is still years away, but this fun Arthurian take on the formula is 50% off right now

A new Elder Scrolls is still years away, but this fun Arthurian take on the formula is 50% off right now

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a very competent Bethesda RPG, not made by Bethesda.

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2 hours ago

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

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3 hours ago

The Model Knows Your Project, Not You.

I came across this study on X and tested it myself; the findings align with the results: FSRS is more recognizable than Jarrett Ye among LLMs. Out of 37 models,...

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4 hours ago

Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space

Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space

Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds –...

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4 hours ago

Ridley Scott's $630 million sci-Fi masterpiece makes a comeback on streaming for 1 very obvious reason

Ridley Scott's $630 million sci-Fi masterpiece makes a comeback on streaming for 1 very obvious reason

Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey is already a huge success, which has led to The Martian, which also stars Matt Damon to spike on Prime Video

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6 hours ago

China Is Building Toward Nine Aircraft Carriers. America Has Eleven — and Can’t Replace Them Fast Enough

China Is Building Toward Nine Aircraft Carriers. America Has Eleven — and Can’t Replace Them Fast Enough

China is no longer experimenting with aircraft carriers. With Fujian now in service and more carriers expected, Beijing is building the foundation for a much larger blue-water navy. The real...

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7 hours ago

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy. “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”

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7 hours ago

[Sponsor] WorkOS MCP: Manage Your Auth Platform From Any AI Agent

Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the...

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7 hours ago

Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator

Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator

Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name...

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7 hours ago

China’s Best Aircraft Carrier-Based Fighter Exists Only Because of One Unfinished Jet That Russia Left Behind in Ukraine

China’s Best Aircraft Carrier-Based Fighter Exists Only Because of One Unfinished Jet That Russia Left Behind in Ukraine

China's J-15 'Flying Shark' — the fighter that made its carriers viable — exists because Beijing bought an unfinished Su-33 prototype left in Ukraine after the USSR collapsed, Brandon Weichert...

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8 hours ago

SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental

SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental

It's not looking good. The post SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental appeared first on Futurism.

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8 hours ago

Russia Has Taught Its Missiles to Swerve Past Ukraine’s Best Defenses in Their Final Seconds — and They’re Getting Through

Russia Has Taught Its Missiles to Swerve Past Ukraine’s Best Defenses in Their Final Seconds — and They’re Getting Through

Russia has modified its ballistic missiles to dive and maneuver in the terminal phase, evading Ukraine's interceptors, Reuben Johnson reports — a shift one Ukrainian official calls a 'game-changer.' After...

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8 hours ago

New DC fighting game announced, but it's not Injustice 3

New DC fighting game announced, but it's not Injustice 3

DC announced a new fighting game on Monday. It's not Injustice 3, but DCKO — which some people are already calling "Dicko"

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8 hours ago

The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup creator on why Anthropic holds and OpenAI cracked, and how to structure yours

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8 hours ago

Frontier AI lab misalignment risk, lessons from trading post-2008

In this post, I propose adapting banking risk management frameworks (specifically capital adequacy requirements like Basel III) to frontier AI labs. By forcing them to hold capital reserved proportionate to...

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8 hours ago

Does routine compression undo LLM unlearning? A short project

I completed this project over 2 weeks as part of a BlueDot Project cohort. It was my first solo project and I learned a lot! Feedback is super welcome :)Code...

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8 hours ago

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