Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
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Merriam-Webster names ‘slop’ the word of the year
AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught…
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I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements…
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I killed a worker mid-payment to test “exactly-once” execution
Distributed systems often claim “exactly-once” execution. In practice, this is usually implemented as at-least-once delivery + retries + idempotency keys….
Why Twilio Segment Moved from Microservices Back to a Monolith
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World launches its ‘super app,’ including crypto pay and encrypted chat features
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bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
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OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist
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X deactivates European Commission’s ad account after the company was fined €120M
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Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…
Marketing in 2026
The Boardroom Paradox of 2026 Imagine it’s Tuesday morning, late 2026. Elena, a CMO, sits before her board. The room…