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When John Kurz left Alaska’s North Slope in 2009, he was staring at a grim future for what had once been the country’s premiere oil field. Crude production had plummeted to 567,000 barrels per day, barely more than a quarter of the roughly 2 million barrels pumped daily at the field’s peak two decades earlier. The decline stoked concerns that the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, built to carry the s…

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Below are the servers with the new mitigation applied. - au-mel-wg-402 - au-syd-wg-001 - ca-mtr-wg-302 - de-fra-wg-103 - fi-hel-wg-201 - fr-par-wg-101 - ie-dub-wg-101 - no-osl-wg-101 - se-sto-wg-208 - us-dal-wg-701 - us-lax-wg-002 - us-nyc-wg-601 - us-slc-wg-303 Below are the servers with the new mitigation applied.

It's May 2026 and the layoffs aren't coming. They're here. Meta cut 8,000 this month, roughly 10% of the company, and redirected 7,000 to AI teams. Cloudflare cut 1,100, the first mass layoff in its 16-year history. Tech layoffs have passed 100,000 for the year. The four hyperscalers are planning $725B in AI capex in 2026, up 77% year-over-year. The "they just overhired during COVID and are self …

Backed by infrastructure for reaching people at scale. Build and deploy AI on iMessage to reach people at scale while maintaining quality, trust, and personalized interaction. Chert iMessage Hey! Is the 2BR on Pine still open? Looking for a Sept 1 move-in. Yes, still available. Want to come tour it? Definitely. Saturday morning works for me. Got you on the calendar. Sat 10am — sound good? Pine St…

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The Cost of Safetyism What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard. When I was 11 and 12, I’d ride my bike to meet friends at the local sandlot baseball field 1.5 miles away, or to a friends house to go play pickup football in the street. When I was 14, I’d go on 10+ mile runs, exploring every bit of road, sidewalk, and path I could find. Exploration was a rite of passage. Today…

Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to varying extents, and a lot of this isn't for extra features, but just to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and libraries. A lot of codebases will try somewhat to support various environments, mostl…

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure …

Quick Answer: The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule update introduces significant changes including mandatory encryption of ePHI at rest and in transit (removing the “addressable” designation), required multi-factor authentication for all systems accessing ePHI, 72-hour incident reporting requirements, annual penetration testing, and enhanced business associate oversight obligations. These changes, propos…

“If you don’t learn how to use AI, you’re going to be left behind.” So leave me behind. I learned to build Android applications in 2014. I was in college taking a Java programming class, when a classmate shared a free online course to learn Android development. The goal was short: build a todo list app with local storage. When I completed the minimum requirements, I unplugged my phone from my lap…

I manage teams without a single call What I dislike most is short calls. When someone tells me, “I have a slot tomorrow at 11:30, let’s do a 10-minute call”. That’s the worst thing possible. For the other person, it’s just another call, one of dozens they have that day. But for me, it becomes the event my whole day starts to revolve around. I have to break out of my flow, put my tasks on hold, ta…

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ___________________________ The res novae of our time Two biblical images Building for the common good Remaining human CHAPTER ONE A DYNAMIC APPROACH FAITHFUL TO THE GOSPEL A Church journeying through human history The wisdom of the word of God in dialogue wit…