Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s the longest of the week, the Saturday edition. Read on for all the answers. … Read More “Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for April 11” »
The closing of the Strait of Hormuz stranded tankers from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which together provide 20 percent of global LNG. Asia has been especially hard hit because it imports 80 percent to 90 percent of the supply from the Persian Gulf. The reopening of the strait will not restore all of … Read More “Shock from Iran war has Trump’s vision for US energy dominance flailing” »
Most APIs that ship to production have some security in place. Most of the time, HTTPS is enabled, an API key is required, and maybe there’s even a quick code review before deployment. By most measures, the box is checked. However, a checked box and a secure API are not the same thing. A common … Read More “How to Implement API Security” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Military strikes take down cloud services for the first time. Drone attacks in Bahrain and the UAE took AWS datacenters partially or fully offline … Read More “AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first” »
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime’s state media was flooding the zone with video after video of what was happening on the ground: Explosions over Tehran. Smoke billowing in the sky. … Read More “How Iran out-shitposted the White House” »
Sorry to bother you on Saturday. Thought this was important to share. The first thing you learn about a loom is that it’s easy to break. The shuttle runs along a track that warps with humidity. The heddles hang from cords that fray. The reed is a row of thin metal strips, bent by hand, … Read More “AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It” »
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Facebook uses GPT, Claude, and Llama to write its own kernels:…LLM-driven infrastructure optimization at the hyperscale…Facebook researchers have published details on KernelEvolve, a software system which uses AI to … Read More “AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations” »
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. “Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?” Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn’t faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted … Read More “My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative” »
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ case against prediction market Kalshi appears to have hit a snag. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has won a temporary restraining order preventing the state from pursuing its criminal case against Kalshi (whose CEO Tarek Mansour is pictured above). “Arizona’s decision to weaponize state criminal law … Read More “Kalshi wins temporary pause in Arizona criminal case” »
Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions’ launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics — not great for a game that’s only … Read More “Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start” »
