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In a departure that took almost as long as Siri needs to find some obscure music requests, Apple has announced a new vice president of AI: Amar Subramanya, who will replace former AI chief John Giannandrea. Subramanya will report directly to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering. Giannandrea will “transition to an advisory role” pending planned retirement next year. Certain roles previously occupied by Giannandrea will be shifted to Apple COO Sabih Khan and Senior Vice President for Services Eddy Cue. Subramanya will lead Apple Intelligence and Siri’s next chapters. “We are thankful for the role John played in…

Podcasts Trent Edwards used to climb telephone poles. Now he’s the CEO of TAK Broadband, bringing with him an appreciation for network builders and the often-dangerous work they perform. By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Trent Edwards, the CEO of an end-to-end fiber network construction firm called TAK Broadband, is worried about the future of industry’s workforce. “We don’t do a good job of making sure that the younger generation understands the opportunity within construction,” he said. According to Edwards, many hold assumptions that construction work is unpleasant because it requires working outside in many different conditions. “And the people that do…

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Don’t get me wrong, I’m up all night using these tools.But I also sense we’re heading for an expensive hangover. The other day, a colleague told me about a new proposal to route a million documents a day through a system that identifies and removes Social Security numbers.I joked that this was going to be a “million-dollar regular expression.”Run the math on the “naïve” implementation with full GPT-5 and it’s eye-watering: A million messages a day at ~50K characters each works out to around 12.5…

This post shows how Amazon EMR 7.12 can make your Apache Spark and Iceberg workloads up to 4.5x faster performance. The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark provides a high-performance runtime environment with full API compatibility with open source Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg. Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS, Amazon EMR on AWS Outposts and AWS Glue use the optimized runtimes. Our benchmarks show Amazon EMR 7.12 runs TPC-DS 3 TB workloads 4.5x faster than open source Spark 3.5.6 with Iceberg 1.10.0. Performance improvements include optimizations for metadata caching, parallel I/O, adaptive query…

At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself, but the journey that got us here. I’ve been wanting to dive deeper into this story, to share not just the what, but the how and why behind DSQL’s development. Then, a few weeks ago, at our internal developer conference — DevCon — I watched a talk from two of our senior principal engineers (PEs) on building DSQL (a project that started 100% in JVM and finished 100% Rust). After…

The holiday season brings great deals, busy schedules, and… a spike in online scams. Cybercriminals know shoppers are rushing, distracted, and eager to grab limited-time offers. That makes November and December the perfect time for them to launch phishing campaigns, set up fake websites, and impersonate delivery companies. The good news? With a few simple habits, you can dramatically reduce your risk of playing victim this holiday season. Below are five practical, easy-to-follow ways to protect yourself, including expert tips from Matt Chmel, head of Cyber, North America at Aon. 1. Pause before you buy Scammers count on consumers making…

This year was a busy one for updates to four widely used corporate climate target-setting and carbon-accounting frameworks.  Next year will be even busier, as companies grapple with shifting geopolitics, review progress against their existing near-term emissions reduction commitments and look beyond 2030 to set new ones. Here’s a cheat sheet for what to expect next from B Lab Global, the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).  Certified B Corporation Governing organization: B Lab Global What’s new: The seventh edition of the standard used by roughly 9,500 companies carrying…

This section tells you a few things you need to know before you get started, such as what you’ll need for hardware and software, where to find the project files for this book, and more. This section dives into the inner workings of Git, what particular Git operations actually do, and will walk you through some interesting problem-solving scenarios when Git gets cranky. You’ll build up some mental models to understand what’s going on when Git complains about things to help you solve similar issues on your own in the future. If you’ve been using Git for a while, you…

When Sony designed the original PlayStation back in the ‘90s, they didn’t have any reason to make it any smaller than it was. As such, its motherboard was larger than it absolutely had to be. On top of that, technology has progressed a lot over the past three decades, which let Thedrew create what is likely the world’s smallest PlayStation motherboard.This kind of thing would be fairly trivial to achieve with a modern SoC (system-on-chip) and emulation. It could also be done with an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) by someone with the relevant expertise. But Thedrew wanted to use real…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one, with quite a mix of categories. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for…