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Many common products, including plastics and detergents, rely on chemical reactions that depend on catalysts made from precious metals such as platinum. These metals are effective but costly and limited in supply. For years, scientists have been searching for alternatives that are cheaper and more sustainable. One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels. Despite its potential, tungsten carbide has not been easy to use as a catalyst. Its chemical behavior can be unpredictable, which has restricted its broader adoption. Researchers led by Marc Porosoff, an associate professor in…

Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in using it for implementing new features Developers using it for 59% of their work and getting 50% productivity increase 14% of developers are “power users” reporting much greater gains Claude helps developers to work outside their core area Concerns about changes to the profession, career evolution, and social dynamics  ❄                ❄                ❄                ❄                ❄ Much of the discussion about using LLMs for software development lacks details on workflow. Rather than just hear people gush about how wonderful it…

Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn have long been the core of the JavaScript ecosystem, enabling developers to install, update, and share code with ease. But as projects grow larger and the ecosystem more complex, this older infrastructure is beginning to show its limits with performance bottlenecks, dependency conflicts, and growing concerns around supply chain security. Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are veterans of this ecosystem. Both spent years maintaining the npm CLI and helping guide the Node.js project, where they saw…

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Global law firm DLA Piper has today published the eighth edition of its annual GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey, revealing that GDPR enforcement across Europe remained consistently high throughout 2025, with regulators issuing fines totalling approximately €1.2 billion, in line with the previous year. While this represents no year-on-year increase in the total value of fines imposed, it does not signal a slowdown in enforcement. Instead, it reflects a sustained and deliberate level of regulatory activity, underlining the continued willingness of European data protection authorities to impose substantial monetary penalties despite ongoing criticism of the EU’s regulatory approach. Ireland…

A new chapter for Windows 365 In 2021, Microsoft introduced Windows 365, reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC—a complete, secure, personalized Windows experience to any device, anywhere. This innovation gave organizations the flexibility to scale computing resources instantly, reduce IT complexity and strengthen security—all while empowering employees to work from virtually anywhere. In just four years, Windows 365 has become Microsoft’s flagship software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for delivering secure, managed, enterprise-grade computing globally, helping businesses lower costs, simplify management and accelerate productivity. And now, Windows 365 is enabling another milestone in computing: the recently announced Windows 365…

Modern enterprises face significant infrastructure challenges as large language models (LLMs) require processing and moving massive volumes of data for both training and inference. With even the most advanced processors limited by the capabilities of their supporting infrastructure, the need for robust, high-bandwidth networking has become imperative. For organizations aiming to utilize high-performance AI workloads efficiently, a scalable, low-latency network backbone is crucial to maximizing accelerator utilization and minimizing costly, idle resources. Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches for AI/ML workloads Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches deliver the high-radix, low-latency switching fabric that AI/ML workloads demand. For Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI…

Days after admins began reporting that their fully patched firewalls are being hacked, Fortinet confirmed it’s working to fully address a critical FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability that should have already been patched since early December. This comes after a wave of reports from Fortinet customers about threat actors exploiting a patch bypass for the CVE-2025-59718 vulnerability to compromise fully patched firewalls. Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said on Wednesday that the campaign began on January 15, with attackers creating accounts with VPN access and stealing firewall configurations within seconds, in what appear to be automated attacks. It also added that…

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis.​Thanks to an increased push for transparency in corporate climate actions, customers and regulators alike have caught on to a chronic pattern of promises being made and forgotten. Key climate standard-setters stepped up in 2025 by pushing a shift from ambition to accountability. Notably, SBTI’s significant proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard would improve progress reporting and even add a cost-per-tonne mechanism to create responsibility for ongoing emissions. As we enter this new chapter, more companies will want to offer proof of follow-through in…

May 16, 2023 I was asked by my wife to describe what I do so that she can send it to a friend who is apparently finding people for companies in Japan. It’s no secret that I have a love affair with GPT4. So I sat down and gave GPT as much context as I could, adding a few more bits and pieces as I thought about them. Here’s the first version. Quite good, I think, couldn’t have written it better myself. About Me: Experience: Over 13 years of experience in iOS and Mac development. Specialization: Swift, SwiftUI, AI Integration…