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Martin Kleppmann, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and author of the best-selling O’Reilly book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, talks to host Adi Narayan about local-first collaboration software. They discuss what the term means, how it leads to simpler application architectures compared to the cloud-first model, and the benefits to developers and users from keeping all of their data on their own devices. Martin goes into detail about how applications can synchronize data with and without a server, as well as conflict-resolution techniques, and the open-source library Automerge, which implements CRDTs and which developers can use out-of-the-box. He also clarifies…

Summary created by Smart Answers AIIn summary:Warner Bros. announced “Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest” at CinemaCon, focusing on the Targaryen conquest of Westeros 300 years before the original series.Tech Advisor estimates the earliest release date as early 2028, with no script currently existing and extensive production time required.The film will feature Aegon I Targaryen and his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys conquering six kingdoms with iconic dragons like Balerion and Vhagar. Back in 2024, Warner Bros. confirmed it was planning a film set in George R. R. Martin’s universe. For months, fans speculated about the film’s plot – and finally, during…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, NASA revealed an even grander space travel plan. By the end of 2028, the agency aims to fly a nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars. A successful mission would herald a new era in spaceflight—and might just give the US the edge in the race against China. But the project remains shrouded in mystery. …

Comcast has quietly made some changes to its Xfinity Mobile plans, including revised data policies for all customers on unlimited plans and the removal of by-the-Gig packages for new customers. Comcast said it has removed the “data threshold” it had applied to its primary Unlimited plan, essentially matching what it offers to customers on the Premium Unlimited plan launched about a year ago. Previously, customers on the Unlimited plan would see their speeds reduced after they consumed 30 Gigabytes or more of mobile data in a given month.Comcast confirmed that the change took effect on April 8 and that the Xfinity…

Modern conversational AI agents can typically handle complex, multi-turn tasks like asking clarifying questions and proactively assisting users. However, they frequently struggle with long interactions, often forgetting constraints or generating irrelevant responses. Improving these systems requires continuous training and feedback, but relying on the “gold standard” of live human testing is prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, and notoriously difficult to scale.As a scalable alternative, the AI research community has increasingly turned to user simulators — LLM-powered agents explicitly instructed to roleplay as human users. However, modern LLM-based simulators can still suffer from a significant realism gap, exhibiting atypical levels of patience or…

Enterprise data is rarely useful in a silo. Answering questions like, “Which of our products have had declining sales over the past three months, and what potentially related issues are brought up in customer reviews on various seller sites?” requires reasoning across a mix of structured and unstructured data sources, including data lakes, review data, and product information management systems. In this blog, we demonstrate how Databricks Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent (SA) can help with these complex, realistic tasks through multi-step reasoning grounded in a hybrid of structured and unstructured data. Figure 1: Comparison between the quality of SoTA baseline…

Once models are downloaded, there’s no programmatic interface to how they’re managed — at least, not yet. On Google Chrome there’s a local URL, chrome://on-device-internals/, that shows which models have been loaded and provides statistics about them. You can use this page to remove models manually or inspect their stats for the sake of debugging, but the JavaScript APIs don’t expose any such functionality. When you start the inference process, there may be a noticeable delay between the time the summarization starts and the appearance of the first token. Right now there’s no way for the API to give us…

Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Adobe rushed an emergency patch for a critical flaw under active attack. Discovered by security researcher and EXPMON founder Haifei Li, the high-severity vulnerability has been exploited in the wild since at least December 2025, according to multiple reports. It has been assigned a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10 and tracked as CVE-2026-34621. The exploit carries such gravitas that Adobe had to release an emergency patch for all affected products and urged users to update them immediately, as no workaround is available. How malicious PDFs bypassed Adobe’s sandbox Bugs in software may…

Mercury released into the oceans affects marine environments worldwide. Traditionally, its distribution and quantity have been estimated using marine biogeochemical simulation models. A recent international study led by Japanese researchers analyzed blood mercury concentrations in more than 11,215 seabirds from 108 species, of which 659 were newly collected samples and over 10,556 were from previous studies. This is the first biologically based estimate of oceanic mercury distribution, say the researchers. The study found that mercury levels in seabirds vary according to prey trophic level, bird body weight, and foraging depth. The findings were published in Science and the Total Environment.…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEUSA, March 5, 2026 IoT Tech Expo North America 2026 Comes to San Jose as IoT, Edge AI, and Connected Systems Scale Across Industry  The event will bring together IoT leaders, AI engineers, connectivity specialists, and enterprise technology decision-makers to examine how connected devices, edge intelligence, and industrial IoT are reshaping modern infrastructure and operations. IoT Tech Expo North America will take place on May 18-19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together IoT architects, embedded engineers, connectivity providers, product leaders, and enterprise innovators for two days of technical discussion and industry collaboration. As organizations…