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Buying tickets to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is kind of like having a megawealthy friend talk to you about the hobbies that they enjoy.Do you fence? Do you like cricket? Badminton’s fun, right? Like a diabolically rich friend, the Olympics are also, at the same time, a test of financial responsibility.How much would you pay to watch people gracefully sword fight? Do you think you could learn to love cricket if you were spending $100? Would you like to go into mild credit card debt to see a less beautiful version of tennis? Ultimately, I said no to my…

13 For years, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have poured billions into building out 5G Standalone (SA) infrastructure with plenty of hype into the speed and capacity it would bring, but without a clear path to profitability. Now that 5G SA is being rolled out across the country, CSPs have an opportunity to monetize their investments by leveraging network slicing enabled by 5G SA’s cloud-native architecture, and made possible by Release 18 of the 3GPP standards. As 5G SA adoption accelerates, network slicing is scaling rapidly, enabling a wide array of industries from manufacturing and healthcare to live events to leverage…

A colleague told me something recently that I keep thinking about.She said, unprompted, that she appreciated seeing both sides of my AI conversations. Not just the output. The full thread. My prompts, the AI’s responses, the back and forth, the dead ends, the iterations. She said it made her trust me more.This piece is an example of that. The conversation that produced it exists. A raw transcript would be longer, messier, and significantly less useful than what you’re reading now. What you’re reading is the annotated version, the part where judgment entered the artifact. That’s not a disclaimer. That’s the…

Deploying a website involves more than flipping a switch. The decisions made during setup, the configurations chosen before launch, and the habits built around monitoring afterward all shape how a site performs under real conditions. A rushed deployment creates problems that are hard to diagnose and even harder to fix once traffic starts flowing. Getting it right from the start saves time, reduces downtime risk, and builds a more stable foundation for growth. Start With the Right Hosting Environment Deployment optimization begins before you upload a single file. Choosing the right hosting environment for the type of site you build…

Source: https://xkcd.com/2259/A special thanks to the engineers who shared their story with me and have helped bring this blog post to life: Ravi Nagayach, Prashant Singh, Kshitij Gupta, and the entire Lambda networking team. These are folks doing the invisible engineering that keeps AWS running.Most infrastructure improvements at AWS happen invisibly. Engineering teams spend years incrementally rebuilding systems that millions of customers depend on, while those systems continue running at full scale without disruption. Marc Olson described this as converting a propeller aircraft to a jet while it’s in flight. One mistake and the plane goes down. But get it…

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying vulnerabilities at scale and raising serious questions about how quickly organizations can validate, prioritize, and remediate what it finds. The debate that followed has mostly focused on the right questions: Is this a step-change or an incremental advance? Does restricting access to Microsoft, Apple, AWS, and JPMorgan actually reduce risk, or does it just concentrate defensive advantage among the already-well-defended? What happens when adversaries—state actors, criminal enterprises—build equivalent capability? These are important. But there’s a quieter…

Pumps and associated equipment inside the dry well at St Nicholas Sewage Pumping Station in St Andrews. Real-time monitoring helped Scottish Water manage an unexpected maintenance problem at a strategic sewage pumping station in St Andrews, avoiding the need for temporary over-pumping and reducing environmental risk, according to technology supplier Xylem. Mark McCullagh, Xylem’s Scotland South project manager, writes Scottish Water and Xylem were carrying out planned maintenance at St Nicholas Sewage Pumping Station (SPS), a large, terminal site in St Andrews, which receives flows from five upstream stations. The scope included replacing an inlet gate valve and non-return valve…

A multi-part series exploring the displacement of human labor in warehouses and distribution centers. Part 2: The comparative ROI (return on investment) between humans and robots in warehouses and distribution centers. Like most things in life, there are degrees of complexity that apply in comparing things, people, and processes. The comparison of benefits derived from processes using human workers vs. robots is not straightforward: There’s an “in between” stage that must be considered. The principle factor, given the current “state of the art” in warehouse and distribution center processes, is that robots often augment multiple workers rather than directly replace…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir’s Alex Karp. And yet, France is taking steps to reduce its reliance on Windows, while its domestic intelligence agency recently renewed its contract with the increasingly controversial data analytics company. This paradox is representative of Europe’s messy breakup with U.S. tech. After painful realizations that it comes with strings attached, governments across the region are looking to rely less on American providers. But the steps taken so far have been uneven and often reactive. The CLOUD Act changed the equation One change Europe is reacting to dates…

If you work with digital commerce or control enterprise data, you’ve probably heard of PIM (Product Information Management) and MDM (Master Data Management). Though both are essential for ensuring that information is precise, consistent, and easy to access in an organization, there are some acute differences that are vital to know in order to make the most of them. Defining PIM and MDM Product information management is a program that centralizes all product-related information and helps it share across different channels, such as online stores, marketplaces, and physical shops. Master data management is a broader system that handles all important…