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Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you. Article Continues Below In 1788, Prussia introduced the Abitur, a standardized national examination required for entry into universities and the civil service. To pass it, students needed to demonstrate measurable, gradable knowledge. The system needed to teach language to large classrooms, produce consistent outcomes, and do it with one teacher and thirty students. The educators responsible for designing this system reached for the only teaching template they had, one…
Advanced software systems have long been more complex than any single engineer can fully understand. Observability is the established solution to this problem, but with AI agents now generating code, deploying changes, and operating autonomously, the challenge of understanding large software systems is entering a new dimension. Grafana is an open source observability platform, and one of the most widely used in the world. The company builds tools that help teams collect, visualize, and act on telemetry data across logs, metrics, and traces. They are now extending that capability into the agentic era with AI-powered investigation and monitoring tools. Anthony…
Beyond the potential political ramifications, any deal would have immediate implications for enterprise IT buyers. “CIOs should focus on the risk that this strategy could introduce. Will Apple be able to thoroughly assess those chips to completely rule out the possibility of trojan horses, backdoors, and hidden functionality such as dead man switches?” asked Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group. “If Apple says that they will do, to what degree of certainty? There have been rumors about hidden backdoors in chips before, such as Supermicro in 2018, ESP32 microcontroller hidden functionality in 2025, and Microsemi backdoor in…
As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework every week. And they are both absolutely repulsed by the idea of smoking. That was not the prevailing sentiment when I was young. Smoking was a central part of our culture. Which is why the UK’s recent passing of a generational sales ban on tobacco products feels like such a big deal. This is what’s described as an “endgame” approach. While many tobacco control strategies—such as taxation or…
Without federal support for curiosity-driven research, the innovation and talent pipeline that has helped ensure our nation’s prosperity and safety could run dry, warned President Sally Kornbluth during a Washington Post Live event. During “The Next Generation,” a panel discussion moderated by Washington Post reporter Zachary Goldfarb at The Washington Post’s “Building America Summit,” Kornbluth and Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow joined forces for a spirited discussion on the importance of curiosity-driven research, examining how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape. “Many of the things we have in our everyday…
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces emulated versions to ease rollback. But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elaborate compensating mechanisms like bake periods, stagger groups, automated sign offs, and months long upgrade cycles. With Kubernetes releasing three minor versions per year, teams managing hundreds of clusters, especially in regulated environments, often delay upgrades entirely because they aren’t confident they can recover if something goes…
Three-day patching deadlines, exposed fuel-tank systems, scams costing billions of dollars, and social media bans for children all gave Tony plenty to unpack in June 2026 30 Jun 2026 It’s that time of month when ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news over the past 30 or so days and considers what they may mean for your own cyber-defenses. Here’s some of what caught Tony’s attention in June 2026: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new vulnerability patching rules that require federal agencies to…
Everything that happened on github.com/Cocoanetics since the SwiftText post — and it’s more than I expected to fit into three weeks: a foundation package that didn’t exist on June 23 and now carries three protocols, SwiftMCP turned inside out, two brand-new projects, releases across the whole mail stack — and a very welcome comeback doing the final polish. The third time you vendor a JSON type, it wants to be a foundation Last month I wrote that the third time you copy something, it wants to be a package. It turns out the rule applies one level further down. SwiftMCP…
From autonomous factories and AI-powered robots to connected vehicles and smart cities, organisations are entering a new era where connected systems are expected not only to collect data, but also to analyse, decide and act in real time. As Industrial IoT continues to evolve, the focus has shifted beyond deploying connected devices. Today’s challenge is combining Artificial Intelligence, Edge AI, advanced connectivity, and secure embedded systems to create intelligent, resilient operations that deliver measurable business value at scale. These developments will take centre stage at IoT Tech Expo Europe, returning to the RAI Amsterdam on 19-20 October 2026 as part…
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