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The public has moved on — even if politics hasn’t. Across rich and poor countries alike, people now expect economic growth and environmental protection to be pursued together, not traded off against each other. In a survey conducted by Trellis data partner GlobeScan, 48 percent of people on average said environmental protection and economic growth aren’t mutually exclusive — a threefold increase from 2017. Instead, they expect policymakers and businesses to pursue both goals in tandem. This shift comes as world leaders are also reevaluating the definition of “progress.” In February 2026, over 150 governments approved a landmark report by…
Instead of writing blog posts about individual package updates, I think I’ll be changing things up a bit. My agents do a better job than me in summarizing the changes for individual releases, so I will from now on group them together, referencing the release notes on GitHub. I am working a lot on a private project for a client at this moment where I am making MCP for all communication. Previously I would have hand-rolled REST API calls with URL sessions and JSON decoding for talking to Google Drive or Parse platform. SwiftMCP But for this new project I…
A well-designed home automation system can offer us a lot of convenience and can even save us money. But to get the most out of the system, we have to be prepared to make some pretty big compromises. First and foremost is privacy. To collect the necessary data, home automation systems typically rely on cameras, microphones, and other such invasive sensors.But can we get the data we need in a way that protects the user’s privacy? Vigil Systems believes we can, and they have just announced a crowdfunding campaign to build the Squire Home Sensing Platform to prove it. It…
Millions worldwide suffer from sleep apnea, but 80% of sufferers1 don’t even know they have it. This serious condition causes people to experience pauses in breathing while asleep — potentially disrupting oxygen supply, lowering sleep quality and leading to health complications including hypertension and stroke. Despite these risks, the disorder largely goes unnoticed because getting a diagnosis usually requires time-consuming and costly in-lab sleep studies. To mark World Sleep Day 2026, a global study of Samsung Health users2 is shedding new light on the true extent of sleep apnea and the disruptive impact it has on sleep. Aligned with this year’s…
An enterprise builds an AI-powered contract review API that costs $1.58 per document to process: loading the contract, running five extraction passes through an LLM, flagging risks, and generating a summary. The unit economics are reasonable, and the API works well when called by internal applications. Then the team exposes this API via MCP for agentic consumption, making it an agentic API. On Friday evening, an agent hits a timeout and begins retrying. By Monday morning, that single document had been processed a thousand times. Multiply that across a batch of a thousand contracts, and the weekend bill reaches $1.6…
The United States remains vulnerable to disruptive cyberattacks from well-resourced and highly capable nation-state adversaries. While the Department of War (DoW) has a large and capable cyberspace workforce, it is challenged to assemble adequate mission-ready talent able to quickly mobilize in response to major cyber incidents or exceptionally difficult problems. To address this challenge, U.S. Congress tasked DoW with investigating alternative cyberspace workforce strategies.In 2020, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission released a report with proposed legislative actions, including the recommendation that Congress task the DoW with assessing the establishment of a military reserve. This recommendation resulted in enactment of Section 1730…
It’s 2026, and the crypto space makes the headlines with assets from exchanges being phished or neo brokers suddenly freezing their crypto offering amidst regulatory challenges. Security and trust are still important decision-making criteria when investors look for a home for their crypto trading. Coinbase has compiled 10 reasons why it is the most trusted crypto app (surveys conducted by YouGov and Qualtrics in Q4’22 and Q1’23). In addition to the reasons below, Coinbase transparently work with the Web3 community, researchers, and developers to make on-chain solutions genuinely secure. 10 Reasons Why Coinbase is a Crypto Broker You Can Trust 1.…
News All eyes are shifting to the Strait of Hormuz as analysts warn of dire economic consequences resulting from war in the Persian Gulf. By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The ongoing war involving Iran, the U.S., and Israel in the Middle East has sent economic shockwaves around the globe. Now, as the conflict drags closer to entering its third week and continues to involve more nations, analysts are warning of massive supply chain impacts if the Strait of Hormuz is further engulfed by war. It could have larger implications for the ongoing buildout of data centers in the United States. Earlier…
Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing. Conversely, the steam engine was a practical breakthrough, but it took fundamental research in thermodynamics to fully harness its power. Today, artificial intelligence and science find themselves at a similar inflection point. The current AI revolution has been fueled by decades of research in the mathematical and physical sciences (MPS), which provided the challenging problems, datasets, and insights that made modern AI possible. The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, recognizing foundational AI…
This is a guest post by Satoru Ishikawa, Solutions Architect at Classmethod in partnership with AWS. In April 2025, AWS announced the deprecation of Amazon Redshift DC2 instances, guiding users to migrate to either Redshift RA3 instances or Redshift Serverless. Redshift RA3 instances and Serverless adopt a design that separates storage and compute, offers new features such as data sharing, concurrency scaling for writes, zero-ETL , and cluster relocation. In this post, we share insights from one of our customers’ migration from DC2 to RA3 instances. The customer, a large enterprise in the retail industry, operated a 16-node dc2.8xlarge cluster…