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TechCrunch24 days agoSoftware Engineering
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat
X Chat brings back Voice Notes to DMs and group chats after removing the option during the upgrade.
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TechCrunch24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Hacker stole £700,000 from UK energy company by redirecting payment
The U.K. energy company said a redirected payment meant for a contractor instead landed in a hacker's bank account.
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Ars Technica24 days agoSoftware Engineering
CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Trump official blocks release
Study found shots cut urgent care and hospitalization by about 50% in healthy adults.
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TechCrunch24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Final 2 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Ticket discounts of up to $500 will end tomorrow, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up again. Miss this, and you’ll be paying more for the same access to one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Register now to lock in these savings.
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Ars Technica24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb
A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing.
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Uber’s Hive Federation Decentralizes 16K Datasets and 10+ PB for Zero-Downtime Analytics at Scale
Uber has decentralized its Hive data warehouse, migrating 16,000 datasets totaling over 10 petabytes using pointer-based federation. The migration ensures zero downtime, strict ACL enforcement, improved governance, and scalable, domain-specific datasets for analytics and machine learning workloads. By Leela Kumili
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TechCrunch24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
AAIF's MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening
The MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, held on April 2-3 at the New York Marriott Marquis, gathered about 1,200 attendees. Hosted by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, discussions focused on the Model Context Protocol's evolution and enterprise adoption, particularly by Amazon and Uber, emphasizing security, interoperability, and scaling for production. By Andrew Hoblitzell
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Presentation: Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity
Sepehr Khosravi discusses the current state of AI-assisted coding, moving beyond basic autocompletion to sophisticated agentic workflows. He explains the technical nuances of Cursor’s "Composer" and Claude Code’s research capabilities, providing tips for managing context windows and MCP integrations. He shares lessons from industry leaders on shrinking process time beyond just writing code. By Sep
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Developing Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering
Work isn’t the only place where you can develop valuable leadership skills, Sophie Weston mentioned in the video The Principal Engineer’s Path from her QCon London talk. She suggested thinking about the things you do outside of your job where you can learn and practice useful leadership skills, and bringing your full skill set - your whole self - to work. By Ben Linders
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Article: Building Hierarchical Agentic RAG Systems: Multi-Modal Reasoning with Autonomous Error Recovery
In this article, the author explores how hierarchical agentic RAG systems coordinate specialized workers through structured orchestration to improve accuracy, reliability, and explainability in complex enterprise analytics workflows. The article uses Protocol-H as a to show how deterministic routing, reflective retry, and modality-aware reasoning support safer multi-source query execution. By Abhi
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InfoQ24 days agoSoftware Engineering
Google Brings MCP Support to Colab, Enabling Cloud Execution for AI Agents
Google has released the open-source Colab MCP Server, enabling AI agents to directly interact with Google Colab through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project is designed to bridge local agent workflows with cloud-based execution, allowing developers to offload compute-intensive or potentially unsafe tasks from their own machines. By Robert Krzaczyński
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