Author: Samuel Alejandro

ElevenLabs has released the ‘Eleven Album,’ a collection of songs created with its new AI music generator, featuring contributions from artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel. The album aims to showcase the company’s Eleven Music technology.

Karrot, a leading local community platform in Korea, implemented a feature platform on AWS to enhance its recommendation system. This article, the first in a two-part series, details the motivations, requirements, and architecture of their feature serving solution, which leverages multi-level caching with Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon DynamoDB for scalable and low-latency data delivery.

New research from Mercor, using the Apex-Agents benchmark, suggests that current AI models are not yet ready for complex white-collar tasks. Even leading models struggle with multi-domain reasoning, achieving low accuracy rates on tasks drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law, despite rapid year-over-year improvements.

This article explores the challenges of managing large-scale defense systems, particularly when security measures, initially designed for protection, begin to hinder performance and operational efficiency. It emphasizes the need for continuous evaluation and adaptation of these systems to prevent them from becoming counterproductive.

Users sometimes encounter a missing ‘Add to Google Wallet’ button when trying to save passes. This guide provides a simple trick to bypass this issue and successfully add your passes to Google Wallet.

Cisco has released urgent security updates for a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-20045) affecting its Unified Communications and Webex Calling products. This zero-day flaw has been actively exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to gain root access to affected servers.

A new Apple MacBook Air, featuring the powerful M4 chip, is currently available with a $200 discount, offering a fast and efficient computing experience.

The Firefox crash reporter, a critical component for diagnosing severe application crashes, has undergone a significant rewrite in Rust. This article details the rationale behind this modernization, addressing the previous codebase’s maintainability challenges and lack of testing. It explores the unique requirements of a standalone crash reporting GUI, the architectural decisions made for cross-platform compatibility, including a custom UI model and data binding primitives, and the extensive mocking and testing strategies employed. The rewrite aims to enhance reliability, maintainability, and pave the way for future feature development, ultimately contributing to a more stable Firefox experience.

In 2025, global consumer spending on mobile apps surpassed that on mobile games for the first time, reaching $85 billion, a 21% year-over-year increase. This surge was largely driven by the rapid adoption of generative AI apps, whose in-app purchase revenue tripled to over $5 billion. AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek led this growth, with users spending 48 billion hours in these applications. Major tech companies’ investments and mobile-exclusive access also played key roles in this significant market shift.

This discussion features Anil Dash, a writer and former Stack Overflow board member, who argues that AI is not a magical phenomenon but a natural progression in computing. The conversation delves into the importance of making technology accessible, the unique challenges posed by the non-deterministic nature of Large Language Models (LLMs), and how developers can maintain Stack Overflow’s community spirit in the age of AI.