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Audi’s new A2 E-tron is its most affordable and efficient EV yet
When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range loser. Want something that goes the distance? Be ready to pay the price. Surprisingly, here comes Audi to split the difference. The German automaker's new A2 E-tron compact crossover is inexpensive, starting at just £32,200 (about $45,000). And it absolutel
Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work
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Dynamic Tool Selection: A Portable Pattern for Agents Drowning in Tool Schemas
I stumbled onto this pattern while building agents with Deep Agents, watching a tool registry grow past the point where sending every schema on every turn still made sense. What follows is the pattern itself, stripped down so it drops into any tool-calling agent loop today regardless of framework, backed by a benchmark against a synthetic 61-tool registry. The Problem: Tool Count Grows, Relevance Per Turn Doesn't Most agent frameworks assemble the tool list once at construction time and send the
Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
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PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. "Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium's own Secure Preferences
I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years
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Select AI and Vector Search on a Legacy Oracle Schema: What It Actually Takes
Who this is for: DBAs and developers sitting on an Oracle schema that's been in production for a decade or more, who keep hearing that Select AI and vector search are easy to bolt on, and want to know what that actually looks like before they try it on something that matters. I spent a Saturday morning trying to get Select AI to answer a simple question against our support ticket schema: “which customers filed more than three tickets about login failures in the last quarter.” The table names wer
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