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Cloudflare Blog

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.

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The Verge Tech

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in group photos. But all I can get anyone to talk about is the software upgrades: it turns out, they're a lot more useful day to day than the aperture on a camera this small. This week on The Vergecast, David Imel

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The Verge Tech

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to strengthen AI safety measures in state law. Newsom wants the group to consider how the state could require AI companies to embed independent verification groups onsite

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Apple Developer News

Build for iPhone Duo with new resources

Get Xcode 27.1 beta. View downloads and release notes Get Figma and Sketch design kits for iPhone Duo from the Apple Design Resources. Download design kits from the Apple Design Resources Sign up for workshops around the world to learn how to optimize your app and build customized experiences for all screen sizes. Explore workshops Find out more about preparing your app for iPhone Duo. Learn more about iPhone Duo

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DZone

When Your Benchmark Leaks the Answer

A detector I built was scoring 0.067 recall on temporal errors, meaning it caught about one in fifteen of the wrong dates it was supposed to find. Wrong dates are supposed to be the easy category: extract the years from the claim, extract the years from the source, compare. There is no semantics to get wrong. I assumed the extraction was broken and went looking for the bug. The extraction was fine. The benchmark was the problem, and not in a way that showed up anywhere in the code. The contexts

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Django Weblog

Proposed change to DSF voting membership

We're proposing a new voting membership status to help us track active members. If you've voted in a Board election in the last two years, you're active, and you count toward quorum. If you haven't, you're still a member, but you won't count toward quorum until you tell us you want to vote. Why make this change? Quorum today is measured against every member on the rolls, including members who no longer take part in elections. As membership grows, quorum becomes harder to reach and puts our elect

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