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This is the twentieth video in Part 5 of the Performance-Aware Programming series. Please see the Table of Contents to quickly navigate through the rest of the course as it is updated, and the code repository for downloadable code listings. Read more

Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds - Published Elon Musk has suggested that the US government may be behind restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine's weapons can travel and stay connected to SpaceX's Starlink internet network. Starli

AI - Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use - Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Re

Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago. That is about to change. Two NASA missions are on track to launch to Venus in the early 2030s. The first, known as the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemi

On night of mayhem for Liverpool, Barcola arrives in style - Published On the eve of Liverpool's meeting with LASK, manager Andoni Iraola was repeatedly asked about the fortunes of Florian Wirtz and Bradley Barcola. Given their price tags, the pressure was on both to start delive

CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing too heavily for the artificial intelligence build-out. Shares of the so-called neocloud nosedived 15.5%, while yields on its debt jumped higher. The yield to

CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing too heavily for the artificial intelligence build-out. Shares of the so-called neocloud nosedived 15.5%, while yields on its debt jumped higher. The yield to

Why Zelensky's meeting with Burnham matters Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcomed President Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street on Wednesday, as the Ukrainian leader looks to shore up his European allies five years into Russia's war on Ukraine. Burnham told Zelensky that Britain

A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack, and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding, or their crazy discovery that knowing a molecule’s author is perhaps all you need to know to predict how good

A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack, and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding, or their crazy discovery that knowing a molecule’s author is perhaps all you need to know to predict how good

Listen to this article in summarized format The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 1.5%, extending its decline to a fifth consecutive session and touching its lowest level in about four weeks. Micron Technology fell 4.5% to its lowest level since September 16, marking its f

Tech stocks fell on concerns that a historic surge in AI-related shares may be turning, as investors questioned the financing of the huge buildout underway. South Korea’s market — heavily exposed to chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix — sold off sharply, leading a decline in Asian t

Last quarter, our AI reviewer told a developer who was fixing a CSS bug to rethink how their component fetched data. The comment was well written and confidently worded. It was also about code they hadn’t touched. That’s what tends to happen when you hand an agent every team’s re

Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that his company has not ended any contracts with its customers over abuse of its products. Speaking to TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos at the Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, Langley responded to criticisms facing the company abou

Defense tech startup Anduril will give employees a chance to sell stock through a tender offer that would value the company at roughly $90 billion, CNBC has confirmed. Bloomberg was the first to report the news, citing sources familiar with the matter. Anduril confirmed the repor

Defense tech startup Anduril will give employees a chance to sell stock through a tender offer that would value the company at roughly $90 billion, CNBC has confirmed. Bloomberg was the first to report the news, citing sources familiar with the matter. Anduril confirmed the repor

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built for the servers most enterprises already own. It is a single-slot, passively cooled, 165W board with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set: fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4, fourth-generati

Bank of America on Wednesday posted a sharp profit decline after being hit with a $1.2 billion penalty by U.S. regulators, while revenue also disappointed after trading operations generated about $750 million less than expected. Shares of the bank fell almost 5% on Wednesday. Her

Dell shares plummeted 11% on Wednesday and dragged down other data center equipment names on mounting concerns that enterprise spending on artificial intelligence won't justify the AI buildout. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle and Super Micro all joined in the downward slide. I

Dell shares plummeted 11% on Wednesday and dragged down other data center equipment names on mounting concerns that enterprise spending on artificial intelligence won't justify the AI buildout. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle and Super Micro all joined in the downward slide. I

Increased bets that the Fed will hike rates further to tame inflation dealt a sharp blow to some of the market's biggest gainers of 2026. Oracle, CoreWeave and Nebius all tumbled. Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sank after Barclays downgraded the AI server makers to "equal-we

AI - Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use - Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Re

Schools and libraries from around the US pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to drop the idea of ending E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year program that connects students and library visitors to the Internet. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has criticized school districts for ha

Don’t go writing the obituary for the U.S. electric vehicle just yet. After sales tanked following the cancellation of tax credits last year, they’ve been growing for the last three consecutive quarters, according to a new report from Cox Automotive. EVs captured 6.1% of the U.S.

Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial intelligence models including Anthropic's Mythos, the bank's CEO, Brian Moynihan, told CNBC on Wednesday. In an interview after the bank's third-quar

Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial intelligence models including Anthropic's Mythos, the bank's CEO, Brian Moynihan, told CNBC on Wednesday. In an interview after the bank's third-quar

* US inflation rises more than expected in September * Bank of America slips after lower Q3 profit * Chip index falls for sixth straight session (Updates wtih market close) By Noel Randewich Oct 14 (Reuters) - Hotter-than-expected inflation data sent the Nasdaq to a sharply lower

Shares of Bending Spoons skyrocketed 41% after a new securities filing revealed that Berkshire Hathaway made a fresh $330 million investment into the company. The latest infusion follows the conglomerate's $600 million investment from July, when the Italy-based serial acquirer we

Shares of Bending Spoons skyrocketed 41% after a new securities filing revealed that Berkshire Hathaway made a fresh $330 million investment into the company. The latest infusion follows the conglomerate's $600 million investment from July, when the Italy-based serial acquirer we

At-home health testing has been mired in overblown claims and outright fraud. But German startup TimeTeller, which has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm, is led by CEO Angela Relógio, who is the polar opposite of Theranos’ disgraced foun

Investors are bracing for the Federal Reserve to again hike interest rates after the Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices rose more in September than economists had expected. The inflation report, which comes two weeks before the central bank’s next meeting and th

A small-business owner in Georgia has sued Flock and the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office over alleged retaliation using license plate cameras. “[The lawsuit] alleges illegal [license plate tracking] searches over many months without probable cause and unrelated to any specific inv

Why is Starlink internet so important on the battlefield in Ukraine? - Published Starlink satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX provide high-speed internet - something modern war relies heavily on. Kyiv has adopted it as a vital battlefield communications tool and also uses i

Ambrosia Energy has begun work on a massive, 10 gigawatt-hour battery factory near Austin, Texas, co-founder and CEO Ben Longmier announced onstage Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. “That allows us to build about a 300 megawatt power plant per year out at our field

Tonbo Imaging’s IPO will open for subscription on Thursday, October 15, 2026, and close on Monday, October 19, 2026. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 665-700 per share. Investors can bid for a minimum of 21 shares and in multiples of 21 shares thereafter. The IPO is entir

The rising tide that has been the Drive to Survive effect has lifted more boats in motorsport than simply Formula 1’s. Sportscar racing is enjoying its own surge in popularity internationally at races like Le Mans in France, but also in North America in IMSA’s WeatherTech Sportsc

By Amanda Cooper and Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK/LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The dollar rose while Wall Street stocks fell on Wednesday after data showed US consumer prices rose more than expected last month, reinforcing expectations the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates as soon

The attacks, which may have involved AI-assisted hacking tools, prompted a critical advisory from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), warning financial institutions to suspend compromised interfaces and strengthen transaction safeguards. Also Read: Fairfax offe

In Maharashtra, insurers' liability could be capped at Rs 1,540 crore before the state government takes over claims beyond that level. The state has declared drought-like conditions in 265 talukas, raising concerns over this year's losses. Maharashtra's adoption of an 80:110 "cup

A container ship sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday as Iran escalated its attacks on commercial vessels. The GFS Pride, registered in Singapore, sank after it was struck by an unidentified projectile and caught fire. The ship's 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no