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This repository is a comprehensive learning stack for AI engineering, covering the principles and practices of building efficient, reliable, and robust intelligent systems. It includes a textbook, hands-on activities like software co-labs and hardware labs, and an upcoming AI Olympics competition to demonstrate mastery. The goal is to establish AI engineering as a foundational discipline alongside software and computer engineering.

LEANN is an innovative vector database that democratizes personal AI by transforming laptops into powerful RAG systems. It achieves 97% less storage than traditional solutions through graph-based selective recomputation, allowing users to semantically search a wide range of personal data on their device with complete privacy.

Vibe Kanban is a comprehensive tool that simplifies the management and orchestration of AI coding agents. It provides a Kanban-style interface to easily switch between agents, execute tasks in parallel or sequence, review work, and track task status. Vibe Kanban also enables remote access and centralized configuration, making it a powerful solution for teams leveraging AI-powered coding.

SpotiFLAC is a tool that enables users to download Spotify tracks in high-quality FLAC format from Tidal, Qobuz, and Amazon Music, addressing the lack of native FLAC support in Spotify. It uses various APIs to retrieve and download the tracks, providing an easy way to access lossless audio without an account.

This Docker image provides a minimal and customizable Android emulator environment, bundling the emulator, JRE 11, and QEMU with libvirt support. It allows running Android apps in a containerized setup, testing on different Android versions, and remotely controlling the emulator screen using scrcpy. The image can be further customized by specifying the Android API level, image type, and architecture at build time.

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps and GPS app that leverages OpenStreetMap data to provide detailed maps, trails, and navigation features without ads, tracking, or data collection. It is an open-source, community-driven project that respects user privacy and freedom.

The Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Samples repository offers a comprehensive collection of tutorials, use cases, and integrations to help developers deploy and operate AI agents securely at scale using any framework and model. The repository covers the key capabilities of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including runtime, gateway, memory, identity, and observability, providing hands-on examples and end-to-end application development guidance.

This repository is a hands-on guide to understanding and using large language models, with almost 300 custom-made figures to visually explain the concepts. It covers practical tools and techniques like text classification, topic modeling, prompt engineering, semantic search, and fine-tuning models for specific applications. The code examples are designed to be easily runnable in Google Colab, making it accessible for beginners and experts alike.

Next AI Draw.io is an AI-powered diagram creation tool that leverages large language models and image-based replication to enable users to create, modify, and enhance diagrams through natural language commands. It offers features like cloud architecture diagram support, animated connectors, and the ability to upload PDFs and text files to generate diagrams from existing content.

Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking service that prioritizes privacy, performance, and customization. Built with Go and React, it offers instant load times and full control over your data, without subscription fees or vendor lock-in. Memos supports a variety of databases and can be easily integrated into your existing workflows.

Instagram has scaled its recommendation system to over 1000 ML models by addressing challenges with model discovery, safe release, and health monitoring through a model registry, automated launch tooling, and a pioneering metric for model stability.

Netflix implemented a comprehensive observability system for their title launch process, including standardized observability endpoints across microservices, proactive monitoring of title health, real-time impression tracking, optimized data storage, and APIs for stakeholders to validate and track titles ahead of launch.

The 2025 Unity Gaming Report reveals how game developers are adapting to changes, including a focus on cross-platform development, increased adoption of cloud gaming, and leveraging real-time 3D technologies to create immersive experiences.

An effective architecture review board (ARB) helps organizations maintain compliance with enterprise guidelines while accelerating project implementation by reviewing solution architectures, custom development, and purchased solutions across various stakeholders such as Security, Development, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations.

2025 saw a surge in coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI that can write, execute, and iterate on code, leading to the rise of $200/month AI subscription tiers. Chinese AI labs also made major breakthroughs, with their open-source models challenging the global leaders. Additionally, AI-powered image editing and prompt-driven tools saw explosive growth, while concerns around security and sustainability issues like data center emissions increased.

A writer cancels their book deal due to conflicts with the publisher's demands, including the incorporation of AI and dumbing down the content to appeal to a broader audience. Despite initial excitement, the writing process became a chore, leading the author to ultimately freeze and then terminate the contract, deciding to self-publish the book instead.

After years of blocking pop-ups, web browsers have now stopped this practice, allowing a resurgence of this intrusive advertising format.

Bluetooth headphone hacking poses a security risk, allowing access to phone data. This talk explores how vulnerabilities in Bluetooth headphones can be exploited to gain unauthorized access to a user's smartphone, highlighting the need for improved security measures to protect mobile device data.

After a period of social isolation, the author rebuilt his community by regularly organizing social gatherings, inviting a diverse group of friends and acquaintances. This monthly event became a successful way to maintain connections and create a sense of belonging, addressing the challenges of modern life that can lead to loneliness.

Resistance training load does not solely determine muscle hypertrophy, according to a new study. The findings challenge the long-held belief that higher training loads are required for optimal muscle growth, suggesting other factors like exercise volume and metabolic stress may play a more significant role in driving hypertrophic adaptations.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has transitioned to a fully open access publishing model starting in 2026. This milestone reflects the growing demand for more accessible and reusable research in the computing community. The ACM Digital Library will now offer a free Basic edition with open access to the full corpus of published research, as well as a Premium edition with additional services and tools.

Meta faced criticism for not fully removing scam ads, but instead making them harder to find. Rather than taking decisive action, the tech giant worked to make these deceptive ads less visible on its platform, highlighting its struggle to address this ongoing issue effectively.

This article explores an optimization approach to build the ultimate Pokémon team, leveraging integer linear programming techniques to balance team composition and type resistances. By integrating constraints like team size and type matchups, the author identifies optimal team compositions, including legendary and pseudo-legendary Pokémon, as well as more realistic teams without such powerful creatures.

Flow5 released an open-source version that introduces several updates, including compatibility with Qt6, improvements to the foil modification methods, alignment of force and moment signs, and bug fixes across the modeling, analysis, and post-processing modules.