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ChromiumChromium

Introducing Skia Graphite: Chrome's rasterization backend for the future

Skia Graphite revolutionizes Chrome's graphics by introducing a multithreaded, GPU-accelerated rasterization backend leveraging modern APIs like Metal, Vulkan, and D3D12 to significantly enhance performance and rendering efficiency.

7/8/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

A detailed exploration of how data-driven methods and statistical tools are transforming political behavior analysis, campaign strategies, and voter engagement.

7/7/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care

MIT HEALS launched the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with $12 million funding to empower early-career researchers driving innovation in health care through interdisciplinary approaches including AI, diagnostics, and collaborative research.

7/7/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform

Cloudflare’s SASE platform introduces dynamic egress policies by hostname, domain, category, and application using a novel initial resolved IP mechanism to enhance security and simplify network traffic management.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Why Pathnostics Chose the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Its Most Complex Diagnostics Data

Pathnostics harnesses the flexible, scalable Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify complex, unstructured diagnostics data, enhance predictive modeling, and deliver actionable insights for urinary tract infection management and clinical operations.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Unlocking the Power of Data: How Databricks, WashU & Databasin Are Redefining Healthcare Innovation

Exploring how the collaboration between Washington University School of Medicine, Databricks, and Databasin is driving healthcare innovation through AI-ready data infrastructure and advanced analytics.

7/7/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

An autonomous robotic probe guided by machine learning and expert domain knowledge rapidly measures photoconductance in semiconductor materials, accelerating materials discovery for solar energy applications.

7/4/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

Why Duolingo switched to Energy and how it helps you learn

Duolingo's new Energy system replaces Hearts to create a more encouraging, balanced, and effective learning experience by powering lessons with a rechargeable learning battery that rewards correct answers and supports progress.

7/3/2025
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: Inside Modular Hack Weekend: Top Projects and Community Highlights

A detailed recap of Modular Hack Weekend highlighting top GPU-accelerated projects built with Mojo and MAX, community collaboration, and support from NVIDIA, Lambda, and GPU MODE.

7/3/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Confronting the AI/energy conundrum

The rapid rise of AI-driven data centers poses significant energy challenges but also opens pathways for AI to optimize power systems and accelerate the transition to clean, sustainable energy solutions.

7/2/2025
Jane StreetJane Street

A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel

Investigating and resolving a rare Kerberos-related -EACCES bug in the Linux Kernel NFS client caused by retransmission-induced sequence number mismatches through innovative testing, eBPF tracing, and patching the kernel to comply with RFC2203.

7/2/2025
DropboxDropbox

Seventh-generation server hardware at Dropbox: our most efficient and capable architecture yet

Dropbox unveils its seventh-generation server hardware, featuring advanced CPU architectures, enhanced storage solutions, and GPU tiers designed to boost AI capabilities and overall infrastructure efficiency.

7/2/2025