Month: September 2024

Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues.  Israeli developer Eden Federman thinks the solution is distributed tracing, a more advanced observability method, but he found adoption
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Filed under: Updated Today, Sep 9, 2024, 1:15 PM UTC By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Share this story Google and the Department of Justice
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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle is legendary. But if you don’t have that much time, the Mini Crossword is an entertaining substitute. The Mini Crossword is much easier than the old-school NYT Crossword, and you probably can complete it in a couple of minutes. But if you’re stuck, we’ve got the answers. And if you could use some
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After weeks in political limbo, France now has a new prime minister, former EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. But parliament remains bitterly divided, generating uncertainty for many economic sectors — including the country’s dynamic startup ecosystem, which had so far benefited from public support. La French Tech isn’t just a term referring to France’s 25,000
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This Halloween, Chipotle wants to spice things up and do more than just feed customers; it wants to dress them, too. Advertisement The burrito maker has joined forces with Spirit Halloween, North America’s largest Halloween retailer, to launch its first-ever costume collection, it said in statement on Wednesday. The publicity stunt takes inspiration from the
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/ Plus, in this week’s Installer: the best new PS5 game in a while, a great new line of bags, the latest GoPro, and much more. By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Share this story If
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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle is legendary. But if you don’t have that much time, the Mini Crossword is an entertaining substitute. The Mini Crossword is much easier than the old-school NYT Crossword, and you probably can complete it in a couple of minutes. But if you’re stuck, we’ve got the answers. And if you could use some
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Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million. In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter).
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This week saw the release of Astro Bot, a delightful game that pays tribute to the rich history of PlayStation. It also, inadvertently, highlights the dearth of new games and franchises really worth celebrating from the PS5 era. Also, Star Wars Outlaws is a game with a staggering gulf between its highs and lows, and
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FThe biggest story of the week was probably the announcement that Sony was shutting down Concord, its big, expensive, long-in-development hero shooter, just two weeks after its disappointing launch. We’ve got the details on the original announcement, as well as reactions from across the internet. In other news, rumors about Nintendo’s successor to the Switch
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Welcome to the weekend, puzzlers! And welcome to that long stretch between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, when holidays are few and far between. We’re counting down the weeks to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and, of course, Halloween (if only we got the day off for that one). Speaking of Halloween, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in theaters. When
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Laundry is an essential part of your weekly, if not daily, routine. This might include washing your sheets and bedding, doing your laundry according to those symbols on clothing tags and even cleaning your washing machine each week. You probably already know how useful Alexa is around the house, but have you ever used your Amazon Echo device
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