Meta shows structured prompts can make LLMs more reliable for code review

Meta researchers have developed a structured prompting technique that enables LLMs to verify code patches without executing them, achieving up to 93% accuracy in tests. The method, dubbed semi-formal reasoning, could help reduce reliance on the resource-heavy sandbox environments currently required for automated code validation. The development comes as organizations look to deploy agentic AI…

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Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale. Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and demographics to show how we could provide large amounts of information to users’ desktops while working within the bandwidth constraints of the early internet. That…

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Diskless databases: What happens when storage isn’t the bottleneck

In 2021, I was developing software for an aerospace manufacturer and met with our machine learning team to discuss innovative approaches for tracking FOD (free-orbiting debris), a major security and operational concern in the industry. What struck me wasn’t the algorithms or tracking equipment, but the terabytes of data (up to petabytes) that were being…

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MariaDB to Acquire GridGain to Tackle the AI Latency Gap

MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…

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The front-end architecture trilemma: Reactivity vs. hypermedia vs. local-first apps

While the software development industry has been gorging on large language models (LLMs), the front-end ecosystem has quietly fractured into three competing but interrelated architectural paradigms. Between the dominance of reactive frameworks, the hypermedia-driven simplicity of true REST, and the decentralized resilience of SQL everywhere, developers are no longer just choosing a library, they are…

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