Open Source Unit

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

As the COOs from both Uber and Microsoft recently learned, encouraging company engineers to use AI aggressively can lead to hefty usage bills, perhaps even offsetting all the gains from laying off employees. The AI bills at Netflix may not be so eye-popping thanks to company senior engineer Tejas Chopra, who has created software to prune agent instructions, as measured in tokens, before they hit the LLM. Chopra has estimated that as much as 90% of tokens are redundant to the giant thinking...

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

Long-running, fault-tolerant SQL functions for teams that already keep their state in Postgres and want to stop stitching together cron jobs, workers, queues, and status tables to make background work reliable. Define the workflow in SQL, let pg_durable checkpoint each step, and resume after crashes, restarts, or failed steps. Durable execution is now a standard industry pattern, and pg_durable brings it inside Postgres with no extra service infrastructure required.

Satellite images show destruction of the US-Israel war on Iran

Satellite images show destruction of the US-Israel war on Iran From Iranian naval ports to US military bases across the Gulf, Al Jazeera shows 15 sites before and after the attacks. Since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran 100 days ago, the full scale of destruction across the region has been difficult to assess. Satellite imagery companies, including Planet Labs – the world’s largest commercial satellite operator based in California – have placed an indefinite blackout on...

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for?

Israel is building more military posts in Gaza, satellite imagery shows

Israel is building more military posts in Gaza, satellite imagery shows An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Open Source Unit has identified 40 distinct Israeli military outposts entrenched within Gaza. Israel was supposed to fully withdraw its troops from Gaza as part of the ceasefire signed in October. Instead of pulling back, Israeli forces are quietly cementing permanent, heavily fortified military posts across the besieged enclave, according to satellite imagery analysed by Al Jazeera.

Satellite images show Israel’s destruction of historical city of Tyre

Satellite images show Israel’s destruction of historical city of Tyre Satellite data shows damage to residential areas, UNESCO World Heritage buffer zones and Palestinian camps in Israeli attacks. Newly evaluated satellite images show widespread destruction across the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, following a relentless wave of Israeli air strikes after systematic forced displacement orders. An analysis of the images by Al Jazeera’s open-source unit, which compared satellite data...

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

The open source AI code review agent. English | 简体中文 Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool. It originated as Alibaba Group's internal official AI code review assistant — over the past two years, it has served tens of thousands of developers and identified millions of code defects.

FrontierCode

Introducing FrontierCode Raising the bar from correctness to quality Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code. But as AI-generated code becomes the dominant path to production, correctness is now table stakes. The question that we should be asking is: can models actually write good code?

Is Python Becoming Pinyin?

I just got back from PyCon US. It was delightful; I saw old friends, met new ones, gave a tutorial on decorators, and spoke at the education summit. I’m a PyCon US sponsor, which means that I also had a booth, giving out T-shirts, books, stickers, and flyers about the LernerPython platform.