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January 26, 2026

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Photos Show Weaponized Chinese Cargo Ship

New images taken over the Christmas period appear to show a civilian-style Chinese cargo ship fitted with military systems at the Hudong–Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai. Analysts say the vessel carries

Five Mistakes Teams Make Building AI Features

Five Mistakes Teams Make Building AI Features

If you have shipped enough products, the pattern is familiar. Define requirements, build the feature, QA it, launch, iterate. That muscle memory works for CRUD flows and dashboards. It breaks

Five Architecture Patterns That Precede a Rewrite

Five Architecture Patterns That Precede a Rewrite

Most large-scale rewrites do not start with a dramatic declaration. They start quietly. Velocity slows. On-call pain increases. Roadmaps fill with “platform work” that never seems to end. You still

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MIT-IBM Researchers Debut PaTH Attention

Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have introduced PaTH Attention, an expressive architecture designed to help large language models maintain state and reason over long text. The team says

xbuild secures nineteen million series a

XBuild Secures $19 Million Series A

XBuild, a self-described first AI platform for construction, announced a $19 million Series A funding round in San Francisco. The company’s statement arrived today and signals growing interest in applying

How Engineering Leaders Spot Weak Proposals

How Engineering Leaders Spot Weak Proposals

You have seen it happen in design reviews and roadmap discussions. A proposal looks polished at first glance, but something feels off within the first few minutes. Senior engineering leaders

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FOI Extends To Chatbot Conversations

A media request for the then-UK technology secretary’s ChatGPT logs has opened a new front in government transparency, testing how freedom of information rules apply to AI tools. The move,