InfoQ

New Research Reassesses the Value of AGENTS.md Files for AI Coding

Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run ...
InfoWorld

Buyer’s guide: Comparing the leading cloud data platforms

Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric – to see how they address rapidly evolving ...
ZDNet

The right way to run an internet speed test (and how I use the results for better Wi-Fi)

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Still Testing Branded Queries & Social Channels Feature

The other day, Google released the Google Search Console AI-powered configuration tool and we continued to wonder when the other features, like branded queries and the social channels would go live.
The New York Times

Everything that happened at final F1 Bahrain testing to cap 2026 preseason

Formula 1’s final preseason test ahead of the 2026 season is now over. All 11 teams took to the Bahrain International Circuit in their new cars for three days, bidding to complete as much running as ...
ZDNet

I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

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Los Angeles Times

Animal testing slows medical progress. It wastes money. It’s wrong

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. I am living with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The average survival ...
The New Yorker

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me ...
GitHub

SQL Data Warehouse Analytics Project

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InfoWorld

Google tests BigQuery feature to generate SQL queries from English

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...
Reuters

Exclusive: India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures, prompting ...