TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
The New York Times

Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon

A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to government officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign ...
Direct Marketing News

Grocery chains are using dynamic pricing algorithms that charge more in lower-income zip codes and researchers say most shoppers have no idea it’s happening

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. I grew up in a house where grocery shopping was strategy. My mom knew which store had cheaper produce, which one ran ...
MarketWatch

Automate Trading Ideas in Seconds: TradeOS Launches No-Code AI Analysis Platform for Stocks, FX & Commodities

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TradeOS today introduced its Personalized AI Trading Decision Engine, built as an AI trading assistant that converts a trader's pattern recognition ...
Reuters

Musk's X to open source new algorithm in seven days

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...
IEEE

Edges metric constrained PEG algorithm for designing LDPC codes

Abstract: The progressive edge-growth (PEG) algorithm is a general method to construct short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and it is a greedy method to place each edge with large girths. In ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Critical WatchGuard Fireware OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution

A critical vulnerability (CVSS4.0 9.3) in WatchGuard Fireware OS has been identified that could allow a threat actor to remotely execute arbitrary code. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-9242, is an out-of ...
Psychology Today

Algorithms and the Erosion of Humanity

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...
Nature

Convolutional Codes and Decoding Algorithms

Convolutional codes represent a cornerstone in modern communications, offering a method for continuously encoding data streams to mitigate errors due to interference and noise. These codes operate by ...
Reuters

Exclusive: TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user data

NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the ...
Macworld

Forget iOS 26, take a stroll through Apple’s ‘garden’ of OS code names for 2027

Aaron613 points out that Buttercup and Honeycrisp were first reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, while Orchid, Eclipse, and Lotus were first reported by @nicolas09F9. Often, tech code names refer to ...