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• It isn’t quite like time traveling to the 1980s, but it is pretty darn cool for old Radio Shack customers who are happy to see some familiar items on the shelves.

• Retrofit kits transform conventional tractors into autonomous machines, offering affordable automation for farms.

• Radio Shack lives through a network of about 100 independent stores like the one we visited in Woodstock, Virginia.

• Complex automotive software frustrates drivers as vehicle dependability scores worsen, with infotainment leading problem categories.

• Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering Feb 12, 2026 Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering

• Infotainment glitches and mobile integration failures push average vehicle problems to 204 per 100 cars, with electric drivetrains lagging.

• AI can be built into every aspect of a vehicle’s functionality, intelligence, and user interaction. • How should automakers deploy it?

• Why psychological safety is the hardest-and most critical-soft skill in engineering.

• AI agents can handle physics-based modeling complexity while engineers focus on design judgment and tradeoffs.

• At MD&M West, NI demonstrated how its AI tool integrated with LabVIEW helps engineers accelerate product development through natural language prompts.

• Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity Improving engineering productivity is crucial to the work we do at Dropbox. • The more quickly we can de

• Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity Improving engineering productivity is crucial to the work we do at Dropbox. • The more quickly we can de

• Carnegie Mellon’s Cagan, Jahanian, and alumnus Pitel elected to the National Academy of Engineering 2026 class. • Cagan leads Mechanical Engineering, pioneering design automation

• By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

• Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty members - Ken Goldberg, Ka

• Two Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that two UC Berkeley engineering faculty members - Ken Goldberg and Kam

• Share this post Keep up with us Summary Lakeflow provides a unified end-to-end solution for data engineers working on Azure Databricks, including data ingestion, transformation,

• MVK Chari, IEEE Life Fellow, passed away Dec 3 at 97, leaving a legacy in finite element analysis. • Pioneered FEM for nonlinear electromagnetic fields, essential for electric ma

• I was recently a guest speaker in Jason Liu’s online course on RAG offered by the education platform Maven. • I did some mini deep-dives into what we’ve been doing at Dropbox wit

• I was recently a guest speaker in Jason Liu’s online course on RAG offered by the education platform Maven. • I did some mini deep-dives into what we’ve been doing at Dropbox wit

• Aaron Winston Aaron helps lead content strategy at GitHub with a focus on everything developers need to know to stay ahead of what’s next. • Also, he still likes the em dash desp

• UC Berkeley launches EE290‑Superconducting Quantum Circuits, blending theory and hands‑on design. • Students design superconducting qubit chips, then fabricate and test them in c

• 33% of engineers’ weekly time is lost to firefighting, creating a silent productivity tax. • AI-enabled observability cuts alert noise by 27%, allowing teams to focus on root cau

• Mark Asta, 15-year UC Berkeley faculty, named 14th dean of College of Engineering. • Appointment announced by Chancellor Rich Lyons and Provost Ben Hermalin. • Asta will official

• UC Berkeley faculty across four engineering departments receive funding to embed AI tools in core undergraduate courses. • Initiative funded by CAWIT and donor-supported campus p

• Berkeley Engineering hires five new tenure‑track professors across multiple departments. • Henry Corrigan‑Gibbs, ex‑MIT, focuses on privacy‑enhancing cryptographic computer syste

• Threat Research Center Insights Anatomy of an Attack Anatomy of an Attack: The Payroll Pirates and the Power of Social Engineering By:Randy Stone Randy Stone Published:January 16

• Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations 16 January / GlobalThe Foundation of Uber’s Data Platform Uber operates one of the most diverse a

• Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform designed to help simplify complex and time-consuming data workflows. • Microsoft

• Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2) This is part 2 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents (internal codename: ‘Honk’) and th

• Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) This is part 2 in our series about Spotify’s journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software m

• When we first built Dash, it looked like most enterprise search systems: a traditional RAG pipeline that combined semantic and keyword search across indexed documents. • It worke

• When we first built Dash, it looked like most enterprise search systems: a traditional RAG pipeline that combined semantic and keyword search across indexed documents. • It worke

• Author: Ken Struys Developer Experience (aka DevX) mission is to increase developer velocity at Reddit. • We build (and buy) highly leveraged tools used across the entire softwar

• EXPEDIA GROUP TECHNOLOGY - ENGINEERING Reimagining Software Engineering: LLMs, MCP, and the Dawn of a New Programming Paradigm Programming by prompting isn’t the future - operati

• This post investigates the benefits and limitations of prompt engineering in two instances of AI-assisted onboarding relying on large language model (LLM) technology. • Of partic

• GitHub Issues search now supports logical AND/OR operators across all fields. • Nested parentheses allow precise grouping of query terms for complex searches. • Example: is:issue

• Introduced sub-issues to break large GitHub issues into smaller, manageable tasks. • Enables hierarchical lists within a single issue, improving progress tracking and dependency

• Yelp integrates LLMs to interpret search queries, improving intent detection for millions of daily searches. • The team tackled spelling correction, segmentation, canonicalizatio

• 12 Nov 2024: Canva.com outage lasted ~52 minutes, impacting global users. • Root cause: API Gateway cluster failure triggered by editor deployment, locking, Cloudflare network is

• Yelp’s node autoscaler evolved from Clusterman to AWS Karpenter to improve scaling efficiency. • Clusterman managed ASG pools via setpoints balancing requested vs allocatable res

• Canva’s Print team uses graph traversal to route orders across a global, distributed printing network. • A configurable rules engine ensures deterministic routing, balancing spee

• Canva’s 200M MAUs and 30B designs make private search optimization critical. • Privacy policy forbids viewing personal designs, eliminating real query‑label datasets. • Engineers

• Etsy migrated from on-prem to GCP in 2020, guided by a dedicated program management team. • Post-migration, the team became Etsy’s FinOps unit, focusing on maximizing cloud value

• Etsy serves 100M+ listings, using recommendation modules to guide buyers at every shopping stage. • Each module follows a two‑phase pipeline: fast candidate selection then ML‑bas

• Two main submission paths: App Publishing Request for marketplace-wide distribution and Publishable URL for limited sharing. • App Publishing Request lets any Zoom user install y