A longtime consulting engineer who now works for the federal government saw our discussion of mnemonics for remembering the resistor color code. He shares one he learned in college. It goes “Budweiser ...

A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules. Secret scanners are specialized utilities that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The OBD acronym stands for on-board diagnostics, a system built into modern vehicles that monitors the performance of the engine and other ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s Joanna ...

Java is becoming more popular for building AI applications, with 62% of respondents in Azul’s just-released 2026 State of Java Survey and Report relying on Java for AI development. Last year’s report ...

Microsoft’s research shows how poisoned language models can hide malicious triggers, creating new integrity risks for enterprises using third-party AI systems. Microsoft has developed a scanner ...

Modern technology has made diagnosing vehicular issues much easier than ever before. Using an OBD2 (On-Board Diagnostics II) scanner is a relatively simple process that can provide crucial information ...

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Here’s a question that I think lots of people in higher education may be confronting over the next few weeks: What should we do with the personal statement for graduate admissions? I’ve now seen ...

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GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Jan 8, 2026 at ...