Discord has open-sourced Osprey, its internal event stream decisions engine capable of evaluating 2.3 million rules per second across 400 million daily actions. Engineered with a Rust coordinator and stateless Python worker nodes, Osprey provides a horizontally scalable architecture for real-time threat detection and mitigation. The project is managed in partnership with the ROOST organization … Read more
Jabez Eliezer Manuel, Senior Principal Engineer at Booking.com, presented Behind Booking.com’s AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story at QCon London 2026, where he discussed how Booking.com has evolved over the past 20 years and the challenges they faced on their journey to incorporate AI. Paying tribute to the 20th edition of QCon London, Manuel kicked off … Read more
This year the Free Software Foundation is marking its 40th Anniversary and is running a global online Hackathon open to everyone in the free software community. For projects interested in participating the deadline for submissions is May 29th. Having already reported on the FSF’s initial event to celebrate 40 years of campaigning for software … Read more
Radical AI has announced the release of TorchSim, a next-generation atomistic simulation engine built natively in PyTorch and designed for the MLIP (machine-learned interatomic potentials) era. Positioned as a major technical shift in materials science, TorchSim promises to accelerate molecular simulations by orders of magnitude compared to traditional frameworks such as ASE (Atomic Simulation Environment) … Read more
JetBrains has announced Junie, its new AI coding agent, in closed preview. Junie, says the company, is able to carry through the coding tasks you assign it and leverage the knowledge about your project context as available in the IDE. According to JetBrains, you can ask Junie to “implement CRUD operations to manage bookmarks with … Read more
Vertex AI RAG Engine is a managed orchestration service aimed to make it easier to connect large language models (LLMs) to external data sources to be more up-to-date, generate more relevant responses, and hallucinate less. According to Google, its new RAG Engine is the “sweet spot” for developers using Vertex AI to implement a RAG-based … Read more