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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded in their Envoy sidecar proxy, allowing user-initiated ...

Moody’s Mark Zandi: ‘Economic fallout’ from Trump’s tariffs is significant – and ‘the trend lines don’t look good.’ Which numbers look the worst

Zandi worries that the combination of high tariffs and global war could mean a recession is on the way.

What AI Maze Experiments Reveal About Chasing The Wrong Goal

A little over a decade ago, AI researchers Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley set small robots fitted with sensors loose in a ...
Tech Times

TikTok Super App Adds Hotels, Finance, and Sports: ByteDance’s China Law Problem Persists

TikTok super app now books hotels, streams full songs, tracks FIFA World Cup scores, and is pursuing a fintech license in ...
J-Source

Behind the algorithm: How investigative journalists exposed Canada’s listeria oversight failure

When a deadly listeria outbreak swept across Canada in 2024, the initial headlines focused on recalls and rising case counts.
IEEE

Traffic Engineering in Large-scale Networks with Generalizable Graph Neural Networks

Abstract: Traffic Engineering (TE) in large-scale networks like cloud Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations is a critical challenge. Although learning-based ...
IEEE

A Topical Review of Quantum and Classical Machine Learning Approaches to Disaster Escape Routing Problems

Abstract: The pathfinding problem in a graph has been solved using several classical algorithms, notably Dijkstra’s and A* algorithms. However, most classical algorithms are most effective on static ...