#pulse

Poll: Biosecurity Community Pulse & Perspective 2026

Hi! We are Ana and Carolina and are writing a collaborative piece hoping to analyze and tackle some biosecurity field-related questions and perceived problems. We want to see how one's experiences as a working person in the community align with general trends and reports of different organisations, governments, and policymakers. This form should take less than 5 minutes. We are mindful of people's time so please don't stress grammar or response length! We'd love to get as many responses as possible. Thanks in advance! Edit: if you'd like to expand on any of the ideas you included, feel free to

LessWrong · EN

Crimson Star

Watch the Sun’s atmosphere pulse and flow in extreme UV . Images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed” by Seán Doran, whose video work is always incredible. It would be great to see this in IMAX or some other large screen format, like in the observatory on the ship in Sunshine . ]]> Tags: Sean Doran

Kottke · EN

プレステ純正のワイヤレススピーカー「PULSE Elevate」が発売延期に。製造上の問題を確認

ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメントは、プレイステーション 5用周辺機器「PULSE Elevate ワイヤレススピーカー」の発売延期を発表した。新たな発売日は未定。

Game Watch · JA

The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

An in-depth report by Reuters details how Meta’s leadership decided to slash team sizes by 60%. Zuckerberg changed his mind, and now the company is stuck with low morale and culture turned mercenary.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models

Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making large savings on their AI bills by dropping proprietary models and using smart model routing.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages

After a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies, we’re now experiencing a CPU shortage, thanks to AI agents using a lot more CPU with tool usage.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies

Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more companies to do the same.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system

Git had too many performance problems at 30,000 PRs per day, so Anthropic built its own. I talked with the team, including asking why they didn’t open source its new system, ‘Scion.’

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?

Pragmatic Engineer · EN