The immigrant architects of America’s digital empire

Every morning, millions of Americans engage in a quiet, collective ritual. We wake up, often pull a smartphone from our ...
GitHub

Stack: In-context learning of single-cell biology

Stack is a large-scale encoder-decoder foundation model trained on 150 million uniformly-preprocessed single cells. It introduces a novel tabular attention architecture that enables both intra- and ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Underwater, in space and in your city: Behind the data centre boom

It’s not exactly top secret, the facility we’re visiting today, but it may as well be. There’s no obvious branding on this grey, virtually windowless monolith of a building, certainly nothing that ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Modern Data & Knowledge Platforms: The Foundation Every AI Strategy Actually Runs On: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Every conversation ...