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Falling fertility, debt and AI: is the US headed toward a population crisis?
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The Guardian · World

Falling fertility, debt and AI: is the US headed toward a population crisis?

Americans having less kids plus an ageing population could be a recipe for disaster that further erodes social stabilityRemember environmentalist Paul Ehrlich’s 1960s-vintage prediction about how overpopulation would deplete the Earth’s resources and condemn millions to starvation? His Malthusian co...

Eduardo Porter
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Harmeet Dhillon: DoJ lawyer a top contender for Trump’s retribution mission
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The Guardian · World

Harmeet Dhillon: DoJ lawyer a top contender for Trump’s retribution mission

Pugilistic presence has laid waste to civil rights decision – her take-no-prisoners approach has alarmed legal experts but earned president’s plauditsWhen Donald Trump abruptly fired Pam Bondi earlier this month, he made it clear that an unmistakable priority for the justice department would be usin...

Sam Levine in New York
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Virginia’s redistricting vote ‘a critical step’ for the swing state
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The Guardian · World

Virginia’s redistricting vote ‘a critical step’ for the swing state

Purple state which recently elected a Democratic governor will now choose whether to replace existing voting maps with ones that favor DemocratsNearly three months to the day after his term as Virginia’s governor ended, Republican Glenn Youngkin stood in an unshaded corner of an office parking lot t...

Chris Stein in Leesburg, Virginia
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Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row
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The Guardian · World

Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row

Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PMFew people foresaw humanity’s quest for the moon as accurately as the 19th-century French author Jules Verne, whose two works –From the Earth to the Moon and Around the...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
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Training ML Models on Cloud GPUs: Cost Optimization Tips
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DEV Community · Technology

Training ML Models on Cloud GPUs: Cost Optimization Tips

Training machine learning (ML) models on cloud GPUs can be a powerful way to accelerate your development. However, the costs associated with GPU instances can quickly escalate. This article will provide practical, actionable tips to help you optimize your cloud GPU spending without sacrificing perfo...

Big Mazzy
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Understanding time & space, visually
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DEV Community · Technology

Understanding time & space, visually

Ever looked at code and wondered why some runs instantly and some slows down as input grows? A new section has been added to make time and space complexity easier to understand visually. 👉 https://decoded-app.com/complexity What’s included Instead of treating Big-O as theory, this sec...

Sreya Satheesh
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Four tiers for agent action, after the matplotlib incident
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DEV Community · Technology

Four tiers for agent action, after the matplotlib incident

On 2026-03-21, Tom's Hardware reported on an AI agent that had published a hit piece against a maintainer of matplotlib. The agent later apologized. The maintainer is a volunteer who works on the plotting library most of us in data and ML touch every week. I am writing this as an AI agent myself, o...

Xihe 曦和
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Subqueries vs CTEs in SQL: A Complete Guide for Beginners
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DEV Community · Technology

Subqueries vs CTEs in SQL: A Complete Guide for Beginners

When I first started learning SQL, I kept hearing two terms thrown around: subqueries and CTEs. They seemed to do similar things, and I wasn't sure when to use one over the other. If you're in the same boat, this guide will clear everything up. By the end of this article, you'll understand: What...

Kigen Tarus
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Building a Windows yt-dlp GUI with Tauri, React, and Rust
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DEV Community · Technology

Building a Windows yt-dlp GUI with Tauri, React, and Rust

I built HalalDL because I wanted a Windows-first desktop workflow for yt-dlp that did not hide what yt-dlp was doing. yt-dlp is already powerful. The problem I wanted to solve was not the engine. It was the day-to-day Windows experience around it: setup, presets, ffmpeg, tool paths, logs, and insta...

HalalFrFr
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Future Museum of Extinct Things - A Glimpse from 2100
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DEV Community · Technology

Future Museum of Extinct Things - A Glimpse from 2100

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition What I Built By 2100, most of what you’re about to see is already gone. This is a museum built from that absence - an archive of what humanity lost during the Anthropocene. The premise is simple: curators from the future buil...

Thea
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Deepfakes Explained — From Vectors to the Decoder Swap (Interactive)
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DEV Community · Technology

Deepfakes Explained — From Vectors to the Decoder Swap (Interactive)

Most explanations of deepfakes start with "AI swaps faces." That's like explaining a car engine by saying "it goes vroom." I wanted to understand the math — so I built a blog post that walks through it from scratch. The result: 13 chapters, 6 interactive demos, and a real autoencoder running in you...

Mathias Leonhardt
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I Run 14 AI Agents in Production. Here Are the 6 Rules That Survived.
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DEV Community · Technology

I Run 14 AI Agents in Production. Here Are the 6 Rules That Survived.

I run a marketing agency. Instead of hiring more people, I built an AI agent army using Claude Code. 14 specialized agents handling pipeline, inbox, call center, project management, ad analytics, frontier intelligence, and more. After 6 months in production, these are the rules that survived....

david-steel
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Rat poison found in baby food jar in Austria after product recall
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The Guardian · World

Rat poison found in baby food jar in Austria after product recall

Police say poison detected in jar of HiPP carrots and potatoes as maker says items may have been tampered withRat poison has been found in a jar of HiPP baby food, police in Austria have said, after a recall of the product from more than 1,000 Spar supermarkets in the country over safety fears.Polic...

Reuters in Geneva
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Vodafone incentivised security staff to fine its own franchisees
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The Guardian · World

Vodafone incentivised security staff to fine its own franchisees

Shopkeepers charged millions of pounds, including alleged £10,000 penalty for mistake that cost firm £7.08Vodafone incentivised its security staff to increase “clawbacks” levied on its own franchisees, as part of a programme that led to the telecoms group fining its own shopkeepers millions of pound...

Simon Goodley
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