Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million monthly users. It increasingly ...

Indonesians fight a German cement giant over a mine and factory project

Indonesians are trying to stop a major German cement producer from building a mine and factory under a unique supply chain ...
InfoQ

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 ...

Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

Google is so famous for killing products that there’s a whole virtual graveyard you can explore. Google’s latest shutdown now ...
GitHub

Speech To Speech: Build voice agents with open-source models

This starts an OpenAI Realtime-compatible server at ws://localhost:8765/v1/realtime using Parakeet TDT for local STT, an OpenAI-compatible LLM, and Qwen3-TTS for ...