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Seven Finalists Announced for the 2026 EU Mies Awards for Contemporary European Architecture
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the seven finalist projects for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Awards, supported by the European Union's Creative…
What is context engineering? And why it's the new AI architecture
Context engineering is the practice of designing systems that determine what information an AI model sees before it generates a response to user input. It goes beyond formatting prompts or crafting instructions, instead shaping the entire…
Here's your chance to shape the London Festival of Architecture 2026
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First House: The Kite by Architecture Architecture
It's genuinely hard to say which of our projects claims the mantle of “first house.” Our practice began, as many do, with an array of smaller commissions: a single bathroom, a garden balustrade, carports; house-adjacent warm-up…
AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could be a major architectural leap
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Why We Keep Blaming Prompts Instead of Architecture
A quiet pattern after Moltbook—the industry protects the surface layer so it doesn't have to rebuild the foundation. About a month ago, I wrote a piece on dev.to called Tech Horror Codex: Substrate Sovereignty. It was an experiment—a…
Designing TikTok: Short Video Platform Architecture
When ByteDance launched TikTok in 2016, few could have predicted it would become the fastest-growing social media platform in history. With over 1 billion active users consuming millions of short videos daily, TikTok's architecture represents one…
Maslow Saw Vibrant City Life as an Unrealized Goal
As America's most populous city ushers in the new mayorship of African-born Zohran Mamdani, the time seems opportune to highlight Abraham Maslow's own viewpoint on optimal urban life. He warmly recalled to a California business group, 'My father…
Bernstein Raises PPG Industries (PPG) PT to $130, Cites Revenue Beat Despite Q4 Earnings Miss
PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE: PPG) is one of the most undervalued quality stocks to buy right now. On January 30, Bernstein increased the price target for PPG Industries to $130 from $123 while keeping its Outperform rating. The firm observed that PPG…
The future of apps is voice
Like it or not, there's no turning back: apps and operating systems will steadily gravitate toward voice-first interactions. But here's the thing: none of the points I'm about to make mean that you will be forced to talk to your devices against…
Qualcomm, Arm bear brunt of memory shortage as smartphone chip sales disappoint
Feb 4 (Reuters) - Memory shortages will constrain sales of cell phones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer Arm Holdings, executives and analysts said on…
Systems' Hack and RAMSA's Palmer Memorial Institute Plan: This Week's Review
This week's architecture news brings together a series of announcements that reflect how the discipline is engaging with larger structural and institutional frameworks. The OBEL Foundation's introduction of Systems' Hack as the theme for its 2026…
AI and the Slippery Slope of Frictionless Intelligence
Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. Here's what really strikes me. Artificial intelligence doesn't just operate differently from human thought but inverts nearly every cognitive constraint we face. AI exists in computational antithesis to human…
LinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale
In a recent LinkedIn Engineering Blog post, Bohan Yang describes the project to upgrade the company's legacy ZooKeeper-based service discovery platform. Facing imminent capacity limits with thousands of microservices, LinkedIn needed a more…
Space Force may be done with R-GPS, but Congress isn't
Few modern systems are as consequential — or as exposed — as the Global Positioning System. A temporary loss of access to its positioning, navigation and timing signals would ripple through the global economy and severely impair…
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