Microsoft responds to Microsoft 365 problems affecting email, Teams, and OneDrive

A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms

Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.

1h ago ·techcrunch.com

Why your RAG returns garbage (and it's not the model)

Your RAG bot just gave a confident, detailed answer. And it's completely wrong . Here's the part that'll annoy you: the model did nothing wrong. It answered perfectly — using the text you handed it.

• Chunking: Incorrect fixed-length cuts split sentences or questions from their answers
• Embedding: Retrieval model may not produce similar vectors for related information
• Ranking: Re-ranker can prioritize most relevant chunks for accurate answers

1h ago ·dev.to

Blog Pipeline Fence Corruption: How a Naive Sed Rule Swallowed Markdown Code Blocks

A draft came out of my blog generation pipeline with the frontmatter intact, the title correct, the word count in range, and roughly 1,400 words of prose rendered inside a single syntax-highlighted…

• Sed rule corrupted Markdown code blocks by removing closing fences, causing unclosed code blocks.
• Fix involved changing sed rule to match whole-document wrapper instead of substitution.

1h ago ·dev.to

How to quickly deploy a website with Docker

Hey everyone! Do you find it tedious to manually create Docker Compose files whenever you want to spin up multiple web servers?

1h ago ·dev.to