Tom Falk

Just a guy trying to piece together enough information to see the bigger picture in the tech industry

Tom Falk
flipped into Technical Tool Belt
9 hours ago
Dynamic Table Partitioning in Postgres
supabase.com
We helped a customer recently who was storing 500 million chat messages in a single Postgres table. As the table was growing, their queries were …
Tom Falk
flipped into Ai, Deep Learning And Neural Networks
13 hours ago
Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows
TechCrunch - Manish Singh
Sam Altman, Peak XV, and Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman’s AI grant are among backers of an AI startup, founded by two teenagers, that’s aiming to assist businesses in automating numerous workflows in previously unexplored ways. Induced AI, founded this year, enables businesses to input their …
Tom Falk
flipped into Ai, Deep Learning And Neural Networks
16 hours ago
Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks
Ars Technica - Kate Knibbs, wired.com
Adding fake watermarks to real images, evading current watermarking methods is not hard. Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the …
Tom Falk
flipped into VECTOR DATABASES
15 hours ago
PlanetScale forks MySQL to add vector support
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
It seems like everyone in the database business is thinking about how to capitalize on the growth of AI by adding support for vectors to their products. That, after all, remains to be the easiest way to feed up-to-date data to foundation models. Almost 28 years after its launch, MySQL may not have …
Tom Falk
flipped into Tech Companies & Stocks To Watch
1 day ago
IronNet, founded by former NSA director, shuts down and lays off staff
TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker
IronNet, a once-promising cybersecurity startup founded by a former NSA director and funded by cyber and defense investors, has shuttered and laid off its remaining staff following its collapse. In a regulatory filing published Friday, IronNet’s president and chief financial officer Cameron Pforr …
Tom Falk
flipped into Cyber Security, InfoSec and Privacy
18 hours ago
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. | The Mozilla Blog
mozilla.org - Dennis Jackson
As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and …