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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • ā˜•25 Java Machine Learning Tools & Libraries

  • šŸ“ŠTesting for interactions in nonlinear regression 

  • šŸ“ˆVisualising income inequality social tables

  • šŸ—„ļøHow ClickHouse handles strings

  • šŸ¤–India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app

  • šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’»OpenAI launches EVMbench

  • šŸ’” AI Tutorial:How to create Chrome extensions using Claude Opus 4.6

  • šŸ¤– AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix security issues that traditional methods often miss.

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Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications o become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical data as input to predict new output values.

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation levels (e.g. high and low) to understand whether the ranking of genotypes depends on nutrient availability.

Visualising income inequality social tables as a scatter plot rather than a dual axis bar/line plot. I use examples from eighteenth and nineteenth century France, England and Wales drawing on Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality 2023 publication…

At my work, we use ClickHouse to process billions of records and hundreds of terabytes of data. ClickHouse is fast, and its speed got me curious to learn some of its internals. Let’s look at a few queries:…

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pg_embedding enables the use of the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.

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Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, on Friday launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile users, entering a fast-growing market dominated by global players including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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Here’s a fun project for your weekend: Apple just released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 26.4 with several new features including an AI-powered playlist-generation feature in Apple Music, support for video content in the Podcasts app, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, and more.

Remember when AWS went down mid-December? It was apparently friendly fire. Amazon’s cloud unit suffered at least two outages, one a 13-hour interruption, due to errors involving its own AI tools. The long outing occurred after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes

Everything’s bigger in Texas and that now includes raw energy. A new report from JLL says Texas could overtake Northern Virginia and become the world’s largest data center market by 2030. Texas has 6.5 GW of capacity under construction due to its strength as a ā€œfrontier marketā€ with power, land, and a clear path to permits.

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’»OpenAI launches EVMbench

The company just launched EVMbench, an adversarial security benchmark designed to test an agent's ability to exploit and patch smart contracts securing over $100 billion in crypto. Technical results show GPT-5.3-Codex hitting a 72.2% success rate in exploit mode, more than doubling its predecessor's performance. While the model is a potent offensive tool, OpenAI is committing $10 million in credits to defensive research and $7.5 million to The Alignment Project to curb safety risks from misaligned AI.

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AI Tutorial

How to create Chrome extensions using Claude Opus 4.6

  • Log in to Claude and select Opus 4.6

  • Generate the code for the extension. Use the prompt below.

Sample prompt: "Develop an extension that [how your extension should work, its features and how you can use it]. Generate the complete code, organize all the files into a folder, and create a downloadable folder named [Name of extension]"

  • Download the files created by Claude.

  • Extract the zip file and open Chrome's extensions manager.

  • Enable "Developer mode" in the top right corner.

  • Click "Load unpacked" and select your project folder.

  • Activate the extension.

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