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Microsoft is putting a fresh coat of paint on Copilot, and this time the ambitions are bigger. The redesigned platform bundles chat, autonomous task delegation, and a code-building tool into one unified experience. The pitch to non-programmers is striking — describe what you want, and Copilot builds it. Whether that promise holds up in practice is another question entirely.
Shifting from software to infrastructure, Cloudflare is pushing PostgreSQL closer to the network edge, a move that could meaningfully reduce latency for applications serving users across the globe. Distributed databases have long involved painful trade-offs between consistency and speed, and how Cloudflare navigates those compromises will be worth watching closely as edge computing matures.
And on a lighter note, researchers at the University of Waterloo have taken home an Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their work on urinal design — specifically reducing what scientists delicately call splash-back. It is the kind of applied fluid dynamics that rarely makes headlines, but the Ig Nobel exists precisely to honor research that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think.
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