InfoQ

Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

Optical writing of antiferromagnets points toward new storage devices and energy efficient information systems

A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of ...
Ancient Origins

AI Just Read Scrolls Burnt by Vesuvius 2,000 Years Ago — Revealing Lost Wisdom of Ancient Philosophers

In a landmark achievement for archaeology and the study of ancient philosophy, researchers have digitally “unrolled” and are ...
Scientific American

History depends on records that weren’t built to last

Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve ...
Opinion

It reads your email, files your claims, and never asks permission — The privacy law of AI agents

Sara H. Jodka of Dickinson Wright PLLC discusses the flow of information through AI agents often without human sign-off and the privacy risks and compliance issues raised.
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...