Author: Carter

# How to Ace Your Behavioural Interviews: Frameworks and Strategies for Data Scientists ## Preparation Is Everything I used to think behavioural interviews were a walk in the park. Being confident in my own gifts, I thought that I would be the type they’d want to recruit, but I was wrong. The reality is that you cannot wing these sorts of interviews. Believe me, I tried and failed miserably. Most candidates overlook behavioural interviews and fixate on the technical aspects of their applications. It is easy to think that because data science and machine learning are technical fields, interviewers and…

# Bridging the Federal Workforce Readiness Gap: A Human Performance Approach Federal agencies are confronting an increasingly urgent challenge as mission demands grow more complex and workforce readiness gaps continue to widen. A recent survey conducted by SAIC among defense and civilian leaders reveals that workforce readiness ranks as the second biggest internal challenge to mission success overall, with civilian leaders identifying it as their single most pressing concern. ## The Upskilling Dilemma: Preparing for an Unknown Future Addressing this readiness gap requires far more than simply recruiting new talent. It demands a fundamental commitment to building workforce capacity. The…

Linux vs. RefreshOS # Linux Mint vs. RefreshOS: Which Linux Distribution Is Best for Newcomers? ## ZDNET key takeaways – Both Linux Mint and RefreshOS are great for all users. – Each distro takes a different route, but arrives at the same place. – Only one can claim the title of best distro for new Linux users. — For years, Linux Mint has been one of the most widely recommended Linux distributions for those considering the open-source operating system. There are good reasons for this: Linux Mint is incredibly easy to use, highly secure and stable — and it has…

# Building Reliable Customer-Facing LLM Workflows: Lessons from Processing Billions of Tokens at Scale Inside your own company, almost any failure is cheap: you retry, fall back, or potentially even ignore it. Put that same workflow behind a customer’s API or MCP server and the grace is gone. Now only one thing matters: did the customer get a correct, usable result? Their process depends on yours delivering one. They, not you, now decide what counts as delivered. At Databook we process billions of tokens for the world’s largest enterprises; this article is based on real data from production flows at…

# Who Actually Pays When MicroStrategy’s $64 Billion Bitcoin Bet Goes Wrong? **MicroStrategy’s $64 billion Bitcoin (BTC) bet has become a stress test for everyone who funded it. BTC now trades below $60,000, and the renamed company, Strategy, sits at a discount to its own holdings.** The question dividing investors is no longer whether Strategy gets liquidated tomorrow. It is who absorbs the losses while the company keeps its coins and keeps paying to hold them. — ## How the Bitcoin Flywheel was Built By June 22, Strategy held 847,363 BTC bought for $64.1 billion, an average of $75,651 each.…

# Evolving Shai-Hulud Campaign: Miasma Malware Expands Beyond npm to Go Ecosystem Through Supply Chain Attacks Cybersecurity researchers have identified yet another evolution of the supply chain attack operation linked to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family. The latest wave has compromised a significant new set of npm packages and, notably, has crossed into the Go ecosystem for the first time, demonstrating the campaign’s continued expansion across legitimate software ecosystems. ## Scope of the Latest Campaign According to security firm Socket, the most recent malicious activity includes rogue npm releases targeting the LeoPlatform and RStreams packages, abuse of…

Apple research team recently released the container project. It is an open-source command-line tool written in Swift. It creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license and targets Apple silicon. Containers are how you ship reproducible environments from a laptop to a datacenter. Apple now offers a native path that avoids a single always-on Linux VM. What is Apple’s container ? container is a CLI tool that can be used to build images, run containers, and move images to and from registries. It…

# Federal Headlines: June 26, 2026 A major lawsuit challenging Schedule Policy/Career is intensifying its legal stance. A recently amended complaint now directly targets the reclassifications of 8,000 federal employees that occurred earlier this month. The lawsuit alleges that Schedule Policy/Career violates the Civil Service Reform Act, inhibits due process for federal employees, and intrudes on congressional powers. The plaintiffs in the case are the Government Accountability Project and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. ## Army Establishes New Space Operations Branch The Army has a new branch. The service announced Thursday it has officially established the space…

# MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Review: A Refined Gaming Handheld With Impressive Performance ## Pros and Cons **Pros:** – Excellent sustained performance – Ergonomic design – Powerful cooling **Cons:** – Very expensive – Buggy software — It’s been almost a year since I last reviewed an MSI gaming handheld. Recently, I spent a couple of weeks trying out the new MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, and it’s hard to believe that this device is part of the same series. So much has changed. Back then, it was like the company was trying to find its footing in the handheld…

Liquid AI shipped LFM2.5-230M, it’s the company’s smallest model to date. The release targets a specific job: running agentic tasks on phones, robots, and automation devices. Both the base and instruction-tuned checkpoints are open-weight on Hugging Face. The pitch is narrow on purpose. This is not a general reasoning model. It is built for data extraction and tool use on edge hardware. TL;DR Liquid AI’s LFM2.5-230M is its smallest model yet: 230M params, open-weight, built on LFM2. Runs on-device at 213 tok/s on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 on a Raspberry Pi 5. Beats larger models (Qwen3.5-0.8B, Gemma 3…