When you build and operate in high-stakes, chaotic environments, you have to plan for failure. The Stoics had a name for thinking ahead about this: premeditatio malorum—the deliberate contemplation of ...

In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are ...

We may earn revenue from products featured on this page through affiliate links. Most people think they’re prepared because they’ve imagined the moment everything goes wrong. They picture a power ...

A new study from Google researchers introduces "sufficient context," a novel perspective for understanding and improving retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems in large language models (LLMs).

The September 2025 ransomware attack on European airports left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. Reuters reported that ENISA confirmed a cyberattack on a third-party boarding system provider ...

Alaska Airlines is the latest airline to ground its planes because of an IT meltdown. We talked to industry leaders about why these systems fail,... Why do airline computer systems fail? What the ...