data engineers

A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Ross Intelligence, an AI legal research company, violated copyright law by training its legal search engine on proprietary data collected by automated bots. The decision is being closely watched because it could set a precedent affecting how AI companies legally use copyrighted material to train their systems.

Nemetschek SE, the German construction software company listed in Frankfurt under the ticker NEM.DE, is being tracked by investors consulting market data on its stock price, recent news, quotes and trading history. The company is one of Europe's leading providers of software for the architecture, engineering and construction industries, and its shares are a regular fixture on watchlists of German mid-cap technology stocks.

With each new AI model release, including the recent Fable and GPT-Astra, a familiar claim resurfaces online: that software engineering is dead. A commentary piece pushes back against a well-known data scientist who repeated the phrase without justification, arguing the recurring declaration has become a reflex rather than a considered assessment of AI's actual impact on programming work.

TDWI has published an analysis arguing that business intelligence observability — monitoring the health, accuracy and reliability of BI pipelines and dashboards — is the missing layer in modern analytics stacks. The piece suggests many organizations trust dashboards without validating the data behind them, and calls for observability practices to extend beyond data engineering into business intelligence.

Developers working with the US government's vPIC vehicle identification API are noting that its engine-related fields can be misleading: values labelled as horsepower and displacement come back in inconsistent units, sometimes liters and sometimes cubic inches, without clear indication of which is which. A write-up discusses how to show EngineHP and Displacement data without implying false precision, a common pain point for anyone building automotive lookup tools in TypeScript.

Developers are discussing the cost profile of World Manufacturer Identifier lookups against the NHTSA's vPIC API, noting individual calls are cheap but repeated requests become expensive at scale. A write-up covers caching strategies safely, including TTLs, stale data handling, and manufacturer data quirks, with TypeScript examples aimed at web developers and engineers.

A new write-up argues that personal finance is surprisingly fragmented, with accounts, investments and assets scattered across banks and brokers, and explores building a single unified view of an individual's wealth. The piece, tagged under wealthtech and wealth management, doubles as a software engineering project, drawing interest from developers and finance enthusiasts discussing how to aggregate and manage personal financial data in one place.