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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Delivers Fast, Accurate Specialized Task Execution for Long-Running Agents
Long-running AI agents spend most of their time on high-volume execution: tool calls, result validation, and subagent delegation. Using a frontier reasoning...
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat landscape.
Route AI Agent Workloads Across Models with NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard
Building an AI agent does not end with choosing a single model. Each model has its own strengths, weaknesses, and cost profile, which can shift from one...
TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?
My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so conducted a few experiments. more…
A practical guide to solving when zero+zero=two in mesh observability
A Service Mesh like Istio, together with Kiali gives you a lot on day one. You install the mesh, point Prometheus at it, and suddenly you have request rate, latency, error rate, and a fairly good...
Testing ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
Daybreak models are now available on AWS
OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.
Link Discord and WoW to Keep the Guild Chatting Wherever You Are
Gather your guildmates! Link your Discord and Battle.net accounts to unlock synced guild chat across Discord and World of Warcraft.
Discord Update: August 11, 2026 Changelog
Here's the Discord Changelog from August 11, 2026, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
The dangers of Postgres subtransactions
Subtransactions can slow down your entire PostgreSQL server and break your high availability strategy by keeping new read replicas from accepting connections.
Multi-region high availability for Kafka workloads with a single Stretch Cluster
Redpanda Operator 26.2 brings GA Stretch Clusters for multi-region replication, Redpanda Connect pipelines as K8s resources, Gateway API support, and safer rolling restarts.
Mapping the AI economy
AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture that demand.
How we improved APM Java startup by encoding a prefix trie as a JVM constant
Learn how the Datadog APM team improved Java startup performance by encoding a prefix trie as a JVM string constant.
Investigate account-level churn risk with Product Analytics account segments
Learn how Product Analytics account segments combine business context and product behavior to identify accounts that may be at risk of churn.
Introducing Muse Glimmer
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local model: End-to-end Agenti...
Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a...
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Everything we launched during Agents Week
Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.
What building an AI-native finance function taught me
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
Open the source for the full engineering note.
How to Fight Clickbait: Meta, LinkedIn & YouTube Case Studies
What does it take for a social media platform to stop rewarding clickbait content?
ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Susie Solis
Meet Susie Solis, a Technical Support Engineer on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.
OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.
Run Local Agentic AI Workflows with Meta’s Muse Glimmer on NVIDIA
Meta returns to the open source ecosystem with the release of Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight dense model with a 120K+ context window built for local AI...
Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.