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Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import…
Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and…
Google has made Data Agent Kit generally available, a free set of MCP tools and 37 open-source skills that connect coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. Two kinds of guardrail ship…
Full article · CC BY 4.0It is a commonly held truth among computer geeks that there is no such thing as bug free software, or a secure computer. Any piece of software that anyone actually uses will have a security…
Full article · CC BY 4.0If you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week—and all your nerdiest friends were talking about "The Vulnerability Apocalypse” and this…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Last week, two federal appeals courts issued opinions that will allow Florida and Georgia to start enforcing laws that will age-gate and block young people from accessing social media. The laws do not adequately respect…
AWS recently introduced Lambda Web Functions, allowing developers to run Node.js web applications using frameworks such as Express and Hono directly on Lambda, with support for concurrent requests and response streaming. By Renato Losio
CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte…
Cloudflare has introduced on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers and Durable Objects, allowing developers to investigate performance bottlenecks in production using interactive flamegraphs. By Craig Risi
NgRx 22 adds experimental resource extensions that change Angular's resource behavior, so value() is retained during reloads and no longer throws on errors. It also introduces dynamic deep signals for union types, a SignalStoreFeatureType utility,…
AI company Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in service to find vulnerabilities in open-source projects. Enrolled maintainers receive periodic security reports generated by the company's strongest models, including Claude Mythos. The reports are…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of…