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Cloudflare's new Cache Response Rules let you control caching *after* your server responds. This gives developers powerful, fine-grained control to optimize performance and reduce origin server load, all from the Cloudflare dashboard.
The city of Baltimore is suing prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, alleging they are illegal sportsbooks. This legal challenge could set a major precedent for how fintech and Web3 products are regulated in the United States.
Kioxia and SanDisk revealed a new memory chip that could enable the world's first 1 petabyte SSDs. This breakthrough promises massive increases in storage density and speed for data centers and cloud infrastructure.
LuaCAD is a new open-source tool for creating 3D models with code. It uses the popular Lua scripting language as a more powerful and user-friendly alternative to the language used by the popular tool OpenSCAD.
Nvidia has released NeMo Switchyard, a new tool for model routing. It helps developers automatically send AI prompts to the most cost-effective model, addressing the growing problem of high inference expenses for businesses.
The open-source AI platform Kubeflow has released major updates, including better Spark support, to simplify building complex AI systems on Kubernetes. The project is also nearing official graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, signaling its maturity.
Meta has open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B AI model that runs on consumer GPUs. This allows developers to build powerful, autonomous AI agents locally, cutting cloud costs and improving privacy by keeping data on-device.
A new study shows GPT-4 can predict human personality scores with surprising accuracy from text alone. This emergent ability has major implications for user profiling, product development, and sophisticated social engineering attacks.
Vercel is offering free access to Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a powerful coding model with a 1 million-token context window. The offer is available for developers using the 'eve' agent framework through Vercel's AI Gateway until August 27.
Google Cloud has updated BigQuery with graph data capabilities. This helps AI agents understand the complex relationships within business data, leading to more accurate and trustworthy insights than what's possible with simple tables.
The world's largest battery-electric aircraft, a 106-foot demonstrator, just completed its first flight using only about $5 worth of electricity. This test flight is a key step toward building a 30-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner.
HashiCorp's Packer can now automatically generate and sign attestations for every machine image it builds. This gives teams a verifiable, cryptographic record to prove an image's origin and integrity, strengthening software supply chain security.
A new radiation-blocking vest successfully passed a test flight around the Moon. This breakthrough is a crucial step in protecting astronauts from dangerous solar radiation on future missions to Mars and beyond, making deep space travel safer.
The PostgreSQL team has released a critical security update for all supported versions, patching 28 vulnerabilities and over 110 bugs. This major release requires immediate attention from anyone running a PostgreSQL database to prevent potential exploits.
Uber Eats rebuilt its core user feeds using web technology inside its native app. This allows the company to ship updates and new features instantly, bypassing the slow and unpredictable mobile app store review process for every change.
New research shows most UK tech leaders now view network outages as a critical business problem, not just an IT issue. Growing complexity in vendors and platforms is making it harder for technology to drive business transformation.
Vercel has integrated Exa's AI-native web search into its AI Gateway, making it free for all developers until August 31. This simplifies building AI applications that can access and understand real-time web data.
Netflix has replaced its homegrown batch processing system with Kueue, an open-source alternative. The move gives them more features and saves the high cost of maintaining a custom internal tool for managing large-scale computing jobs.
Microsoft Research has a new benchmark, MindTopo, to test if AI models can understand spatial relationships like knots and connections. This is a key step for building more capable robots and augmented reality applications.
The FAA successfully hired over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controller trainees. The strategy shows how skills from gaming can be valuable for critical, high-pressure technical jobs, offering a new talent pool for recruiters.
The new Insta360 X6 is the best 360 camera available, with major upgrades in image quality and battery life. However, its high price and an unstable mobile app may give professional users pause before adoption.
Oracle is installing a Quantinuum quantum computer directly into its cloud infrastructure. The move aims to give enterprise customers on-demand access to quantum power for demanding AI and high-performance computing workloads, simplifying a complex technology.
JetBrains is adding 'Agent Skills' to IntelliJ IDEA and other IDEs. This lets developers teach the built-in AI assistant new capabilities and knowledge, making it perform complex coding tasks aligned with their specific project needs.
A federal agency used emergency powers to stop New York from shutting down prediction market Kalshi. The move signals a major clash over who regulates new financial tech, creating uncertainty for fintech founders and operators.