Sunday, June 28, 2026
2026-06-28 13:49
🚀 Okta has launched its AI agent governance platform for FedRAMP and HIPAA-regulated environments, marking a significant step in identity management. This platform treats AI agents as first-class identities, enhancing security and compliance for federal agencies and healthcare organizations. The product addresses risks associated with unmanaged agents, including compliance violations and increased breach potential. With a focus on governance, it ensures agents are registered and monitored...
Darryl K. Taft
2026-06-28 00:40
In 2022, I reported on the decline of Pollen, an events tech company that faced serious issues post-funding. Despite raising $150M, Pollen laid off a third of its staff and failed to pay wages and vendors, leading to bankruptcy in August. The company's leadership, including CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, faced significant criticism. A recent attempt to remove my article from Google highlights the ongoing efforts to erase this troubling narrative. 🔍✍️ #Pollen #BusinessNews...
Gergely Orosz
Saturday, June 27, 2026
2026-06-27 15:00
The tech industry is rapidly moving towards runtime verification for agent code. 🚀 Companies like Greptile, Cursor, and Devin emphasize that agents should not only write code but also verify it in real-time. Static checks alone are insufficient. By allowing agents to run their code before human review, efficiency increases and bottlenecks are reduced. 🔄 However, challenges remain, especially in ensuring that the runtime environment accurately reflects real system interactions. As the trend...
Arjun Iyer
2026-06-27 10:30
Engineers Armin Ronacher and Mario Zechner highlight a growing issue in coding: "vibe slop." This term describes inefficient and error-prone code generated through prompt-based tools. They warn that this can lead to increased compute and resource costs, affecting startups' sustainability. Additionally, Postman's CEO Abhinav Asthana introduces the concept of "context debt," which refers to the complex web of services and APIs that complicate development. This debt accumulates over time and...
Matt Burns
Friday, June 26, 2026
2026-06-26 20:52
🚀 Exciting news for the automation community! Introducing CCNA Automation Prep, a live, interactive workshop series led by Cisco experts Kareem Iskander and Quinn Snyder. This series is designed to prepare you for the CCNA Automation certification. The rebranded certification aims to clarify exam objectives while maintaining the same content. The interactive format encourages engagement and practical learning. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills! #CCNA #Automation #Cisco...
Kareem Iskander
2026-06-26 19:00
🚀 AI agents have evolved significantly over the past two years, transitioning from single-question responses to complex, multi-turn interactions and long-horizon planning. The NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint serves as an open-source reference for developers, utilizing LangChain Deep Agents and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit. It allows for both quick answers and detailed research reports. This guide details how to deploy AI-Q 2.0 on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform and Helm, providing step-by-...
Anurag Kuppala
2026-06-26 18:36
🚀 The tech industry is uniting to enhance open-source security with the launch of Akrites, led by the Linux Foundation and backed by 19 organizations, including AWS, Google, and Microsoft. 🛡️ This initiative aims to streamline the discovery, remediation, and disclosure of vulnerabilities in critical open-source software. AI models are now making it possible to identify multiple vulnerabilities quickly, but attackers have access to these tools as well. 🔍 As AI tools reveal thousands of...
Paul Sawers
2026-06-26 18:26
🚨 The US government has mandated restrictions on OpenAI's upcoming GPT 5.6 model due to cybersecurity concerns. 🤖 Only a select group of government-approved partners will have access during the initial release. This follows a similar directive given to Anthropic for their AI models. 🔍 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that access will be granted customer by customer, which is an unusual approach for such technology. #OpenAI #GPT56 #AI #Cybersecurity #Innovation
Adrian Bridgwater
2026-06-26 16:00
🚀 The new Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 checkpoint is now optimized using NVIDIA Model Optimizer! As context windows expand, efficient movement of large model weights is crucial. Quantization, specifically NVFP4, compresses weights into a smaller format. This 4-bit floating point system offers significant performance gains. The Nemotron 3 Ultra achieves up to 5.9x higher inference throughput compared to GLM-5.1 while maintaining BF16 accuracy across nearly all benchmarks. This article details how to...
Michelle Horton
2026-06-26 14:11
Four AI leaders—AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic—are advancing towards a common architectural shift in agent runtime updates. 🤖 While they agree that the session is the new unit of compute, they differ on how to achieve isolation. Microsoft focuses on per-session isolation, while AWS uses microVMs and Google applies dedicated sandboxes. This evolution highlights the need for session-aware execution in enterprise agents, moving beyond traditional request-level load balancing. 🌐 #AI...
Janakiram MSV
2026-06-26 14:00
AI coding tools can accelerate coding but also amplify mistakes across projects. These errors often include subtle misalignments with project needs, leading to bloated or incorrect code that can pass initial checks. Teams typically try to improve AI instructions with files like CLAUDE.md, but this doesn't always ensure mistake detection. An independent verification system is essential for catching these errors effectively. Aviator's approach prioritizes verified intent over traditional code...
Ankit Jain
2026-06-26 13:52
Retailers are adapting to a shift in shopping trends as AI shopping agents become more prevalent. Shopify's new system, Catalog, helps AI identify and group duplicate product listings, enhancing product discoverability. This comes as AI-driven traffic to Shopify stores has surged significantly. As the landscape evolves, retailers are rethinking how they present product information to AI. 📈🤖 #RetailTech #AI #Shopify #Ecommerce #ProductDiscovery
Suman Bhattacharyya
2026-06-26 13:00
Many AI agent projects encounter challenges during security reviews due to unclear identity models and broad permissions. This issue can halt progress when questions arise about the identity under which agents operate. Research indicates a significant increase in AI agents, highlighting the growing need for well-defined identities to ensure accountability and security. To address this, developers must focus on key identity decisions, such as using workload identities instead of shared service...
Jackson Connell
2026-06-26 12:38
🚀 Exciting news for developers! JetBrains is open-sourcing the LSP Client API in the upcoming 2026.2 release. This move aims to enhance IDE integration by streamlining how language servers interact with JetBrains IDEs and Android Studio, addressing challenges faced by plugin authors. The public API will undergo a name change for clarity, ensuring a better user experience. Stay tuned for updates, especially if you're using or developing plugins! #JetBrains #LSP #OpenSource #IntelliJ...
Jakub Chrzanowski
2026-06-26 07:01
🚀 Exploring distributed AI inference? This article outlines essential blueprints for various traffic shapes, from high-concurrency chat to edge inference on workstations. Each blueprint includes a workload signature, KPI priority, and topology details. It also covers troubleshooting strategies for optimizing performance metrics like TTFT and TPOT. A step-by-step growth path is provided for teams scaling from a single vLLM instance. Dive into the mechanics of AI deployment! 💻📊 #AI...
Fatih E. Nar, Yuchen Fama, Greg Pereira, Yuan Tang
2026-06-26 00:09
The debate on public cloud vs. on-prem solutions is heating up. As AWS and other cloud services grow, companies are reassessing their cloud strategies due to rising costs. Many now realize that not all workloads are best suited for the cloud. Experts suggest that segmenting workloads and moving some back on-prem can lead to lower costs and better management of high-risk data. For insights on the evolving landscape, check out the latest episode of The New Stack podcast. 💻☁️📈💡 #CloudComputing...
Alex Wilhelm
Thursday, June 25, 2026
2026-06-25 22:25
Unlock efficient resource binding with Vulkan's new descriptor heap feature! 🎮 This innovation simplifies how shaders access GPU resources, enhancing performance and aligning better with modern hardware. It’s especially beneficial for complex rendering tasks and dynamic texture indexing. Khronos offers comprehensive guides on using the descriptor heap API, and NVIDIA drivers support this feature to streamline development. Check out the descriptor heap sample in Nsight Graphics to start...
Tanya Lenz
2026-06-25 21:16
🚀 Exciting news for developers! The DigitalOcean plugin for Codex is now in Public Preview. This new feature allows you to create and connect Codex-ready cloud development machines directly within Codex, eliminating the need for manual server setup. You can provision a remote development environment using simple commands. 💻🌐 Once connected, you can configure projects, install dependencies, and manage machines—all from your own DigitalOcean account. Plus, with Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app,...
Ari Sigal
2026-06-25 18:56
🚀 Developers focused on real-time AI can benefit from DiffusionGemma, a new text generation model from Google DeepMind. This model generates tokens in parallel, increasing speed and efficiency. It can produce up to 1,000 tokens/sec on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which enhances user experience while lowering costs. DiffusionGemma supports text and image modalities, with a total of 25.2B parameters. It's optimized for various NVIDIA platforms, making it versatile for different AI applications. #AI...
Anu Srivastava
2026-06-25 18:11
🚀 NVIDIA has achieved a significant milestone in MLPerf Training v6.0, dominating all benchmarks submitted by the MLCommons consortium. The NVIDIA platform excelled with the fastest training times and highest performance across various tests, including new pretraining benchmarks like DeepSeek-V3 and GPT-OSS-20B. With up to 8,192 Blackwell GPUs working together, NVIDIA showcased the power of its GB300 NVL72 system, setting new records for time-to-train in complex workloads. #NVIDIA #MLPerf #AI...
Farshad Ghodsian
2026-06-25 17:47
AI is rapidly generating code, which presents new challenges for developers. A growing number advocate for a shift from code maintenance to spec-driven development. Dušan Omerčević, CEO of Codeplain, emphasizes that specifications should be the focus, allowing for easier updates and regeneration of code rather than maintaining it. Codeplain recently introduced an open-source framework called plain-forge to streamline the development process by automating spec creation. They’ve also secured...
Paul Sawers
2026-06-25 16:43
🚀 Generative AI workloads are expanding beyond single GPU capabilities. NVIDIA's TensorRT 11.0 introduces multi-device inference support, allowing developers to efficiently scale across multiple GPUs while maintaining key optimizations like kernel fusions and quantization. This feature enables high-performance deployments for edge devices and works seamlessly with Torch-TensorRT for massive model deployment. For optimal performance, TensorRT integrates with NVIDIA NCCL, enhancing distributed...
Peter Kisfaludi
2026-06-25 16:38
KRAFTON has unveiled PUBG Ally, an innovative AI companion for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS. Unlike traditional NPCs, this co-playable character (CPC) uses NVIDIA ACE technology to interact dynamically with players. 🤖🎮 Powered by advanced language models, PUBG Ally can understand voice commands and adapt to game scenarios in real time. It entered public beta on June 17 and will be available in Arcade Mode until June 30. This new approach aims to enhance player experience with more responsive gameplay....
Elizabeth Goodman
2026-06-25 16:30
🚀 The Rust Foundation has launched the Rust Foundation Trusted Training (RFTT) program, a formal accreditation for Rust training providers. This initiative aims to ensure quality and build trust in Rust training, as adoption grows across various industries. Five organizations are part of the founding cohort. 🏢 Accreditation evaluates five key areas, ensuring a high standard of training. Fees for accreditation cover administrative costs and are set to support the program's operations. For more...
Darryl K. Taft
2026-06-25 16:00
Businesses are facing challenges in managing unstructured data like PDFs and audio recordings. Traditional template-based extraction methods are becoming outdated due to the diverse formats of modern documents. 📄🔍 Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) offers a solution. This generative AI-powered service automates the extraction and transformation of various content types, ensuring faster and more accurate processing. BDA uses Foundation models for intelligent content understanding and allows...
Hafiz Hassan
2026-06-25 15:22
🚀 The article discusses the evolution of development environments and introduces EelApi for plugin authors. Modern IDEs now operate in isolated environments, such as WSL2 and Dev Containers, which require precise handling of paths and processes. This shift allows for more flexibility in project management. EelApi provides a structured API to manage these environments effectively, facilitating tasks like filesystem access and process execution across different setups. Learn more about adapting...
Alexander Koshevoy
2026-06-25 15:01
🚀 SpaceX's acquisition of Anysphere, the parent company of Cursor, for $60B has sparked discussions on AI coding assistants. While AI's role in coding is significant, the real challenge lies in code quality. As AI increases code volume, ensuring its reliability becomes crucial. The future of software engineering will focus on trust in code rather than mere quantity. #AI #SoftwareEngineering #SpaceX #Cursor #CodeQuality
Kerry Beetge
2026-06-25 15:00
AI costs are increasing, but not just due to more expensive models. A major factor is messy context management in enterprises. 🤖 Context accumulation drives costs as agents repeatedly gather information from multiple sources like GitHub and Jira. This results in high token consumption for queries. 📊 To address this, an experiment was conducted to streamline context retrieval by creating a semantic layer that reduces unnecessary data hops. The goal is to lower costs while maintaining...
Zohar Einy
2026-06-25 14:57
🚀 JetBrains AI now recommends Codex as the default coding agent for IDE users, enhancing the development experience. Previously, users selected their agents manually, but with advancements in AI, a recommended starting point simplifies the process. The selection was based on real software engineering tasks across Java, C#, and Python, focusing on task handling, cost, and speed. Want to explore other agents? You can still switch anytime! #JetBrains #AI #CodingAgents #SoftwareDevelopment...
Anna Maltseva
2026-06-25 14:54
🚀 Exciting update for developers! The Toolbox App 3.6 EAP now defaults to using the JetBrains Daemon (jetbrainsd) for SSH connections to remote environments. This change aims to enhance the reliability of remote development processes. Users are encouraged to test the EAP build and report any issues via YouTrack, including logs for better troubleshooting. Temporary workarounds are available if needed. 🔗 #JetBrains #ToolboxApp #SSH #DevCommunity #EAP
Lana Novikova
2026-06-25 14:17
🚀 In the world of app development, AI agents often struggle to identify real performance bottlenecks. When an app freezes, traditional AI tools guess without proper profiling data. JetBrains Rider introduces a solution: a dotTrace-backed profiling skill for its AI Assistant. This allows the agent to analyze .dtp snapshots, leading to accurate diagnostics and actionable recommendations. The results are promising, with accuracy scores improving significantly and guesswork decreasing. #JetBrains...
Sasha Ivanova
2026-06-25 14:00
🚀 The Agent Toolkit for AWS has launched, featuring over 20 agent skills designed to enhance your workflow. However, to fully utilize these skills, one crucial file is necessary: the rules file. This file instructs your agent to access skills and resources effectively. Setting up takes just two minutes. Make sure to check the README for complete instructions. 📄💻 #AWSToolkit #AgentSkills #TechTips #CloudComputing #MCP
Esin Saribudak
2026-06-25 12:11
🚀 Dive into the challenges of Rust web development! In a recent guest post by Mateusz Maćkowski and Marek Grzelak, they discuss the common hurdles developers face when building JSON APIs in Rust. Key points include: - The complexity of async Rust and its debugging issues. - Inconsistent error handling across frameworks. - Fragmented ecosystem making choices overwhelming for newcomers. Batteries-included frameworks like Loco.rs and cot.rs are making strides, but there's still a way to go....
Irina Mihajlovic
2026-06-25 12:00
Learning to ask questions can significantly impact growth and confidence. Aaryan Naithani, a software engineer intern at Cisco, reflects on his journey. Initially hesitant to ask for help, he realized that not seeking guidance hindered his progress. A turning point came when he reached out for support, discovering that asking questions is essential for learning. Embracing this approach transformed his experience at Cisco. 💡🤝 #CiscoInterns #CareerGrowth #LearningJourney #AskQuestions
Cisco Interns
2026-06-25 10:02
🚨 Privacy Alert! 🚨 Recent research highlights the risks of membership inference attacks on chatbots and large language models (LLMs). These attacks can reveal whether specific individuals' data was used in training without directly accessing databases. The study emphasizes that current detection methods may not be enough to protect user privacy, especially for fine-tuned models. Researchers are exploring these vulnerabilities to help developers strengthen their models against such threats. 🛡️...
Katie Fraser
2026-06-25 08:21
🚀 Exciting news for Python developers! Python 3.15 introduces explicit lazy imports through PEP 810. This feature allows module loading to be deferred until first use, improving startup speed and reducing memory usage. 🔍 Using proxy objects, it maintains interpreter optimizations while ensuring backward compatibility with control flags for gradual adoption. 🛠️ Python 3.15.0b1 is now available for testing. Developers can download it using `uv` or `pyenv` and start exploring this feature in...
Cheuk Ting Ho
2026-06-25 07:15
Explore the engineering behind the Data Governance Copilot in Part 3 of our series! This article details the copilot's container-level architecture, highlighting the use of high-level frameworks like Llama Stack versus lower-level Python libraries. It also covers the mechanics of formatting LLM messages and the user query flow. Stay tuned for more on integrating OpenShift AI and PG Airman MCP! 🚀🔍 #DataGovernance #OpenShiftAI #AIIntegration #TechArchitecture #MachineLearning
Peter Samouelian
2026-06-25 07:15
🚀 Building a consistent RHEL environment is essential for maintaining operational stability. Red Hat's image builder and Lightspeed content templates streamline this process. 🔧 The image builder allows for customized image creation, while content templates ensure standardized package management. This leads to consistent deployments and updates across your systems. 📋 The process involves creating a content template, building an image blueprint, deploying the system, and updating templates as...
Shane McDowell
2026-06-25 07:15
🚀 Exciting updates are here for the cert-manager operator on Red Hat OpenShift! Version 1.19 introduces the trust-manager, allowing admins to customize and distribute trusted CA bundles across Kubernetes clusters. This upgrade enhances automated management of TLS certificates and builds the foundation for mutual TLS (mTLS) security. By efficiently managing certificate lifecycles, teams can adopt zero trust principles, ensuring secure communication between workloads. 🔗 Explore the benefits of...
Nick Png
2026-06-25 03:01
Struggling with Python dependency trees? 🐍 Fromager simplifies building from source by generating two key artifacts: build-order.json and graph.json. These tools ensure reproducibility and auditability—critical for secure environments like finance and regulated AI. It addresses common issues with pip, such as circular dependencies and lack of customization for build flags. Learn more about how Fromager can enhance your Python projects! 📦🔍 #Python #Fromager #DependencyManagement #OpenSource...
Lalatendu Mohanty, Rohan Devasthale