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27 Feb

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Part of the annoying thing about angel investing is that you’re ostensibly investing in CUTTING EDGE FUTURE STARTUPS who are about to BRING THE FUTURE TO YOUR FACE and in order to do this you have to go through some of the worst software and processes on the goddamn planet: banks, and laws. Some cool stuff remains, though. Money EUROPEANS…

26 Feb

Jeremy Likness 8 min read

Discover how Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData brings unified vector database access to .NET - one interface for semantic search across any vector store with built-in support for embeddings, filtering, and RAG patterns. The post Vector Data in .NET – Building Blocks for AI Part 2 appeared first on .NET Blog.

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GeForce NOW Community 2 min read

GeForce NOW’s anniversary celebration reaches a chilling crescendo as Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem creeps into the cloud — and the horrors look better than ever on a GeForce NOW Ultimate membership. To mark the occasion, a special launch bundle rises from the shadows, pairing the game with a yearlong Ultimate membership for a limited time. […]

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Nathan Baker 3 min read

Think about an HTML page. At its core, it’s just a container—a bounded environment with a set of rules, capabilities, and constraints. Everything that happens inside it is governed by what you put there. Now imagine that same concept, but instead of DOM elements and event listeners, you’re placing AI agents with distinct personas into […] The post Digital Clones…

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J Simpson 9 min read

Agentic AI systems promise something beyond single-turn inference. They can provide persistence, autonomy, and the ability to plan and act across time. However, anyone who’s tried to wire real APIs into an agent quickly discovers an uncomfortable reality. Even well-trained models can become jerky, brittle, or outright wrong once network calls, retries, partial failures, and ...

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25 Feb

JEFF GANGEMI, GROWTH MARKETING PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL 1 min read

As AI reshapes the software landscape, SaaS companies face a new reality: Incremental improvements are no longer enough. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Pablo Dominguez of Insight Partners joins Jeff Gangemi to discuss how AI-first thinking, a culture of builders, and centralized strategy are redefining growth.

JEFF GANGEMI, GROWTH MARKETING PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL 1 min read

In today’s crowded media landscape, creating great content is only half the battle: Getting it in front of the target is what drives growth. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Noah Greenberg, Co-founder and CEO of Stacker, joins Jeff Gangemi, Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, to discuss how data-driven storytelling and brand authority help brands scale…

Yiwen Xu 4 min read

We’re excited to share a seamless new integration between Docker Model Runner (DMR) and Open WebUI, bringing together two open source projects to make working with self-hosted models easier than ever. With this update, Open WebUI automatically detects and connects to Docker Model Runner running at localhost:12434. If Docker Model Runner is enabled, Open WebUI...

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Abby Peterson 4 min read

Not too long ago, due to government funding issues, I was working on a project whose timeline had to be revisited. And part of the features we were going to get to before President Trump’s administration pulled funding was in-app reporting for the clients: a place where they could generate and export stats on specific […] The post A User’s…

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Bence A. Tóth 6 min read

The first time you realize you’re a safe leader, it feels like a victory. People tell you the truth sooner. They admit mistakes instead of hiding them. They bring you the messy thing instead of the polished story. The team takes more calculated risks, and the work gets better. If you care deeply about people — and if you’re reading…

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Priya Patil 7 min read

Navigating Change The way we interact with software is shifting. Instead of clicking through web interfaces and learning different UIs for each system, some people are moving toward natural language as the interface - telling an AI what they want done, and it handles the task completion for them. This shift is happening now, but there's been a missing piece:…

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Kishore Mavuri 1 min read

Voice has rapidly become the main interface between enterprises and their customers. AI voice agents now handle service requests, authentication, payments, and issue resolution at scale. In doing so, they move beyond responding, they actively listen, in real-time and at scale. When AI listens, the security and privacy stakes fundamentally change. The focus is no longer limited to protecting databases…

24 Feb

Klaus Loeffelmann 45 min read

Vibe Coding. IntelliSense on Steroids. Intention-Based Development. Call it what makes you happy - it's "just" the next evolutionary step in software development for me. Which let me build my stranded 82-year-old retirement-resistant mom an ersatz time-study app when her dongle died at midnight. The post The Dongle Died at Midnight – WinForms Agent Saved my German Mom’s Business Trip…

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We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully integrated with Torchcomms and aims to empower researchers and developers to accelerate innovation, regardless of their chosen backend. Communication patterns for AI models are constantly evolving, as are hardware [...] Read More... The post…

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Jonathan Snook 1 min read

I’ve lived in Ottawa since I was a teenager. In all of the time I’ve lived here, there has been a tourist attraction: The Rideau Canal Skateway. Every winter, the National Capital Commission prepares and maintains one of the longest skating rinks in the world at just over 7 kilometres in length. Despite the availability and proximity to this attraction,…

Juan Santana 1 min read

The 8th Light Beacon Award is an honor that recognizes distinguished individuals or teams who bring 8th Light’s values to the frontlines, inspiring and enabling the way for others to follow in their footsteps. As we closed out 2025, we recognized a team that carried 8th Light’s values beyond our screens and onto a global stage. Team Nimrods made up…

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Martin Fowler 1 min read

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these: priming the LLM with knowledge about the codebase and preferred coding patterns. more…

Kathy Benemann 4 min read

AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of the human body. NVIDIA’s second annual “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences” survey report reveals how the industry is moving from AI experimentation to execution, reaping return […]

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Jennifer Kohl 7 min read

Docker Captains are leaders from the developer community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “From the Captain’s Chair” is a blog series where we get a closer look at one Captain to learn more about them and their experiences. Today we are interviewing Kristiyan...

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Sam Laidlaw 3 min read

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on executive storytelling. In Part 1, we covered knowing your audience and cutting the noise. Now let’s talk about directness and clarity of purpose. I’ve talked about the importance of knowing your audience and cutting through the noise when communicating with executives. These are foundational skills. But […] The post Stop Hedging:…

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Tom Schuster 2 min read

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API, advancing a safer web for everyone. We […] The post Goodbye innerHTML,…

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J Simpson 8 min read

When building agentic AI systems that interact with APIs and other services, securely managing JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) becomes a critical part of the architecture. Unlike traditional web applications, agentic AI can operate autonomously, invoking APIs, making decisions, and passing sensitive information without direct human supervision. These nuances create unique authorization challenges around how JWTs ...

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When you write a SQL query with a JOIN clause, you probably do not think much about what happens next. You just expect the database to return the right rows. But this simple keyword forces your database to make one of the most consequential decisions a query planner makes: which join algorithm should it use?

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A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating our own ML puzzle early last year, we wanted to do something a little different. We thought it’d be neat to give users a complete specification of the neural net,…

23 Feb

Itay Ozery 5 min read

As technologies and systems become more digitalized and connected across the world, operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) — from energy and manufacturing to transportation and utilities — are increasingly depending on enterprise networks and the cloud. This expands OT and ICS capabilities — but also their exposure to cyber threats. Unlike […]

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Srini Sekaran 2 min read

AI agents are moving from demos to daily workflows. They write code, run commands, and complete multi-step tasks without constant hand-holding. But general-purpose agents don't know Docker. They don't understand your containers, your images, or your specific setup. Gordon does. Just run docker ai in your terminal or try it in Docker Desktop. Available today...

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Jennifer Kohl 4 min read

Docker Sandboxes is a new primitive in the Docker's ecosystem that allows you to run AI agents or any other workloads in isolated micro VMs. It provides strong isolation, convenient developer experience and a strong security boundary with a network proxy configurable to deny agents connecting to arbitrary internet hosts. The network proxy will also...

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Sam Laidlaw 5 min read

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on executive storytelling. Part 2 will cover directness, clarity about objectives, and tying it all together. I have been a part of more executive briefings than I can count. Some land, several don’t. The ones that fail? They fail the same way every time: too much information, […] The post Know Your…

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Gediminas G 2 min read

Anyone who’s vibe-coded an application with AI knows how quickly a simple idea turns into something more complex. A basic form needs to store data. Users need accounts. Logic need… The post No-code’s backend bottleneck is history appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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At the end of 2025, NPM registry revoked all personal NPM tokens that I used to publish new NPM package releases. This change improves the security of the entire NPM publishing workflow, but has disrupted my CI process. For example, the new feature of cypress-timestamps has not been released, failing with the error "SemanticReleaseError: Invalid npm token.". Hmm, what do…

22 Feb

Kendra Haan 6 min read

As a software developer, I spend much of my day thinking about reliability, automation, eliminating repetitive work, and building tools that help me do my best work. Most of that effort is focused on serving project goals and delivering high-quality software. But my sense of purpose at Atomic comes from more than just the code […] The post Never Missing…

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Kogan Dev Blog 4 min read

At Kogan.com, engineering is about building software that is useful and seeing them used at scale. We work in a fast moving e-commerce environment, so the problems are real and often complex. Performance, reliability, scale, legacy constraints, new features, tight feedback loops. We ship frequently, deploy daily, and continuously improve what is already live. You can see the impact of…

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21 Feb

Valerie Nielson 4 min read

When you’re first starting your career, there are a lot of day-to-day tasks that a college degree doesn’t adequately prepare you for. You might even find that skills you thought you knew how to do just aren’t transferable. One of the things I’ve had to relearn is note-taking. How note-taking is different in the office […] The post Upgrade Your…

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20 Feb

Filippo Valsorda 8 min read

I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Yiwen Xu 2 min read

Based on Docker’s State of Agentic AI report, a global survey of more than 800 developers, platform engineers, and technology decision-makers, this blog summarizes key findings of what's really happening as agentic AI scales within organizations. Drawing on insights from decision-makers and purchase influencers worldwide, we'll give you a preview on not only where teams...

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Daryl Pereira 1 min read

The movement toward real-time streaming sees ultra-low latency becoming an essential business requirement for applications spanning from live sports betting to drone monitoring and traffic management. According to Chris Allen, the CEO of Red5, the historically high "latency tax" is expected to be removed by the collaborative, emerging Media over QUIC (MoQ) protocol, which will make real-time the new standard.…

19 Feb

Kanika Atri 3 min read

AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time, the technology is unlocking new business and revenue opportunities, as telecom operators accelerate AI adoption across consumers, enterprises and nations. NVIDIA’s fourth annual “State of AI in Telecommunications” survey report unpacks these trends, underscoring […]

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GeForce NOW Community 3 min read

The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud — plus 12 new games this week — there’s always something new to stream, share and discover. The #6YearsofGFN fun continues with a community giveaway hosted […]

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Jennifer Kohl 9 min read

Special thanks to Cody Ebberson and the Medplum team for their open-source contribution and for sharing their migration experience with the community. A real-world example of migrating a HIPAA-compliant EHR platform to DHI with minimal code changes. Healthcare software runs on trust. When patient data is at stake, security isn't just a feature but a...

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Bill Doerrfeld 10 min read

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting many exceptional speakers on the Nordic APIs stage. Our most memorable talks span architectural deep dives, anti-patterns, emerging trends, personal journeys, and hard-earned lessons on what it takes to build great API platforms. To the audience, these presentations often look effortless. But the truth is, there’s ...

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1 min read

Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.

18 Feb

Kayley Smith 1 min read

With PubNub, compliance comes built in. Our SOC 3 achievement reinforces that commitment to customer privacy, security, and stability. Learn more about what the achievement means for your solution.

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Enhances eBay’s consumer-to-consumer (C2C) value proposition through addition of leading fashion marketplace with compelling complementary offering and deeply engaged Gen Z and Millennial customer base. Etsy to focus exclusively on driving sustainable growth for its core marketplace.

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Kristopher Sandoval 7 min read

As APIs scale and organizations structure complex systems, it’s almost inevitable that some enterprises are going to end up with more than one API gateway. Sometimes this is intentional — especially when those gateways represent different environments, segmented data services across regions, or different teams and thus different focuses. More often, however, this is just ...

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John Fanelli 4 min read

Agentic AI is reshaping India’s tech industry, delivering leaps in services worldwide. Tapping into NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Nemotron models, India’s technology leaders are accelerating productivity and efficiency across industries — from call centers to telecommunications and healthcare. Infosys, Persistent, Tech Mahindra and Wipro are leading the way for business transformation, improving back-office […]

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Timothy Costa 3 min read

India is entering a new age of industrialization, as AI transforms how the world designs, builds and runs physical products and systems. The country is investing $134 billion dollars in new manufacturing capacity across construction, automotive, renewable energy and robotics, creating both a massive challenge and opportunity to build software-defined factories from day one. At […]

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Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, git, dig, etc) which have a man page as their primary documentation. This is because I often find the man pages hard…

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OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

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17 Feb

7 min read

The Citus 14.0 release is out and includes PostgreSQL 18 support! We know you've been waiting, and we've been hard at work adding features we believe will take your experience to the next level, focusing on bringing the Postgres 18 exciting improvements to you at distributed scale. The Citus database is an open-source extension of Postgres that brings the power…