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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation's highest level of maturity and formally recognizing it as production-ready for enterprise use. By Craig Risi

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This is from a 2024 company presentation : Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows. The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less information upfront.” That includes being able to locate multiple vehicles law enforcement officials believe are moving together and what Flock calls a “multi geo search.”...

C:\ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie.

A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill.

In this eMag, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture. We aim to present the latest trends and developments shaping the new type of architecture as it enters the mainstream. By InfoQ

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Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 compute allowance from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM with no public announcement. Support agents gave conflicting answers on whether PAYG accounts are affected. Documentation states the new limits apply to "all tenancies" while support emails say only free-tier accounts. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

For the past two years, the AI world has been obsessed with finding the perfect prompt or building better UI wrappers around LLMs. But while everyone was distracted by the models themselves, a silent revolution happened at the architecture layer. It is called Agentic AI , and it is being entirely reshaped by a new standard: Model Context Protocol (MCP) . If you are building AI agents in 2026 and you aren't using MCP, you are already falling behind. Here is why this changes everything. The Problem: The Custom Tooling Nightmare Up until recently, building an autonomous AI agent was incredibly fragmented. If you wanted your agent to read a GitHub repository, query a Postgres database, and send a Slack message, you had to write custom tool-calling logic for every single integration. Every time Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google released a new model, you had to adapt your tool schemas. It was a brittle, non-standardized nightmare. Enter MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP solves this by introducing a universal, open standard for connecting AI models to data sources and tools. Think of it like a USB-C cable for AI. Instead of writing custom API wrappers for your agent, you simply build or download an MCP Server . An MCP Server is a standalone program that exposes specific capabilities (like "Search the web" or "Read a local file"). Any agent, regardless of the underlying LLM, can connect to that server and instantly understand how to use its tools. Why This Changes Agentic AI Forever Plug-and-Play Ecosystem: We are seeing the birth of an "App Store" for AI tools. Developers are open-sourcing MCP servers for absolutely everything: Jira, GitHub, AWS, local file systems, and more. True Autonomy: Because the protocol standardizes how context is passed, agents can autonomously discover what tools a server has, read the instructions, and chain them together without human intervention. Security and Isolation: You can run an MCP server in a secure, sandboxed environment (like a Docker con

If you are still using a vanilla installation of VS Code, you are leaving massive amounts of productivity on the table. We all know the standard extensions: Prettier, ESLint, GitLens. But what about the tools that actually change how you write code? Here are 7 hidden VS Code extensions that feel almost illegal to use because of how much time they save. 1. Error Lens Stop hovering over red squiggly lines. Error Lens highlights the entire line and prints the error message inline, right next to your code. You instantly know what is wrong without moving your mouse. Once you install this, you will never be able to code without it again. 2. Console Ninja Tired of switching back and forth between your browser console and your editor? Console Ninja prints console.log output and runtime errors directly in your editor, right next to the line of code that triggered it. It is like magic. 3. Turbo Console Log Highlight a variable, press Ctrl+Alt+L , and this extension automatically inserts a perfectly formatted console.log statement with the variable name and its value. It saves you hundreds of keystrokes a day. 4. Mintlify Doc Writer Writing documentation sucks. Mintlify uses AI to instantly generate beautiful, accurate JSDoc/Python docstrings for your functions. Just highlight the function and hit a button. 5. CSS Peek If you work with large HTML or React files, CSS Peek allows you to hover over a class name and instantly see (and edit) the CSS attached to it in a floating window. No more hunting through massive .css files. 6. Code Spell Checker There is nothing worse than pushing a PR and having a senior developer point out a typo in a variable name. This extension highlights spelling errors in your code, keeping your codebase looking professional. 7. WakaTime Do you actually know how much time you spend coding? WakaTime generates beautiful dashboards showing exactly which languages, projects, and files you spent your time on each week. It is incredible for tracking your own

The speakers discuss Agent RFT, OpenAI’s platform for fine-tuning reasoning models via real-time tool interactions and custom reward signals. They explain how reinforcement learning solves complex credit assignment challenges within the context window. They share enterprise success stories, showing how Agent RFT eliminates long-tail token loops and drives extreme efficiency. By Wenjie Zi, Will Hang

When I published the first article about the Neuron AI Router , I expected questions about routing rules. Which rule to use for structured output, how to write a custom one, how the round robin behaves under load. Some of those questions arrived, but the most frequent one was different, and it wasn't really about routing at all. It was about failure. What happens to my agent when the provider goes down? It is a fair question, and if you are new to building AI applications it deserves a proper answer before we look at any code. Here is the short version. The new fallback strategy in Neuron AI Router lets you define an ordered list of LLM providers for your PHP agent. When an inference call fails with a transient error, such as a rate limit, a timeout, or an overloaded server, the same request is automatically retried on the next provider in the list. The failover is transparent: the agent never knows it happened, and the conversation continues without losing state. The rest of this article explains why this problem exists, why the usual solutions fall short, and how to configure it. Why LLM providers fail in production An LLM provider is an external service you talk to over HTTP. Every time your agent thinks, it is making a network call to a machine you don’t control, operated by a company that is currently serving millions of other requests. These services fail in very ordinary ways. You hit a rate limit because your traffic spiked. The provider returns an “overloaded” error because their traffic spiked. A request times out. A deployment on their side causes a few minutes of elevated error rates. None of this means you did something wrong, and none of it is rare. If you keep an agent in production long enough, you will see all of these. In a classic web application, a failed call to a third party API is usually a corner of the system. You log it, maybe retry it in a queue, and the rest of the page still works. In an agent based application the inference call is not

There is a ghost haunting the tech industry right now, and nobody wants to talk about it: The Junior Developer role is disappearing. With tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and advanced coding agents becoming standard issue in every IDE, senior developers are suddenly 10x more productive. They no longer need a junior developer to write boilerplate code, write unit tests, or scaffold out basic UI components. The AI does it instantly. So, if you are a junior developer, or aspiring to break into tech, how do you survive? 1. Stop Memorizing Syntax, Start Thinking Architecturally AI is incredible at writing syntax, but it is terrible at system design. If your only skill is writing a for loop in React, you are competing with an AI that works for $20/month. Instead, focus on understanding how systems fit together. Learn about cloud architecture, database indexing, and distributed systems. The AI can write the function, but you have to know where that function lives and how it scales. 2. Become a "Domain Expert" Developer AI doesn't understand the nuanced business logic of the healthcare industry, or the strict compliance regulations of fintech. If you combine coding skills with deep industry knowledge, you become irreplaceable. 3. Embrace the Tools (Be the Orchestrator) Don't fight the AI. Master it. The developers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who treat AI agents like a team of junior developers reporting to them. Learn how to craft the perfect prompts, how to use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and how to orchestrate multiple LLMs to build complex applications. The barrier to entry for writing code has dropped to zero. But the barrier to entry for building valuable software remains exactly the same. Are you terrified of AI replacing you, or are you using it to level up?

The Shop on the Corner: How I Learned System Design Without Building Amazon Nephew asks his uncle — 10 years deep into building large-scale systems — to explain "system design," and all the scary jargon that comes with it. Uncle refuses to start with the jargon. Instead: "Forget servers and databases for a minute. Just imagine you're running a small shop." What follows is a thought experiment, built one problem at a time — no cloud bills, no fancy stack, just a counter, a storeroom, and a lot of common sense. Part 1: The Counter — Your First "API" 👦 Nephew: Uncle, everyone at work keeps throwing around terms — load balancer, cache, index, sharding. I nod along, but I don't actually get any of it. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Then don't start there. Close your eyes for a second and forget servers exist. Suppose — just suppose — you're running a small shop. One counter, one small storeroom at the back. A customer walks up and asks for something. What do you do? 👦 Nephew: I'd walk into the storeroom, find it, walk back, hand it over. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: That's it. That's the entire job of a server handling a request. You don't need to understand Amazon's warehouse to understand Amazon's problems. You need a counter and a storeroom, imagined clearly, and the patience to grow them one honest problem at a time. Here's the shape of what you just described, whether you realized it or not: 🧍 Customer 🧑 You (Counter) 📦 Storeroom (Database) | | | |── "Got Maggi?" ───────>| | | |──── Walk in, search ────────>| | |<─────── Found it ────────────| |<── Hand it over, ──────| | | take payment | | 👨‍🦳 Uncle: One customer, one request, one trip to the storeroom, one response. This is fine. This is correct , even, for a shop with five customers a day. Don't let anyone tell you a single counter isn't "scalable" — a shop that small doesn't need two counters, it needs someone to stop worrying and open the shutter. 👦 Nephew: So this is just... a server handling one request at a time? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Exactly. Customer sen

​ For open-weight LLMs, how practical is it to study defenses against post-release fine-tuning that weakens refusal or safety behavior? I've been seeing “uncensored” or “heretic” variants of new models appear very quickly after release, which raises a question I’m curious about: is fine-tuning resistance a meaningful safety goal for open-weight releases, or is it too narrow because determined users can always modify weights, switch models, or use other workarounds? And to a larger extent, is current safety training even worth the cost and effort if it takes 30 minutes and an automated script to break the model? I’m not asking about a specific method, just the threat model. What would count as a useful practical win here? For example, would increasing attacker cost or making safety removal less reliable be valuable, even if perfect prevention is impossible? Curious how people think about this from a model release, governance, and AI safety perspective. submitted by /u/Aaron_Rock [link] [留言]

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