Manual CVE triage doesn’t scale. Break the CVE doom cycle by shifting vulnerability management into the platform with golden paths and automation
20 Feb
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.…
Where does the rigor go?
The ambiguity trap
So, you want to run OpenClaw?
19 Feb
Heroku is introducing significant updates to Managed Inference and Agents. These changes focus on reducing developer friction, expanding model catalogue, and streamlining deployment workflows. More flexibility with the new standard plan Until now, Heroku’s model-based plans required developers to provision a specific add-on for a specific model. This created significant operational overhead. If you wanted […] The post Whats New…
Summarizing the flow. The post Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Breaking the Loop: How we migrated our backup catalog for 250+ MySQL clusters to AWS
Booking.com EngineeringThis post was originally published internally on May 9, 2025 and has been reworked for a public audience. Authors: Ioannis Androulidakis , Mohammed Gaafar Intro The Database Engineering team at Booking.com is constantly looking for ways to improve database reliability and support scaling our business. In 2025 we completed a major milestone in our effort to modernize our infrastructure: we…
Survey Reveals AI Advances in Telecom: Networks and Automation in Driver’s Seat as Return on Investment Climbs
NvidiaAI 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 […]
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 […]
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...
Build a smooth horizontal parallax gallery in DOM/CSS/JS, then upgrade it to GPU-powered WebGL (Three.js) with shaders.
OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.
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 ...
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.
Add a splash of personality and make Discord pop by changing Discord’s color scheme! Learn how to adjust the look of Discord on both desktop and mobile.
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Rethinking go-to-market for the AI era
Beyond legacy: The human and structural risks slowing modernization in government and regulated industries
Thoughtworks InsightsBeyond legacy: The human and structural risks slowing modernization in government and regulated industries
Learn about new geometry capabilities with this game-changing experimental CSS feature.
18 Feb
The February 2026 release This release includes the Python Environments extension... Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python Environments Extension for VS Code appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.
Welcome to this step-by-step guide for installing PrestaShop on Ubuntu 24.04! In an era when a powerful, secure online store ... Read More The post How to install PrestaShop on Ubuntu 24.04 appeared first on RoseHosting.
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.
I guess it could, but why bother? The post Could <CODE>WriteProcessMemory</CODE> be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Joffrey Spitzer Portfolio: A Minimalist Astro + GSAP Build with Reveals, Flip Transitions and Subtle Motion
CodropsBuilding a minimalist, smooth portfolio with Astro + GSAP: reveals, page transitions and subtle animations, crafted with restraint and precision.
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.
Q4 Revenue of $3 billion; GMV of $21.2 billion.
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 ...
From AI infrastructure leaders to frontier model developers, India is teaming with NVIDIA to drive AI transformation across the nation.
India’s Global Systems Integrators Build Next Wave of Enterprise Agents With NVIDIA AI, Transforming Back Office and Customer Support
NvidiaAgentic 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 […]
NVIDIA and Global Industrial Software Leaders Partner With India’s Largest Manufacturers to Drive AI Boom
NvidiaIndia 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 […]
Get an inside look at shrinking large Go binaries in the Datadog Agent through dependency and linker analysis.
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…
OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.
You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the code.
17 Feb
Large language models are good at writing code. Data from Anthropic shows that allowing Claude to execute scripts, rather than relying on sequential tool calls, reduces token consumption by an average of 37%, with some use cases seeing reductions as high as 98%. Untrusted code needs a secure and isolated place to execute. We solved […] The post Code Execution…
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…
Final build, final, final, final 2, ship this one. The post Microspeak: Escrow appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Over the past decade, Byron's team has proven the correctness of our authorization engine, our cryptographic implementations, and our virtualization layer. Now they're taking those same techniques and applying them to agentic systems.
When it comes to building dynamic and real-work solutions, developers need to stitch multiple databases (relational, document, graph, vector, time-series, search) together and build complex API layers to integrate them. This generates significant complexity, cost, and operational risk, and reduces speed of innovation. More often than not, developers end up focusing on building glue code...
Build a scroll-driven, infinitely looping 3D image tube in React Three Fiber powered by shaders, inertia, and a unified motion system.
Expedia Group Technology — Data Quickly identifying winning ranking models before committing to A/B tests Authors: Adam Woznica, Benjamin Stieger, and Stefania Ebli Photo by Il Vagabiondo on Unsplash Expedia Group ™ covers a portfolio of brands such as Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Vrbo, that power lodging searches for millions of travel shoppers every day. In this competitive market matching users…
In recent months, we’ve been writing extensively about some of the exciting possibilities offered by artificial intelligence and the agentic consumption of APIs, from new routes to monetization via AI through to more efficient workflows. But there are downsides to consider here, too. Large language models (LLMs) have a habit of disregarding the API contract, ...
From an enterprise resource app owner’s perspective, Cross App Access (XAA) is a game-changer because it allows their resources to be “AI-ready” without compromising on security. In the XAA model, resource apps rely on the enterprise’s Identity Provider (IdP) to manage access. Instead of building out interactive OAuth flows, they defer to the IdP to check enterprise policies and user…
GoReleaser builds and ships release artifacts for thousands of projects, making it a high-value supply-chain target. That’s why we were thrilled to be selected for the third session of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund.
Platform engineering: Rebuilding the core for developer effectiveness
Clarity from chaos: Overcoming tooling fragmentation in platform engineering
A guide to overcoming an inadequate or absent platform operating model
16 Feb
This technology platform, called 'Just Walk Out', required over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing video footage to verify transactions. By 2022, 700 out of every 1,000 sales needed human review. Amazon pulled the technology from their Fresh grocery stores in 2024. They paved the way. But it wasn't sustainable. The problem wasn't the concept. It was the complexity. Grocery…
Every programming language has a framework. CodeIgniter is a lightweight, open-source PHP framework, making it one of the most widely ... Read More The post How to Install CodeIgniter on AlmaLinux 10 appeared first on RoseHosting.
New SemiAnalysis InferenceX Data Shows NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Delivers up to 50x Better Performance and 35x Lower Costs for Agentic AI
NvidiaThe NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by up to 10x. Now, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform is taking this momentum further for agentic AI. AI agents and coding assistants are driving explosive growth in software-programming-related […]
It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files
Raymond ChenIs it really a trick when reading the file is the purpose of the program? The post It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Ever wanted to run a personal AI assistant that monitors your WhatsApp messages 24/7, but worried about giving it access to your entire system? Docker Sandboxes' new shell sandbox type is the perfect solution. In this post, I'll show you how to run NanoClaw, a lightweight Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a secure, isolated Docker sandbox....
Platform Product Managers drive internal developer platform strategy, bridging technical capabilities and developer needs through research, roadmaps, and stakeholder management.
During the (northern) winter of 2025–2026, the Blender development team prioritized improving stability and overall quality.
Observability platform engineering treats observability as a core platform capability, enabling operational visibility for infrastructure and seamless developer experience.
You may not have known it at the time, but chances are you've probably used a product we've designed.
Her brother moved with a perfection that made her skin crawl. It was not the gracefulness of the dancer whose...
LLMs, MCPs, RAG. There are lots of acronyms in the AI space, but what do they all mean? Dear reader, despite being a software engineer who works in the machine learning space, I confess there was a time I wasn’t really sure. Fortunately, with the financial support of Deliveroo’s Women-in-Tech Employee Resource Group, I took the Ardan Labs Building AI-Powered…
Style terrain by altitude with a new color relief functionality and advanced hillshade methods. Available in both Customize and the latest SDK.
AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar with
Human-centered AI: How to keep humans at the center of your AI efforts
15 Feb
13 Feb
Digital transformation always sounds clear in an RFP or slide deck, but in practice things can get fuzzy fast. What exactly are we transforming? Is this about customers, or about ourselves? Are we reshaping workflows, or the entire business model? Without answers to these questions, projects stall, swirl, or never quite get started in the first place. As a Certified…
If you’ve ever debugged a production incident, you know the drill: IDE on one screen, Splunk on another, Sentry open in a third tab, frantically copying error messages between windows while your PagerDuty keeps buzzing. You ask “What errors spiked in the last hour?” but instead of an answer, you have to context-switch, recall complex […] The post Building AI-Powered…
How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_CHAR message?
Raymond ChenSee if it matches the scan code. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>CHAR</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
How to solve the context size issues with context packing with Docker Model Runner and Agentic Compose
DockerIf you’ve worked with local language models, you’ve probably run into the context window limit, especially when using smaller models on less powerful machines. While it’s an unavoidable constraint, techniques like context packing make it surprisingly manageable. Hello, I’m Philippe, and I am a Principal Solutions Architect helping customers with their usage of Docker. In...
A detailed behind-the-build on turning a strict minimal brief into a high-end experience through rhythm, transitions, and micro-interactions.
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.
GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.
How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.
AI products are here. AI product operations are not
The Ferrari in the jungle: AI-driven software development in large enterprises
Thoughtworks InsightsThe Ferrari in the jungle: AI-driven software development in large enterprises
Viral AI call to action is more nuanced than you think
12 Feb
The worldwide tour of NVIDIA AI Days — bringing together AI enthusiasts, developers, researchers and startups — made its latest stop in São Paulo, Brazil.
Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.
The Interop Project is a cross-browser initiative to improve web compatibility in areas that offer the most benefit to both users and developers. The group, including Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla, takes proposals of features that are well defined in a sufficiently stable web standard, and have good test suite coverage. Then, we come […] The post Launching Interop…
Leading Inference Providers Achieve Lowest Token Cost With Open Source Models on NVIDIA Blackwell
NvidiaA diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character’s dialogue in an interactive game. An autonomous resolution from a customer service agent. Each of these AI-powered interactions is built on the same unit of intelligence: a token. Scaling these AI interactions requires businesses to consider whether they can afford more tokens. The answer lies in better tokenomics […]
At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ systems. There’s even a DGX Spark hard at work in the South Pole, at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The compact supercomputer’s petaflop‑class performance enables local deployment […]
How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_KEYDOWN message?
Raymond ChenCheck whether it is an extended key. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>KEYDOWN</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service. This week brings even more reasons to join the party, as GeForce NOW launches on a new platform with support for Amazon Fire TV devices, and eight new games to keep the streaming going strong. The new […]
Code hosts like GitHub don't necessarily show the correct source of Go modules. pkg.geomys.dev is a new convenient viewer for module source.
I read this and then had trouble finding it for a year, I'm writing about it so I have a way to find it... The proposal here is so obviously correct that it's shocking it doesn't come up more often when people discuss the NBA Draft... basically the idea is that you assign a high […]
Get the unvarnished reality of being a platform engineer in 2026. Data on average salary, the 6 specialized roles, AI competency, and the #1 challenge: developer adoption
Discover 2026 platform engineering maturity trends: AI integration, product management, measurement, and investment requirements shaping the industry's future.
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
How learning to build my own work helped me take back control and fall in love with design again.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made huge waves in the industry as of late. Since MCP makes it incredibly easy to point agentic implementations towards tools and resources, it’s been used for everything from context-driven customer service tools to order fulfillment backends. One of the most interesting use cases, and one that is currently emerging ...
Get precise results for searches on US addresses. Enhanced preprocessing of our Search now handles "messy" inputs such as floors, suites, and apartments.
11 Feb
Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Heroku GitHub Enterprise Server Integration. For our Enterprise customers, the bridge between code and production must be more than just convenient. It must be resilient, secure, and governed at scale. While our legacy OAuth integration served us well, the modern security landscape demands […] The post Heroku and…
When we launched the Microsoft Learn Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server in June 2025, our goal was simple: make it effortless for AI agents to use trusted, up-to-date Microsoft Learn documentation. GitHub Copilot and other agents are increasingly common, and they need to be able to ground responses just like humans with browsers do. Learn […] The post How we…
In this blog post, we will show you how to remove Docker Containers, Images, and Volumes on Ubuntu 24.04. Docker ... Read More The post How To Remove Docker Images, Containers, and Volumes on Ubuntu 24.04 appeared first on RoseHosting.
GitHub Copilot testing for .NET is now available in Visual Studio 18.3, offering AI-powered tools to quickly create, build, and run unit tests. With flexible prompts and full IDE integration, it supports testing from single methods to entire solutions, helping reduce repetitive tasks and speed up feedback. Try it and share your feedback to shape its future. The post GitHub…
The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It
FacebookWHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...] Read More... The post…
From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco…
How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode?
Raymond ChenYou can prevent the item from becoming hot-tracked. The post How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
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