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4 Dec 2025

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Picture this: you find a charming old board game at a garage sale, bring it home, gather some friends—and snap. The 50-year-old plastic components break instantly. You search the web for help to replace this fun and unique game mechanic but there’s nothing to be found. So naturally, you roll up your sleeves and build your own mobile version. No…

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Sri Raghava Muddu 7 min read

Image Source: Google Nano Banana TL;DR LLMs struggle to summarize the thousands of reviews for a single product because of context window limits and conflicting opinions. The proposed solution, XL-OPSUMM, is a scalable framework that summarizes reviews incrementally (in chunks) to overcome these limits. Its key innovation is the Aspect Dictionary — a numerical scorecard that tracks the exact count…

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Cres Hay 1 min read

Learn three clear signs it’s time to partner instead of building in-house, so you can ship faster, keep your team focused on core roadmap priorities, and still deliver advanced real-time analytics and decisioning.

3 Dec 2025

Ashmannsyngle 2 min read

Meet Ashmann Syngle, Software Engineer I joined Thumbtack in July 2022, so it’s been just over three years now! I first heard about the company from my former engineering manager at HBO Max, who encouraged me to apply. I’m so glad he did. What I’m Working On Over the past year, I’ve worked on several projects that make it easier…

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Luis Quintanilla, Adam Sitnik 9 min read

Announcing the preview of open, modular data ingestion building blocks in .NET, empowering developers to build scalable AI pipelines with seamless integration, extensibility, and easy getting started experiences across the .NET ecosystem. The post Introducing Data Ingestion Building Blocks (Preview) appeared first on .NET Blog.

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Shruti Koparkar 8 min read

The top 10 most intelligent open-source models all use a mixture-of-experts architecture. Kimi K2 Thinking, DeepSeek-R1, Mistral Large 3 and others run 10x faster to enable one-tenth the cost per token on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. A look under the hood of virtually any frontier model today will reveal a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model architecture that mimics […]

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Simeon Ratliff 8 min read

Trust is the most important consideration when you connect AI assistants to real tools. While MCP containerization provides strong isolation and limits the blast radius of malfunctioning or compromised servers, we’re continuously strengthening trust and security across the Docker MCP solutions to further reduce exposure to malicious code. As the MCP ecosystem scales from hundreds...

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Erlang Solutions Team 1 min read

SAFE now supports Phoenix LiveView, enabling scans for common web vulnerabilities in Phoenix-based applications. The post SAFE for Elixir: Phoenix LiveView appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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Kristopher Sandoval 7 min read

Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data, is still a very new tech, and as such, it’s experiencing the same growth pains that any other technology experiences. In this process, certain use and design patterns are starting to emerge — and not always for the better. One ...

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Testing is an essential part of building reliable software. It’s a form of documentation, a reminder of mistakes of the past, and a boost of confidence when you want to refactor. But mostly, testing is a way of showing that your code is correct and resilient. Because it’s so important, we’ve invested a lot of effort at Jane Street to…

MapTiler (Petra Duriancikova) 1 min read

Introducing the new MapTiler Streets map. Features include localized shields, last-mile detail, Dark mode, and enhanced transit networks for navigation.

2 Dec 2025

Kari Briski 2 min read

Today, Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms. Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model — instead of firing up every neuron for every token, it only activates the parts of the model with the most impact. The result is efficiency […]

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Ian Buck 5 min read

At AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services expanded their strategic collaboration with new technology integrations across interconnect technology, cloud infrastructure, open models and physical AI. As part of this expansion, AWS will support NVIDIA NVLink Fusion — a platform for custom AI infrastructure — for deploying its custom-designed silicon, including next-generation Trainium4 chips for […]

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John H. Ayub 2 min read

For most developers, getting started with AI is still too complicated. Different models, tools, and platforms don’t always play nicely together. But with Docker, that’s changing fast. Docker is emerging as essential infrastructure for standardized, portable, and scalable AI environments. By bringing composability, simplicity, and GPU accessibility to the agentic era, Docker is helping developers...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year - Christmas Advent of Code time! Advent of Code is an Advent Calendar style series of programming puzzles put out each year, starting on December 1st leading up to Christmas. The puzzles are super festive and ramp up in difficulty over the course of the month. Programmers of every level can participate,…

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Ojesav Srivastava 7 min read

Context and Motivation: The Prevalence of Bulk Actions Feed file processing is a core capability required in a company like Flipkart, enabling the application of thousands, or even millions, of entity changes through a single file upload. It’s about handling massive bulk data processing , the ability to apply changes to thousands, or even millions, of entities through a single…

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vladmihalcea 1 min read

Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to replace the deprecated @GenericGenerator when upgrading your application to Hibernate 7. Hibernate @GenericGenerator annotation The @GenericGenerator annotation has been available since Hibernate 3.5, as an alternative to the <generator> XML element from HBM mappings. As illustrated by the Hibernate 6.5 @GenericGenerator Javadoc, this annotation was deprecated in…

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J Simpson 9 min read

The API specification landscape is quickly becoming almost unrecognizable from what it was even five years ago. AI was still on the horizon in 2020, still the territory of sci-fi dreamers and bleeding-edge tech enthusiasts. Now, not only has AI caused an explosion of API usage — the most recent Postman State of the API ...

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Rafael Torres 5 min read

Expedia Group Technology — Engineering Exploring the strategy pattern and functional programming alternatives in Kotlin Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash When designing software around business processes (e.g., orchestration services), one of the key challenges is organizing business logic in a way that is maintainable, scalable, and adaptable to change. In this post, we’ll explore how to address such challenges…

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Bud Kraus 10 min read

WordPress 6.9 marks the second and final major release of the platform in 2025. Following the mid-April release of WordPress 6.8, this update brings a wide range of enhancements t… The post What’s new in WordPress 6.9? appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Recently I've been looking into securing my laptop a bit. By default, every single program has access to everything: filesystem, network, other programs. First, I started looking into Firejail. It allows specifying paths the program can access, as well as the network and other special things. It's not bad and I used it for a while. What I don't like…

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By bringing commerce directly to official game communities, we're giving game developers the opportunity to benefit from these dynamics, creating incremental revenue that complements their existing storefronts.

1 Dec 2025

Bryan Catanzaro 6 min read

Researchers worldwide rely on open-source technologies as the foundation of their work. To equip the community with the latest advancements in digital and physical AI, NVIDIA is further expanding its collection of open AI models, datasets and tools — with potential applications in virtually every research field. At NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI […]

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Dominic Marks 9 min read

Slack’s Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting Slack’s core infrastructure and services. Our security event ingestion pipeline handles billions of events per day from a diverse array of data sources. Reviewing alerts produced by our security detection system is our primary responsibility during on-call shifts. We’re going to show you how we’re using AI…

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Simeon Ratliff 6 min read

Embeddings have become the backbone of many modern AI applications. From semantic search to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and intelligent recommendation systems, embedding models enable systems to understand the meaning behind text, code, or documents, not just the literal words. But generating embeddings comes with trade-offs. Using a hosted API for embedding generation often results in...

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This year I am producing "Cypress vs Playwright Advent Calendar" on my Cypress Tips newsletter. Day 1: global vs local variables Day 2: The difference in test command syntax Day 3: DOM Snapshots vs live application Day 4: Where do the end-to-end tests run? Day 5: Locators and selectors Day 6: Composite locators vs query chains Day 7: Comparing the…

30 Nov 2025

TJ URGLAVITCH, CLOUD SERVICES PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL 1 min read

Discover how AWS’s Head of Partner Solutions Architecture, Divyesh Shah, is helping enterprises scale responsibly and innovate faster through the power of cloud and AI. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Shah joins Toptal’s Cloud Services Practice Lead, TJ Urglavitch, to discuss how AWS builds trust, empowers collaboration, and drives transformation across industries.

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Imagine we are testing a web page that receives two numbers from the server and then shows their sum In the Command Log you can see the two GET /random-digit calls the web page makes to the server. The server responds with {n: ...} JSON object. The page should add these two numbers and show the correct sum How would…

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"Every lie," she said, seeming to look far away from the phone camera, "is on itself a crime." I asked the bot...

28 Nov 2025

Simeon Ratliff 13 min read

Do you know who managed to cut costs by a staggering 90% by abandoning microservices for a monolith in May 2023? Not a cash-strapped startup or an indie project—Amazon itself, for its Prime Video service. The same AWS that earns billions every year by selling microservices infrastructure admitted that, sometimes, a good old monolith wins. ...

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Amit Merchant 1 min read

When a webpage’s content exceeds the viewport height, browsers typically introduce a vertical scrollbar. This can lead to layout shifts, especially when navigating between pages or toggling content visibility, as the presence or absence of the scrollbar alters the available width for content. For instance, I faced this issue in one of my apps where once the content overflows, the…

27 Nov 2025

GeForce NOW Community 3 min read

Black Friday is leveling up. Get ready to score one of the biggest deals of the season — 50% off the first three months of a new GeForce NOW Ultimate membership. That’s GeForce RTX 5080-class power in the cloud for half the price. The NVIDIA Blackwell RTX upgrade is now fully live across all servers […]

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Shipping new features on legacy Rails applications requires deep codebase context. The rails-mcp-server gem closes the gap between AI agents and your Rails projects, enabling more relevant code analysis and context aware refactoring suggestions. Whether you're dealing with tech debt in a brownfield application or building new greenfield features, this tool can help you move faster with confidence. The Model…

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Dave Cheney 1 min read

Here’s a silly example extracted from real code. Does this program print true or false?

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Kristopher Sandoval 5 min read

Authorization is having a bit of a moment in the tech world right now. Organizations like Apple are investing more heavily in policy-driven access control, signalling a shift towards policy as code. As this approach is solidified, it’s becoming clear that the next big revolution in the authorization space will be focused on a specific ...

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26 Nov 2025

Simeon Ratliff 5 min read

On November 24, 2025, Docker Hardened Images resolved CVE-2025-12735 in the Kibana project, which is the visualization and user interface layer for Elasticsearch. This CVE is a critical remote code execution vulnerability that scored 9.8 on the CVSS scale. While images from other hardened image vendors were still carrying the vulnerability, Docker’s security team and...

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Last week, more than 1,000 attendees joined NVIDIA AI Day Seoul to learn about sovereign AI — including breakout sessions on agentic and physical AI, hands-on workshops and a startup reception for members of the NVIDIA Inception program, all offering insights into the current and future landscape of the AI ecosystem in Korea.

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Sujit Singh 7 min read

Introduction In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are integral to almost every aspect of our lives, ensuring the effectiveness, fairness, and reliability of ML models is paramount. Observability plays a crucial role in maintaining the performance of these models, allowing us to detect and resolve issues promptly. At Helpshift, we recognized the need for robust…

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Gayatri Panganti 4 min read

Every accurate metric is backed by countless validations, events checks and integrity tests in the background. Introduction Quality Assurance in the data-driven systems extends beyond UI validation and backend verification. Such systems rely heavily on data precision and accuracy. A recent QA focused on validating a productivity analytics framework, ensuring that every event, metric and data flow accurately represented real-world…

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Gayatri Panganti 3 min read

In every growing organisation, mentorship quietly powers progress. It’s not just about reviewing work or assigning tasks but it’s about helping people discover their potential, learn faster, and build confidence in their expertise. Strong mentorship programs help create a culture where learning is continuous, team alignment improves , and quality becomes a shared mindset rather than an individual effort. 🎯…

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At the core of the attention mechanism in LLMs are three matrices: Query, Key, and Value. These matrices are how transformers actually pay attention to different parts of the input. In this write-up, we will go through the construction of these matrices from the ground up.

25 Nov 2025

Kelly McManus 8 min read

In 2021, we published a blog post titled “Increasing experimentation accuracy and speed by using control variates,” describing how we reduce the variance of metrics using CUPED in our experimentation platform. This is a follow-up on how CUPED has evolved at Etsy since then. Spoiler – It’s changed a lot, decreasing our average experiment duration by 3 days! Etsy’s mission…

Michael Fukuyama 2 min read

Black Forest Labs — the frontier AI research lab developing visual generative AI models — today released the FLUX.2 family of state-of-the-art image generation models. FLUX.2 is packed with new tools and capabilities, including a multi-reference feature that can generate dozens of similar image variations, in photorealistic detail and with cleaner fonts — even at […]

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Jean Alves 13 min read

By Jean V. Alves and Ferran Pla Fernández Moving beyond binary classification provides novel insights. In the real world, scams rarely present themselves in black and white. Fraudsters exploit nuance, impersonate legitimate brands, and mask malicious intent with seemingly ordinary behavior. That’s why Feedzai has launched ScamAlert (patent pending), a Generative AI-based system innovating on the current paradigm of scam…

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Quick question. How often do you see this type of code? composition conditional problem If the answer is "a lot", that's okay - we've all…

Srini Sekaran 2 min read

Coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Kiro, and OpenCode are changing how developers work. But as these agents become more autonomous with capabilities like deleting repos, modifying files, and accessing secrets, developers face a real problem: how do you give agents enough access to be useful without adding unnecessary risk to your local...

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John H. Ayub 2 min read

In today’s software-driven economy, securing software supply chains is no longer optional, it’s mission-critical. Yet enterprises often struggle to balance developer speed and security. According to theCUBE Research, 95% of organizations say Docker improved their ability to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, while 79% rate it highly effective at maintaining compliance with security standards. Docker embeds...

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We’ve been working with MCP servers for a while, and this use case was a perfect opportunity to build out another one. What is an MCP Server? A very simple way to put it is that Model Context Protocol is an "API" that your AI tooling can use to get external data or perform actions by interacting with your application.…

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werner@allthingsdistributed.com (Dr. Werner Vogels) 1 min read

We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around. This cycle will create massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter.

MapTiler (Jakub Bican) 1 min read

On-premises rasterization is now available on all platforms with Server! Serve modern maps from any operating system to legacy systems that are up to 20 years old.

24 Nov 2025

Simeon Ratliff 4 min read

On November 21, 2025, security researchers detected the beginning of what would become one of the most aggressive npm supply chain attacks to date. The Shai Hulud 2.0 campaign compromised over 25,000 GitHub repositories within 72 hours, targeting packages from major organizations including Zapier, ENS Domains, PostHog, and Postman. The malware's self-propagating design created a...

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Postmark team 3 min read

Getting an AI assistant to help with your email integration shouldn't feel like explaining SMTP to your cat. But until recently, that's kind of what it was like - AI tools could tell you about email APIs, but they often got the details wrong or gave you outdated information. We've been thinking about this problem, and we've shipped three updates…

Alberto Sigismondi 3 min read

We are thrilled to announce that the Heroku Terraform Provider is now fully optimized for Fir. This significant milestone allows developers to manage our next-generation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Fir is built on a modern foundation of cloud-native, open-source standards (Kubernetes) while maintaining the legendary Heroku developer experience. By combining the declarative power […] The post Unleash the…

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