Google kills its cookie killer
The technologies Google is discontinuing are: Attribution Reporting API for both Chrome and Android, IP Protection, Protected Audience API for Chrome and Android, Protected App Signals, On Device Personalization, Related Website Sets, Private Aggregation (including Shared Storage), Select URL, SDK Runtime and Topics for both Chrome and Android. It is unlikely that the Privacy Sandbox […]
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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
Real-time monitoring service Downdetector noted that outages at Venmo, Roku, Lyft, Zoom, and the McDonald’s app were “possibly related to issues at Amazon Web Service.” Increased error rates AWS itself first reported the incident on its service health status page at 12:11 a.m. Pacific time, saying, “We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for […]
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An EU breakup with US cloud providers
Moreover, many organizations already operate in multicloud or hybrid cloud environments, which makes achieving complete independence logistically and operationally complex. Even if a company transitions some workloads to sovereign clouds, it’s likely that a multicloud strategy will still retain specific dependencies on US platforms. Such a strategy can reduce geopolitical and regulatory risks, but it […]
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Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces
The discovery, only now being revealed by Wiz after remediation work by Microsoft and OpenVSX, is another example of why developers need to take more care in sanitizing their code before dropping it into open marketplaces, and why CSOs need to ensure extensions used by their developers are scrutinized closely. Developers are prime targets Developers […]
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A mini-CrowdStrike moment? Windows 11 update cripples dev environments
Just as Windows 10 has reached its end of life (EOL), issues with Windows 11 abound, the most recent an update that broke localhost for some developers, preventing them from accessing web apps running locally on their machines. The October 2025 cumulative update, (KB5066835), addressed security issues in Windows operating systems (OSes), but also appears […]
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Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire
Using RESP to link Valkey to code .NET Aspire’s existing Redis client will work with Valkey; all you need to do is ensure that you’re using the correct connectionName. Microsoft provides Aspire implementation details for three different Valkey scenarios: standard cache, distributed cache, and output cache. The documentation isn’t quite complete, as it often refers […]
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Selective retraining helps AI learn new skills without forgetting, study finds
To test whether this problem holds for today’s large multimodal models, the team conducted a controlled evaluation. They trained the selected models on five target tasks, including fine-grained bird classification, counting, medical visual question answering, OCR reading, and time reading. They then measured how much performance dropped across eight standard benchmarks that were not part […]
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Oracle targets agentic use cases with AI Database 26ai
“It’s about making AI Agents first-class citizens inside the database,” said Tony Baer, chief analyst at dbInsight. Baer was specifically hinting at the Select AI Agent added to the database, which builds on Select AI — a feature inside Oracle Database introduced in 2023 that allowed users to query data in natural language. Despite its […]
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How to run RAG projects for better data analytics results
A vector database, which stores document embeddings, scales quickly and supports distributed storage for advanced indexing and vector querying. A vector library, which is a faster, lighter way to hold vector embeddings. Vector support integrated into the existing database to store vector embeddings and support querying. The best choice depends on your specific circumstances. For […]
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Google’s Jules coding agent adds CLI, API
Google Labs has introduced Jules Tools and the Jules API, a command-line interface and API respectively for the Jules coding agent. Jules Tools and the Jules API were announced October 2. Jules Tools is a new CLI that brings Jules directly into the developer’s terminal, where they can start, stop, and verify Jules tasks next […]
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