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Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It's too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code is also disposable; it becomes easier to rewrite than to debug. Humans can't review AI-generated code . ...

Last week, Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage and adds several quality-of-life features. The Interaction Service gains file imports and progress dialogs; resources can host an ...

Flux has introduced Flux Mirror, a CLI plugin that mirrors container images, Helm charts and OCI artifacts between registries from a declarative configuration. The plugin is part of the Flux v2.9 CLI plugin system and is presented as a way to keep .. ...

The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a Vercel-based stack reporting significantly better performance on live, personalized-data workloads. . ...

DeepSeek has released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source execution runtime for building autonomous AI agents. The software features a micro-kernel architecture with modular plugins for various functional units. The release ...

Docker VMM (virtual machine monitor) is Docker's new, first-party virtualization layer for Docker Desktop, replacing third-party virtualization components with an engine that Docker can directly control and optimize specifically for container ...

WhatsApp is testing Scam Alert in limited beta, using on device machine learning to detect potential scam messages from non contacts. Meta's architecture keeps message content on the device while using confidential computing, Oblivious HTTP, ...

Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples - from the 1968 Ronan Point tower failure to AWS outages - he shares crucial resilience engineering ...

Last week Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. C# adds labeled break and continue. ASP.NET Core brings Blazor circuit pausing, CacheView, and built-in ...

Amazon Web Services has extended Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with runtime instances, a new compute option that gives AI agents persistent infrastructure purpose-built for complex long-running workflows and multi-agent coordination.