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gVisor is being donated to CNCF
Google is donating gVisor to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a CNCF Sandbox project—continuity for the open-source application kernel sandbox, governance, and community contribution path after years as a mature Linux-container isolation layer.
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Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Cloudflare Traces enters open beta: automatic request-level tracing across security rules, transformations, cache, routing, Workers, and origin handling, with Trace Rules sampling, W3C context propagation, dashboard inspection, and OTLP export under unified observability pricing.
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Prime Inference: Fast, Reliable Serving for Frontier Open Models
We're launching Prime Inference: resilient serverless and reserved serving for frontier open-source models across multiple datacenters. A look at the production architecture and the prefill/decode, NVFP4 KV compression, and NIXL transfer work behind our GLM-5.3 deployment on GB200 NVL72.
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The hidden design compromises of Docker layers
How Docker and OCI image layers encode filesystem changes with tar archives and whiteouts, and which special filenames you cannot safely use in images.
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Supabase is acquiring Turso to strengthen database infrastructure for agentic AI, combining Postgres strengths with Turso’s edge-oriented SQLite work.
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Building reliable (and fast) directory syncWhy Firezone skipped SCIM and built a hybrid pull + change-notification engine
Firezone explains directory sync without SCIM: pull-based reconciliation, provider change notifications, epoch checkpointing, and defensive handling of nested groups so identity updates stay fast and complete.
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turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, we have to fundamentally redesign our storage architecture so the vector index is no longer primary.
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Ambient agents respond to events such as an Amazon S3 upload, a schedule, or an alert instead of waiting for a chat prompt. This post walks through building framework-agnostic ambient agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB, with a single ask_human tool and a Jobs page for human-in-the-loop review.
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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare argues agent-heavy software development needs a new kind of Git collaboration platform and invites builders to create the next GitHub-like system on Cloudflare’s developer platform.
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Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Cloudflare K2 is a serverless event streaming service built directly on top of R2 object storage for high-scale data movement and long-term retention. By decoupling producers and consumers at the edge, K2 enables durable, ordered log streams without the operational overhead of traditional broker clusters.
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Python 3.15 ships with a new profiler. It is called Tachyon, it lives in the standard library as the profiling.sampling module, and unlike cProfile it is a sampling profiler rather than a tracing one. I now have a set of hands-on workshops for it, which you can find at github.com/GrahamDumpleton/tachyon-workshops or on the workshops page of this site, and they have reached the point where I am happy for other people to do them. That said, they were not written for other people in the first place. They were written so I could learn Tachyon myself, and the reason I wanted...
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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
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The 28th CGPM adopts Resolution 5 on technical actions to keep Coordinated Universal Time continuous, addressing leap-second policy and the metrology work BIPM and partners must complete so civil timekeeping remains reliable worldwide.
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Modal Clusters are generally available
Modal announces general availability of Modal Clusters: multi-node GPU clusters with RDMA networking, gang scheduled from its shared capacity pool and billed by the second, enabled with a single @modal.clustered decorator for distributed training, post-training and large-scale inference.
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Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Apple Machine Learning Research paper presenting Minions, a dynamic, distributed virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs across macOS devices to run large-scale ML inference with fault tolerance and efficient resource use, without new GPU procurement.
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
Facing doubled submissions and AI-assisted flood of thin papers, arXiv caps authors at two submissions per calendar month and three active submissions—while clarifying FAQ on holds, co-authors, and deletes.
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Why we built the fastest robust TTS model
Gradium's latest streaming TTS hits ~50ms time-to-first-audio while improving naturalness and hard cases like phone numbers—freeing latency budget for LLM turns and barge-in in voice agents.
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Earendil's experimental Pi Durable harness brings Pi's minimalism to long-running agents: crash-safe tasks, multi-conversation concurrency, pluggable extensions, compaction, durable documents, and multiplayer steering on JS runtimes.
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Simplifying domains for people and agents
Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets, with an expanded API and cf CLI so agents can search, register, and transfer domains.
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Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
Pay Per Use is now in beta: AI companies report when they use publishers’ content, and Cloudflare handles billing, payouts, and reporting so customers are paid according to use.
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