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Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Cognitive Databases, Intelligent Data: Unified Infrastructure for Vector Search, AI-Optimized Queries, and Hybrid Workloads. I started working on a personal project with a simple question: If AI can analyze a database schema and generate SQL, what still makes the answer hard to trust?
It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shortage, which has had a similarly costly impact on PC gaming, including portable devices like the Steam Deck. This all led to some trepidation around the Steam Machine, Valve's latest attempt to bring the breadth and openness of PC gaming into
The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures like double tap and wrist flick, a wrist-temperature sensor, 5G connectivity, fast charging, a speaker, and an upgraded processor that’ll support watchOS 27 when it arrives in the fall. Apple Watch SE 3 The Apple Watch SE 3 is a major glow-
In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. AI agents autonomously route tasks to the most effective model, pay per request, and operate within spending budgets. You will also see how the two-hop payment pattern works end-to-end and how to get started with your own implementation.
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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H2 will be the next feature update and that devices running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 will be able to upgrade using a small enablement package. [...]
A vulnerability chain dubbed AutoJack in Microsoft's AutoGen Studio interface for prototyping AI agents could let attackers manipulate an agent into executing arbitrary commands on its host system simply by visiting a malicious webpage. [...]
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