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$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, so you might want to plan on getting there no later than opening time to boost your chance of getting one. There are some limitations on how you can use the gift card. You can’t use them to buy other gift

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HN RSS Best

OTel isn’t going well

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391553 Points: 212 # Comments: 108

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GitHub Changelog

Better tools for managing blocked users

Managing blocked users is now faster and clearer for personal accounts and organizations. With this update, you can: Search by username, full name, or email. Sort and paginate long lists.… The post Better tools for managing blocked users appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Laravel News

A simple form builder that stays out of your way

Deftform is a no-bloat Typeform and Jotform alternative built on Laravel. Generate forms with AI, wire them into your stack with a REST API and webhooks, and pay from $5 per form — no mandatory subscription. The post A simple form builder that stays out of your way appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compressing new-source onboarding from weeks to hours while keeping data governance and compliance controls inline.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governed tool gateway with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, advancing only when real governance pain demands it.

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The Verge Tech

Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations by mid-2027. This launch has been a long time coming, as Walmart was one of the last major retailers not to support Apple Pay or Google Pay. The retail giant even backed the launch of th

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