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Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to the former flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8. It isn't because Fable doesn't know the answers. It's because Anthropic won't let it, by design. Fable is a public-facing, Mythos-class model, a family so ca

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AWS Database Blog

Automate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL major or minor version upgrade using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon EC2

Managing Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition upgrades across multiple database clusters can be time-consuming and error-prone when done manually. In this post, we show you how to automate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL upgrades across your entire database fleet through consistent, repeatable procedures.

Amazon AuroraAmazon EC2Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
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AWS Database Blog

How to migrate from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1)

In this post, you learn how to use AWS DMS Schema Conversion to migrate Oracle schemas to PostgreSQL. AWS DMS Schema Conversion converts database schemas and code objects to formats compatible with your target database. You also learn how to use AWS DMS to migrate data to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition.

Advanced (300)Amazon AuroraAWS Database Migration Service
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Avoid shared database accounts with federated IAM authentication

In this post, you will learn how to integrate Okta with AWS IAM Identity Center and implement Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) authentication to create a unified authentication flow. You configure attribute-based access control (ABAC) that automatically maps user identities from your IdP to database permissions, supporting interactive user sessions and helping you avoid shared accounts. By the end, you have a working system where databa

Advanced (300)Amazon RDSAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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The Documentation Crisis Nobody Sees: Why AI Agents Are Breaking Faster Than Humans Can Document Them

At 3:07 AM on a Thursday in November 2024, an expense management agent completed its nightly batch run and marked the job successful. It had processed 214 expense entries across a 77-minute window. Every API call returned a 200. Every authorization token was correctly scoped. The workflow orchestrator logged nominal completion. The audit trail was clean, timestamped, and signed.

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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt getting an earful at the University of Arizona, or the speaker in Florida who seemed surprised when students booed at the mention of AI as "the nex

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