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The agentic era: Architecting the blueprint for mission impact across the public sector

This is a new era — the agentic era – and the question is no longer, “what’s possible?” but rather, “what creates impact?” Today, organizations across industries around the world are swiftly moving from AI exploration and pilots to real-world use cases that drive impact, at scale. They are doing this with agents. In order to fully meet this moment, and seize the opportunities in this agentic era, we need leadership. To that end, I was honored to share the stage at Google Cloud Next with visionar

Azure Files Entra-Only identities: Advancing cloud-native identity and security

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB. With native Microsoft Entra ID authentication, organizations can now grant secure, identity-based access to SMB file shares using cloud-native-only identities. The post Azure Files Entra-Only identities: Advancing cloud-native identity and security appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Mocking Kafka for Local Spring Development

Some time ago, a former teammate of mine reached out with a very specific request: Can you add a way to mock Kafka in your app? I need something simple, just a way for me to produce messages so my app can consume them. I just don't want to spin up a real Kafka for it.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703 Points: 444 # Comments: 257

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models

Ujorm3: A New Lightweight ORM for JavaBeans and Records

"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." — Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of Test-Driven Development.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available for GitHub Copilot

Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google’s latest Flash-tier model, is now rolling out on GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers near-Pro coding quality at Flash-tier speed and cost… The post Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Everything Google Cloud customers need to know coming out of Google I/O

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we unveiled the blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise, sharing our eighth-generation TPUs, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a fully reimagined Agentic Data Cloud, Workspace Intelligence, and security built for the AI era.  Today at Google I/O, we’re delivering a new set of powerful AI innovations and models — and putting them directly in the hands of Google Cloud customers via Gemini Enterprise and Google Workspace: Gemini 3.5: Our latest family of models combines front