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Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA

Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume group snapshots has reached General Availability (GA). The support for volume group snapshots relies on a set of extension APIs for group snapshots. These APIs allow users to take crash-consistent snapshots for a set of volumes. Behind the scenes, Kubernetes uses a l

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ExternalAI
NVIDIA Technical Blog

Improving Bash Generation in Small Language Models with Grammar-Constrained Decoding

Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits grep, curl, tar, or a shell pipeline is... Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits , , , or a shell pipeline is producing an executable action that can read files, mutate a workspace, open network connections, and chain tools together. For the NVIDIA AI Red Team, this makes command generation a useful

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ExternalMobile Development
Apple Developer News

Brazilian betting license requirement for App Store availability

Following changes to Brazil’s fixed-odds betting regulation, apps with fixed-odds betting (gambling) features can now be distributed on the App Store in Brazil with a valid fixed-odds betting license from the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA). If any of your apps include these features (indicated by selecting “Yes” to the gambling question in the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect), you’ll need to provide this license. Keep in mind that answering “Yes” to the gambling question in t

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog

No Dumb Questions: What is an MCP server and why do I care?

Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter.

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ExternalMobile Development
Android Developers Blog

Gratitude saw 25% higher retention for widget users

Posted by Ash Nohe and Amrit Sanjeev, Android Developer Relations Engineers Practicing gratitude may decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety, and improve mental health and life satisfaction1. Consistent gratitude practice may lead to sustained improvements that last months2. The mindfulness app Gratitude encourages consistency through micro daily journaling, affirmations, and vision boards. The app has over 6 million downloads, 150 thousand 5-star ratings, and 100 million journal ent

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ExternalAI
NVIDIA Technical Blog

Streaming Tokens and Tools: Multi-Turn Agentic Harness Support in NVIDIA Dynamo

An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return... An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return the corresponding tool results to the model context. Reasoning replay is model- and turn-dependent: some reasoning should be retained, while some should be dropped. The inference

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ExternalDevOps
AWS DevOps Blog

Building an end-to-end agentic SRE using AWS DevOps Agent

Introduction As modern applications evolve into complex ecosystems of serverless functions, microservices, and event-driven architectures, incident response becomes increasingly challenging. DevOps and SRE teams spend hours manually correlating data across observability tools and troubleshooting issues, racing against SLA deadlines. This reactive firefighting drains productivity, degrades reliability, and delays innovation. AWS DevOps Agent provides an opportunity […]

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