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Supercharge your integration workflow with the Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server

Google has announced the new Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server, an open-standard tool designed to securely connect AI development assistants and IDEs with real-time API and account context. The server allows developers to remain within their development environment to search official documentation, validate Wallet pass definitions, check integration status, and manage merchant accounts. Ultimately, this integration aims to reduce friction and accelerate development workflows by minimizing

How the community trained Gemma to "Think" with Tunix and TPUs

The Google Tunix Hackathon on Kaggle challenged developers to transform small, non-reasoning base models into general reasoning engines using Kaggle TPUs and a limited compute budget. The winning teams achieved this by implementing multi-stage post-training pipelines that combined Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with advanced alignment techniques like GRPO and SimPO. Ultimately, the competition democratized AI development by proving that highly capable, structured reasoning models can be successful

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AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

AMD CEO Lisa Su holds a Ryzen chip. | Image: AMD Computex 2026 is underway in Taiwan, and we're expecting all manner of flashy computers with jaw-dropping pricetags (or no pricetags at all) as the entire industry navigates RAMageddon. But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a different pitch. It's relaunching three old components alongside a big new promise: you won't need to buy a new motherboard until 2030. Today, AMD is promising it will keep supporting its AM5 desktop motherboard socket with

SSH Mastery: The Complete Guide to Secure Remote Access (From Zero to Pro)

SSH isn't just a command — it's the Swiss Army knife of sysadmins, devs, and security pros. In 2026, with cloud sprawl and remote work exploding, mastering SSH means unlocking god-mode for your infrastructure. Whether you're debugging a Kubernetes cluster at 3 AM or tunneling through firewalls, this 10,000-foot guide + hands-on lab covers everything. We'll build from basics to battle-tested configs. No fluff. All actionable. Why read this? 80% of server breaches trace to weak remote access. SSH

Why NSOpenPanel Can't See Your Android Device

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. When I was building HiyokoMTP, I hit a limitation that seems obvious in hindsight: you can't use a native macOS folder picker to browse an Android device over MTP. NSOpenPanel — the standard macOS file dialog — has no idea your Android device exists. It only sees what Finder mounts, and Finder doesn't mount MTP devices as a proper volume. So the entire native folder selection API is useless for this use case. macOS exposes the file system to apps throu