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Introducing the GKE standby buffer: Improve node startup times without blowing your budget

Application owners and platform engineers have long faced a difficult choice: spend excessively by over-provisioning to guarantee quick startups, or minimize costs but endure slow cold starts. We are excited to announce a solution to this compromise: Google Kubernetes Engine standby buffers. This builds on the launch of GKE active buffers earlier this year, a native version of the Kubernetes CapacityBuffers API that makes it easy to provision readily available capacity to handle traffic spikes,

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

Editor’s note: Want to keep up with the latest from Google Cloud? Check back here for a monthly recap of our latest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. We’ve had a busy month! Between announcing Gemini Spark and Gemini 3.5 at Google I/O – and unveiling Google AI Threat Defense, our latest AI-powered cybersecurity solution, we had a lot to share with Google Cloud customers. Keeping up with the latest news takes time, so we gathered the most important ann

Tempo 3.0 release: a new architecture for scale and lower TCO, TraceQL metrics GA, and more

Tempo started with a simple goal: make distributed tracing easier to run at scale. As tracing adoption has grown, however, so have the challenges, including higher data volumes, more complex architectures, and increasing demand for real-time insights directly from traces. Over the last year, we’ve been evolving Tempo’s architecture to meet that moment. And today, we’re sharing the results of those efforts with the release of Tempo 3.0. The latest major release of the open source distributed trac

What is Sandbox Security?

If you're already familiar with sandboxing as an isolation technique, sandbox security is the next layer: the policies, controls, and enforcement mechanisms that make sure those isolation boundaries actually hold under real-world pressure. According to our State of Agentic AI report, 40% of respondents cite security as the top challenge in scaling agentic AI, and...

Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains

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Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming’s busiest week

Get ready for some gaming news. It’s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn’t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well. But this year’s events are taking place at a difficult time for the industry. The prices of consoles and gaming hardware have skyrocketed, with all of the three major console players announcing p

An affordable, long-lasting AirTag alternative is $15 right now

Gaze into the orb. | Image: The Verge There are many solid Bluetooth trackers for iPhones that tap into Apple’s expansive Find My network. Some are thin, some are a bit chunkier. And, evidently, some look like tiny soccer balls. Ugreen’s FineTrack 2 glows in the dark, and it has a loud 110-decibel alarm when you need to find it. It’s just $14.99 at Amazon for Prime members (originally $19.99). Ugreen also sells it for $14.99 through its site. Ugreen FineTrack 2 Bluetooth tracker Where to Buy: