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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
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Fragments: July 13
Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses, most of the discussion is about context management. While context windows have increased is size as models get more sophisticated, that doesn’t mean that models will properly focus on the right bits. Models typically only focus attention on
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."
Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler
TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance. When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to build a scheduling policy customized to the Ads delivery [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry
This closes out the series' capstone: the multi-agent customer support system built across Parts 6-9, now hardened with evaluation, cost governance, and observability so it can actually run in production with an on-call rotation behind it, not just in a demo environment. Continuous Evaluation Pipeline
Key findings from the 2026 Public Sector M-Trends report and beyond
In 2026, the public sector is no longer defending a traditional perimeter. Instead, they are defending a complex web of interconnected trust relationships against adversaries that now operate at machine speed. We recently published the 2026 Public Sector Threat Landscape: M-Trends and Beyond report, which distills more than 500,000 hours of frontline incident investigations conducted by Mandiant in 2025, specifically tailored to the mission-critical needs of public sector leaders. Key findings f
Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs
How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, because organizations are reluctant to slow down development and compromise stability by demanding privileged Daemonsets, kernel-level access, and manual pod-spec edits. To break this deadlock, today we are open-sourcing k8s-aibom. This lightweight, unprivileged Kubernetes controller continuously monitors the cluster API and container environ
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