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Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI

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Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™

At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or fragmented data feeds; you require high-fidelity intelligence, deep underground visibility, and actionable context to anticipate adversary moves before an attack unfolds. We are proud to announce that Forrester has named Google a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Provider

The future of orchestration: Pine59’s journey to Airflow 3 on Google Cloud

Operating large data pipelines requires an orchestration layer that scales smoothly as workloads expand. When your pipelines process millions of complex data points every day to feed predictive models, staying up-to-date with your technology stack is a strategic necessity. Pine59 provides location intelligence data through data pipelines that produce analytical metrics on cadences ranging from hourly to quarterly. One of the company’s most data-intensive metrics, Daily Foot Traffic, computes dat

The New API Contract Is Probabilistic: Building Reliable Systems Around Unreliable Model Outputs

For decades, API design rested on a reassuring assumption: given valid input and a stable dependency, software should return a predictable result. Large language models break that assumption without breaking the API. A request can receive HTTP 200, perfectly valid JSON, and a confidently wrong answer. That distinction matters. The network contract may still be deterministic, but the semantic contract is now probabilistic. A model endpoint does not promise one correct output; it samples a likely

From guidance to action: Security fundamentals that materially reduce risk

AI has made fundamental changes to the operating environment for cybersecurity. Explore exposure management guidance on recommended controls and take action and stay ahead of cyberthreats. The post From guidance to action: Security fundamentals that materially reduce risk  appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

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Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration

The Ubuntu 26.04 runner image for GitHub Actions is now out of public preview and fully supported for production workflows on both x64 and arm64. As part of this release,… The post Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration appeared first on The GitHub Blog.