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GitHub Changelog

Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview

You can now build and test your Apple applications against Xcode 27 on GitHub-hosted macOS runners. This is now available in public preview. With early access to the latest Xcode… The post Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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DZone

Going Stateless: Scaling MCP Servers to Cloud-Native Java and HTTP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) completely changed how we connect large language models to real-world data and tools. However, early versions of the protocol had a massive bottleneck for enterprise developers: they relied heavily on stateful, long-lived sessions. If you wanted to scale out your AI tools to handle thousands of concurrent agent workflows, you had to deal with sticky sessions, complex load balancing, and heavy memory overhead. The newest updates to the MCP specification solve this

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The Verge Tech

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for outdated legislation. Some of the antiquated laws mentioned by Hochul in the interview include a $25 fee required to take a dog hunting, or a stipulation that pregnant people need a

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The Verge Tech

Ecovacs’ self-cleaning Deebot X11 has hit a new low price

Sometimes it feels like keeping your floors clean is one of those never-ending chores, which is why it's nice to have a versatile robot vacuum take it off your hands. The Ecovacs Deebot X11 robovac / mop hybrid is designed to do just that, and it's now $699 ($400 off) at Amazon and directly from Ecovacs, which is a new low price. The Deebot X11 is the latest version of one of our former top picks for the best robot vacuum / mop. While the Matic has since taken its place in our rankings, the X11

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ExternalDevOps
HashiCorp Blog

Understanding Vault performance: Benchmarks from real-world workloads

Vault deployments often begin with a small number of services retrieving secrets or issuing certificates. As adoption grows, more systems start depending on Vault for authentication, secret retrieval, and certificate management.  CI pipelines retrieve secrets during builds, machines request SSH certificates during provisioning, and applications dynamically issue PKI certificates.  As the number of dependent systems increases, concurrency grows as well. Understanding how Vault behaves under incre

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The Hacker News

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an office to get their passwords reset in person. Both the NCA and the CPS put TfL's losses and recovery

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