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A routine TLS 1.3 upgrade silently broke Route 53 health checks, causing a CDN to stop routing traffic to a healthy region while internal dashboards showed nothing wrong. This article examines why HA and resilience are different problems, how control-plane dependencies create invisible failure modes, and why recovery capability erodes without explicit ownership.

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

GPT-6 Astra tried to get a leg-up in Blizzard's RTS by pilfering a human-created bot.

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …

The two competing pirate site-blocking bills that were introduced in Congress recently take different approached. While Rep. Darrell Issa's ACPA targets VPNs and provides broad liability protections to Internet service providers, the bipartisan and bicameral DEFEND IP Act explicitly excludes VPNs, while covering more smaller ISPs.

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

It will be available today in two games.

Contribute to eolix/photosuite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn about key metrics for monitoring the health, performance, and costs of Databricks data engineering, analytics, and Model Serving workloads.

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

Last week, GitHub Actions experienced another incident. As is typical of a GitHub public writeup, it was published very soon after the incident, but there also aren’t isn’t a lot of det…

OpenAI says it identified an attempt to extract protected reasoning from its AI models, linking part of the activity with China’s Moonshot AI.

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.

on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.

Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows.

A teen hacker found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service, where metadata indicated an estimated 17.3 trillion stored rows.

Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative

IAM Policy Autopilot is an open source static code analysis tool that helps you quickly create baseline AWS IAM policies that you can refine as your application evolves. This tool is available as a...

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Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Claude Managed Agents: run Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, DeepSeek Harness and Pi as managed Agents on your own infrastructure

The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources - yonahd/kor

A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up. - nklmilojevic/sofka

Terraform lacks the continuous reconciliation and APIs required for Internal Developer Platforms. Here is why control planes like Crossplane are taking over.