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Trust is foundational to how Confluent designs, operates, and governs its products. Confluent's Trust Principles shape everything from how Confluent Cloud is engineered to how it is monitored and audited. Each principle is backed by specific, independently verified controls. This

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Zinc Whiskers: The Hidden Contamination Risk Beneath Data Center Floors As AI density and airflow rise, legacy raised-floor and zinc-plated components can shed conductive whiskers that jeopardize equipme

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Introducing Qodo 3.0: Quality and Governance for the Agentic Software Factory Engineering organizations are building toward an agentic software factory, where agents take on more of the work at every stage of the SDLC, and the systems that govern quality need to keep pace with th

Organizations need to own their intelligence to be successful. Training and serving that intelligence at scale, however, requires petaFLOP/s of compute and terabit/s of networking, spread across many nodes. But owning intelligence doesn’t need to mean owning that hardware. For th

What Every Software Factory Needs That No Model Will Provide I spend most of my weeks talking with CTOs and engineering leaders, from consumer apps, and e-commerce, via chip makers and automotive to financial institutions, defense industries and global banks. For months, every on

Potential sellers ask for more money on inflated valuations, while the buyers think longer term and conservatively. It’s hard to meet in the middle on a price tag. Read More

How to make your website agent-ready (and how we did it) TLDR - Most of "agent readiness" is boring technical SEO: server-rendered HTML, a tweaked robots.txt, a real sitemap, canonical URLs, structured data, JSON-LD, y'know, the stuff we all hate 🥱 - The genuinely new bits are M

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Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it’s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according to Google. Argon is only being rol

Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, its most advanced artificial intelligence model yet, offering major improvements in coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work. The company said the model sets a new record in real-world software engineering, ties for first

Paddy Stephens writes about space, security, and energy for The Wire China, Resilience Media and others. He’s based between London, Nice and Taipei. This is Part 1 of his two-part investigation of China’s Starlink challengers! The test lacked the cool confidence of the Falcon 9,

Saudi Arabia’s first homegrown electric-vehicle maker is set to take on a U.S. rival the kingdom already controls. Ceer Motors, majority-owned by the sovereign Public Investment Fund, revealed two electric car models on September 21, with deliveries promised for March 2027. The E

AWS Compute Blog Implementing customer managed keys for AWS Lambda durable functions with Terraform If you run regulated workloads, you must control how persisted data is encrypted and who can access it. You need to manage encryption key rotation schedules, restrict decryption to

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G.Skill wins PC enthusiast as 'customer for life' simply by honoring its warranty replacement policy — enthusiast gets new module for kit that cost $150 but now sells for $1,200 Here’s a happy story regarding broken DDR5 RAM modules, for a change. A PC RAM maker has honored its g

Can Data Center Design Choices Change Public Acceptance? Operators use biomimicry, community co-design, and brownfield redevelopment to reduce the visual impact of data centers and improve local acceptance. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it’s unlikely that the rece

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Google Cloud partners deliver new security agents and AI defenses with Gemini Enterprise Vineet Bhan Director Security and Identity Partnerships Ashish Verma Head of Partner Engineering, Security As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterpr

Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟 Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time. 100% signal, 0% slop. I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which cura

Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence — President insists that AI is only suffering from a branding problem Will changing what we call the technology address the underlying issues? President Donald Trump signed a dir

I’m having a lot of fun writing shorter posts and aggregating interesting items these days. A lot of people are putting out an astonishing amount of good content these days, and sometimes I just want to sit there absorbing it all. 1. AI risk has gone mainstream Americans have bee

Meta's Muse AI agent accused of accessing sensitive user data on iPhone and Mac without permission — agent shocks reporter by referring to confidential messages it wasn't granted access to Meta says Muse won't access data you tell it to ignore, but that doesn't appear to be true.

Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the la

For years, subscription businesses have benefited from a simple fact of consumer behavior: people are much better at signing up than canceling. They forget what they joined. They stop using services but keep paying. A $9 or $15 monthly charge can disappear into a credit card stat

Overnight, the euro dipped to its lowest since May 2025, at $1.1312, and traded nearby at $1.1339 in Asia. The euro is also testing support around 178 yen. Through September the dollar is up nearly 2.5% on the euro, and the rising greenback also pushed its Australian counterpart

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined an invitation to appear at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Wednesday on the risks of rogue artificial intelligence, according to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Hawley, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subpanel that held the

Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data. Regional dialects and local recording conditions are often underrepresented, so a multilingual model that performs well on broad benchmarks may st

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Anthropic on Monday released a new artificial intelligence model called Sonnet 5.5, the company's second launch since CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down the pace of development. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost offering from Anthropic, and the company said it is better at cod

As the AI model wars continue, Anthropic has released the newest version of Sonnet, the company’s mid-tier model, which it says will work much faster (and for significantly less) than its predecessor. The lab describes Sonnet 5.5 as an ideal assistant for everyday tasks — includi

What we know about stabbing on Flydubai flight to Israel - Published A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after one pilot stabbed the other and "apparently tried to crash the plane", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. The pilo

The U.S. and South Korea have announced "historic" investments by Seoul into America, with President Donald Trump saying the $200 billion in new investments will help transform his country "for generations." South Korean investment include nuclear power plants, a natural gas powe

'Hero' pilot stabbed by other pilot on Israel-bound plane, Israeli PM says - Published A pilot has been arrested after he stabbed the other pilot on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv and "apparently tried to crash the plane", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Pass

Listen to this article in summarized format Crude oil price on October 1 Brent crude was trading near $98 a barrel after touching $104 during Wednesday’s intraday trade. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for November delivery fell 0.4% to $90.07 a barrel on Thursday, following a 1.2%

(Bloomberg) -- India’s domestic funds are driving a harder bargain on IPO pricing, using their growing clout to rein in valuations even for the biggest deals as the broader stock market struggles. Domestic funds are reining in valuations for even the biggest initial public offeri

OpenAI said it identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence models, linking a core cluster of the activity with Chinese startup Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi. The activity began i

OpenAI said it identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence models, linking a core cluster of the activity with Chinese startup Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi. The activity began i

In the Nifty500 pack, seven stocks' closing prices crossed above their 200-day moving averages (DMA) on September 30, 2026, according to StockEdge's technical scan data. The 200-day moving average (DMA) is used by traders as a key indicator for determining the overall trend of a

FUNDAMENTALS Spot gold was little changed at $4,146.66 per ounce, as of 0027 GMT. US gold futures for December delivery lost 0.3% to $4,177.00. The crucial US nonfarm payrolls report for September is scheduled for release on Friday. Data on Wednesday showed US inflation rose less

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in M&A Lynas Rare Earths to buy Meteoric Resources in $672M deal Sep 30, 2026, 10:10 PM ETLynas Rare Earths Limited (LYSCF) Stock, LYSDY Stock, MET

Data showing US inflation rose less than expected in August, along with downward revisions to July's reading, reduced expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike this month. But a surge in euro zone inflation underscores the threat that higher energy prices continue to pose to t

When President Donald Trump gathered execs from the world's most powerful tech companies in the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, one company was conspicuously absent: Apple. Neither Chairman Tim Cook nor his successor as CEO, John Ternus, w

When President Donald Trump gathered execs from the world's most powerful tech companies in the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, one company was conspicuously absent: Apple. Neither Chairman Tim Cook nor his successor as CEO, John Ternus, w

Listen to this article in summarized format Read more: GIFT City eyes direct listings without IPO to deepen equity market, says IFSCA's Pradeep Ramakrishnan ICICI Securities noted in a report that the debt-funded acquisition would add around ₹1,000 crore to interest costs in FY28

Brent crude futures rose 12 cents or 0.1%, to $98.15 a barrel by 0045 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $90.35 a barrel, down 7 cents, or 0.1%. Both benchmarks rose about $1 a barrel on Wednesday. Brent recorded a monthly gain of around 14% in September, its bigg