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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really…
Today, AWS announces that Amazon Quick's agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing an agentic AI teammate to government and regulated-industry teams within an isolated, FedRAMP Class…
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed…
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to…
Organizations operating in Germany and across Europe increasingly need to demonstrate cloud security compliance under the Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5:2020), published by Germany’s Federal Office…
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from July 1, 2025–June 30,…
Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator:…
YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives…
Oracle Database 26ai is now available on Amazon RDS for Oracle, bringing generative AI, vector search, and machine learning into the engine. In this post, part 1 of a three-part series, learn how to set up Select AI to…
When an Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL certificate expires and client trust stores aren't updated, connections fail without warning. This post shows how to enforce TLS for all PostgreSQL connections, configure…
There's an arms race in database research. Every year, papers have more and more benchmarks. Researchers are spending more effort, writing more words, and making more charts about benchmarking. This has gone far past…
Organizations running Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora often pay full CloudWatch Logs ingestion rates for database logs they rarely access. This post shows how to build an automated, tag-driven solution that migrates RDS…
In this post, you learn how to use Amazon OpenSearch Service as a discovery layer that combines full-text, vector, and geospatial search across JSON documents in a single query, using a restaurant discovery app as a…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce its successful completion of the 2025-26 NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment audit and achieving a status of Standards Exceeded. The NHS DSPT…
The second proposal of the Public API Trilogy has been publish, albeit out of order. You’ll have to go back and read the second novel when it comes out. Here then is PEP 844 proposing to add public and private builtins.…
The most asked BCE question is not what the layers mean, but which dependencies are allowed. Inside a business component the dependencies point downwards. boundary to control, control to entity. The boundary offers…