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Quoting Ben Affleck

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years…

Build & connect an incident investigation agent with Elastic Agent Builder and Gemini Enterprise

AI agents are most powerful when grounded in real organizational data. In this demo, discover how to use Elastic Agent Builder to create an incident-investigation agent powered by Elastic Observability data (logs,…

Configuring your AI vulnerability harness, Part 2: The steering file

This post shows you how to configure an AI model to perform structured, evidence-based vulnerability triage with the consistency of a seasoned security analyst. You’ll learn the design decisions behind five…

Building your AI vulnerability harness, Part 1

Vulnerability scanners produce findings faster than manual triage can process them. Your developers ship more code with more dependencies, and the volume of candidate findings grows with it. Many findings a scanner…

Claude Haiku 5.5

As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced at $1/million…

Does better work always mean better workers?

How voice AI agents control your browser

Code for this episode → https://g.dev/cloud/repositories Gemini Live API docs → https://g.dev/cloud/gemini-live CDP Page commands → https://g.dev/cloud/devtools-protocol How does an AI voice agent control a real browser…

Amazon EC2 C8gb instances now generally available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gb instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland,…

W3C issues press release about developing Verifiable Credential Barcodes

In a press release we present the concept of real-time revocation that is being developed in the W3C Verifiable Credentials Barcodes specification to protect physical documents.

Secret protection must scale with software

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. The post Secret protection must scale with…

Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge

Part 1 – Cybersecurity journeys: I didn’t plan this

If you’ve ever wondered whether your background qualifies you for a career in cybersecurity, you’re not alone — and you’re probably more prepared than you think. My name is Shannon Brazil, and I work in security…

Trait object with associated types in field - requires generic param?

I currently have: trait ListModel { fn get_stuff(&self, row: i) -> Stuff; ... } struct List { model: Rc<dyn ListModel>, ... } I think I want to change my model to use row IDs instead of usize indices. If I do this:…

👩‍💻 Chrissie Goodrich takes over the Google Cloud Tech channel!

Join Chrissie for the month of October as she takes over the Google Cloud Tech channel. Be sure to like and subscribe so you don't missing any exciting data analysis tips, tricks, and more! Speaker: Chrissie Goodirch

Any thin wrapper around the Web Worker API?

Hi, I'm currently writing some audio decoding pipeline targeting wasm32-unknown-unknown. In the queue / jittering part, I wanna be able to have one task that pushes data as it comes (with all the network uncertainties),…

Add a formatting specifier to limit the max length displayed of collections

Initially copy/pasted from Add a formatting specifier to limit the max length displayed of collections · Issue #906 · rust-lang/libs-team · GitHub, but with some minor changes. Sometimes, collections get super long, and…

Migrate SSIS packages to Aurora PostgreSQL – Part 2

Part 2 of migrating SSIS packages to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL tackles the complex packages. Learn how to replace SSIS control flow, Foreach Loop Containers, and Script Tasks with AWS Step Functions state machines, Map…

Migrate SSIS packages to Aurora PostgreSQL – Part 1

Migrating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages is one of the more complex parts of moving from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. In Part 1 of this two-part series, learn how to filter, categorize, and…

AWS Config now supports 77 new resource types

AWS Config now supports 77 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 Files, and Amazon Q Business. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you…