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When it came to using Large Language Models (LLMs), it used to be all about prompt engineering, which was seen as the silver bullet to obtain the best possible answers with the help of generative AI. The limitations of this belief became apparent soon enough, and one began to turn
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Most hackathons end with a prototype and a presentation. Shipaton 2026 is doing things a little differently by challenging builders to go one step further: release a real app to real users. From August 1 through September 30, developers, founders, designers, and student builders worldwide are challenged to launch a
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In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take action across a wide range of tasks. For platform engineering teams designing these environments, the simplest approach is often to deploy an agent
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Database security traditionally relies on a fragile balance between the granular control developers need and the administrative overhead of managing thousands of individual database passwords. Between managing AI agent access, rotating static credentials, handling employee on-boarding and off-boarding, and auditing access logs, passwords remain an operational tax — and a potential
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When it comes to the gas vs. electric stove dispute, you’ll have people arguing about which is best for cooking and cookware, which is the safest, most affordable and eco-friendly. A study published in early July about the health effects of gas stoves may contribute to this debate. Conducted
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Save $42: Soundpeats Air5 Pro earbuds are now available for just $38. The original price of this pair is $80. This new record-low price reflects a 53% discount, making these buds an easy pick for anyone who wants solid features minus the premium price tag. Soundpeats Air5 Pro earbuds: $38
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If you’re tired of reading obviously AI-generated LinkedIn posts about the magic of B2B sales, there’s hope: LinkedIn on Thursday released a new tool that allows you to report posts as “Seems like AI slop.” AI slop is the term given to the deluge of posts, images and
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The problem: Prompt engineering at scale is still painful Migrating prompts to new models on Amazon Bedrock, or optimizing them for your current model, is still one of the most manual parts of building a generative AI application. Say you have built a deployed generative AI application. It works. Your
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Presented by NTT DATA AIVista VentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security incidents and near-incidents. But at VB Transform 2026, Mukesh Karki, CTO of NTT DATA AIVista, and Mayank Upadhyay, chief security
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Best Buy has raised the price of the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 — the first time a major US retailer
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is the best funded fusion power startup, having raised $4 billion from investors over the last seven years, including the $1 billion the company has raised now. Now, developments at CFS, plus rumblings from industry sources TechCrunch has spoken with in recent months, suggest that the
