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PARTNER CONTENT: Why platform teams are swapping DIY Kubeflow for Canonical's managed service Platform engineering team leads are facing a quiet crisis. Your data science teams want Kubeflow for its pipeline orchestration, metadata tracking, and training operators, so you build it for them on Kubernetes. Then day two
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A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the baselines in 1991. This year the two extended their
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Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The
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TL;DR Almost all of the UK public sector (95%, or 99% counting software on cloud) depends on US hyperscalers, concentrating billions of pounds and critical services in Microsoft, Amazon, and Google systems. Analysts warn this is a strategic risk given outages, the US CLOUD Act, and “black box” gateways.
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TL;DR Meta is updating its Ray-Ban, Oakley, and own-brand smart glasses to disable the camera if the recording LED is physically tampered with or destroyed, closing a loophole modders used to record covertly. It is also removing mod-service listings, banning accounts, and weighing legal action. The fix reopens a
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Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Register reported the finding. The gap between the two settings is
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A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at
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Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulators are moving into ground the Consumer Financial Protection
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I just celebrated a big milestone I hope you never reach: I hit my health insurance plan's $10,150 out-of-pocket maximum less than five months into 2026, thanks mostly to two major eye surgeries. That means no more co-pays or coinsurance for authorized in-network care this year, as
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Apple is set to release iOS 27 this fall, and that update will bring Siri AI and more features to your iPhone. But before that, don't forget to check out all the new features Apple brought to your device with iOS 26.4. The tech giant released that
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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We’ve talked before about the hot IPO summer, but with SpaceX just launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) OpenAI soon to come, it can be easy to miss the sheer scale of what’s happening. We got a good reminder of it in Wednesday’s NCVA-Pitchbook Venture
