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Modern laptops might've tried to kill off the built-in optical drive, but physical media is far from dead. Case in point: the Dell DW316 Slim external USB DVD-RW drive for $39 at Amazon. Physical media is making a serious comeback (my hardware editor, with his massive library of
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test some new Xbox console features with Insiders. Testers will be able to try out custom Xbox boot animations from the past,
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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So, you’ve planned your database modernization journey. You’ve set up Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS), configured replication, and successfully synchronized your application databases from your on-premises or cloud systems to a fully managed Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. The replication is complete, the data is
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Spanner is Google Cloud’s no-compromise operational database that gives you the horizontal scale and always-on availability of a modern distributed system along with the rich feature set and familiar ecosystem of a relational database. Innovators in industries like banking, retail, media and entertainment, and AI infrastructure rely on Spanner
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For the millions of fervent fans of the Indian Premiere League (IPL), being able to count on a flawless live streaming cricket experience is never up for debate. For Airtel, producing league TV broadcasts with some of the world's most massive concurrent viewership, dropped packets and buffering are
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Meta launched its personal AI agent, Muse, in the US on September 8. The tool is reportedly more than just a chatbot, handling responsibilities like email, calendars, payments, health apps, shopping, and smart home systems on users' behalf. It's available now through a dedicated app on iOS
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The deployment reaches the configuration stage and stops. The network exists. The virtual machine exists. Configuration did not finish, and the health check never ran. The pipeline is red, but the provider console shows resources that are still active. Both views are technically correct. The command failed. The infrastructure also
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If you build agents for a living, you’ve probably noticed two things this year. First, the frontier closed models keep getting better, at least on paper. Second, more and more devs are saying that the models they pay for feel worse in practice, and that the small open model
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TorchServe is no longer actively maintained. The official project notice states there are no planned updates, bug fixes, new features, or security patches, and that vulnerabilities might not be addressed. For teams that run model inference on TorchServe today, this means security patches stop and compatibility updates with newer versions
