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Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

AI + ML Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire? KETTLE Google I/O has ostensibly been an AI show for a few years running, but this year's announcements have taken the cake, which Google seems all to happy to let its users eat

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Your Android phone comes with two built-in tools for freeing up storage space — here's how to use them and…

Nobody wants to get a "storage full" warning on their Android handset: running out of room means you won't be able to install any new apps or save any new photos or videos, and performance can quickly start to suffer too. Google knows how important it

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You Whole Genome is Now Sequenced: What Happens Next?

You paid somewhere between $300 and $500 for whole genome sequencing. Maybe Nebula, maybe Dante, maybe one of the newer providers that keep undercutting each other. You got a folder. Inside that folder: a VCF file with 4.86 million rows of variant data and a dashboard that shows you

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Your Automation Pipeline Is Not a Source of Truth

A CI/CD pipeline that runs without errors creates a sense of correctness. The job is green. The deployment happened. The infrastructure must reflect what it should. This logic feels sound, and it breaks down in a specific way worth understanding. The pipeline knows what it was told to do

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Can Voice Deepfake Detection Keep Up With the 1600% Surge in Fraud Attacks?

In 2024, there were 105,000 reported deepfake incidents (one every 5 minutes) using the voices of CEOs and top corporate executives to fool employees into handing over millions, along with highly sensitive data and business assets. That same year, 92% of businesses reported losses tied to deepfake-related incidents, totaling

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Hardened Containers at the Edge: Deploying Docker DHI on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC)

The acceleration of enterprise AI over the last two years has forced a massive architectural reckoning within highly regulated industries. For backend engineers working in healthcare, finance, or defense, the public cloud’s agility has always been at odds with stringent data sovereignty and compliance requirements. You want the reasoning

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Building Custom Java-Based MCP Servers Hosted on Cloud Run

Standardizing AI-to-Tool Communications The software integration paradigm has broken down. For decades, backend engineers built predictable, tightly coupled systems by writing explicit REST endpoints, mapping Data Transfer Objects (DTOs), and maintaining rigid OpenAPI contracts. Integration complexity was fundamentally a factor of $N \times M$ custom-built adapters, linking $N$ applications with

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5 Must-Have AI Skills for Developers in 2026 (and How To Learn Them)

AI is not coming. It's here. And the engineers who treat it as optional are already falling behind. The developers pulling ahead in 2026 are not necessarily the smartest engineers in the room. They are the ones who learned to work effectively with AI tools while everyone else