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Google has introduced Credentio, an open source C++ library for C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority) Content Credentials. Announced August 13 and available at the mediaprovenance repository, Credentio provides an API designed to run locally within developer applications. This removes the need to send media files to cloud servers for validation, which incurs privacy, latency, band…

It’s an idle Tuesday afternoon. You’re in hour three of change management calls to get a CostCenter tag update approved for a production change. Only finops reporting is affected. The change itself will take two minutes of Terraform execution. Last week, you had a DROP TABLE action that destroyed 10TB of obsolete tracking data. It was the same hour of doc writing and three hours of change managem…

Model routing has emerged as a way to keep AI inferencing costs down by examining prompts and directing them to the most appropriate model — for example, the cheapest one able to respond effectively. This means that requests can be handled more efficiently, giving more accurate results and lower runtime costs, a concern in an era of rising AI expenditure . Nvidia sees the potential for model rout…

Oracle has released a security tool intended to provide organizations with a centralized view of security risk across their database environments. Oracle Database Security Central will be available free of charge until the end of February 2027. It arrives at a critical time for Oracle customers, with attackers targeting security flaws to exploit the company’s database products . Oracle is also co…

Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, with updates focused on coding, automation, and agent workflows, alongside lower pricing for production deployments. The release, just three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, reflects what the company described as rapid iteration driven by developer feedback. Google positioned the model as its “most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents,” aimed at…

Enterprises are taking a serious look at neoclouds, the specialized cloud providers built primarily around AI infrastructure, especially GPUs, high-speed networking, and large-scale compute clusters for model training and inference. Unlike traditional hyperscalers that provide broad platforms for almost every kind of enterprise workload, neoclouds tend to focus more narrowly on accelerated comput…

One of AI vendor DeepSeek’s biggest selling points has been its ultra-low price point, but that party’s about to end. The Chinese model provider is raising API pricing for its V4 model family by notable margins, in some cases by more than 1,100%. The increases may not be that dramatic for all, though; the company is encouraging “more flexible workload scheduling,” with peak rates and half-price o…

The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual Studio v14.52 release, bring numerous improvements to the C++ front end, modules, code generation, debugging, static analysis, the linker and assembler, and more. The updates were announced in an August 1…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its code editor that brings more flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions. The update also allows users to open the Agents window without signing in to GitHub. VS Code 1.133 was released August 12 . It can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac from code.visualstudio.com . With VS Code 1.133, users now can mix Anthropic and Copilot …

Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that brings WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into application environments, for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to provide developers a way to run data closer to AI agents as they build increasingly autonomous applications. While traditional applications typically rely on a centralized database to handle application data, agentic applications can i…

A growing sentiment in tech is that large AI model providers will eventually replace traditional software vendors. The argument makes some sense. If a model can write code, answer questions, and automate workflows, then over time it should be able to take on the functionality of thousands of existing applications. Why maintain a fragmented stack of software tools and solutions when a single intel…

A few years ago, I helped move an application off sticky sessions so we could scale behind an ordinary round-robin load-balancer. On paper it was an infrastructure change. Every service was supposed to be stateless, so removing session affinity should have changed nothing. Nothing crashed. CPU looked normal. Every health check stayed green. But users started reporting workflows that would randoml…

Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The company also recently announced a partnership with AI infrastructure provider Cerebras to accelerate AI inference on its platform. Lovable is a vibe-coding website where users can create full-stack web applications without coding expertise by describing what they want in plain English…

Microsoft has announced the seventh preview release of the .NET 11 open source developer platform, with improvements ranging from tiered compilation for async methods and a milestone in bringing CoreCLR to WebAssembly . Developers can download Preview 7 from dotnet.microsoft.com . Production availability for .NET 11 is expected in November. Unveiled August 11 , .NET 11 Preview 7 includes improvem…

CodeRabbit is expanding its AI-powered Code Review platform into what it calls “Agentic Change Management” by adding new capabilities targeted at helping developers navigate the growing volume and complexity of code changes generated by vibe coding agents. These new capabilities include Triage, Change Stack, and a Security Agent. While Triage is designed to prioritize incoming pull requests (PRs)…