Wed.Apr 09, 2025

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Introducing Docker Model Runner: A Better Way to Build and Run GenAI Models Locally

Docker Blog

Generative AI is transforming software development, but building and running AI models locally is still harder than it should be. Todays developers face fragmented tooling, hardware compatibility headaches, and disconnected application development workflows, all of which hinder iteration and slow down progress. Thats why were launching Docker Model Runner a faster, simpler way to run and test AI models locally , right from your existing workflow.

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Portman Partners introduces recruitment service for data centres

DCNN Magazine

Portman Partners is making a strategic investment in Flint DC , a new no-nonsense rapid-hire recruitment service specifically designed to provide data centres industry with the talent and expertise it needs, and help it overcome the ongoing talent challenge it faces at a crucial growth phase. Currently, the sector relies upon the traditional contingent recruitment model, which is proving to be ill-suited for the industry, says Mike Meyer Managing Partner of Portman Partners.

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Run Gemma 3 with Docker Model Runner: Fully Local GenAI Developer Experience

Docker Blog

The landscape of generative AI development is evolving rapidly but comes with significant challenges. API usage costs can quickly add up, especially during development. Privacy concerns arise when sensitive data must be sent to external services. And relying on external APIs can introduce connectivity issues and latency. Enter Gemma 3 and Docker Model Runner , a powerful combination that brings state-of-the-art language models to your local environment, addressing these challenges head-on.

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New digital gateway for Southern Europe

DCNN Magazine

Schneider Electric and Digital Realty are delivering a new digital gateway for Southern Europe – the new HER1 Data Center in Heraklion, Crete. Launched earlier this week as the first carrier-neutral facility on the island, HER1 plays a critical role in reducing Southern Europes digital connectivity and infrastructure gap by enabling the interconnection of international, regional and local subsea cables, empowering cloud, telco and content delivery networks (CDNs) to better serve the surrou

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Fine-tune your Feedly AI Feeds with Natural Language Filters

Effective Software Design

Market Intelligence Fine-tune your Feedly AI Feeds with Natural Language Filters Refine your research queries to target niche insights or remove noisy topics 15 Second-summary Feedly AI Feeds are already powerful, but what if you could fine-tune them even further? Introducing Natural Language Filters a new way to refine your feeds with precise, natural language queries on top of our AI Models.

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ZTE enhances all-optical networks with smart ODN solutions

DCNN Magazine

Hans Neff, Senior Director of ZTE CTO Group , recently delivered a keynote speech entitled Embracing the AI Era to Accelerate the Development of All-Optical Networks at the FTTH Conference 2025 in Amsterdam, sharing the company’s solutions and experience in focusing on AI empowerment to achieve intelligent ODN, improve the deployment efficiency of all-optical networks, and reduce deployment and O&M costs.

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Advancing Enterprise Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN and Google’s Cloud WAN Integration

Cisco Wireless

Cisco and Google Cloud enhance enterprise networking with integrated SD-WAN solutions, offering seamless connectivity, robust security, and simplified management for hybrid environments worldwide.

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Introducing Workers Observability: logs, metrics, and queries – all in one place

CloudFaire

Were excited to announce Workers Observability a new section in the Cloudflare Dashboard that allows you to query detailed log events across all Workers in your account to extract deeper insights. In 2024, we set out to build the best first-party observability for any cloud platform. Since then, weve improved metrics reporting for all resources, launched Workers Logs to automatically ingest and store logs for Workers, and rebuilt real-time logs with improved filtering.

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Breaking Down Barriers, Welcoming New Talent: Celebrate International Girls in ICT Day with Cisco

Cisco Wireless

Join us as we come together in celebration of International Girls in ICT Day to inspire and empower the future leaders of technology, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to be part of this transformative journey.

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Cloudflare Snippets are now Generally Available

CloudFaire

Program your traffic at the edge fast, flexible, and free Cloudflare Snippets are now generally available (GA) for all paid plans, giving you a fast, flexible way to control HTTP traffic using lightweight JavaScript code rules at no extra cost. Need to transform headers dynamically, fine-tune caching, rewrite URLs, retry failed requests, replace expired links, throttle suspicious traffic, or validate authentication tokens?

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Embracing the Quantum Era: Navigating the Quantum Shift With PQC

Cisco Wireless

Discover how post-quantum cryptography protects data in the quantum era, addressing challenges and strategies for a secure digital future.

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Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow

CloudFaire

Every cloud platform needs a secure way to store API tokens, keys, and credentials welcome, Cloudflare Secrets Store! Today, we are very excited to announce and launch Secrets Store in beta. We built Cloudflare Secrets Store to help our customers centralize management, improve security, and restrict access to sensitive values on the Cloudflare platform.

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How NetOps and SecOps Evolution to Solve Network Compliance is Driving Efficiency

Cisco Wireless

Explore how automation with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator is transforming network compliance for government agencies, enhancing collaboration between NetOps and SecOps teams, and streamlining operations across multi-vendor networks.

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Network performance update: Developer Week 2025

CloudFaire

As the Internet has become enmeshed in our everyday lives, so has our need for speed. No one wants to wait when adding shoes to our shopping carts, or accessing corporate assets from across the globe. And as the Internet supports more and more of our critical infrastructure, speed becomes more than just a measure of how quickly we can place a takeout order.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Article: Shadow Table Strategy for Seamless Service Extractions and Data Migrations

InfoQ Articles

The shadow table strategy creates a synchronized duplicate of the data that keeps the production system fully operational during changes, enabling zero-downtime migrations. The approach supports diverse scenarios - including database migrations, microservices extractions, and incremental schema refactoring - that update live systems safely and progressively.

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Say Goodbye to SaaS Security Gaps with Cato CASB 

CATO Networks

Introduction As organizations increasingly depend on SaaS applications, IT teams struggle with visibility and governance. Shadow IT, unmanaged devices, and limited monitoring capabilities create blind spots, exposing enterprises to compliance violations, data exfiltration, and insider threats. Risks dont come only from unsanctioned applications: even widely used SaaS platforms can become a security liability when not properly controlled.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to […]

4sysops

Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware’ Microsoft has identified a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-29824) in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS), which is currently being exploited for deploying ransomware. This vulnerability affects various sectors including IT, finance, and real estate, with incidents reported in multiple countries such as the US and Saudi Arabia.

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NAN089: A Career Journey of Exponential Learning

Packet Pushers

If you don’t feel nervous in front of a challenge, you are not exponentially learning is how todays guest Christian Adell describes his own approach to career growth. Christian chats with us first about how he got started in IT, his various experiences in both networking and DevOps and then network automation. He leads a. Read more » If you don’t feel nervous in front of a challenge, you are not exponentially learning is how todays guest Christian Adell describes his own approac

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Michael Pietroforte posted an update: Anthropic plans European expansion with 100 new […]

4sysops

Anthropic plans European expansion with 100 new jobs Anthropic, the AI start-up known for its chatbot Claude, is expanding its operations in Europe by creating over 100 new jobs primarily in its Dublin and London offices. The company has appointed Guillaume Princen, a former executive at Stripe, to lead its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations.

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Experts Find the Pen is Mightier than the Data

EA Voices

From Architecture & Governance Magazine Plenty of researchers already study how to tell if online writing bears the traits of artificial intelligence but Michael Laudenbach, at New Jersey Institute of Technologys Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, […]

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Michael Pietroforte posted an update: Outage hits Exchange Admin Center, Microsoft 365 apps like […]

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Outage hits Exchange Admin Center, Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook may be down – Neowin Microsoft has announced that the Exchange Admin Center is currently experiencing an outage, resulting in disruptions to various Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook. Users are unable to access several features and functionalities within Outlook due to this issue.

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I've sold on eBay for 25 years, and this new AI-powered listing tool is a game-changer

Tech Blog - eBay Inc.

You can list an item in under a minute. It's that easy.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Google unveils new AI models, infrastructure, and agent […]

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Google unveils new AI models, infrastructure, and agent protocol at Cloud Next At the Cloud Next conference, Google announced several advancements in AI technology, including the introduction of the Ironwood Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). This seventh-generation TPU is optimized for inference, boasting up to 3,600 times the performance of its predecessor and energy-efficient features.

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New Learning Pathway for Data Architects: Upskill on Data Platforms, AI and Governance

databricks

Today, we are announcing the Data Architect learning pathway, a dedicated learning track that equips data architects with the required resources and skills for success.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Microsoft Boosts Enterprise AI with Copilot in Azure […]

4sysops

Microsoft Boosts Enterprise AI with Copilot in Azure Release Microsoft has launched Copilot in Azure for commercial users, enhancing management, optimization, and troubleshooting of Azure services through natural language commands. This AI tool significantly improves performance, with a 30% faster response time and a redesigned user interface to enhance accessibility.

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Better User Experiences, Stronger Security

auth0

Auth0s latest features enhance user experience with secure, customizable logins, flexible authentication, and improved securitywithout compromising convenience.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription | […]

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Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription | TechCrunch Anthropic has launched a new subscription service for its AI chatbot Claude, named Max, with a monthly price of $200. This subscription competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro and offers higher usage limits compared to Anthropics existing Claude Pro at $20 per month. The Max plan features two pricing tiers: a $100 option providing 5x the usage limits and a $200 option offering 20x higher limits.

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Chopped: AI Edition - Building a Meal Planner

Confluent

Learn how to build an event-driven architecture that coordinates a team of four family-meal-planning agents, and leverages LangChain, Anthropic's Claude, Kafka, and Flink.

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Michael Pietroforte wrote a new post: GitHub Copilot Agent mode vs. Ask and Edit mode in VS Code

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In Visual Studio Code release 1.99, Microsoft introduced GitHub Copilots Agent mode, a feature that closely resembles functionalities previously offered by Cursor, Cline , and Roo Code. Agent mode lets Copilot examine the codebase, find relevant files, make edits, and autonomously run and debug code. In this post, Ill compare Agent mode with Ask and Edit mode and outline how Agent mode facilitates vibe codingthe automation of writing code.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Windows 11s Copilot Vision wants to help you learn to use […]

4sysops

Windows 11s Copilot Vision wants to help you learn to use complicated apps – Ars Technica Microsoft is rolling out a beta update for its Copilot assistant as part of the Windows Insider program, adding a new feature called Copilot Vision. This update allows users to interact with any app window, enabling them to ask Copilot about the contents of documents and the app’s user interface.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo