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Run LLMs Locally with Docker: A Quickstart Guide to Model Runner

Docker Blog

AI is quickly becoming a core part of modern applications, but running large language models (LLMs) locally can still be a pain. Between picking the right model, navigating hardware quirks, and optimizing for performance, its easy to get stuck before you even start building. At the same time, more and more developers want the flexibility to run LLMs locally for development, testing, or even offline use cases.

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Riello UPS Expands Multi Power2 Modular Series

DCNN Magazine

Critical power protection specialist, Riello UPS , has announced an extension to its ultra-high efficiency modular range Multi Power2. The uninterruptible power supply manufacturer adds to its existing 500 kW MP2 UPS with a 300 kW version, along with a trio of 600 kW cabinets. The expansion increases the flexibility of the range, which is aimed at small to medium-sized data centres and other similarly mission critical applications.

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IP Transit for an SMB — PAYG SD-WANaaS? [closed]

Network Engineering

Simply put: Our company has multiple, occasional projects where our customers need to send us TBs of data from across the US, or the world. Time and again, the real-world transfer speeds are a fraction of the ISP's rated bandwidth. Case in point, our L.A. office and a NYC client. We both have >1Gbps fiber DIA, but we can never get more than 350Mbps between the sites.

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Connecting the fans: Cisco’s tech-driven transformation of St. Louis CITY SC

Cisco Wireless

Cisco and St. Louis CITY SC have partnered to create one of the most connected and fan-centric environments in Major League Soccer. Cisco serves as a Proud Technology Partner of the club, leveraging its solutions across networking, security, Wi-Fi and digital signage to help ensure fans can have one of the most immersive matchday experiences in sports at its stadium, Energizer Park.

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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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Cloudflare’s commitment to CISA Secure-By-Design pledge: delivering new kernels, faster

CloudFaire

As cyber threats continue to exploit systemic vulnerabilities in widely used technologies, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) produced best practices for the technology industry with their Secure-by-Design pledge. Cloudflare proudly signed this pledge on May 8, 2024, reinforcing our commitment to creating resilient systems where security is not just a feature, but a foundational principle.

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Data centre market set for unprecedented growth

DCNN Magazine

Knight Frank , the global real estate adviser, has published its global data centres report, revealing a surge in market expansion – with a projected 46% increase in data centre capacity worldwide by 2027. This equates to an additional 20,828 megawatts (MW). This rapid growth, which has the potential to expand 177% by 2030, is underpinned by a substantial capital expenditure of 229 billion over the forecast period, reflecting the intensifying demand for digital infrastructure to support AI

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From waste to wonders: My sustainability journey with Cisco’s Green Team

Cisco Wireless

Aaditya, a Cisco employee and Green Team Network Bengaluru leader, shares more about his sustainability journey.

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Hedge 265: Out of Band Networks

Rule 11

Out of band management networks were once more common than they are today. Should we go back to building out of band management networks? Should out of band management networks be virtual or physical? How can we sell out of band management networks to the folks paying the bills? Daryll Swer joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the importance of OOB management.

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Nokia recognised by Gartner for its data centre switching

DCNN Magazine

Nokia has been named by Gartner as a Visionary in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Centre Switching. Based on specific criteria established by the research organisation, Nokia is cited for overall ‘Completeness of Vision’ and ‘Ability to Execute’ At a time when data centres must power new innovations such as AI in addition to their existing application workloads, these modern environments require reliability, ease of operation and energy efficiency.

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Strange iperf3 results: Reverse mode (-R) performs better on 802.11n, worse on 802.11ac – why? [closed]

Network Engineering

I'm running iperf3 tests over Wi-Fi and noticing some unexpected results when switching between 802.11n and 802.11ac. The issue is that: On 802.11n, I get better results in reverse mode (-R) (server client) than in normal mode. On 802.11ac, it's the oppositeI get better results in normal mode (-c) (client server) than in reverse mode. I have already tested with multiple different devices (both as client and server), and the results are always the same.

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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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Spring Training for Success: What Sports Taught Me About Customer-Focused Partner Readiness

Cisco Wireless

Explore the parallels between Alex Pujols' experience in baseball and business success as Cisco launches the 360 Partner Program, focusing on customer-centric value creation and transformative growth opportunities.

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Announcing Automatic Publishing to Power BI

databricks

Were excited to announce the Public Preview of the Microsoft Power BI task type in Databricks Workflows, available on Azure, AWS, and GCP. With this.

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Michael Pietroforte commented on What is Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP)? What is an MCP server?

4sysops

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard developed by Anthropic to facilitate secure, two-way connections between AI models and external data sources, such as databases, business tools, and development environments. It enables AI agents to make informed decisions to perform tasks autonomously. Given that Anthropic's announcement is just a few weeks old, the number of available MCP servers is impressive.

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Is TCP BBR so hard to implement?

Network Engineering

I tried to find some implementations of bbr, especially in quic, but it seems that there are no good examples except for the implementations from google. Why? Is it so complicated?

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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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Unlocking the Privacy Advantage to Build Trust in the Age of AI

Cisco Wireless

The Cisco 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study offers insights into the evolving privacy landscape and privacys critical role in an AI-centric world.

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HN775: How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot

Packet Pushers

On todays Heavy Networking, well discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organizations knowledge. The potential use cases for network operations are fascinating, and todays guest, Kyler Middleton is here to explain the finer details on how to do it and point us to free resources created so that. Read more » On todays Heavy Networking, well discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organizations knowledge.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache […]

4sysops

Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been identified in all versions of Apache Parquet up to 1.15.0, potentially allowing attackers to take control of systems through specially crafted Parquet files. This security flaw, labeled CVE-2025-30065 with a CVSS score of 10.0, was mitigated by the release of Apache Parquet version 1.15.1.

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Why Manufacturing Needs SASE: Securing Smart Factories and Global Operations

CATO Networks

Imagine youre the Director of IT for a global manufacturing company. You must keep production sites, suppliers, and remote workers securely connected while controlling costs and meeting compliance. Every day, new challenges arise: A plant manager reports slow connections, delaying real-time production analytics they need A security alert warns of a potential OT system breach Your leadership team asked you to provide a scalable, cost-effective plan to support cloud-based operationsyesterday If th

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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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Network Visibility Module and Zeek Detections in Secure Network Analytics

Cisco Wireless

Secure Network Analytics version 7.5.2 has been released, offering exciting new features such as the Network Visibility Module (NVM) and Zeek detections.

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Best Note Taking Tablets for Busy Professionals [Paper-Like Writing Experience]

Geek Flare

A note taking tablet is a digital device that usually comes with stylus support so that you get a digital experience of writing or sketching with all the convenience that comes with technology. A note taking tablet is a godsend for busy professionals in todays fast-paced work environment as they simplify the underestimated process of […] The post Best Note Taking Tablets for Busy Professionals [Paper-Like Writing Experience] appeared first on Geekflare.

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Michael Pietroforte wrote a new post: Enabling ESM Apps service - The Ubuntu Pro deceit

4sysops

Have you ever received the notice stating, “Additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps” after logging into an Ubuntu Linux machine? Despite working with Ubuntu for 15 years, this was the first time I encountered it. Since this was a relatively new installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I was perplexed as to why I couldn’t install all security updates using apt upgrade.

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TNO023: Networking’s Third Phase – The Network Operator Experience

Packet Pushers

Guest Chris Grundemann believes that NetOps is in the third phase of networking–improving the network operator experience. Not just making the network functional or improving end user experience. In this episode, Chris tells his origin story at a wireless service provider and growth into a founder of multiple companies. He also shares his community-focused work.

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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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Global Volunteer Month shines spotlight on Cisco DNA

Cisco Wireless

For Global Volunteer Month, we take a look at all the ways Cisco supports employees volunteering in their communities.

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BugHerd Review: Getting Client Feedback Heard for Agencies

Geek Flare

What is BugHerd? BugHerd is an application for collecting and organizing website feedback. It works like bug-tracking software that lets your clients add sticky notes to a webpage. Founded in Australia in 2011, it has been assisting agencies in refining their website development and ongoing maintenance procedures. BugHerd also comes with in-context annotations, task management […] The post BugHerd Review: Getting Client Feedback Heard for Agencies appeared first on Geekflare.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: OpenAI plans GPT-5 release in "a few months," shifts […]

4sysops

OpenAI plans GPT-5 release in “a few months,” shifts strategy on reasoning models OpenAI is altering its strategy for releasing GPT-5 by planning to introduce its reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, as standalone entities shortly. Previously, the intention was to merge these models into GPT-5, which is now expected to launch in a few months.

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A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

CloudFaire

Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.

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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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Announcing the General Availability of Lakeflow Connect

databricks

Were excited to announce the General Availability of Lakeflow Connect for Salesforce and Workday.

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Saleshandy Review: Is It Handy Wandy for Cold Emails?

Geek Flare

What is Saleshandy? Saleshandy is an AI-powered cold email outreach software that helps you run personalized email campaigns, generate leads, and automate email outreach from one place. It’s trusted by 10k+ businesses, including GoDaddy, Integrately, Content Studio, and more. Saleshandys core strength lies in email communications, with built-in features like email tracking, automation sequences, deliverability […] The post Saleshandy Review: Is It Handy Wandy for Cold Emails?

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Microsoft is killing something inside Edge but it's to […]

4sysops

Microsoft is killing something inside Edge but it’s to improve user data privacy – Neowin Microsoft is discontinuing the window.external.getHostEnvironmentValue() method, which was specific to Edge, in favor of the more privacy-centric User-Agent Client Hints API. This change is part of Microsofts initiative to enhance user privacy by reducing the potential for user fingerprinting, a process that allows websites to track users based on device and browser information.

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Article: Architectural Experimentation in Practice: Frequently Asked Questions

InfoQ Articles

This third article in a series answers some frequently asked questions about architectural experiments. Architectural experiments test critical decisions to reduce risks and costs, using well-defined hypotheses and results for clarity. They are structured, not unfocused, exploratory learning.

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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