Total Articles: 20 from 7 sources
AWS News
1. AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026)
Published: 2026-03-09 16:15
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Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and […]
2. Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents
Published: 2026-03-04 20:04
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AWS launches OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock for starting with your AI assistant immediately — no additional configuration required.
3. AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026)
Published: 2026-03-02 19:05
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This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and implement AI use cases that deliver measurable business value
Dropbox Engineering
1. Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance
URL: https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/llm-human-labeling-improving-search-relevance-dropbox-dash
Published: 2026-02-26 17:00
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How we train Dash’s search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.
2. How low-bit inference enables efficient AI
URL: https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/how-low-bit-inference-enables-efficient-ai
Published: 2026-02-12 18:00
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Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.
GitHub Blog
1. GitHub availability report: February 2026
URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availability-report-february-2026/
Published: 2026-03-12 03:23
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In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services The post GitHub availability report: February 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
2. Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/addressing-githubs-recent-availability-issues-2/
Published: 2026-03-11 21:41
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GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now The post Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
3. The era of “AI as text” is over. Execution is the new interface.
Published: 2026-03-10 20:16
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AI is shifting from prompt-response interactions to programmable execution The post The era of “AI as text” is over Execution is the new interface. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Google Developers
1. A Guide to Fine-Tuning FunctionGemma
URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/a-guide-to-fine-tuning-functiongemma/
Published: 2026-03-12 09:40
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FunctionGemma is a specialized AI model for function calling This post explains why fine-tuning is key to resolving tool selection ambiguity (e.g., internal vs It also introduces the “FunctionGemma Tuning Lab,” a no-code demo on Hugging Face Spaces, which streamlines the entire fine-tuning process for developers.
2. Tailor Gemini CLI to your workflow with hooks
URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/tailor-gemini-cli-to-your-workflow-with-hooks/
Published: 2026-03-12 09:40
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New Gemini CLI hooks (v0.26.0+) let you tailor the agentic loop Add context, enforce policies, and block secrets with custom scripts that run at predefined points in your workflow.
3. LiteRT: The Universal Framework for On-Device AI
URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/litert-the-universal-framework-for-on-device-ai/
Published: 2026-03-12 09:40
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LiteRT, the evolution of TFLite, is now the universal framework for on-device AI It delivers up to 1.4x faster GPU, new NPU support, and streamlined GenAI deployment for models like Gemma.
Meta Engineering
1. How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger
URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/09/security/how-advanced-browsing-protection-works-in-messenger/
Published: 2026-03-09 16:00
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We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warning people about malicious links We hope that this post has helped to illuminate some of the engineering challenges and infrastructure components involved for providing this feature for our users. […] Read More The post How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
2. FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale
URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/video-engineering/ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale/
Published: 2026-03-02 20:00
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FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing For the people who use our apps, FFmpeg plays an important role in enabling new video experiences […] Read More The post FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
3. Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc
Published: 2026-03-02 17:00
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Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and modernize the codebase while continuing to evolve the allocator to adapt to the latest hardware and workloads We are committed to continuing to develop jemalloc development with the […] Read More
Netflix TechBlog
1. Scaling Global Storytelling: Modernizing Localization Analytics at Netflix
Published: 2026-03-06 15:01
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However, this growth created technical debt within our systems: a fragmented landscape of analytics workflows, duplicated pipelines, and siloed dashboards that we are now actively modernizing.The Challenge: “Who Made This Dub?”Historically, business logic for localization metrics was replicated across isolated domains To fix this, we revamped our Language Asset Consumption tool — instead of reporting dub and subtitle metrics independently, we combine audio and text languages into one consumption language that helps differentiate Original Language versus Localized Consumption and measure member preferences between subtitles, dubs, or a combination of both for a given language By centralizing business logic into unified tables — such as a “Language Asset Producer” table — we solve the “Who made this dub?” problem once
2. Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API
Published: 2026-03-03 01:36
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When we looked at CPU profiles for this service, one feature kept standing out: video serendipity scoring — the logic that answers a simple question:“How different is this new title from what you’ve been watching so far?”This single feature was consuming about 7.5% of total CPU on each node running the service More crucially for us, it’s pure Java: no native dependencies, no JNI transitions, and a development model that looks like normal Java code rather than platform-specific assembly or intrinsics.This was a particularly good match for our workload because we had already moved embeddings into flat, contiguous double[] buffers, and the hot loop was dominated by large numbers of dot products So we designed the fallback behavior explicitly: At startup, we detect Vector API support and use the SIMD batched matmul when available; otherwise we fall back to an optimized scalar path, with single-video requests continuing to use the per-item implementation.That gives us a clean operational story: services can opt in to the Vector API for maximum performance, but the system remains safe and predictable without it.Results in Production:With the full design in place with batching, flat buffers, ThreadLocal reuse, and the Vector API, we ran canaries that run production traffic
3. Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs
Published: 2026-02-28 22:55
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Examining the mount table made it clear that these mounts were related to container creation.The affected nodes were almost all r5.metal instances, and were starting applications whose container image contained many layers (50+).ChallengeMount Lock ContentionThe flamegraph in Figure 1 clearly shows where containerd spent its time Almost all of the time is spent trying to grab a kernel-level lock as part of the various mount-related activities when assembling the container’s root filesystem!Figure 1: Flamegraph depicting lock contentionLooking closer, containerd executes the following calls for each layer if using user namespaces:open_tree() to get a reference to the layer / directorymount_setattr() to set the idmap to match the container’s user range, shifting the ownership so this container can access the filesmove_mount() to create a bind mount on the host with this new idmap appliedThese bind mounts are owned by the container’s user range and are then used as the lowerdirs to create the overlayfs-based rootfs for the container The kernel VFS has various global locks related to the mount table, and each of these mounts requires taking that lock as we can see in the top of the flamegraph
Stripe Engineering
1. Analyzing first-party fraud trends: Account, free trial, and refund abuse
URL: https://stripe.com/blog/analyzing-first-party-fraud-trends-account-free-trial-and-refund-abuse
Published: 2026-03-10 00:00
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From November 2025 to February 2026, our models detected 6.2x more abusive free trials across the Stripe network This is part of a broader shift toward first-party fraud, where legitimate users abuse policies by setting up multiple accounts, cycling through free trials, or exploiting refunds.
2. Supporting additional payment methods for agentic commerce
URL: https://stripe.com/blog/supporting-additional-payment-methods-for-agentic-commerce
Published: 2026-03-03 00:00
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Stripe is now the first and only provider that supports both agentic network tokens and buy now, pay later tokens in agentic commerce through a single primitive.
3. Can AI agents build real Stripe integrations? We built a benchmark to find out
URL: https://stripe.com/blog/can-ai-agents-build-real-stripe-integrations
Published: 2026-03-02 00:00
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State-of-the-art LLMs can now solve a majority of scoped coding problems, but it’s an open question whether they can fully autonomously manage software engineering projects We spent months building evaluation environments to benchmark how well AI agents can create real Stripe integrations.
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