Mon.Jun 09, 2025

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What Are Large Action Models?

The New Stack

Operating a Windows program. Automating invoice reconciliation. Booking a flight and hotel. These are just a few tasks that a new class of large language models (LLMs) could enable for AI agents. Researchers are calling this next phase of LLMs “large action models,” or LAMs. To date, LLMs have been stateless — unable to act, adapt or interact with tools on their own.

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Real-Time Communication in Next.js Using Socket.IO: A Beginner’s Guide

Perficient

In today’s web landscape, users expect instant feedback-whether it’s receiving a new chat message, seeing a real-time stock price update, or getting notified when someone comments on a post. This shift has made real-time communication essential for modern applications. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we’ll explore how to build real-time features in a Next.js app using Socket.IO.

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With iOS 26, Apple finally makes your iPhone's Photos app usable again

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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Beginner’s Guide to Playwright Testing in Next.js

Perficient

Building modern web applications comes with the responsibility of ensuring they perform correctly across different devices, browsers, and user interactions. If you’re developing with Next.js, a powerful React framework, incorporating automated testing from the start can save you from bugs, regression s, and unexpected failures in production. This guide introduces Playwright , a modern end-to-end testing framework from Microsoft and demonstrates how to integrate it into a Next.js project.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Mark Cache: The ClickHouse Speed Hack You’re Not Using (Yet)

The New Stack

ClickHouse has become a go-to online analytical processing (OLAP) database for developers and engineers working on high-throughput analytical workloads. It’s fast, lightweight, open source and purpose-built for real-time performance at scale. However, maximizing the potential of ClickHouse takes more than default configurations. If your team is relying on ClickHouse to power dashboards, stream processing or on-the-fly analytics, there’s a critical internal mechanism worth tuning: mar

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Beyond the Hype: John Snow Labs Medical Language Models vs frontier LLMs in Clinical Information Extraction

John Snow Labs

Over the past few years, there’s been a quiet revolution in healthcare AI. The buzz around large language models (LLMs) has pushed them into the limelight, capturing imaginations with their ability to chat fluently, answer complex questions, and summarize lengthy clinical notes. But when the focus shifts from demos to deployment, a more layered picture begins to emerge.

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How to Use Risk-Based Metrics in an Exposure Management Program

Tenable

Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, Tenable security engineers Arnie Cabral and Jason Schavel share how you can use risk-based metrics. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. We’re information security engineers at Tenable.

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White House releases new cybersecurity directives to defend nation’s digital infrastructure

Ooda Loop

The United States’ cybersecurity directives boost national security measures. The Trump administration issued an upgraded executive order with nearly a dozen directives to modernize federal digital infrastructure. Key measures include AI integration by November 2025, secure software development, updated post-quantum cryptography standards, and mandatory IoT product labeling.

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Hypercloud Players Reveal Their Latest AI FinOps Products

The New Stack

SAN DIEGO — At FinOps X , the FinOps Foundation ‘s annual conference last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft all had things to say about their AI FinOps offerings. AWS John Phillips , Director of AWS Insights , emphasized the integration of AI-driven cost optimization features into its developer tools, notably through Amazon Q for developers.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Code Signing in the DevOps Era: Silver Bullet or Security Theater? 

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Top 5 Strategies for Crafting a Successful Internal Developer Portal

The New Stack

With the rise of platform engineering, internal developer portals have become essential for easing the burden on software developers. According to Gartner, by year-end, 75% of organizations with platform teams are expected to implement self-service developer portals. Many developer portals are constructed using open source frameworks, with Backstage leading the pack in popularity.

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4 application modernization trends for 2025 and beyond

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Monitor Your System Health From Python’s Command Line

The New Stack

Python ’s psutil library is a powerful tool for getting real-time insight into your system’s performance. You can use it in custom scripts, applications or directly from the command line. Using psutil in the command line interface (CLI) gives you speed, simplicity and flexibility. It’s especially useful for developers, system administrators and DevOps engineers who live in the terminal.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Top 10 Cloud Workload Protection Platforms in 2025

Tamnoon

Cloud infrastructure doesn’t break the same way on-prem did. But it still breaks. Whether that’s containers running outdated libraries or serverless functions wired with overly permissive roles, modern cloud workloads introduce attack surfaces that shift by the minute. Runtime threats, lateral movement, and memory injection aren’t theoretical risks either.

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Securing AI Agent Innovation with Prisma AIRS MCP Server

Palo Alto Networks

AI agents are set to revolutionize how we work, create and compete, offering unprecedented efficiency and insight as they automate everyday tasks. But how do we ensure these intelligent allies are secure and can be trusted as they become integral to the ways we work and go about our lives? At Palo Alto Networks, we believe that security must be a foundational enabler of AI adoption, not a barrier.

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IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics For $1.07B As Quantum Space Continues To Sizzle

Crunchbase News

Quantum computing company IonQ announced Monday that it will acquire quantum systems developer Oxford Ionics in a mostly stock deal valued at $1.07 billion. The acquisition comes amid a sizzling period for the quantum computing space. Over the past year, the sector has seen steeply rising stock prices among publicly traded companies, a succession of breakthroughs, and continued strong startup investment.

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Zero-Trust, Full Stack: Embedding Cybersecurity Principles Into Site Reliability Engineering Culture 

DevOps.com

These days, with digital threats everywhere, cybersecurity must evolve beyond just being a perimeter measure. Given the rapid delivery of software and the transient nature of infrastructure, security must be built into DevOps.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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AI-Powered Coding Tool Anysphere Raises $900M at $9.9B Valuation — Its Third Round In Less Than One Year

Crunchbase News

Anysphere , which sells the popular AI coding assistant Cursor, confirmed that it raised a $900 million round at a staggering $9.9 billion valuation. The round — first reported by Bloomberg last week — was led by Thrive Capital and included investment from Andreessen Horowitz , Accel and DST Global. Rumors of the deal had swirled last month. Bloomberg dubbed Anysphere as “the fastest growing startup ever.

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The Bare Metal Bet That Made Our Multiplayer Platform Hum

Dzone - DevOps

The cloud may be fast…but it nearly slowed us down. When we launched Hathora in 2022, we knew the infrastructure behind multiplayer games was long overdue for reinvention. Studios like EA and Blizzard had built their own complex systems to host game servers, but for most multiplayer game studios, that approach was out of reach. Our goal was to eliminate the barrier with a platform-as-a-service built specifically for multiplayer game workloads (low-latency, stateful servers ready to handle millio

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Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, Product Management and Governance 

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Burn the Old Playbook: Why the Future of Inclusive Capitalism Starts with Code

TechFides Blog

We’re at a crossroads. For years, businesses thrived by following a well-worn script: prioritize profits, optimize shareholder value, and grow fast—often without accounting for societal externalities. That playbook worked in the industrial era. But in today’s code-driven, interconnected world, it’s not just outdated, it’s dangerous. From rising inequality to eroding trust in institutions, we’re seeing the consequences of a system that doesn’t scale ethically.

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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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Eric Schmidt Warns: AI Workflows Are Redefining Command and Advantage

Ooda Loop

Former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt is the Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), which hosted its annual AI Expo and Ash Carter Exchange last week. Speaking at the event, Schmidt warned that AI is transforming not just knowledge creation, but the very workflows that underpin national power, enterprise innovation, and personal productivity.

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Attack Surface Visibility: Research Uncovers Critical Security Blind Spots

Ivanti

You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken. Proactive attack surface management begins with total attack surface visibility, but persistent cybersecurity data blind spots leave organizations vulnerable. Ivanti’s 2025 State of Cybersecurity Report finds that siloed and inaccessible data limits visibility into threats and impedes security efforts and response times.

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Cultural Debt vs. Technical Debt in Infrastructure Automation

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It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Honeycomb

In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings? New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry. The loop has been the same in each case.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Cloud ROI is Broken. Agentic AI Might Be the Fix. 

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HelloTDS Malware Spread via FakeCaptcha Infrastructure Infects Millions of Devices

Ooda Loop

“HelloTDS” malware campaign leverages advanced targeting tactics. Gen Threat Labs uncovered “HelloTDS,” a sophisticated Traffic Direction System (TDS) orchestrating global malware campaigns like FakeCaptcha. HelloTDS assesses victims via geolocation, IP addresses, and browser data before redirecting them to landing pages that serve benign content to non-targets while deploying info stealers or remote access trojans.

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The Jenga Effect: Why Clients Don't Make Good Product Owners

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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