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Here is a calculation most product leaders never run. Your next feature release is six weeks behind schedule. The cause is not poor engineering it is a vacant role. One senior developer, unfilled for two months, pushed your Q3 roadmap into Q4. The feature was supposed to support a sales campaign tied to an industry event. That campaign was delayed. Three enterprise prospects the sales team had been nurturing moved forward with a competitor whose product already had the functionality. You do not see that cost on any invoice. It does not appear in your hiring budget or on the…

AI is no longer a futuristic concept reserved for Silicon Valley labs; it is the new baseline skill for every industry. But for many early-in-career professionals, the sheer volume of information surrounding AI can feel overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you keep up? And most importantly, how do you turn AI literacy into a tangible career advantage? In our latest Find Yourself in the Future session, we sat down with Eddy Shyu, AI Product Manager and the creative force behind our popular Introduction to Modern AI and Apply AI courses at Cisco Networking Academy. Together with our host,…

Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security landscape. Session theft typically occurs when a user inadvertently downloads malware onto their device. Once active, the malware can silently extract existing session cookies from the browser or wait…

Spring cleanup season looks different in a fast-growing city like Murfreesboro. It often overlaps with remodels, tenant turnovers, landscaping work, roofing jobs, and new construction. That matters because renovation debris builds fast, and a lot of it does not belong in a mixed landfill load from the start. The better move is to plan for reuse, recycling, special handling, and disposal before the first pile forms. That is not just better for the environment. In Rutherford County, it is also the practical way to deal with a waste system that does not accept every material at every site. That planning…

15 years ago, I started my first open source project on GitHub. Originally it was called NSAttributedString-Additions-for-HTML but later I renamed it to DTCoreText. I had switched to maintenance mode 8 years ago, because I had no interest in putting more work into an Objective-C code base. Besides of the old language there were too many dependencies into even more Objective-C frameworks, namely DTFoundation which held the libxml2-based parser which is used by DTCoreText and many workarounds for compiling on older operating systems from a time before ARC. So for the past decade this book was closed for me. I…

Driven by a desire to break free from walled gardens, many hardware hackers have designed their own smartwatches. Instead of proprietary hardware and software platforms, these devices typically use highly accessible components like ESP32 microcontrollers and custom-built firmware. So far, so good; however, commercial smartwatches still beat them in one very important way — durability. DIY solutions don’t hold up well (or at all) to the conditions — like rain — that we regularly run into in our everyday lives. This factor alone makes homebrew smartwatches more of a toy than anything practical.But now, there is a new smartwatch developed…

Several years ago, Huawei unveiled a watch that housed earbuds inside it and released a fancy ProCollector’s Edition of the Watch GT 3. Today brings something similar. The Huawei Watch Buds 2 refines the design of the original with a slightly slimmer (14.7mm vs. 15.0mm) and lighter (54.5 vs. 66.5g) build. It does this by dropping the stainless steel frame in favor of a titanium alloy. The back is made of skin-friendly fiber-reinforced composite material. The Huawei Watch Buds 2 is a smartwatch and TWS buds case in one The watch measures 47mm across and is suitable for 140-210mm wrists.…

A separate project, Agent Evals, was announced to enable the reliable shipping of agents. This project was born out of internal experience where agents were found to be non-deterministic, creating a strong need for reliability and confidence. Agent Evals provides tooling to benchmark agents by leveraging open standards like OpenTelemetry. It collects real-time metrics and tracing as the agent runs to score performance and inference quality, producing a report that helps users understand their agent’s reliability. This assessment is crucial for determining the level of human intervention required, whether fully autonomous, human-in-the-loop, or human-outer-loop. Agent Evals works in conjunction with other observability tools that support OpenTelemetry…

If, like me, you’ve spent hours comparing CloudFormation and Terraform without finding a clear winner, you’re not alone. Both are mature, battle-tested infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools that have become deeply embedded in enterprise workflows. Each brings its own strengths, trade-offs, and loyal following. Yet their philosophies differ. Terraform is built for openness and flexibility, with a community that thrives on experimentation and a provider ecosystem that seems to grow by the week. CloudFormation, on the other hand, stays firmly rooted in the AWS world. It offers deep integration, built-in governance, and a level of predictability that many teams trust for critical…

How ‘proof of human’ works Billed as the infrastructure for the age of AI, World ID was co-founded by Altman and Alex Blania, and is being developed by technology company Tools for Humanity, whose iris imaging technology seeks to eliminate the need to provide emails, photos, or other personal details to prove identity. World ID’s mission is to provide “proof of human” (POH), so that people know they are in fact interacting with another human being (or a bot on behalf of a verified human), rather than a deepfake or other unknown entity. The ideal is to reduce abuse, impersonation,…