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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design

Amazon EKS just went full Fort Knox. It now runs on azero operator accessmodel - meaning even AWS can’t peek inside your Kubernetes control or data plane. The setup leans on theNitro System’s confidential compute,guarded APIs, andmulti-party approval pipelines. NCC Group also kicked the tires and ga.. read more  

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Streamline Complex AI Inference on Kubernetes with NVIDIA Grove

NVIDIA releasedGrove, a Kubernetes API baked intoDynamo, to wrangle the chaos of modern AI inference. It pulls apart your big, messy model into clean, discrete chunks - prefill, decode, routing - and runs them like a single, orchestrated act. The trick?Custom hierarchical resources. They let Grove h.. read more  

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Prepare for the Kubernetes Administrator Certification and Pass

A tight 2-hour YouTube course built for theCKA examgrind. It's all real-world tasks: cluster setup, upgrades, troubleshooting. No fluff, just shell commands and Kubernetes in action. It walks through the gritty bits:etcdbackup and restore, node affinity, tolerations, and how to set upIngresslike som.. read more  

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The 1 Billion Token Challenge: Finding the Perfect Pre-training Mix

Researchers squeezed GPT-2-class performance out of a model trained on just1 billion tokens- 10× less data - by dialing in a sharp dataset mix:50% finePDFs, 30% DCLM-baseline, 20% FineWeb-Edu. Static mixing beat curriculum strategies. No catastrophic forgetting. No overfitting. And it hit90%+of GPT-.. read more  

The 1 Billion Token Challenge: Finding the Perfect Pre-training Mix
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Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1 Million AI Workers vs America's 20,000

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in some leaked comments, didn’t mince words: U.S. export bans aren’t hobbling China’s AI game - they’re fueling it. He pointed to Huawei’s 910C chip edging close to H100 territory, a forecast putting China ahead in AI compute by 2027, and a fast-growing local chip industry n.. read more  

Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1 Million AI Workers vs America's 20,000
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Context Management in Amp

Amp stretches the context window into something more useful. It pulls in system prompts, tool info, runtime metadata, even AGENTS.md files - fuel for agentic behavior. It gives devs serious control: edit messages, fork threads, drop in files with @mentions, hand off conversations, or link threads to.. read more  

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Google to release Nano Banana Pro next week

Google dropsGemini 3and the newNano Banana Pronext week. Big swing at image generation - now tied tight to Gemini 3 Pro. Early glimpses in Google Vids hint Nano Banana Pro is built for sharper visuals in creative tools. System shift:Google’s stacking its apps behind a single backbone: Gemini 3 Pro. .. read more  

Google to release Nano Banana Pro next week
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Inside Cursor - Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn

Cursor is shaking up recruiting by treating the hiring process as more about the person than the job, resulting in a fast-growing team of exceptional individuals drawn in by the company's compelling mission and focus on challenging technical problems. Women in product and engineering roles are a kno.. read more  

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LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology 

LLMs are tearing down LaTeX's old walls. Syntax hell, cryptic errors, clunky formatting - easier now. Whether baked into editors or running solo, these models smooth the pain. Why does it work so well? LaTeX has history. Mountains of examples. It's the perfect training set. That puts newer contender.. read more  

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Introducing structured output for Custom Model Import in Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock’s Custom Model Import just got structured output support. Now LLMs can lock their responses to your JSON schema - no prompt hacks, no cleanup after... read more  

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