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We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
Today we're making the the Rerun open source project public. Rerun is now installable as `pip install rerun-sdk` for Python users and `cargo add rerun` for Rust users.
2-Step Verification offers a strong extra layer of protection for Google Accounts. Once enabled, you’re asked for a verification code from...
Netlify now runs any OpenRouter model, including Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4. We tested 11 of them on the same build prompt to see how they differ.
The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer that runs a Linux-based operating system called SteamOS. The machine comes with SteamOS 3 (code name “holo” ), which is in turn based on Arch Linux.
A powerful feature that makes JavaScript unique is its ability to work asynchronously via callback functions. Assigning async callbacks let you write event-driven code but it also makes tracking down bugs a hair pulling experience since the JavaScript is not executing in a linear fashion.
The best way to build a great product is to write the whole idea out first.
Meet Toast 1, Mixedbread's search agent for knowledge-intensive tasks, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10×…
A number of students have asked me for strategies to 'stay consistent'. I assume they are referring to their study routines, not CAP consistency, otherwise this would be a very different article! I do feel like I can give some suggestions, but first allow me to talk about Omar.
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, tex…
The most up-to-date version of the Arduino IDE. It provides a better overall user experience thanks to a responsive interface and faster compilation time.
We have a big announcement. Very big, in fact. Four times bigger than any previous announcement. We make Halide, a camera app that combines intuitive, polished design with the powerful features found in professional gear. Today we’re bringing Halide to a whole new form factor. Meet Halide for iPad!
A new tool in Google Search can help you easily control whether your personally-identifiable information can be found in Search results.
The Trump presidency starts Friday. Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's agenda. In a matter of days, the United States will enter a new era. On Friday, President Elect Donald J. Trump will swear the oath of office, pledging to uphold the Constitution. But as EFF has learned in the course...
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We announced AWS CodePipeline at AWS re:Invent last fall (see my post, New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment for the details). As I said at that time, this tool will help you to model and automate your software release process. The automation provided by CodePipeline is designed to make your release process…
Why has everything become so needlessly complicated?
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How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo) , Open Library unveiled the beta for what it’s calling the Library Explorer : an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. If the tagline doesn’t grab your attention, wait until you see it in action:
Give your agents, developers, and automations a home for code and data. We’ve just launched Artifacts: Git-compatible versioned storage built for agents. Create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client.
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using Google Earth Pro for everything from...
