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Cloud Blog: Immutable, Air-Gapped, and Integrated: Data Protection for your Cloud SQL instances just got better

Aug 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-enhanced-backups-for-cloud-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Immutable, Air-Gapped, and Integrated: Data Protection for your Cloud SQL instances just got better Feedly Summary: In a world where data is your most valuable asset, protecting it isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a significant leap forward in…

AWS News Blog: OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS

Aug 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/openai-open-weight-models-now-available-on-aws/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS Feedly Summary: AWS continues to expand access to the most advanced foundation models with OpenAI open weight models now available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Accessing these new models from OpenAI on AWS, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, gives…

Cloud Blog: Announcing AI-first Colab notebook experience for Google Cloud

Aug 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ai-first-colab-notebooks-in-bigquery-and-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing AI-first Colab notebook experience for Google Cloud Feedly Summary: At Google I/O 2025, we announced a new, reimagined AI-first Colab with agentic capabilities, making it a true coding partner that understands your current code, actions, intentions, and goals. Today, we are excited to bring these capabilities to…

Cloud Blog: Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data

Aug 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanners-columnar-engine-unites-oltp-and-analytics/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data Feedly Summary: For years, organizations have struggled with the workload conflict between online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytical query processing. OLTP systems such as Spanner are optimized for high-volume, low-latency transactions, and use row-oriented storage that’s efficient for individual…

Docker: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/hardened-image-best-practices/ Source: Docker Title: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World Feedly Summary: Hardened container images and distroless software are the new hotness as startups and incumbents alike pile into the fast-growing market. In theory, hardened images provide not only a smaller attack surface but operational simplicity. In practice,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ollama’s new app

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/ollamas-new-app/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ollama’s new app Feedly Summary: Ollama’s new app Ollama has been one of my favorite ways to run local models for a while – it makes it really easy to download models, and it’s smart about keeping them resident in memory while they are being used and…

Cloud Blog: Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains

Jul 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/pluto7-pi-agent-ai-meets-agentspace/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains Feedly Summary: Pluto7, an early Google partner, has integrated Agentspace into its Planning in a Box platform Pi Agent to address inventory and demand planning challenges. Agentspace provides an Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building specialized…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

Jul 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 New model update from Qwen, improving on their previous Qwen3-30B-A3B release from late April. In their tweet they said: Smarter, faster, and local deployment-friendly. ✨ Key Enhancements: ✅ Enhanced reasoning, coding, and math skills ✅ Broader multilingual knowledge ✅ Improved long-context understanding (up…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/github-spark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark Feedly Summary: GitHub Spark was released in public preview yesterday. It’s GitHub’s implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern also seen in products like Claude Artifacts, Lovable, Vercel v0, Val Town Townie and Fly.io’s Phoenix New. I wrote about Spark back…

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