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  • AWS News Blog: AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-services-scale-to-new-heights-for-prime-day-2025-key-metrics-and-milestones/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones Feedly Summary: Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million…

  • The Register: Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/gsa_ai_chatbot_speedrun/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers Feedly Summary: The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue The US government wants more AI chatbots in fed employees’ hands, and its push to do so means that tech companies keen to provide other services…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/firestore-with-mongodb-compatibility-is-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility Feedly Summary: At Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, empowering developers to build cost-effective, scalable, and highly reliable apps on Firestore’s serverless database using a familiar MongoDB-compatible API. Today, we’re announcing that Firestore with…

  • Slashdot: LibreOffice Stakes Claim as Strategic Sovereignty Tool For Governments

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/26/160253/libreoffice-stakes-claim-as-strategic-sovereignty-tool-for-governments?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: LibreOffice Stakes Claim as Strategic Sovereignty Tool For Governments Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of LibreOffice v25.8 by The Document Foundation, emphasizing its strategic importance for digital sovereignty among governments and enterprises. It highlights features that enhance privacy and security, including…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-aurora-10th-anniversary-amazon-ec2-r8-instances-amazon-bedrock-and-more-august-25-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025) Feedly Summary: As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Welcome to AI Week 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-ai-week-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Welcome to AI Week 2025 Feedly Summary: We’re seeing AI fundamentally change how people work across every industry. Customer support agents can respond to ten times the tickets. Software engineers are reviewers of AI generated code instead AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details the…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/gemini-cloud-assist-investigations-performs-root-cause-analysis/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis Feedly Summary: Debugging in a complex, distributed cloud environment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. The sheer volume of data, intertwined dependencies, and ephemeral issues make traditional troubleshooting methods time-consuming and often reactive.…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…