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  • Cloud Blog: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/cost-saving-strategies-when-migrating-to-google-cloud-compute/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today Feedly Summary: As the saying goes, “a penny saved is a penny earned," and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to cloud infrastructure. In today’s competitive business landscape, you need to maintain the performance to meet…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Two more Chinese pelicans

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/1/two-pelicans/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Two more Chinese pelicans Feedly Summary: Two new models from Chinese AI labs in the past few days. I tried them both out using llm-openrouter: DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp from DeepSeek. Announcement, Tech Report, Hugging Face (690GB, MIT license). As an intermediate step toward our next-generation architecture, V3.2-Exp builds upon…

  • AWS News Blog: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/celebrating-10-years-of-amazon-aurora-innovation/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text…

  • Anchore:  Accelerate & Secure: Optimizing Your Software Supply Chain with DevSecOps

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    Source URL: https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/accelerate-secure-optimizing-your-software-supply-chain-with-devsecops Source: Anchore Title:  Accelerate & Secure: Optimizing Your Software Supply Chain with DevSecOps Feedly Summary: The post  Accelerate & Secure: Optimizing Your Software Supply Chain with DevSecOps appeared first on Anchore. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses optimizing the software supply chain using DevSecOps practices, emphasizing the importance of…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud Storage bucket relocation: An industry first for non-disruptive bucket migrations

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/introducing-cloud-storage-bucket-relocation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud Storage bucket relocation: An industry first for non-disruptive bucket migrations Feedly Summary: As your operational needs change, sometimes you need to move data residing within Google’s Cloud Storage to a new location, to improve resilience, optimize performance, meet compliance needs, or simply to reorganize your infrastructure. Yet…

  • Slashdot: Starbucks To Roll Out Microsoft Azure OpenAI Assistant For Baristas

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/2032225/starbucks-to-roll-out-microsoft-azure-openai-assistant-for-baristas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Starbucks To Roll Out Microsoft Azure OpenAI Assistant For Baristas Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Starbucks is launching a generative AI assistant named “Green Dot Assist” on Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI platform to enhance barista efficiency and service quality. This initiative showcases the integration of AI in…

  • The Register: Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/gpu_metric/ Source: The Register Title: Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally Feedly Summary: Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver GPU accelerators used in AI processing are costly items, so making sure you get the best usage out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…