Technology radar

Ten fronts, updated daily

Ten current categories, with new entries every day. Automated publication from real sources, plus my own notes when the subject deserves them.

Daily update 11 categories Source cited in every entry
Artificial Intelligence

Quantization and Pruning Methods to Make Your LLM Leaner

This article walks through what each technique actually does, why skipping them costs real money and real latency, and then gets hands-on with five specific methods people are running in production right now.

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Cloud and Architecture

AKS Looks to Make Node Disruption More Predictable with New NAP Guidance

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing …

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Visa and Mastercard complete transactions in Syria after US lifts state terrorism label

Visa and Mastercard have completed their first international card transactions in Syria after the US removed it from the state sponsors of …

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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Meta tests consumer-based AI agent for everyday online tasks

Meta is testing an AI agent that can set up appointments, post on social media, fill out forms, and buy things on the user’s behalf.

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IT Strategy and Governance

Shadow agents make the old shadow IT problem worse

Companies are running into a new version of an old problem. Take, for example, a marketing executive turns on an agent from Marketo but doe…

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Data and Analytics

Tableau certification guide: How to boost your data analytics skills

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space, and indiv…

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Cloud and Architecture

Why enterprise AI projects keep failing

Over the past three years, as an independent cloud and AI consultant, advisor, and industry influencer, I have worked with numerous compani…

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Projects, PMO and Risk

Article: Post-Quantum Cryptography in Spring Boot: Four Patterns You Can Ship This Sprint

There are four patterns that bring PQC into a Spring Boot fleet: encrypting payloads between services, locking down database fields, signin…

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Artificial Intelligence

When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct

Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in …

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IT Strategy and Governance

The logic layer: the missing piece in modern AI tech stacks

There’s a scenario that plays out every day across the enterprise. A salesperson is about to close a major deal. They want to know what the…

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IT Strategy and Governance

Where enterprise intelligence really comes from

Every new frontier model release seems to spur a fresh round of doomsday articles. Just Google “the end of white-collar jobs,” and you’ll b…

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Artificial Intelligence

Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that ships as two separate endpoints rather than one. The streaming endpo…

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Artificial Intelligence

Fast, fault-tolerant PyTorch training on AI Runtime

At scale, your training efficiency is determined by a single metric: "goodput", the...

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Swift accepts request to extend structured address migration for ISO 20022 messages

Swift is extending the November deadline for moving from unstructured to structured postal addresses for ISO 20022 payment messages after a…

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Artificial Intelligence

Visual Studio Code 1.135 introduces Rubber Duck agent

Microsoft’s latest update to Visual Studio Code, released August 26, features a Rubber Duck agent for a second model opinion as well as UX …

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Artificial Intelligence

Google found a way to test Gemini without seeing the questions

Growing datasets and public benchmarks are making it harder to tell whether a model is being tested on something it The post Google found a…

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Artificial Intelligence

RBAC for AI Agents: Why Static Roles Break and What Replaces Them

RBAC for AI agents introduces risky security gaps. Learn why traditional access control breaks at the agentic layer and how task-based rule…

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IT Strategy and Governance

Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown

Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown with HTM…

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Artificial Intelligence

Sonar AI Agent Discovers Vulnerabilities Hidden in Business Logic Workflows

Sonar today made available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to discover vulnerabilities and business logic flaws that pose th…

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Cybersecurity

When AI Coding Agents Become Malware Delivery Systems

AI coding agents are becoming part of everyday development work. Developers use them to find libraries, configure projects, troubleshoot in…

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AI-Assisted Development

Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.

When teams price an AI coding agent, they tend to scrutinize the model. But three recent benchmarking efforts suggest the The post Aider, C…

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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity

Agentic AI Risks, CVE Program Concerns Permeate Black Hat USA 2026

This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses the topics that dominated the cybersecurity conference, such as AI's eff…

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Data and Analytics

I Trained Six Models for Fraud Detection, and the Best One Isn't in Production

What a final-year project taught me about the gap between evaluation metrics and production decisions The post I Trained Six Models for Fra…

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Projects, PMO and Risk

What Is a Construction Project Charter? (Example & Template Included)

Every construction project starts with a conversation: who’s paying, what’s being built, by when and at what cost. A construction project c…

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Data and Analytics

ETL Pipeline Patterns for Reliable, Scalable Automation

Learn how an ETL pipeline works and when ETL or ELT makes sense. Discover design patterns that keep workflows reliable and easy to maintain…

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AI-Assisted Development

Harness Unfurls Source Code Repository Alternative to GitHub

Harness today launched a code repository service that is specifically designed for DevOps teams that are relying on artificial intelligence…

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Cloud and Architecture

Deploy personal AI agents with Cloud Run instances

Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Cloud Run instances, wh…

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Cloud and Architecture

Reimagining work: How Pythian’s internal AI playbook delivers customer ROI

When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own co…

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Projects, PMO and Risk

OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project…

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Projects, PMO and Risk

Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases for Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, Batch

After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 20…

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