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Java Logging in Production: Sync, Async, Flush, and Durability Explained

Java Logging in Production: Sync, Async, Flush, and Durability Explained

If you've ever wondered why your p99 latency has a mysterious spike, why logs vanish after a crash, or what "async logging" actually buys you, this is for you. First - facade vs. implementation Java logging is a two-layer system, and…

AI Agent Identity Is Built on Broken Service Account Hygiene

AI Agent Identity Is Built on Broken Service Account Hygiene

AI agent identity is being treated as a new governance problem, but most enterprises are still carrying the same unresolved service-account hygiene underneath it. I’ve sat through more than one migration where something stopped working and…

NVIDIA VoiceChat-11B Brings Full-Duplex AI Speech to Real-Time Agents

NVIDIA VoiceChat-11B Brings Full-Duplex AI Speech to Real-Time Agents

Overview NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B is an 11-billion parameter end-to-end full duplex speech model developed by nvidia that performs streaming speech understanding and generation in a single unified architecture. Unlike traditional…

Senate Panel Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Cellphone

The New York Times

Senate Panel Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Cellphone

The development comes as a Senate committee prepares to vote Thursday on whether to hold Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a hearing.

The New York Times

After 'ban' on Claude Code, Microsoft has more 'bad news' for Anthropic

After 'ban' on Claude Code, Microsoft has more 'bad news' for Anthropic

Microsoft has told engineers that "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" in a new internal memo from EVP Jay Parikh. The memo makes OpenAI's GPT-5.6 the default internal model, replacing an auto-router that had been sending…

Why More Backtesting Can Make Your Trading Strategy Worse

Why More Backtesting Can Make Your Trading Strategy Worse

Two people showed me a strategy in the same week. The first had never tested his — he read about the setup, it made sense to him, and he funded the account on Monday. The second had a spreadsheet with 380 backtests in it and he was proud…

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Productivity: A Mismatch Made in Corporate America

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Productivity: A Mismatch Made in Corporate America

Productivity—it’s quite the buzzword these days. Popular podcasts are built entirely around the topic, and the corporate world has gone mad trying to measure it in its employees. That is a large reason why people use AI—it has been touted…

GitHub Flagged Me High Risk. The Pattern Was Right, the Intent Was Wrong

GitHub Flagged Me High Risk. The Pattern Was Right, the Intent Was Wrong

On 2 August 2026 I opened a pull request to github/awesome-copilot and GitHub's Agent Governance Toolkit flagged my account HIGH risk. The signals were recent_repo_burst (29 repos in 90 days), awesome_fork_burst (15 awesome-list forks in…

Drone with explosive device found at German airport, detonator removed

The Hindu

Drone with explosive device found at German airport, detonator removed

Meanwhile, an apparent second flying object collided with a freight airplane after it aborted a landing because the runway was closed, police and prosecutors said

The Hindu

Elon Musk is not pleased with Mamdani's grocery stores idea, calls him 'a thief'

Elon Musk is not pleased with Mamdani's grocery stores idea, calls him 'a thief'

Elon Musk criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's grocery store proposal. He believes AI and robots will eventually offer cheaper goods and services. The city plans five grocery stores, aiming for significant shopper savings…

RNZ

The trade-off between te reo Māori and big tech companies

One professor says Māori place names have been "bastardised" for years, and AI tools may start correcting that.

RNZ

TikTok is laying off 250 employees in its Nashville office

Straits Times