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QCon London 2026: Practitioner-Led Tracks on Connectivity & Production AI Engineering
QCon London 2026 returns March 16–19 with 15 tracks for senior leads. Key sessions cover system integration via MCP, AI engineering, and debugging distributed systems. Explore modern security, Staff+ insights, and performance optimization with peer-led and practical discussions.
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Solving Fragmented Mobile Analytics: Uber’s Platform-Led Approach
Uber Engineering outlines its platform-led mobile analytics redesign, standardizing event instrumentation across iOS and Android to improve cross-platform consistency, reduce engineering effort, and provide reliable insights for product and data teams.
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LangGrant Unveils LEDGE MCP Server to Enable Agentic AI on Enterprise Databases
LangGrant has launched the LEDGE MCP Server, a new enterprise platform designed to let large language models reason across complex database environments without directly accessing or exposing underlying data.
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Google Introduces Conductor, a Context-Driven Development Extension for Gemini CLI
Google has released Conductor, a new preview extension for Gemini CLI that introduces a structured, context-driven approach to AI-assisted software development. The extension is designed to address a common limitation of chat-based coding tools: the loss of project context across sessions.
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Microsoft Share Update on TypeScript 7
Microsoft's TypeScript 7, codenamed Project Corsa, transforms the compiler with a complete rewrite in Go, achieving up to 10x faster builds and reduced memory usage. With strict mode enabled by default, this update enhances type safety while maintaining compatibility. Developers are excited about the performance gains and improved efficiency for large codebases.
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AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support
AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3 Tables, the update aims to eliminate data silos and enable Zero-ETL analytics across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior
Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and debug AI agents, and devise mitigation strategies against security issues like jailbreaks, hallucinations and sycophancy.
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Cloudflare Scales Infrastructure as Code with Shift-Left Security Practices
Cloudflare has eliminated manual configuration errors across hundreds of production accounts by implementing Infrastructure as Code with automated policy enforcement, processing approximately 30 merge requests daily while catching security violations before deployment rather than after incidents occur.
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FACTS Benchmark Suite Introduced to Evaluate Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models
A new industry benchmark aimed at systematically evaluating the factual accuracy of LLMs has been released with the launch of the FACTS Benchmark Suite. Developed by the FACTS team in collaboration with Kaggle, the suite expands earlier work on factual grounding and introduces a broader, multi-dimensional framework for measuring how reliably language models produce factually correct responses.
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Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and Java Operator SDK.
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AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit
AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The feature provides visibility into unencrypted traffic, supports enforcement using compatible Nitro-based infrastructure, and allows exclusions for resources that cannot encrypt traffic.
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Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code's Creator
Claude Code's creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompting, and rigorously verifying results to compound productivity over time.
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NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several existing NVIDIA model families and makes accompanying training data and reference implementations available through GitHub, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA’s developer platforms.
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MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data from MongoDB's Heap Memory
MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, potentially leading to the exfiltration of sensitive data and credentials.
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TanStack Releases Framework Agnostic AI Toolkit
Introducing TanStack AI: a revolutionary, framework-agnostic toolkit empowering developers with unparalleled control over their AI stack. This open-source release features a unified interface across multiple providers and ensures type safety with innovative isomorphic tools. Say goodbye to vendor lock-in and hello to freedom in AI development!