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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning · 5

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
arXiv7/2/2026
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Alignment Is All You Need For X-to-4D Generation

Generative diffusion models excel at synthesizing high-quality images, videos, and 3D content under multimodal control. However, arbitrary user-defined modality-to-4D (X-to-4D) generation remains challenging due to the high cost of constructing diverse datasets and the limited scalability of existing methods. This paper presents Align4D, a flexible framework that translates any-modal input into coherent video-3D pairs, using video to guide 4D motion and 3D data to shape 4D geometry. Authors: Qiaowei Miao, Kehan Li, Yawei Luo.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Generative diffusion models excel at synthesizing high-quality images, videos, and 3D content under multimodal control.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly outsourced to large language model APIs at the cost of locality, reproducibility, and price. We propose fuzzy-function programming: compiling such a function from a natural-language specification into a compact, locally-executable neural artifact. We instantiate this paradigm with Program-as-Weights (PAW), in which a 4B compiler trained on FuzzyBench, a 10M-example dataset we release, emits parameter-efficient adapters for a frozen, lightweight interpreter. Authors: Wentao Zhang, Liliana Hotsko, Woojeong Kim.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly outsourced to large language model APIs at the cost of locality, reproducibility, and price.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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PointDiT: Pixel-Space Diffusion for Monocular Geometry Estimation

State-of-the-art single-image 3D reconstruction methods often rely on complex hybrid architectures and loss functions, or compress geometry into latent spaces in order to leverage pre-trained latent diffusion models. In this work, we show that such architectural overhead and intricate loss formulations are unnecessary. We introduce a minimalist pixel-space Diffusion Transformer, built on a plain ViT, that operates directly on raw 3D point map patches and is conditioned on image tokens from a pre-trained DINOv3. Authors: Haofei Xu, Rundi Wu, Philipp Henzler.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: State-of-the-art single-image 3D reconstruction methods often rely on complex hybrid architectures and loss functions, or compress geometry into latent spaces in order to leverage pre-trained latent diffusion models.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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LACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning

LLMs memorize sensitive training data, including personally identifiable information (PII), creating a pressing need for reliable post hoc removal methods. Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution, with state-of-the-art(SOTA) methods often following a localize-first, unlearn-second paradigm that targets specific model parameters. However, existing benchmarks evaluate unlearning solely at the output level, leaving open the question of whether unlearning truly erases knowledge from a model's parameters or merely obfuscates it, a concern reinforced by the success of resurfacing attacks. Authors: Matteo Boglioni, Thibault Rousset, Siva Reddy.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: LLMs memorize sensitive training data, including personally identifiable information (PII), creating a pressing need for reliable post hoc removal methods.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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WorldDirector: Building Controllable World Simulators with Persistent Dynamic Memory

We present WorldDirector, a highly controllable video world model framework designed for persistent dynamic object memory and unrestricted viewpoint exploration. Unlike existing world models that entangle physical dynamics with pixel rendering and rely on continuous visual observation to sustain motion, our framework explicitly decouples semantic motion orchestration from visual generation. By leveraging an LLM to coordinate 3D trajectories with camera movements and subsequently employing these orchestrated trajectories as control signals for video generation, our approach ensures strict physical logic and appearance stability, successfully preserving the exact visual identities of dynamic entities even when they re-enter the scene after prolonged periods out of view. Authors: Hanlin Wang, Hao Ouyang, Qiuyu Wang.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: We present WorldDirector, a highly controllable video world model framework designed for persistent dynamic object memory and unrestricted viewpoint exploration.

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Automation / Agentic Systems · 5

Automation / Agentic Systems
arXiv7/2/2026
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Steerability via constraints: a substrate for scalable oversight of coding agents

Coding agents are capable; human oversight is the bottleneck. Unconstrained agents introduce security risks, erode codebase scalability, and make human review increasingly costly. We argue that the same methods used for decades to manage large human engineering teams: access control, network policies, strict coding conventions enforced by tooling; transfer directly to coding agents, and are cheaper (in token) than recent agentic scaffolding. Authors: Thomas Winninger.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Coding agents are capable; human oversight is the bottleneck.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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EvoPolicyGym: Evaluating Autonomous Policy Evolution in Interactive Environments

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to improve executable policies through feedback, yet existing evaluations often collapse this process into a final score or confound it with open-ended software-engineering progress. We introduce Autonomous Policy Evolution, a controlled evaluation setting in which a harness-model agent repeatedly edits an executable policy system under a fixed interaction budget. We instantiate this setting in EvoPolicyGym, a benchmark built from compact interactive RL environments that evaluates how agents iteratively improve explored policies. Authors: Zhilin Wang, Han Song, Runzhe Zhan.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to improve executable policies through feedback, yet existing evaluations often collapse this process into a final score or confound it with open-ended software-engineering progress.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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Distributed Attacks in Persistent-State AI Control

As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a misaligned or prompt-injected agent can distribute attacks across pull requests (PRs) and time its payload for the PR with the best natural cover. To study the resulting dynamics, we introduce Iterative VibeCoding, a setting for AI control, the study of safely deploying capable but potentially untrusted AI. Authors: Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Asa Cooper Stickland.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions.

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Automation / Agentic Systems
arXiv7/2/2026
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Reasoning effort, not tool access, buys first-try reliability in agentic code generation: an observational study

Agentic coding assistants are increasingly given extra capabilities, such as browser based testing tools and design oriented system prompts, on the assumption that more capability yields better software. This study tested that assumption directly. Ninety independent agent runs built the same application, a real time retrospective board, from one detailed specification, each scored on a fixed 14 criterion functional rubric (42 point maximum) and a visual quality review. Authors: Achint Mehta.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Agentic coding assistants are increasingly given extra capabilities, such as browser based testing tools and design oriented system prompts, on the assumption that more capability yields better software.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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TestEvo-Bench: An Executable and Live Benchmark for Test and Code Co-Evolution

Software tests and code evolve together: a code change should be followed by new or updated tests that record the new software behavior. Yet existing test generation and update benchmarks often isolate the test from the code change, and rely on static metadata that does not verify whether a test is executable or semantically tied to the code change. This makes it difficult to evaluate whether a test automation agent understands how a code change should propagate into the test suite. Authors: Jiale Amber Wang, Kaiyuan Wang, Pengyu Nie.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Software tests and code evolve together: a code change should be followed by new or updated tests that record the new software behavior.

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Research Papers · 4

Research Papers
arXiv7/2/2026
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SoK: A Taxonomy for Cybersecurity Incident Response Influence Factors

Cybersecurity incident response has emerged as a critical area of interest for both researchers and practitioners. The corpus of literature on cybersecurity incident response is expanding, yet a unified framework for systematically organizing the accumulated knowledge remains absent. The aspects of incident response span multiple domains, including technology, human-computer interaction, organizational theory, and human factors. Authors: Thomas Biege, Marius Brockhoff, Jonas Kaspereit.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Cybersecurity incident response has emerged as a critical area of interest for both researchers and practitioners.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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When Do LLM Personas Support Visualization Design? A Cross-Model Study of Color Assignment and Chart Choice

Large language model personas are increasingly used to approximate diverse users during early-stage visualization design, but it remains unclear whether persona-conditioned outputs reflect stable personality effects or artifacts of model choice and task framing. We examine this question across two visualization-relevant tasks: color assignment for abstract and concrete concepts, and chart-idiom preference ratings across task contexts. 1-mini across all six, and partial in GPT-5-mini for two of six. Authors: Shahreen Salim, Klaus Mueller.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Large language model personas are increasingly used to approximate diverse users during early-stage visualization design, but it remains unclear whether persona-conditioned outputs reflect stable personality effects or artifacts of model choice and task framing.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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Physical surfaces make touch interactions in virtual reality precise, efficient, and bimanual

Virtual reality (VR) systems can enable convenient hand-based interactions across diverse work scenarios. However, mid-air gestures lack tactile feedback and a physical reference surface to support the hand. This absence of haptic grounding can cause significant challenges in achieving precise and efficient touch interactions. Authors: Wen Ying, Seongkook Heo.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Virtual reality (VR) systems can enable convenient hand-based interactions across diverse work scenarios.

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Google DeepMind Blog7/3/2026
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Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

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Read this for the official technical update in Research Papers: Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

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Embedded Systems · 5

Embedded Systems
arXiv7/2/2026
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QuadRocket: An Aerial Robotic Testbed for Adaptive Thrust-Vector Control of Rocket-Like Vehicles

This paper presents QuadRocket, a quadrotor-based rocket prototype that provides a low-cost, low-risk platform for validating advanced thrust-vector control strategies for launch vehicle-type systems. The prototype consists of a cylindrical main body mounted on top of a quadrotor through a universal joint, forming a flying inverted pendulum with non-negligible inertia. For control design, the coupled system is modeled as a single axisymmetric rigid body actuated by a vectored force applied along its longitudinal axis. Authors: Pedro Santos, Joel Reis, Paulo Oliveira.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: presents QuadRocket, a quadrotor-based rocket prototype that provides a low-cost, low-risk platform for validating advanced thrust-vector control strategies for launch vehicle-type systems.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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Embodied.cpp: A Portable Inference Runtime of Embodied AI Models on Heterogeneous Robots

Embodied AI models now span vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs), but practical deployment remains fragmented across model-specific Python stacks, backend assumptions, and robot-side glue code, especially on heterogeneous edge devices. Existing inference runtimes are designed mainly for request-response serving and therefore do not satisfy the runtime contract of embodied deployment: multi-rate execution inside closed-loop control, latency-first batch-1 inference on heterogeneous hardware, and extensible embodied interfaces beyond fixed token I/O. cpp, a portable C++ inference runtime for embodied models. Authors: Ling Xu, Chuyu Han, Borui Li.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: Embodied AI models now span vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs), but practical deployment remains fragmented across model-specific Python stacks, backend assumptions, and robot-side glue code, especially on heterogeneous edge devices.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Contact-rich manipulation requires policies to react to local deformation, pressure, slip, and friction, yet these cues are temporally sparse and often invisible in visual observations. Existing visual-tactile policies usually feed tactile observations directly into action prediction, but rarely model tactile deformation dynamics during action generation. In this paper, we introduce VT-WAM, a Visual-Tactile World Action Model that jointly learns future visual prediction, tactile deformation prediction, and action prediction within a unified flow matching framework. Authors: Shuai Tian, Yupeng Zheng, Yuhang Zheng.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: Contact-rich manipulation requires policies to react to local deformation, pressure, slip, and friction, yet these cues are temporally sparse and often invisible in visual observations.

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Hackster.io7/2/2026
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The Perfect Jetson Carrier Board for Drones and Robotics

Even a low-power microcontroller like an ESP32 can run simple AI algorithms, but when an application requires more advanced capabilities, such as computer vision, more powerful hardware is needed. One of the most popular edge AI platforms is the NVIDIA Jetson. These single-board computers are equipped with powerful NVIDIA GPUs that make short work of demanding workloads, enabling developers to run object detection, image segmentation, language models, and other AI applications directly on the device.

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Read this for the engineering context in Embedded Systems: Even a low-power microcontroller like an ESP32 can run simple AI algorithms, but when an application requires more advanced capabilities, such as computer vision, more powerful hardware is needed.

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Hackster.io7/3/2026
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This Robot Makes Focus Stacking Easy

It is difficult to capture crystal clear photos of tiny objects, because macro lenses tend to have very low f-stop numbers (large aperture openings) and that results in shallow depth of field (the range in which details are acceptably in focus). The solution is focus stacking and that requires that you capture many photos with only the point of focus changing. Alan of MandicReally achieved that by building this robot.

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Read this for the engineering context in Embedded Systems: It is difficult to capture crystal clear photos of tiny objects, because macro lenses tend to have very low f-stop numbers (large aperture openings) and that results in shallow depth of field (the range in which details are acceptably in focus).

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Computer Systems · 5

Computer Systems
arXiv7/2/2026
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APEIRON: composing smart TDAQ systems for high energy physics experiments

We present APEIRON, a distributed heterogeneous processing framework comprising both hardware architecture and software stack for multi-FPGA systems. Targeting smart trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) systems in high energy physics, APEIRON spans the full software hierarchy: from low-level device drivers to a high-level dataflow programming model based on High-Level Synthesis. We describe the framework design, its core communication infrastructure, and a particle identification application for the NA62 experiment as a representative physics use case. Authors: Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Carlotta Chiarini.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: We present APEIRON, a distributed heterogeneous processing framework comprising both hardware architecture and software stack for multi-FPGA systems.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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FlintKV: A Fast Durable Storage Engine for Modern Databases

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) offers an opportunity to rethink storage engine architectures. While recent NVM key-value stores achieve high throughput for ingestion and point lookups, they omit or under-specify the support for the richer interface guarantees required by modern databases., RocksDB) provide point-in-time snapshots, consistent iterators, and atomic batches-features essential for implementing transactions and concurrency control. Authors: Sergey Egorov, Gregory Chockler, Brijesh Dongol.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) offers an opportunity to rethink storage engine architectures.

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arXiv7/2/2026
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WattGPU: Predicting Inference Power and Latency on Unseen GPUs and LLMs

Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads are a rapidly growing contributor to data center energy consumption. Optimizing these deployments requires matching specific LLMs to the most efficient GPUs, but operators currently lack the tools to do so without exhaustively profiling each combination. While some predictive models exist, they still require profiling data and struggle to generalize to hardware unseen during training. Authors: Mauricio Fadel Argerich, Jonathan Fürst, Marta Patiño-Martínez.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads are a rapidly growing contributor to data center energy consumption.

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LWN.net7/3/2026
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Limiting negative dentries

A number of problems related to negative directory entries (dentries) were the topic of a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Negative dentries are used to indicate that a file of a given name does not exist in a directory; it is an optimization that short-circuits the lookup of the file name when the answer is already known. Miklos Szeredi led a session that discussed some problems that come from having too many negative dentries for a directory.

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Read this for the concrete reporting in Computer Systems: A number of problems related to negative directory entries (dentries) were the topic of a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit.

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LWN.net7/2/2026
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Two LLM-assisted memory-management patch sets

The kernel community (like many other free-software projects) has recently seen a large influx of patches developed with the assistance of large language models (LLMs). Those patches tend to come from developers who were previously unknown to the community. At the moment, though, the memory-management developers are evaluating two large patch sets, developed with LLM assistance, that were submitted by established and well-respected developers.

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Read this for the concrete reporting in Computer Systems: The kernel community (like many other free-software projects) has recently seen a large influx of patches developed with the assistance of large language models (LLMs).

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Developer Tools / Open Source · 4

Developer Tools / Open Source
arXiv7/2/2026
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HTTP REST API Structure Learning

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential in software development, enabling web services, mobile apps, and microservices. However, their widespread use introduces significant security risks, highlighting the importance of API security. This paper presents HTTP REST API Learning (HRAL), a novel unsupervised anomaly detection approach that models the structure and behavior of API endpoints directly from network traffic, without relying on predefined rules or documentation. Authors: Ran Dubin, Amit Dvir.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Developer Tools / Open Source: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential in software development, enabling web services, mobile apps, and microservices.

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Vercel Blog7/2/2026
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Vercel Sandbox now supports FUSE-based filesystems

now supports FUSE, letting you mount remote storage and custom filesystems inside a running Sandbox. Vercel Sandbox This makes it possible to stream large datasets directly from object storage, share state across Sandboxes through a common filesystem, or run tools that expect POSIX paths against remote sources without copying data into the Sandbox first.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: now supports FUSE, letting you mount remote storage and custom filesystems inside a running Sandbox.

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Hackaday7/4/2026
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Disk Polishing Goes Open Source

Optical media is great — it's pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for.

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Read this for the engineering context in Developer Tools / Open Source: Optical media is great — it's pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for.

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Vercel Blog7/2/2026
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Manage Vercel Flags segments with Vercel CLI

Vercel FlagsVercel CLIvercel flags segments A segment is the targeting primitive a flag uses to decide who sees what. Membership composes from three repeatable tokens, and. Pass them to or for incremental edits.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: Vercel FlagsVercel CLIvercel flags segments A segment is the targeting primitive a flag uses to decide who sees what.

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Cloud / Infrastructure · 2

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CNCF Blog7/2/2026
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(re)introducing kpt: Your toolchain for infrastructure automation

What is kpt? The opening tagline of the kpt documentation describes it as "… a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at...

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Read this for the official technical update in Cloud / Infrastructure: The opening tagline of the kpt documentation describes it as "… a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at...

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Microsoft Azure Blog7/2/2026
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Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability

Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates. The post Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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Read this for the official technical update in Cloud / Infrastructure: Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates.

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