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NVIDIA Technical Blog31 Aug 2026

Scale AV Perception Across Vehicle Platforms with NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle... A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle variant in the portfolio—and its perception of the world changes. The sensor placement, calibration, fields of view, occlusions, body geometry, timing, and coverage all shift. A traffic

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Google Cloud Blog31 Aug 2026

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Tips on securing the water sector in the AI era

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Sistrunk and Stephanie Kiel detail the critical issues facing the water sector, and actionable steps that OT operators can take to secure their infrastructure. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([('t

Cloud CISOPublic SectorSecurity & Identity

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Google Cloud Blog31 Aug 2026

From weeks to minutes: The new agentic era of data pipelines

Data pipelines are the backbone of the modern enterprise, yet a barrier to entry exists for orchestrating them, making this critical capability unavailable to many data professionals. Following our announcements at Google Cloud NEXT ’26, where we introduced the Orchestration Pipelines framework, we are fundamentally changing this dynamic. To bring this powerful framework directly to practitioners, we offer the Data Agent Kit — a unified, freely available, and open-source collection of data engin

Data Analytics

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Android Developers Blog31 Aug 2026

Emulator control for adaptive app development

Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, Android Adaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While Android Studio is bundled with the Resizable Emulator to let you test layouts manually, there’s a faster, more streamlined way to control form factors directly from your terminal. By leveraging fire-and-forget

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ExternalCloud

Microsoft Azure Blog31 Aug 2026

Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI

AI is helping organizations meet high expectations as markets change quickly and technology advances at a rapid pace. The post Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

AI + machine learning

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The Verge Tech31 Aug 2026

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes on to say, "generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors." The project's voting developers considered several other proposals on how to handle AI, including so

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Hacker News31 Aug 2026