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Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

The Roku Ultra. | Image: Roku Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku's other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here's a rundown of the changes: Streaming Stick: $29.99 to $39.99 Streaming Stick Plus: $39.99 to $59.99 Streaming Stick 4K: $49.99 to $79.99 Roku Ultra: $99.99 to $149.99 Roku Streambar SE: $99.99 to $

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DZone

Engineering Production Agentic Systems: Part 1: The Pipeline

Context Engineering for Production Agentic Systems, or Why Pipeline Beats Prompt This is Part 1 of a three-part field manual on engineering production agentic systems. Part 1 takes context engineering. Part 2 takes guardrails. Part 3 takes human-in-the-loop topology. The conviction underneath all three: production agentic systems are won on these three architectural disciplines — not on model choice. The Opening Claim The first time a production agent fails because of context-window collapse, th

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model

This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. See the documentation for Claude Platform on AWS.

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Vercel Blog

Vercel WAF for Blob is now in beta

The can now protect a Vercel Blob store. The same rules that guard your deployments (deny, challenge, rate limit) now apply to blob traffic with no changes to your code, blob URLs, or . Vercel WAF@vercel/blob Every blob is already served through , so protection is a switch on the store, not a new proxy. Stop scrapers, geo-restrict downloads, rate limit expensive assets, or block abusive IPs before a byte is served.Vercel's CDN Rules evaluate at the edge, matching on IP, country, path, and :more

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