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GitHub Changelog

Agent tasks REST API now available for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max

Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users can now programmatically start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks with the Agent tasks REST API, available in public preview. Copilot cloud agent works… The post Agent tasks REST API now available for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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The Verge Tech

Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey, can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn't look like a computer at all. Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired, went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an old purse. She has since upgraded it and built an MP3 player and a solar-powered cyberdeck. Tan and countless other DIYers are attracting millions of views showing off the personal computers they've built insi

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DZone

Good Data, Bad Metric: A Mutation Testing Pattern for Analytics Engineering

A dashboard can look completely correct, while the reporting it shows is wrong, and that makes it one of the most difficult failures to detect in analytics engineering because nothing visibly breaks. The pipeline runs on time, the warehouse table loads without errors, the scheduled checks pass, and the dashboard opens as expected, but the metric on the screen can still be wrong enough to trigger a long investigation. In many cases, the data itself is not the problem, because the issue sits insid

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DigitalOcean Blog

Model Evaluations: Prove Your Routing Policy Actually Works

Most teams running inference at scale do not fail because they cannot find a “good” model. They fail because they ship a routing policy that looks fine in a playground, but drifts the moment it sees real prompts, real latency tails, and real per-token cost. The routing policy breaks on the prompts you never tested and your users find out before you do. Now you can use Model Evaluations, available in Public Preview on the DigitalOcean Inference Engine, to evaluate models available on the platform

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