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Advanced Error Handling and Retry Patterns in Enterprise REST Integrations

Enterprise REST integrations rarely fail in a clean, binary way. The dominant failure modes are usually partial and ambiguous: a socket closes after a downstream system commits, a gateway returns a timeout while the target service is still processing, a throttling layer asks for a pause, or a dependency becomes slow enough that waiting callers begin to exhaust threads, connections, and ports.  In that environment, simplistic catch-and-retry logic is not resilience. It is uncontrolled traffic gen

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI

Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot now supports larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels to help you tackle deeper, more complex work. Leverage one-million-token context windows A one-million-token context window means users can… The post Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, located in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area. The change comes just days after Adams called on O'Leary to slash the size of his Project Stratos

DentaQuest data breach exposed info of 2.6 million accounts

A data breach at the dental benefits administrator DentaQuest has reportedly exposed the sensitive data of 2.6 million accounts.  [...]

Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

NCTA seeks waiver from foreign-router ban, citing memory and substrate shortages.

Google is letting social media stars customize their search result page

Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim dedicated profiles in Search to highlight things like videos, articles, and their other profiles online. But this feature won't be available to most people or organizations; Google is limiting it to people with at least 100,000 YouTube subscribers, 100,000 followers on Instagram or X, or 300,000 followers on TikTok. You'll need to meet the minimum on one of those platforms and be at least 18 years old to make a Search profile. In demo v