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ExternalMobile Development

Apple Developer News4 Nov 2026

Now available: Retention messages for subscriptions

Reduce cancellations with retention messages that remind subscribers of your subscription's value as they decide whether to cancel. Retention messages appear in the cancellation flow and can include text, images, or a special offer. In App Store Connect, you can configure retention messages for your auto-renewable subscriptions, including subscriber eligibility and the wait time between messages. With the Retention Messaging API, you can choose which message to show each subscriber based on thei

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ExternalCybersecurity

BleepingComputer4 Nov 2026

mSecure password manager hack prompts password reset warnings

mSeven Software is warning current and former mSecure password manager customers to change passwords, reset two-factor authentication, and remove passkeys following a cyberattack that reportedly exposed an encrypted customer database. [...]

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ExternalSoftware Engineering

DZone4 Nov 2026

Managing Technical Debt in AI-Generated Code

AI-generated pull requests are moving from experimental workflow to routine software delivery. Coding agents can now plan changes, edit multiple files, run tests, and submit pull requests with limited human intervention. A 2025 study of 567 Claude Code pull requests across 157 open-source projects found that 83.8% were eventually merged, and about 55% of merged changes required no further modification. A broader 2026 study analyzed more than 302,000 verified AI-authored commits from 6,299 reposi

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ExternalAI

NVIDIA Technical Blog4 Nov 2026

Use NVIDIA NeMo to Turn Agent Failures into Tests and Harness Fixes

Turn production evidence into prioritized issues and custom evaluations that help you improve prompts, tools, models, memory, skills, and harness code. When you... Turn production evidence into prioritized issues and custom evaluations that help you improve prompts, tools, models, memory, skills, and harness code. When you build an agent for your domain, generic benchmark scores may not explain its failures. An agent might choose the wrong tool, follow the wrong workflow branch, miss relevant co

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ExternalCloud

Google Cloud Blog4 Nov 2026

Introducing Compute Engine API multi-versioning: Predictable evolution without breaking production

Ready to modernize your infrastructure without risking production stability? API multi-versioning for Compute Engine, now in general availability, helps you do just that. With date-based API versions, Compute Engine can now regularly deliver modern API semantics, stronger resilience defaults, and improved developer experience while preserving the rock-solid stability of the /v1 API. For more than a decade, the Google Compute Engine /v1 API has served as the foundational control plane for million

Developers & Practitioners

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ExternalCloud

Microsoft Azure Blog4 Nov 2026

Predicting and detecting failures: How Azure strengthens reliability for mission-critical workloads

Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) helps reduce interruptions by predicting hardware failures, moving eligible workloads, and notifying customers when action is needed. See what that means for SAP on Azure and other mission-critical workloads. The post Predicting and detecting failures: How Azure strengthens reliability for mission-critical workloads appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

ComputeAdvancing reliabilityAzure HPC

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ExternalTechnology Trends

Ars Technica4 Nov 2026