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Google Cloud Blog

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL with AlloyDB Omni RPM Orchestrator is generally available

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator, that brings production-ready security, resiliency, and low-downtime operations to PostgreSQL workloads in your enterprise environments. This GA milestone builds on the foundation laid during our preview release and launches alongside AlloyDB Omni version 18.3.0 to bring cloud-like database automation directly to your virtual machines and bare-metal servers with Google’s AI capabilities. As of this

Databases
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DZone

Foundry IQ Auth, Explained: Managed Identity, OBO, and Everything Between

Foundry IQ's pitch is that your agents get one endpoint for grounded, cited, multi-source context instead of a hand-rolled retrieval stack. What doesn't get talked about enough is that "one endpoint" is a bit of a simplification. Underneath it, you're actually managing four separate auth surfaces that don't share a security model: the control plane you use to provision resources, the per-knowledge-source credentials that vary by source kind, the connection auth between a knowledge base and the a

ExternalDevOps
Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions

Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific APIs each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a Node is draining, undergoing maintenance, or undergoing Graceful Node Shutdown. Kubernetes v1.37 introduces five well-known Node conditions that provide that description: DrainInProgress Drained MaintenancePlanned MaintenanceInProgress GracefulNodeShutd

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Wired Business

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

BusinessBusiness / Artificial Intelligence
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