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My favorite Kindle alternative is $30 off after a recent price increase

The Kobo Libra Colour lets you take notes. | Image: Rakuten Kobo Kobo recently raised the price of its Libra Colour e-reader to $259.99, but today’s deal effectively erases that hike. The company, Best Buy, and Target, are all selling it for its old $229.99 price as part of broader sales, making now one of the best times to grab my favorite alternative to Amazon’s Kindle. Kobo Libra Colour Where to Buy: $259.99 $229.99 at Best Buy $259.99 $229.99 at Rakuten Kobo $259.99 $229.99 at Target

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GitHub Changelog

Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are generally available

Editor’s note (July 1, 2026): Added more detail about which permissions stay under your control and the existing network domain controls. Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are… The post Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Meta Engineering

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is [...] Read More... The post Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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DZone

Why AI-Generated Code Is Making Regression Testing More Important, Not Less

There is a widespread assumption circulating in engineering teams right now that goes something like this: if AI can write code faster, it probably makes testing less of a bottleneck too. The logic seems reasonable on the surface. Faster code, faster tests, faster everything. This assumption is wrong, and teams that act on it are going to find out the hard way.

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Google Cloud Blog

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user, and inference stays inside your Google Cloud perimeter. That flow works great when it’s just you, or a handful of engineers. But rolling it out across an organization forces you to deal with enterprise friction: you have to manage per-developer cloud credentials, push a

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