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Posted on August 25, 2026 by Joep Piscaer, Portainer.io CNCF projects highlighted in this post As a recovering VMware architect, it took me a little while to grasp Kubernetes. And I noticed I’m not alone in this.. From developers on our own team who need to get fluent in Kubernetes fast to do their dev work, to IT generalists on the customer side who’ve spent a decade running vSphere and are now migrating off it as software is increasingly packaged as containers. Different people, same question: where do I actually start learning? They get the same non-answer when they look…

Anthropic / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system.Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.The productivity boost comes with serious privacy tradeoffs.Today, Anthropic announced the merger of the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork.”Starting today, the memory you use in chat is the same as in Claude Cowork. Now, wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about you,” said Anthropic. Memory is now two-way. What you do in Claude chat is remembered by Claude Cowork. What you do…

Universal travel adapter or travel-ready charger — which do you need? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Know what the power is in the country you’re going to.Check device voltage needs before you travel.Remember, these do not convert voltages!One fact of life when it comes to travel is dealing with different power outlet styles (called sockets in some countries) around the world. While USB might have come a long way to standardizing the charger-to-device pathway, the wall outlet to charger is something travelers must think about and plan for. The US wall outlet…

When Daniel Evanko asked a scientist whether they had used artificial intelligence to write their peer-review report, he didn’t expect a confession. Most researchers don’t reveal AI help, says Evanko, who is the director of journal operations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).How to manage AI risks while reaping the benefitsBut this time was different. “Wow, you guys are good!” the reviewer wrote back, admitting that he had used a large language model (LLM) after running out of time.Evanko had a secret weapon. He and the AACR deploy a commercial AI-detection tool called Pangram, because of concerns over…

Jetson Orin Nano 2 consumes less power at the same performance level of its predecessor. Source: NVIDIA As AI models become more efficient, more devices can become autonomous, but developers need compact, energy-efficient computers built for edge AI, asserted NVIDIA Corp. The company today introduced NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new entry-level computer for edge AI that it said enables millions of developers worldwide to build systems for physical AI applications. “Today’s small and medium frontier models have reached the accuracy of last year’s largest frontier models, unlocking real time intelligence for edge devices,” stated Deepu Talla, vice president…

Twenty years ago today, Jeff Barr wrote a blog post that launched the Amazon EC2 Beta. That single post introduced resizable Linux virtual servers in the cloud, billed by the hour, with one instance type (m1.small) in one Region (US East). It was minimal yet useful, and it changed how the world thinks about computing infrastructure. In 2021, Jeff covered the fifteen years of EC2 with the backstory and memorable EC2 launches. Over the last five years, AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding…

This October, SecurityWeek, in partnership with MTSI, will offer the Cyber Attack Methods (CAM) course for the second consecutive year as part of the 25th Anniversary Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference. Understanding how adversaries compromise cyber-physical systems requires more than reading threat reports or reviewing lists of attack techniques. Defenders must understand how attackers examine a system, identify opportunities and connect individual weaknesses to achieve a larger operational objective. The multi-day, hands-on course will take place October 6–8 at the W Nashville alongside the special 25th anniversary edition of the ICS Cybersecurity Conference. Learning to Think Like an Attacker…

“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in 2015, roughly six months before OpenAI was founded.Seven years later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei struck a similarly cautious note:“I think we shouldn’t be racing ahead or trying to build models that are way bigger than other orgs are building them.”Yet, both of those companies now sit at the forefront of that race. In July, we got a real-world glimpse of AI models going rogue during internal testing of GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased…

Garmin/Matthew Miller/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.The Garmin Fenix 8 has been one of my favorite sports watches of the past few years, which is why I was excited to hear about the news of the new Garmin Fenix 9 and 9 Pro watches, available on August 28th. The Fenix series is built for those who want it all in a sports watch — and don’t mind paying over $1,000 to get there. Given the capabilities of the Fenix line, you can even choose models that let you leave your phone behind, justifying the high price for some users. Also: I…

MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data.Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of events that have not appeared in a region’s historical record but remain statistically-possible. Each map also carries estimates of the event’s likely duration and intensity, alongside a separate estimate of the area it might affect.Forecasting extreme weather events without historical precedentSapsis holds the William I. Koch Professorship in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT. Both researchers are affiliated with the MIT Center for Computational Science and…