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# Introduction Natural language processing (NLP) has clearly shifted in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) and transformers taking on complex end-to-end understanding tasks. Yet in any real-world NLP workflow, raw text still needs to be tokenized, normalized, and analyzed before it ever reaches a model. While modern NLP libraries and ecosystems like SpaCy or Hugging Face are excellent for building general-purpose deep learning pipelines or integrating with LLMs, the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) remains a practical, transparent choice for detailed structural linguistics, custom text normalization, and statistical corpus analysis. Unfortunately, many developers mistakenly assume that LLMs make traditional…

Published on June 22, 2026 by Diana Todea – DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Cloud Native Days Romania community organizer, Laura Luttmer – Principal Product Manager at Bindplane (Dynatrace), Antonio Jimenez Martinez – Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes As modern system architectures become more and more complex, the cloud-native community is grappling with a quiet yet urgent problem: we’re being overwhelmed by the very telemetry data we generate. Instrumenting applications and gathering signals has never been simpler, but are we truly extracting meaningful insights, or merely accumulating mountains of data? At the recent Observability Summit North America held…

e2e-assure has unveiled the latest version of Cumulo, the U.K.’s sole sovereign, AI-native, IT/OT-connected SOC platform, purpose-built to help organisations counter a rising wave of AI-powered threats. Today’s adversaries act with a degree of autonomy and velocity that conventional SOC frameworks were never designed to handle. The platform — owned and engineered in the U.K. — responds directly to GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler’s recent appeal for “a new national cyber defence capability that will hardwire cutting-edge agentic AI into machine-speed cyber defence” — by delivering a genuinely sovereign solution within e2e-assure’s SOC offering. With AI woven into every layer of…

Each year, countless household appliances are swapped out and thrown away. As these used goods accumulate, they’re piling up in landfills and creating a serious environmental challenge.To tackle this growing problem, manufacturers are rolling out sustainability initiatives centered on recycling and reuse. The aim is to build a circular economy featuring closed-loop systems where disassembly operations are placed close to final assembly lines.Panasonic Corp. is one of the companies at the forefront of this effort. While the company is widely recognized for its batteries and consumer electronics, it also manufactures a broad range of home appliances — air conditioners, dishwashers,…

Jada Jones/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Both Sennheiser and Sony produce top-tier headphones known for excellent sound quality, long-lasting batteries, and sleek, understated designs. If you’re deciding between the Sony WH-1000XM6 and the Sennheiser Momentum 5, it’s important to understand that while they share many strengths, each model caters to a distinct type of listener.Also: I traveled 2,700 miles with Sony, Apple, and Sennheiser headphones — this pair sounded the bestThe Momentum 5 is ideal for audiophiles who value high-fidelity sound but still want the freedom of wireless technology. The WH-1000XM6, on the other hand, suits…

Bitcoin (BTC) is holding steady around $64,000 as the new week begins, yet traders are keeping a close eye on several upcoming events that could shake things up.Main takeaways:The US dollar is gaining strength again, and past trends suggest Bitcoin struggles when the DXY is strong.July has historically moved in the opposite direction of June, which could mean some relief for BTC prices ahead.Fresh PCE inflation figures are expected, while uncertainty lingers over US-Iran peace talks.Bitcoin’s growing link to oil prices is increasing confidence that the $60,000 support level will hold.While short-term holders may have exited their positions, large investors…

The recent string of breaches tied to the ShinyHunters hacking group — including attacks on the University of Nottingham, DentaQuest, 7-Eleven, Medtronic, and Wynn Resorts — drives home a reality that security executives can no longer afford to overlook: cybercriminals are increasingly sidestepping conventional perimeter defenses and going after identities, login processes, SaaS connections, and trusted access routes rather than hunting for software flaws to exploit. In recent months, ShinyHunters has been connected to intrusions targeting Salesforce deployments, Snowflake customers, SaaS integrations, and identity management platforms like Okta. Analysts and incident response teams have repeatedly identified the same tactics: pilfered…

MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider. Attention is the fused softmax(QKᵀ/√d)·V operation inside every transformer. The MI300X is AMD’s CDNA3 data-center GPU, with the ISA target (gfx942). This kernel runs on that hardware only. TL;DR MoonMath.ai open-sources a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD MI300X, written in HIP, not assembly (MIT).…

A major shift is underway in how industrial operations stay connected. It goes beyond simply adding more devices to factory floors or expanding automation in warehouses. The core infrastructure that ties everything together is evolving, and the networks that once worked well are now struggling to keep up. For companies managing large-scale industrial IoT systems, the debate is no longer about whether to move beyond traditional connectivity — it is about how quickly they can make the transition.More and more industries are turning to private 5G as the solution. This is not a passing trend or a distant goal —…

Introduction For a long time, I’ve relied on DAX to build date tables in tabular models whenever there was no other source available. I’ve had a template code that I’ve reused countless times, and it works perfectly well in a wide range of scenarios. I shared this approach with my clients, and they’ve all found it extremely useful. However, during a recent discussion with a colleague, I discovered a different approach that I hadn’t considered before. Here, I’ll walk you through various ways to create a date table and compare them. No matter which method you choose, it’s essential to…