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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3 Tables, the update aims to eliminate data silos and enable Zero-ETL analytics across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and debug AI agents, and devise mitigation strategies against security issues like jailbreaks, hallucinations and sycophancy.
By Sergio De Simone
Cloudflare has eliminated manual configuration errors across hundreds of production accounts by implementing Infrastructure as Code with automated policy enforcement, processing approximately 30 merge requests daily while catching security violations before deployment rather than after incidents occur.
By Claudio Masolo
A new industry benchmark aimed at systematically evaluating the factual accuracy of LLMs has been released with the launch of the FACTS Benchmark Suite. Developed by the FACTS team in collaboration with Kaggle, the suite expands earlier work on factual grounding and introduces a broader, multi-dimensional framework for measuring how reliably language models produce factually correct responses.
By Robert Krzaczyński
This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and Java Operator SDK.
By Michael Redlich
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