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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Google is named Leader in IDC MarketScape for U.S. state and local government professional security services 2025–2026, underscoring AI-augmented security with Gemini AI, Mandiant frontline expertise, and end-to-end incident response to boost resilience across agencies.

3/9/2026
MetaMeta

How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger

Technical overview of Messenger's Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) showing how privacy is preserved while detecting malicious links in end-to-end encrypted chats, via PIR-based URL matching, OPRF, ORAM (Path ORAM), and OHTTP.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Complexity is a choice. SASE migrations shouldn’t take years.

A concise blueprint showing that complexity in SASE migrations is a choice, detailing how Cloudflare One enables rapid, programmable zero-trust deployments from 18-month timelines to six weeks via identity-first on-ramps, consolidated policy engines, and cloud-native connectors, with a focus on safe AI.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

Cloudflare launches a stateful, AI-assisted API vulnerability scanner that actively hunts authorization flaws like BOLA at the edge, using OpenAPI-driven scan planning and DAST-style testing integrated with API Shield for proactive API security.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

How Pingora 0.8.0 patches HTTP/1.x request smuggling vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-2833/2835/2836) with RFC-compliance hardening and upgrade guidance for standalone deployments.

3/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Game on with Spanner: How Playstation achieves global scale with 91% less storage, 50% lower costs

Case study of Sony's Entitlements migration to Google Cloud Spanner delivering global-scale, zero-downtime operations with a single source of truth, TrueTime-driven consistency, and major storage and cost reductions.

3/9/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

How I spent my 2-month paid sabbatical

Case study on planning and executing a two-month paid sabbatical to balance deep exploration with professional momentum, drawn from Peru and New Zealand adventures.

3/9/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Transforming Healthcare Referrals with Fivetran, Agentic AI, and Databricks Genie

Unifies fragmented healthcare data with Fivetran, Databricks Genie, and Agentic AI to optimize referrals, enable HIPAA-compliant AI agents, and empower clinicians with natural-language insights and end-to-end data activation.

3/9/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

A method to convert pretrained computer vision models into explainable systems by extracting task-specific concepts from the model with a sparse autoencoder and a multimodal LLM, enabling concept bottleneck predictions that improve accuracy and produce clearer human-readable explanations.

3/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Cost-Effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster

Shows how to achieve cost-effective AI workloads by combining GKE Autopilot GPU time-sharing, vCluster-based multi-tenant isolation, and Ollama deployment across isolated virtual clusters.

3/6/2026
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: Modverse #53: Community Builds, Research Milestones, and a Growing Ecosystem

Modular, community-driven update on research milestones and a growing Modverse ecosystem, highlighting easy MAX installs for local GenAI deployment and access to 500+ optimized models.

3/6/2026
PinterestPinterest

Unified Context-Intent Embeddings for Scalable Text-to-SQL

A unified embedding framework that combines context and user intent to enable scalable Text-to-SQL conversion.

3/6/2026