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From Islamabad to the Linux Kernel: Bilal's Story

From Islamabad to the Linux Kernel: Bilal's Story

An Iqra University student got his patch merged into the Linux kernel, joining Pakistan's small circle of core kernel contributors. Here's his story.
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Your AI Agent Is Not a Coworker

Your AI Agent Is Not a Coworker

Boston University research: calling AI agents 'employees' causes people to catch 18% fewer errors. Frame agents as tools, not coworkers.
AI Agents Engineering Leadership AI coworkers HBR research Emma Wiles agent management organizational psychology AI oversight
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Oracle NetSuite Layoffs 30000 People In 2026

Oracle NetSuite Layoffs 30000 People In 2026

Oracle NetSuite layoffs 2026: 30,000 jobs cut to fund AI data centers. Impact on NetSuite customers, displaced ERP talent, and enterprise software.
Oracle NetSuite Oracle Layoffs ERP Enterprise Software AI Infrastructure
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Not Every Prompt Needs GPT-4: Smart Model Routing With a PHP Classifier

Not Every Prompt Needs GPT-4: Smart Model Routing With a PHP Classifier

A pure PHP classifier that routes LLM prompts by difficulty. Easy questions go to cheap models, hard ones get premium. Train once against your own models.
Laravel PHP Open Source AI/LLM Cost Optimization
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Your Hiring Pipeline Is Measuring Ghosts

Your Hiring Pipeline Is Measuring Ghosts

LLM-generated resumes, portfolios, and GitHub repos create indistinguishable candidates. The fix: design interviews that measure what LLMs cannot fake.
AI Hiring Engineering Recruitment Technical Interviews LLM Ethics Developer Careers
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Your Model Vendor Is a Geopolitical Risk

Your Model Vendor Is a Geopolitical Risk

US export controls shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos. Chinese models are filling the gap. What model supply chain risk means for engineering leaders.
AI Policy Model Supply Chain Engineering Leadership Geopolitical Risk
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Agent Evaluation: Why Tool Traces and Verification Matter

Agent Evaluation: Why Tool Traces and Verification Matter

Learn why long-context agent evaluation must assess search quality, tool traces, and outcome verification, not just the final answer in production workflows.
AI Agents Agent Evaluation LLM Evaluation Long-Context Models Tool Use AI Reliability Agentic Workflows Outcome Verification Production AI AI Safety
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Observability for AI Agents: Why Your Traces Need to Become an API

Observability for AI Agents: Why Your Traces Need to Become an API

As LLMs and AI agents start consuming operational data directly, your traces, logs, and metrics need to shift from human tools to machine interfaces.
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judging at nasa space apps challenge in hyderabad

judging at nasa space apps challenge in hyderabad

Highlights from judging the first NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Hyderabad, Pakistan.
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