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Sean Michael Kerner
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I was writing about data labeling long before ChatGPT existed. Like many, I had (erroneously) thought that it wasn't necessary in the modern agentic AI era - I was wrong.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Aria Networks is targeting AI scale-out with a microsecond telemetry approach. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4095...
Apstra founder launches Aria to tackle AI networking performance
Aria Networks is targeting AI scale-out with a microsecond telemetry approach.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Networking is going through actually a bigger change than people realize, because of many factors..” Anil Varanasi, Meter co-founder and CEO, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4093...
Meter ups its NaaS portfolio with new hardware, autonomous operations
NaaS startup Meter unveiled new wireless access points, switches, firewalls, and cellular gateways, all of which run identical firmware.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Context engineering is all fine and nice. But semantics and ontologies take AI to another level. Microsoft is now..igniting (sorry i couldn't resist) this approach with Fabric IQ. @venturebeat.com

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November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Microsoft keeps pushing more and more AI into Windows. But is that what its users want, or is that what Microsoft thinks they want? zdnet.com/article/micr... via @zdnet.bsky.social
Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new
Microsoft is clearly excited about all this AI infiltrating Windows, but are its users as excited? Not quite. Here's why.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11. www.networkworld.com/article/4090... @networkworld.bsky.social
StarlingX 11.0 addresses edge security, IPv4 exhaustion for massive deployments
StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The 'Ouroboros problem' of AI evaluation that Databricks Judge Builder might just solve...with a little help from humans (yay humans!)

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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Snowflake has a lot of news out today at its BUILD conference..but it is one piece of news in particular that I think will make all the difference.

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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source dlt library.
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Enterprise data engineering revolution: How dltHub's Python open-source platform transforms data pipeline creation for agentic AI | Sean M. Kerner
I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source d...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've had the good fortune to connect with David Belson on internet topics a bunch over the years. At Cloudflare he's now been working on some new insights on Top Level Domains and there are more than few surprises in the findings...

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What's the most malicious TLD? Cloudflare reveals surprising risks, usage patterns
Cloudflare identifies high-risk top-level domains, with .motorcycles ranking No. 1 among the most abused TLDs.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've been a believer in streaming data for a long time...but so much of the AI-data conversation has been about static data. That's now changing and real-time data streaming that bakes in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink from Confluent is bringing the context.

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October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
GitHub wants to be the control point for agentic AI
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There is still some hesitation about AI - but Intuit is figuring out how to work the way its users want to work.

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October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
AI is supposed to give humans less work and make things easier...right? Maybe not according to some new research from Snowflake that 77% say their data engineering teams' workloads are getting heavier, not lighter.

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October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Usually each new Wi-Fi spec offers the promise of more speed..but speed isn't the only thing that users need. Wi-Fi 8 could be the most important networking spec in a generation. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4073...
Wi-Fi 8 is coming and it's going to make AI a lot faster
Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes consistent performance under challenging conditions and introduces dynamic spectrum management and hardware-accelerated telemetry designed for AI workloads at the network edge.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One of the big missing links in the AI ecosystem has been the availability of a large high-quality open-source multimodal dataset. That changes today with the debut of the EMM-1 dataset
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can't keep up with shifting workloads. The answer would be a new type of self-adaptive system.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
15 yrs later...OpenStack continues to improve
->Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo. www.networkworld.com/article/4066... @networkworld.bsky.social
OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb
Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Large enterprises aren’t the only targets of cybercriminals....
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Netgear deepens SASE integration
Netgear is embedding firewall software gained in its acquisition of Exium into its router platform to eliminate the need for separate firewall appliances or virtual machines at branch locations.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New research released today from Databricks shows how its GEPA (Generative Evolutionary Prompt Adaptation) technique improves prompt optimization by an order of magnitude.

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September 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There's more than one Linux certification for IT pros to consider... @networkworld.bsky.social
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9 Linux certifications to boost your career
Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent. Vendor-neutral certifications emphasize core Linux principles applicable across...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Networking has gone through several inflection points,” Barun Kar CEO of Upscale told @networkworld.bsky.social . “We feel there is an inflection point happening right now as we speak, driven by AI..."

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Upscale emerges from stealth with $100 million seed and plans to democratize AI networking
Upscale aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI networking infrastructure with an open solution that builds on SONiC and other standards-based initiatives.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Microsoft Fabric is now in use by 80% of the Fortune 500 and now it's getting even more powerful with graph database tech.

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September 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sure you can do QA for AI code inside of AI tools, but do you trust it? There are a lot of tools for doing AI code review, including CodeRabbit. How do you choose and figure out what's best?
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September 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM