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An excerpt from Sam Newman’s new book covers disaster recovery targets, failover choices and resilience challenges for AI-powered software.

Google says Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out broadly with safeguards for cyber and biological misuse, plus monitoring for agent behavior.

SolidCraft is an early, open-source CAD application written in Rust, with desktop and browser access and an MCP server for AI agents.

A developer says an AI coding agent helped build Altersteilzeit, a free retirement countdown app, in five days. He says he directed and approved the work.

Artificial Analysis tested 23 models on FrontierCode, where the top model passed every blocking check in 57.7% of attempts.

A 71-configuration test found GPT-6 Astra scored highest for news writing, while cheaper GPT-6 Luna remains in production and unsafe fallbacks were removed.

Meta’s Muse Wonder Full scores 56 on an independent benchmark, while API-accessible Muse Wonder scores 52 and costs $4.52 per benchmark task.

A supplied buyer guide names five distinct recorders and assistants, compares their stated features and explains what buyers should verify.

An AP News headline says Anthropic’s Claude submitted a false tip about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide; the available details do not explain what happened.

A buying guide compares nine WiFi 7 routers for coverage, device capacity, gaming and wired speeds, but supplies no 2027 test data.