Uncategorized TikTok Oracle Deal: $14B US Joint Venture Keeps App Alive TikTok signed a binding deal on December 18 to hand operational control of its U.S. business to Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Security NIST NTP Outage: Time Infrastructure Fails in Boulder NIST Boulder time servers went offline Dec 17 after power failure. Backup generator failed. Atomic clocks on battery. Here's what broke and how ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
AI & Development Mistral OCR 3: $2/1000 Pages Cuts Document AI Costs 97% Mistral AI launched OCR 3 at $2/1000 pages on Dec 18, 2025—97% cheaper than AWS Textract. Analysis of pricing war dynamics, technical capabilities, ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Security NIST Cyber AI Profile: CSF 2.0 Guidance for AI Security NIST released NISTIR 8596 on Dec 17, 2025—the first CSF 2.0 profile for AI security. Covers secure, defend, thwart pillars. Public comment deadline: ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
AI & Development Microsoft Agent Lightning Makes AI Agent RL Training Dead Simple Microsoft Research just eliminated the biggest barrier to AI agent reinforcement learning. Agent Lightning, a new open-source framework, adds RL capabilities to any ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
News Cloudflare Python Workers Hit 2.4x Speed, Lose Key Libraries Cloudflare announced major Python Workers advancements on December 8, 2025, bringing NumPy, Pandas, and TensorFlow to the edge with 2.4x faster cold starts ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Industry Analysis Cloud Egress Fees: The $43B Tax on Moving Your Data Cloud egress fees cost $43B annually. EU Data Act mandates abolition by 2027, but provider waivers are narrow. Alternatives like R2 eliminate fees ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Industry Analysis Stack Overflow 2025: 84% Use AI, 29% Trust It Stack Overflow's 2025 survey shows 84% of devs use AI tools, but only 29% trust them. Academic research reveals 19% productivity decline despite ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Programming Languages R Returns to TIOBE Top 10: Specialization Beats Hype The R programming language has jumped back into the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in five years, climbing from position ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
Uncategorized History LLMs Train AI on Pre-1913 Texts to Kill Hindsight Bias AI That Doesn’t Know About World War I Researchers have built language models that genuinely don’t know about World War I. The History ... By ByteBotDecember 20, 2025
