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OPM’s performance rating system misses the real problem

A long-time federal employee says the new performance ratings system is β€˜institutional gaslighting’ and bad for employees and agency mission success.

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Nine ways the Pentagon can fix CMMC without lowering the cybersecurity bar

Russia and Ukraine are already demonstrating how quickly AI, autonomous systems, and software can move from development to operational use.

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FILE - Ukrainian servicemen prepare a "Chaklun" strike drone used for deep-strike operations against Russian positions in Crimea, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Aug. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov, File)

The PHP Incident

28 October 2026 at 14:41
The PHP security incident is now (almost) old news. The timeline looks something like this: In late August, Wiz Research discovered two serious remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP called PHP2Shell. They reported the vulnerabilities to the PHP team on August 24, which started working on fixes on September 21. Amazon apparently detected PHP2Shell in […]

Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From AI?

28 October 2026 at 06:54
The following article was originally published on James Shore’s Successful Software blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Software development has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of AI automation. One CIO I talked to recently, with 170 people in his organization, measured a 2.1x increase in productivity from AI. That productivity came […]
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Whoever wins in November, the career civil service needs rules that last

Mary Kate Whalen, the president of the Senior Executives Association, says Congress should write civil service reforms into law, starting with a new commission.

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Voters enter their ballots into scanners at early in-person voting in Cleveland, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes.

27 October 2026 at 06:54
The following article originally appeared on The Arize Blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Every time you think you’ve just got the hang of this AI thing, another thing gets declared β€œdead.” This week, it’s agent harnesses. Back in ancient history, aka June, I wrote a piece called β€œFrameworks are dying, […]

Data readiness is the foundation for AI-enabled JADC2

For JADC2 and AI to advance together, data readiness has to become a mission requirement, not an afterthought.

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This Week in AI: AI’s Growing Pains

26 October 2026 at 11:55
AI’s rapid expansion is creating problems across the industry, from chip shortages to autonomous agents that exceed their instructions. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined those challenges alongside growing regulatory scrutiny and an emerging debate about whether AI systems themselves might deserve protection. Chip production can’t match AI demand AI […]

Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists

26 October 2026 at 06:54
Spend a week with almost any infrastructure team in 2026 and you’ll see one AI subscription producing five very different results. One engineer opens 40 pull requests before lunch across repositories they haven’t touched in a year. Another ships a Terraform change they couldn’t explain in a code review. A third hasn’t opened the tool […]

Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI

23 October 2026 at 11:55
Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit that helped to define the open source revolution back in the late 1990s. Though its Firefox web browser was superseded as the […]

The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs

23 October 2026 at 06:54
The following article originally appeared on the Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with tools to check their changes. Warp Factories takes work from tickets and chat through agents, checks, […]

DOL gives employers a green light, with guardrails, to let non-exempt employees split their workday between home and office

For employers who want to offer split schedules to hourly staff, this letter removes a significant obstacle, provided the arrangement is structured correctly.

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A car with a breakdown stands on the emergency lane on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, as thousands of commuters pass by early Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

The Latest Anthropic Claude Models Contain AI Text Watermarks: What Does This Mean for You?

22 October 2026 at 06:55
If you’re an instructor for the O’Reilly live training platform, you’ve got to be prepared for the unexpected. As a developer I think we all can understand the situation when a demo (you know, the one that you’ve tested a thousand times on your machine) easily decides on its own to go wrong while being […]

The government learned the hard lessons of cloud. It should apply them to AI now.

Agencies should apply cloud-era disciplines to models, prompts and agents now, and shift from "human in the loop" to "human in the lead.”

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A way to fix the federal government’s approach to cybersecurity compliance

These directives demand continuous compliance, and it’s no surprise that federal cybersecurity professionals are struggling to keep up.

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