Ion bombardment triggers a reliable quantum switch in tantalum disulfide crystals

• When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again • It can then end up in one of two possible states: heads or tails • No matter which st

Science · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 170 words
Learning to Rewrite Tool Descriptions for Reliable LLM-Agent Tool Use

Learning to Rewrite Tool Descriptions for Reliable LLM-Agent Tool Use

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 23 Feb 2026] Title:Learning to Rewrite Tool Descriptions for Reliable LLM-Agent Tool Use View PDF HTML (experimental)Abst

Research & Labs · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 319 words
Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

• Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows The Temporal Swift SDK is now available as an open source project. • Building reliable distributed systems

Language Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 307 words
Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux

Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux

• Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways If you need to use virtual

Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

• Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows The Temporal Swift SDK is now available as an open source project. • Building reliable distributed systems

Language Internals · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 205 words
When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication

When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication

• Abstract Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating empathic responses in text-based conversations. • But, how reliably do they judge the nuances of empathic communication?

Research & Labs · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words
How Reliable is Your Service at the Extreme Edge? Analytical Modeling of Computational Reliability

How Reliable is Your Service at the Extreme Edge? Analytical Modeling of Computational Reliability

• Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:How Reliable is Your Service at the Extreme Edge? • Analytical Modeling of Comput

Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows

• Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows The Temporal Swift SDK is now available as an open source project. • Building reliable distributed systems

Mobile Development · February 19, 2026 (updated February 20, 2026) · 1 min · 110 words

When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication

• Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-025-01169-6 Kumar et al. • show that large language models (LLMs) nearly match expert reliabil

Research · February 19, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 99 words
Goodbye to False Silences: Automating Reliable NRQL Alerts at Scale

Goodbye to False Silences: Automating Reliable NRQL Alerts at Scale

• Achieving operational excellence is about more than just having alerts; it’s about trusting them. • A common problem as organisations scale their observability environments is ho

What is data reliability (and do you need reliable data)?

What is data reliability (and do you need reliable data)?

• What is data reliability (and do you need reliable data)? • Time to read: What is data reliability (and do you need reliable data)? • There’s a big difference between having data

Engineering Blogs · February 1, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 163 words
Tailscale GitHub Action v4: faster, more reliable, and new features

Tailscale GitHub Action v4: faster, more reliable, and new features

• Tailscale has a unique ability to connect any machine to any machine, and CI/CD pipelines are no exception. • The Tailscale Github Action has, as of this writing, nearly 800 star

How we built reliable log delivery to thousands of unpredictable endpoints

How we built reliable log delivery to thousands of unpredictable endpoints

• Gabriel Reid Package delivery services like UPS, FedEx, and the postal service have a tough job. • They contend with a never-ending stream of packages to be delivered, with expec