August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (Bloomberg)

Two of Canada's largest banks agreed to sell payments firm Moneris Solutions Corp. to Francisco Partners for C$2 billion ($1.4 billion) in cash.

3d ago ·bloomberg.com

Part 7: Iterating to Green: Real Bugs, and When You'd Actually Reach for a Framework

Part 7 (final) of a series building a support-ticket agent with no framework. Previous: Part 6 (observability). Repo: github.com/akash-pal/agent-from-scratch The other six parts described the finished…

• Initial evaluation found 12/21 cases passed, failures due to confirmation email sent on lookup
• Implemented exponential backoff for 429 and 503 errors, inter-case pacing within free-tier limits
• Decided to use single agent rather than multi-agent approach, considering cost and task requirements

3d ago ·dev.to

Part 5: Guardrails That Live in Code, Not the Prompt

Part 5 of a series building a support-ticket agent with no framework. Previous: Part 4 (the loop). Repo: github.com/akash-pal/agent-from-scratch Here's the finding this whole article is built around…

3d ago ·dev.to

compress ML models

3d ago ·dailydoseofds.com