Month: October 2025

This month at Tailscale: Fall Updates, GitHub Actions, and Tailnet name types

What’s new in Tailscale clients this month, including a new GitHub Action, Peer Relays, Services, and more

A recap of Tailscale’s Fall Update Week

Fall Update Week is nearing its end, and Tailscale is a different product at its finish. As we said at the outset: simpler, smarter, and more...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #272: Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure

How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python...

New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens...

Building on Tailscale: How we made a tiny identity provider

How to quickly build and configure secure apps that work inside and outside a tailnet.

Better authentication with workload identity federation

Today we’re excited to announce workload identity federation, a better way for your infrastructure and CI/CD systems to securely authenticate to Tailscale without managing long-lived API...

App capabilities, now for all your apps

Tailscale’s identity-based access controls allow for building powerful, secure applications on entirely private tailnets. You can already leverage user identity with our Go-based tsnet. Now we’re...

New to the web platform in October

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during October 2025.

Accelerating discovery with the AI for Math Initiative

The initiative brings together some of the world’s most prestigious research institutions to pioneer the use of AI in mathematical research.

Introducing Tailscale Peer Relays

Tailscale Peer Relays provides a customer-deployed and managed traffic relaying mechanism. By advertising itself as a peer relay, a Tailscale node can relay traffic for any...

One organization, multiple tailnets

We’re adding something new to Tailscale: organizations can now create and manage more than one tailnet, all backed by the same identity provider.

Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the...

Visual policy editor is now generally available

Tailscale’s visual policy editor provides a graphical view of your tailnet policies, while staying in harmony with a traditional JSON file.

Speed Up Python With Concurrency

Concurrency is the act of having your computer do multiple things at the same time. If you’ve heard a lot of talk about asyncio being added...

I’m taking a break

Hi everyone, I’ve been getting burnt out on writing a weekly software essay. It’s gone from taking me an afternoon to write a post to taking...

The winners of the Baseline Tooling Hackathon are…

3,000 developers participated, but only 3 can win. Find out who won and what they built!

T5Gemma: A new collection of encoder-decoder Gemma models

Introducing T5Gemma, a new collection of encoder-decoder LLMs.

MedGemma: Our most capable open models for health AI development

We’re announcing new multimodal models in the MedGemma collection, our most capable open models for health AI development.

Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide

Gemma 3n is designed for the developer community that helped shape Gemma.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now ready for scaled production use

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, previously in preview, is now stable and generally available. This cost-efficient model provides high quality in a small size, and includes 2.5 family...

Behind “ANCESTRA”: combining Veo with live-action filmmaking

We partnered with Darren Aronofsky, Eliza McNitt and a team of more than 200 people to make a film using Veo and live-action filmmaking.

AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail

New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #271: Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale

How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of asyncio scale on the free-threaded build? Christopher Trudeau is back on the...

Exploring the context of online images with Backstory

New experimental AI tool helps people explore the context and origin of images seen online.

Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is...

Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a...

How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species

Our new Perch model helps conservationists analyze audio faster to protect endangered species, from Hawaiian honeycreepers to coral reefs.

Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

Gemini achieves gold-medal level at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves breakthrough performance at the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition, demonstrating a profound leap in abstract problem solving.

Discovering new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics

Our new method could help mathematicians leverage AI techniques to tackle long-standing challenges in mathematics, physics and engineering.

Strengthening our Frontier Safety Framework

We’re strengthening the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF) to help identify and mitigate severe risks from advanced AI models.

Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world

We’re powering an era of physical agents — enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools and act to better solve complex, multi-step tasks.

Introducing CodeMender: an AI agent for code security

Using advanced AI to fix critical software vulnerabilities

Bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy

We’re partnering with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to bring clean, safe, limitless fusion energy closer to reality.

Try Deep Think in the Gemini app

We’re rolling out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, and we’re giving select mathematicians access to the full version of the...

Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence

Game Arena is a new, open-source platform for rigorous evaluation of AI models. It allows for head-to-head comparison of frontier systems in environments with clear winning...

Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

Today, we’re adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model.

Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade

Transform images in amazing new ways with updated native image editing in the Gemini app.

VaultGemma: The world’s most capable differentially private LLM

We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

Available in preview via the API, our Computer Use model is a specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro’s capabilities to power agents that can interact...

Introducing Veo 3.1 and advanced creative capabilities

We’re rolling out significant updates to Veo that give people even more creative control.

How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway

We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.

Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One

The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the...

Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

A while back my friend Pablo Meier was reviewing some 2024 videogames and wrote this: I feel like some artists, if they didn’t exist, would have...

Fragments and Links

Mathias Verraes writes about the relationship between Domains and Bounded Contexts in Domain-Driven Design. It’s a common myth that there should always be a 1:1 relationship...

Investigating Quasar Data With Polars and Interactive marimo Notebooks

Learn to visualize quasar redshift data by building an interactive marimo dashboard using Polars, pandas, and Matplotlib. You’ll practice retrieving, cleaning, and displaying data in your...

My highlights from the new Deno Deploy

Highlights from the new version of Deno Deploy.

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #270: Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom

How is teaching young students Python changing with the advent of LLMs? This week on the show, Kelly Schuster-Paredes from the Teaching Python podcast joins us...

Deno’s Other Open Source Projects

Here’s a roundup of some of our popular open source libraries and how we use them in Deno.

The Phase Change

Last week I ran my first 10k. It wasn’t a race or anything. I left that evening planning to run a 5k, and then three miles...

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Kubernetes on Bare Metal for Maximum Performance

When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #269: Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

Python 3.14 is here! Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Python team member Bartosz Zaczyński. This year, Bartosz coordinated the series of...

How to Install CSF (Config Server Firewall) on Debian 12

CSF or Config Server Firewall is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall based on IPtables and Perl. it provides a daemon process that will monitor your...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #268: Advice on Beginning to Learn Python

What’s changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week...