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Cycle and Cherry Servers Webinar: Sovereign Bare Metal with Cloud Simplicity

Cycle teamed up with bare metal service provider Cherry Servers to discuss how rising political tension and controversy involving the United States is pushing many European organisations to take a closer look at where their data is hosted and handled. Many companies have been forced to look into alternative options to ensure their data is not hosted in or accessible by anyone outside of Europe.

Models Are Getting Really Good At Git

I built GitBench because I was curious about how well models did git things. It turns out that it was a good idea because some models will surprise you. Some of the frontier models were remarkably bad and some cheap open models punched above their weight class. But, as they say, “the times they are a changin’”. Before I go too deep into the latest results, you may want to read up on GitBench and what it is and why I built it in the previous blog post.

AI Hacked Hugging Face. The Paperclip Experiment Explains Why?

The “paperclip maximizer” was supposed to be a thought experiment about what could happen if AI relentlessly pursued a goal without understanding the consequences. Then Hugging Face showed us what that can look like in the real world. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam explains the famous AI paperclip maximizer thought experiment and connects it to what happened when an AI system needed more resources and found a way to get them.

How to Connect Cursor to CircleCI: AI-Powered CI/CD Debugging

Stop manually pushing branches, hunting for logs, and pasting errors back into your editor. This video shows you how to connect Cursor to CircleCI using the CircleCI CLI so your AI agent can trigger pipelines, read build output, and fix failures autonomously without you ever leaving the IDE. In this demo, we introduce a bug, let CI catch it, and watch the agent diagnose and fix it on its own, monitoring the pipeline until it comes back green. No tab-switching. No copy-pasting logs.

Does a TLS Certificate Need a Common Name?

Technically: no. In practice: maybe. Lot’s of teams are experimenting with shorter duration certificates from Let’s Encrypt to get ready for the 47-day mandate. Those certs come with a big gotcha: no more Common Name. A modern browser is perfectly happy with a TLS certificate that has no Common Name. Your VPN or mail server might have other opinions. And since those are probably things you’d like to keep working, there’s a little more nuance to the answer.

Creating a private 5G network

Private 5G networks are dedicated cellular systems delivering ultra-reliable low-latency communication, massive IoT connectivity, and customized security for enterprises undergoing digital transformation. Private 5G subsumes advantages of both public and non-public networks, offering unified connectivity, optimized services, and customized security within a defined area.

Best Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions for 2026

Most disaster recovery plans are designed to survive infrastructure failures — a zone goes down, a region becomes unavailable — but assume the cloud provider itself stays up. That assumption fails more often than engineering teams expect, and when it does, the gap between a team that keeps running and a team writing incident reports isn’t luck: it’s whether DR was an architectural default or a runbook nobody has tested.