Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman has released gputaskman, an open-source GitHub project for inspecting GPU workloads. The tool shows which processes use the GPU and how much memory each consumes, including AI and LLM workloads, making it relevant to teams investigating VRAM pressure.
Dawn reports that locally built robots are serving diners at a Karachi restaurant, carrying food between tables and greeting customers. Service robots remain uncommon in Pakistan, making the deployment a concrete example of local robotics moving into everyday commercial use.
Brava Security has emerged from stealth with $15 million in funding. Its multi-agent AI platform generates telemetry resembling an attack to help identify gaps in enterprise defenses, focusing on whether security systems can observe the signals an intrusion would produce.
The Verge reports concerns about how the US Commerce Department and Nvidia vet Chinese companies approved to receive H200 AI chips. Citing a New York Times investigation, it says approved buyer New Matrix has empty offices, raising questions about verification of recipients under chip export controls.
Cloudflare has described a redesign of the control plane for its D1 serverless SQL database to support millions of databases. As reported by InfoQ, the approach avoids centralized bottlenecks and combines retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency, offering a useful distributed-systems example for infrastructure developers.