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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Page &amp; Process · The discovery room</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/</link><description>Buyer questions, proposed applications, research, software and dated events.</description><language>en-gb</language><item><title>How to Rewrite Apache Spark UDFs for GPU Acceleration with AI Agents</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/769f877f10ea/</link><description>NVIDIA examines how custom Spark functions can interrupt an otherwise GPU-accelerated data pipeline. It describes rewriting suitable functions through SQL expressions, columnar cuDF operations or lower-level kernels, with agents assisting a sequence of tests, conversion and benchmarking. The article reports a particular production example, but its transferable lesson is the verification loop: a faster implementation must preserve the business function&amp;#x27;s behaviour.</description><category>Technical research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/769f877f10ea/</guid></item><item><title>Q&amp;A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/86d056a4b8dd/</link><description>MIT&amp;#x27;s interview with Deb Roy examines accountability for public communication when AI can produce plausible text at scale. It discusses civic feedback and the difficulty of knowing whether someone stands behind a statement. The centre&amp;#x27;s dialogue work includes opportunities for participants to check and override technology-assisted output. The central issue is responsibility for published meaning, rather than whether generated prose sounds convincing.</description><category>AI research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/86d056a4b8dd/</guid></item><item><title>Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve?</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/e910716dd987/</link><description>Microsoft examines durable orchestration through approvals, provisioning, payments, publishing and incident response. The article separates remembered workflow progress from the external system that establishes what actually happened. A restarted worker can resume coordination, while payment receipts, permission decisions and safe retries still need application-level records. Its practical contribution is a clearer boundary between continuing a process and proving its outcome.</description><category>Software</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/e910716dd987/</guid></item><item><title>Stockpickers: Bytes Technology, YouGov, Softcat</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/5857dbc034f9/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Stockpickers: Bytes Technology, YouGov, Softcat”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed an emerging possibility application.</description><category>Innovation</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/5857dbc034f9/</guid></item><item><title>Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Trainium</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/f8453ed396d3/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Trainium”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed generated information application.</description><category>Web platform</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/f8453ed396d3/</guid></item><item><title>React Form Validation Using Shared Zod Schemas and Server Actions</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/6dbd7b4db5cf/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “React Form Validation Using Shared Zod Schemas and Server Actions”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed structured requests application.</description><category>Infrastructure</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/6dbd7b4db5cf/</guid></item><item><title>Tesla's 'flying car' is as convincing as the Cybertruck being a boat</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8aa584a10efe/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Tesla&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;flying car&amp;#x27; is as convincing as the Cybertruck being a boat”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed visual meaning application.</description><category>Security</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8aa584a10efe/</guid></item><item><title>Designers are cringing at Tate McRae’s new single cover</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/a6a9397af188/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Designers are cringing at Tate McRae’s new single cover”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed visual meaning application.</description><category>Design</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/a6a9397af188/</guid></item><item><title>Performance Characterization of Pulsar's Software-defined Watermark Verifier</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/309fff280690/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Performance Characterization of Pulsar&amp;#x27;s Software-defined Watermark Verifier”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed page responsiveness application.</description><category>Performance</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/309fff280690/</guid></item><item><title>Amora: Communication-Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/55faf50ffe7e/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Amora: Communication-Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed information boundaries application.</description><category>Search</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/55faf50ffe7e/</guid></item><item><title>WCAG 3: a different future for accessibility</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8aa096ae2bfb/</link><description>The 15 October 2026 development raises an evolving accessibility standard; our proposed project investigation concerns access to a digital task. The announcement’s conditions and claims need further examination.</description><category>Accessibility</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8aa096ae2bfb/</guid></item><item><title>Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/7eeb0a9dde53/</link><description>Google Research presents a workshop report on privacy and security for agents that plan and act through tools. Its contextual approach considers who shares information, with whom, for what purpose and under which rules. The article proposes work across system controls, model reasoning, user interfaces and governance. These are open research directions, rather than evidence that one product has solved agent trust.</description><category>Technical research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/7eeb0a9dde53/</guid></item><item><title>From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/dcb164d12c39/</link><description>Berkeley and IBM researchers describe adapting a kernel-search approach from CUDA to Apple&amp;#x27;s MLX environment. Their system combines hardware constraints, generated candidates and measurements on real devices. The reported results vary by kernel: one attention comparison does not beat its native baseline, while another workload improves substantially against a community implementation. The article offers a research approach to transferring optimisation knowledge, with the comparison context remaining essential.</description><category>AI research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/dcb164d12c39/</guid></item><item><title>First Draft Notes: Verifiable Credential Threat Models</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/37ab1fbdd164/</link><description>W3C announces draft threat-model notes covering several parts of the verifiable-credential ecosystem, including recognised entities, data integrity, barcodes, rendering and lifecycle management. The notes identify security and privacy questions alongside related standards work, with public comments invited. Their publication highlights a useful distinction: a credential&amp;#x27;s technical representation and the way a person verifies or interprets it need scrutiny together.</description><category>Software</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/37ab1fbdd164/</guid></item><item><title>Only 34% trust synthetic data’s referential integrity — and it’s holding adoption back</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8bb1bdad437d/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Only 34% trust synthetic data’s referential integrity — and it’s holding adoption back”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed an emerging possibility application.</description><category>Innovation</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8bb1bdad437d/</guid></item><item><title>Continuous accountability for Verified bots</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/1beb66d0b231/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Continuous accountability for Verified bots”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed accountable decisions application.</description><category>Web platform</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/1beb66d0b231/</guid></item><item><title>AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/755bcc9a933a/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed campaign journeys application.</description><category>Infrastructure</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/755bcc9a933a/</guid></item><item><title>Security firm Proofpoint acquires Varonis for $6.3bn</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2fc0f1baf847/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Security firm Proofpoint acquires Varonis for $6.3bn”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed service security application.</description><category>Security</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2fc0f1baf847/</guid></item><item><title>TeamLens in Critsly: A Consent-Based Team-Composition Interface and Synthetic Readiness Evaluation for Design Collaboration</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/0195b36f9d91/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “TeamLens in Critsly: A Consent-Based Team-Composition Interface and Synthetic Readiness Evaluation for Design Collaboration”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed visual meaning application.</description><category>Design</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/0195b36f9d91/</guid></item><item><title>When the KV Cache Is Slower Than the GPU: Scaling Remote KV Tiers for Context-Parallel Prefill</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/81bf980073dc/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 development raises the cost and memory boundary of a cache choice; our proposed project investigation concerns shared records. The announcement’s conditions and claims need further examination.</description><category>Performance</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/81bf980073dc/</guid></item><item><title>Identifier-Free Code Embedding Models for Scalable Search</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2b9de6f4fb3e/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Identifier-Free Code Embedding Models for Scalable Search”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed generated information application.</description><category>Search</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2b9de6f4fb3e/</guid></item><item><title>HTML Semantics in Practice: Building More Accessible and Maintainable Web Pages</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/c48eccbb3226/</link><description>The 14 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “HTML Semantics in Practice: Building More Accessible and Maintainable Web Pages”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed browser capabilities application.</description><category>Accessibility</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/c48eccbb3226/</guid></item><item><title>Do you have technology that could solve a city's water woes?</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2eae0d40cb90/</link><description>CSIR describes a South African platform linking municipal service-delivery needs with technologies across areas such as water, energy, construction and connectivity. Developers can submit solutions, while moderation considers relevance and routes material appropriately. The article explains that the platform supports discovery and works with registration bodies; the platform itself does not certify or endorse every technology. This is an information-design problem as much as a catalogue problem.</description><category>Technical research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/2eae0d40cb90/</guid></item><item><title>Alexandr Wang, Meta’s AI wunderkind</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/34c904d2eecf/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Alexandr Wang, Meta’s AI wunderkind”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed generated information application.</description><category>AI research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/34c904d2eecf/</guid></item><item><title>Updated Candidate Recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/81a3389421f4/</link><description>W3C has published an updated SVG 2 Candidate Recommendation Snapshot, inviting implementations and feedback. The announcement describes corrections and clarifications intended to improve interoperability. SVG combines scalable two-dimensional graphics with styling and dynamic behaviour, making it relevant to interactive diagrams and artwork. The document&amp;#x27;s candidate status matters: publication is a standards-development milestone, not proof that every feature behaves identically in every browser.</description><category>Software</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/81a3389421f4/</guid></item><item><title>This map shows the most important asset that VC-backed companies need right now</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/6cc3f18ead79/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “This map shows the most important asset that VC-backed companies need right now”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed accountable decisions application.</description><category>Innovation</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/6cc3f18ead79/</guid></item><item><title>WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-16</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/c280d687bd5e/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 development raises a notification that needs a useful recipient and state; our proposed project investigation concerns service security. The announcement’s conditions and claims need further examination.</description><category>Web platform</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/c280d687bd5e/</guid></item><item><title>Talent Tracker: Perfect Storm, Kingfisher, W, The Story Network and more</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/93ca90296a14/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Talent Tracker: Perfect Storm, Kingfisher, W, The Story Network and more”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed connected service continuity application.</description><category>Infrastructure</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/93ca90296a14/</guid></item><item><title>Cyber Threat Actors Use a Variety of Techniques to Target Election and Campaign Officials</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/4e525e143e8c/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Cyber Threat Actors Use a Variety of Techniques to Target Election and Campaign Officials”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed campaign journeys application.</description><category>Security</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/4e525e143e8c/</guid></item><item><title>With $150 off, this 27in 4K monitor just became a great buy for creative work at home</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/84250d2075c1/</link><description>The 15 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “With $150 off, this 27in 4K monitor just became a great buy for creative work at home”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed visual meaning application.</description><category>Design</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/84250d2075c1/</guid></item><item><title>Wattlytics: A Web Platform for Co-Optimizing Performance, Energy, and TCO in HPC Clusters</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/211aa79cd43e/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Wattlytics: A Web Platform for Co-Optimizing Performance, Energy, and TCO in HPC Clusters”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed browser capabilities application.</description><category>Performance</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/211aa79cd43e/</guid></item><item><title>ConStore: Search-Overlapped Prefetch and Co-Retrieval-Aware Content Storage for Disk-Based ANNS</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8b94ed858eb6/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “ConStore: Search-Overlapped Prefetch and Co-Retrieval-Aware Content Storage for Disk-Based ANNS”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed campaign journeys application.</description><category>Search</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/8b94ed858eb6/</guid></item><item><title>Introducing the Accessible Components Library</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/467de45cc20f/</link><description>The 14 October 2026 development raises using an accessible component without assuming the whole journey is accessible; our proposed project investigation concerns access to a digital task. The announcement’s conditions and claims need further examination.</description><category>Accessibility</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/467de45cc20f/</guid></item><item><title>Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/dd1029b4b030/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed delegated software actions application.</description><category>Technical research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/dd1029b4b030/</guid></item><item><title>Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/bd03643a4539/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed generated information application.</description><category>AI research</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/bd03643a4539/</guid></item><item><title>Arch-specific SIMD in Go</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/d0b5a21ce836/</link><description>The Go team describes experimental architecture-specific SIMD APIs, including support spanning AMD64, ARM64 and WebAssembly. The article explains vector operations, architectural differences and runtime feature checks, showing why unsupported instructions require a fallback. It also discusses how implementation choices affect compiler optimisation. The useful principle is that performance work needs both a measured workload and a plan for machines that lack a particular capability.</description><category>Software</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/d0b5a21ce836/</guid></item><item><title>How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/3f84c5288010/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed page responsiveness application.</description><category>Innovation</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/3f84c5288010/</guid></item><item><title>Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/138e9b7e7d97/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed release operations application.</description><category>Web platform</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/138e9b7e7d97/</guid></item><item><title>Hybrid DeepXAI Fusion Network for Interpretable Big Data Analytics and Secure Cloud Decision-Making Systems</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/9784aac284dd/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “Hybrid DeepXAI Fusion Network for Interpretable Big Data Analytics and Secure Cloud Decision-Making Systems”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed connected service continuity application.</description><category>Infrastructure</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/9784aac284dd/</guid></item><item><title>CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog</title><link>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/ae4608a27522/</link><description>The 16 October 2026 headline identifies the question raised by “CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog”; a closer examination is needed to establish what capability, method or limitation is actually described before proposing a detailed service security application.</description><category>Security</category><guid>https://pageandprocess.co.uk/original/news/ae4608a27522/</guid></item></channel></rss>