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How AI-Powered College Quiz Tools Are Changing the Way Students Choose Their Path

How AI-Powered College Quiz Tools Are Changing the Way Students Choose Their Path

Aug 7, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Choosing a college major or a career direction used to feel like guesswork for most students. You would talk to a school counselor for fifteen minutes, take a personality test from a textbook, or simply pick whatever your parents or friends suggested. Today, that process looks very different. Many students now start their search with a college quiz match, an online tool that asks a series of questions about interests, strengths, and goals, then suggests majors, career paths, or even specific schools that fit the answers.
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cloudzero

AI isn't a black box. It's Pandora's Box.

Aug 6, 2026 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
When CFOs talk about AI budgets, they tend to describe it the same way: it’s a black box, offering little or no transparency. The bill arrives at the end of the month, it’s bigger than last month, and nobody can really explain why. Meanwhile, engineering keeps asking to raise the token budget. I think that framing undersells what’s actually happening out there. If the black box is the bill, the Pandora’s box is what you opened when you brought AI into the company.
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Upgrade headaches? Extended Agent Support gives you breathing room #sysadmin #security #devops

Aug 6, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
The RHEL 7 agent deadline is here. Are you covered? Puppet Agent support for RHEL 7 is expiring soon—here is how to keep your systems secure. With RHEL 7 EOL approaching in August 2026, upgrading business-critical systems can be a massive headache. This overview explains how Puppet Extended Agent Support provides continued coverage for your legacy environments. Subscribe for more infrastructure management tips and leave a comment if you are planning a migration.
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ivanti

How to Build and Scale Unified Asset Intelligence for AI Success

Aug 6, 2026 By Cristiane Villar In Ivanti
Every IT leader has felt this tension: your organization has invested in AI, automation and digital operations, and yet outcomes still fall short of expectations. Even with the right tools and intent, you won’t be able to fully realize the value of your AI investments if they’re built on an unsteady foundation.
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selector

An Agent Is Only as Good as the Baseline It Reasons Against

Aug 6, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Every vendor in networking has an agent story right now. The useful question for an operations leader is which of those agents can plan, act, and verify against a trustworthy model of the network, and which are assistants that retrieve and suggest, then leave the decision to a person. The direction of travel is settled.
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gitkraken

Open Models Are Closing the Gap

Aug 6, 2026 By Chris Griffing In GitKraken
The frontier models have led the pack for a while now. It seems like the big players of Anthropic and OpenAI keep leapfrogging each other by a couple points in benchmark scores every other month. But, a trend we are starting to see is that open weight models are improving by leaps and bounds. They don’t hold the lead and probably won’t for a while, but the fact that open models are scaring the leaders is something to think about.
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Open Source AI Agent for SRE: Why AURA Is Free

Aug 6, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
The most common question since we started 31 Days of AURA: how do you plan to make money? The short answer is the control plane, not the agent. Mezmo sells an enterprise-grade control plane for running large numbers of agents across large environments, where coordinating across environments, governance, access control, and the efficiency of preprocessing MCP data start to matter. If a hundred people run AURA and three or four of them need that, the model works. The more people running AI agents in production, the bigger the market for the tooling underneath them.
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