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GitLab is currently experiencing an outage, and developers across the platform are feeling it. The status page confirms ongoing issues, though details remain sparse. With so much of the modern software pipeline running through GitLab, even brief disruptions ripple quickly across teams and release cycles.
Shifting to a question that touches nearly everyone right now — a new survey finds that seventy-two percent of respondents describe feeling curious, happy, or excited when they think about artificial intelligence. That's a notably optimistic number, and it cuts against the narrative that public anxiety dominates the conversation. Of course, surveys capture a moment, not a movement, and who gets asked matters enormously.
And on the hardware side, Durabook has unveiled a rugged laptop that's less a portable computer and more a deployable command post. The Z fourteen I DX three packs three fourteen-inch sunlight-readable displays, weighs nearly ten kilograms, and sits over one hundred thirty-seven millimeters thick. It's clearly aimed at drone teams and military command positions rather than anyone carrying it on foot.
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