SD Times News Digest: SmartBear BearQ, Chainguard Agent Skills – March 18, 2026
uttu SmartBear releases BearQ agentic QA system SmartBear today announced the release of BearQ, an agentic QA system that…
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Is Your “Human-in-the-Loop” Actually Slowing You Down? Here’s What We Learned
In the rush to adopt AI and automation, many teams implement human-in-the-loop (HITL) frameworks. They believe that involving…
The Invisible Bleed: A Field Guide to Cloud Costs That Hide in Plain Sight
You deploy on Friday. The pipeline goes green. Monday morning, finance forwards you a bill that’s double what…
Top Machine Learning Models Powering AI in 2026
Let be honest with you. A few years ago, most of us thought of AI as something that…
Beyond Chatbots: Supercharging Feather Wand With Claude Code Integration
Performance testing has always been a bit of a “dark art.” It requires a unique blend of coding…
How Deterministic Rules Engines Improve Compliance and Auditability
Learn how deterministic rules, append-only decision records, and change data capture (CDC) in Snowflake help you explain every…
Oracle releases Java26, with new Java Verified Portfolio
At the JavaOne conference today, Oracle made a series of announcements related to a new Java Verified Portfolio…
Building Framework-Agnostic AI Swarms: Compare LangGraph, Strands, and OpenAI Swarm
If you’ve ever run the same app in multiple environments, you know the pain of duplicated configuration. Agent…
Harness Launches Two Major Initiatives to Secure the Future of AI-Powered Software Delivery
The rapid adoption of AI coding assistants has introduced a new and pressing challenge for the software industry:…
Automating IBM MQ Console (MQ Web Server) Startup Post-Server Reboot
In dynamic IT environments, server reboots due to patching, maintenance, or planned outages are a regular occurrence. For…