Firecracker

Evidence (3)

• 7The New Stack·7/29/2026product_launch
  Perplexity launches SPACE to power stateful AI agent sandboxes

  Perplexity launched SPACE, the sandbox platform underpinning its Computer agent product, with a focus on managing long-lived agent state rather than reinventing isolation. The system uses Firecracker, Kubernetes, and Btrfs to support pause, resume, snapshot, and fork workflows across millions of sandboxes, while emphasizing performance, portability, and fine-grained security controls.

• 3Hacker News·7/25/2026regulation
  77-year-old man stages solo protest against Flock cameras

  Carl Gunn, a 77-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, staged a solo protest against Flock license-plate cameras by sitting in front of one with a sign reading “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS.” He said he was motivated by privacy concerns and opposition to what he views as mass surveillance, while local police briefly questioned him and bystanders showed support.

• 7InfoQ·6/30/2026product_launch
  AWS launches Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution

  AWS introduced Lambda MicroVMs, a serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation. The service uses snapshots for fast startup and can preserve state for up to eight hours, though early analysis suggests its minimum cost is significantly higher than Fargate spot pricing.