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Introduction As everyone, we are evolving and we are including AI into several workflows, so it’s essential having a way to pass data to the AI from various types of files. This is where Microsoft’s MarkItDown comes in as a powerful tool. It’s a lightweight Python utility that converts numerous file formats into Markdown, a format easily consumable by AI models. Whether you want to use it with an AI assistant like Claude through its MCP server, as a CLI tool, with Python code, or run it in a container, MarkItDown offers a lot of flexibility. ...

As you probably know, Apple is running WWDC 25, and yesterday there were a lot of exciting announcements. Among these, aside from the OS updates, Apple announced “container” and containerization support for macOS 26. Here are the key features: Manage OCI images Interact with remote registries Create and populate ext4 file systems Interact with the Netlink socket family Create an optimized Linux kernel for fast boot times Spawn lightweight virtual machines Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines Spawn and interact with containerized processes Use Rosetta 2 for executing x86_64 processes on Apple silicon In fact, the “container” client will be able to spawn a lightweight VM with an optimized Linux kernel and small rootFS, where you can run Linux containers using Rosetta 2 for executing x86 instructions. The interesting part from a security perspective is that every container will run isolated inside its own lightweight VM. ...