There's a moment in almost every RAG project where someone asks the question that decides your next two years of ops work: "Do we actually need a vector database, or can Postgres just do this?" It's a better question than it sounds, because the honest answer isn't "use Pinecone" or "use Postgres." It's "it depends on numbers you probably haven't measured yet": how many vectors, how aggressively you filter, how much you care about the absolute ceiling of queries per second. Most teams pick bas... Read more ›
Even if Shor's Algorithm is now implementable inside ten years, symmetric keying should still be trustworthy if we fix RSA with PQC methods. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Read more ›
The biggest issue in font design seems to be kerning. I spend about eight times longer messing around with kerning than I do with actually making the design. Kerning is always the first thing that gets criticised; and the inevitability of 'missing one' is a huge frustration. What's the best way to ensure decent kerning? FontLab's automatic kerning of certain pairs (but not all pairs) is 'non-optimal' – but it strikes me that kerning is exactly the sort of thing that computers ought to be doin... Read more ›
Browser tools for serial consoles, BPIO2 GPIO/I2C/SPI control, firmware flashing, programming and logic analysis. Read more ›
From pretraining to RLHF/GRPO — every algorithm hand-written in pure PyTorch. Read more ›
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the All-In-One Unreal and Unity GameDev bundle. It’s a collection of assets redeemed directly on the Fab and Unity Asset Stores. None of these assets have appeared on previous bundles, because the creator Befour Studio has never been on The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
CVE-2026-42530 & CVE-2026-42055: F5 Patches NGINX Vulnerabilities F5 has released out-of-band security updates for two NGINX vulnerabilities that can affect exposed web infrastructure: CVE-2026-42530 and CVE-2026-42055. The first issue affects NGINX’s HTTP/3 QUIC handling. The second affects specific HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying configurations. Both can be triggered remotely and may cause NGINX worker processes to […] Read more ›
The biggest challenge in Agentic AI isn’t intelligence. Read more ›
pgAgent has been my go to scheduling solution for quite some time. Sadly in 6 months it will be completely retired and the pgAgent UI in pgAdmin will be gone. The main reasons I liked pgAgent were: Cross Platform: I have a lot on windows and linux customers, so this was important. Nice UI in pgAdmin, so I could do all work with PostgreSQL and schedule things at the same time as well as check status of jobs. The database backend is PostgreSQL, my favorite database Supports Multiple Agents with... Read more ›
Embed Python in Java. Contribute to ninia/jep development by creating an account on GitHub. Read more ›
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Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation flaw. "Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender Read more ›
Google's latest N4 VM generation for GKE clusters can deliver 30-70% better throughput per core than older N1 or N2 instances while also doubling disk IOPS limits at the same VM size, potentially cutting total cost of ownership by 30-50% when combined with Hyperdisk Storage Pools. Read more ›
Maven Central is introducing publishing usage visibility and limits for high-volume publishing activity. These changes are focused on publishing patterns that operate at commercial or infrastructure scale: unusually large artifacts, high file counts, very high release frequency, or repeated high-volume publishing across an organization's namespaces. Read more ›
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A new Craft cache has been published about a week ago. The update has already been rolled out to KDE's CD and Windows CI with the update to Qt 6.11 beeing the most important change. Changes (highlights) General We added updated our to build the Linux cache from AlmaLinux 8.10 to AlmaLinux 9.8. This implies a newer minimum required GLIBC. We did inital work on MSVC 2026 support, but given that it is not supported by Qt 6.11, we did not complete it yet. Blueprints OpenSSL 3.6.2 Qt 6.11.1 New Qt... Read more ›
I’ve been working on in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to write about! The optimizations that actually made it in require some higher level background / explanations that will have to wait until another day :) Both optimizations discussed here touch upon two new (for me) features of AVX-512 that I haven’t had a chance to experiment with until now, and both apply to the same problem: how to de... Read more ›
Intel and AMD have released the official specification for AI Compute Extensions, or ACE, a standardized instruction set for future x86 processors. Developed through the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, these extensions aim to accelerate matrix multiplication and machine learning workloads directly on the CPU. By establishing a common technical standard, the two rivals intend to prevent market fragmentation and provide a consistent target for software developers. <a href=" Read more ›