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PostgreSQL 19 will miss its usual mid-September to mid-October window, likely landing in November, after three major features were reverted between late August and mid-September. The cause: LLMs are…
OccupySaaS is a protest movement in code: laid-off engineers using AI and public documentation to build clean-room, Apache-2.0, drop-in replacements for the SaaS platforms that charge per seat. Two e…
Agents can take on more implementation work and assist with analysis, design, and testing, but engineers must still decide what to build and what evidence justifies accepting it. The author proposes…
For years, TenneT noticed the European grid frequency dipping briefly every 60 seconds. A team led by Dirk Witthaut at Forschungszentrum Jülich traced the regular spikes to large-scale battery storag…
Eurogamer found that AI-generated fan wikis for indie games are spreading false information and outranking legitimate community resources. Tim Bender, CEO of Hooded Horse, says his company plays "wha…
An analysis of roughly 10,000 public comments from local council meetings finds 90.5% oppose data centers, with water use the top concern at 36% — ahead of quality of life and transparency. Surprisin…
A century ago, the average American man weighed about 155 pounds and only 1% of the population was obese; today those figures are roughly 195 pounds and 36%. The rise wasn't gradual: obesity held ste…
After the first BSD release, Bill Joy improved the Pascal system and bundled it with vi, the C shell, and other tools into 2BSD, shipping nearly seventy-five tapes in a year — copying each one and ma…
Trigger.dev has disclosed a security incident in which an attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of organizations. The company says it has blocked the exploit and e…