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pgAdmin 4 v9.17 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 9.17. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 28 bug fixes and new features, including fixes for seven security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-17346 through CVE-2026-17351, and CVE-2026-17566). For more details, please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading open-source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. Notable changes in this release include: Features: Include t

DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway

is 90% off on AI Gateway when you route to Novita. The discount is available to Vercel Pro customers through August 11.DeepSeek v4 Flash To get the discounted rate, set the to or and put Novita first with the option:modeldeepseek/deepseek-v4-flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731order If Novita can't serve the request, it falls back to other providers at the standard rate. After August 11, the model stays available at standard rates with no markup. in the AI Gateway section of your dashboard,

This Week in Spring - August 4th, 2026

Vectorize - Vectorize indexes now support up to 20 million vectors

You can now store up to 20 million vectors in a single Vectorize index, doubling the previous limit of 10 million vectors. This enables larger-scale semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications without splitting data across multiple indexes. Vectorize continues to support indexes with up to 1,536 dimensions per vector at 32-bit precision. Refer to the Vectorize limits documentation for complete details.

Semantic memory search for AI agents

Your AI agent handles a long onboarding conversation. The next day, it asks the same user for their name. That's not a bug. A language model keeps no memory of earlier calls, so without an external memory layer, each request starts fresh and the agent...

When does the A2A protocol actually matter?

If you're building multi-agent systems, someone has probably asked whether you're "doing A2A yet," with the implication that you should be. When teams actually reach for it, most can't say why they need A2A over MCP. A more useful question: do your ag...

New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys

Security researchers have discovered three attacks that allow malware on already-compromised Windows devices to abuse Google Password Manager's synced passkeys to take over accounts, bypass user verification, and extract passkey private keys. [...]

Building a company in 2026: What I’m learning along the way

I have spent the last 18 years working in technology, including around six years as a CTO in startups. Architecture, cloud infrastructure, engineering teams, incidents, and delivery deadlines are familiar to me. This is also my second time as a co-founder, but my role is different now. At CatechLabs, I work across product, sales, customer discovery, positioning, partnerships, and strategy. That shift made something clear: knowing how to build software is not the same as knowing how to build a co