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PostgreSQL News

Autobase 2.8.0 released

Autobase 2.8 introduces an important milestone for the project: the launch of Autobase Enterprise. From this release, Autobase is available in two editions: Community Edition is the continuation of the existing open-source version. It remains available under the MIT license and is well suited for individual developers and hobby projects. Enterprise Edition is a new commercial edition designed for companies that need a complete internal database platform. It is focused on production environments

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Vercel Blog

Signed URLs are now available for Vercel Blob

You can now generate time-bound signed URLs for . A signed URL is a scoped URL with an expiry that allows you to upload, download, inspect, or delete a specific object without giving access to your entire Blob store.Vercel Blob Each URL is scoped to a single operation (, , , or ), a single pathname, and an expiry you choose, up to 7 days. The signature covers the operation and constraints, so a URL signed for a can't be reused as a .putgetheaddeleteGETPUT Upload URLs () support multipart, so th

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Model Weight Registry: The Name Is Not the Model

Model Weight Registry Disclosure: AI tools were used for source collection and editorial review. The article was written by a human author, who checked the facts, code, and conclusions. Crypto risk disclosure: This article is a technical explanation, not investment advice. It is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any cryptoasset. Model Weight Registry should not treat a model name as a model identity. A name, repository, tag, branch, or user-facing label can point to useful software, b

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Two MCP Servers, One Chat: Reconciling Ad Metrics With Form Outcomes Without a Dashboard

There is a particular kind of work that never lives in one place. You run ads in one screen. You collect form responses in another. To know whether a cheap click actually became a registration, you copy a number out of the ad dashboard, open the form admin, and reconcile it by hand. The two systems do not know about each other, so a human becomes the join layer. For eight days I tested whether that join could move out of my head and into a single conversation. The setup: two MCP servers connecte

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AWS Waddles: What the Duck?

For over a decade, there's been a tiny ASCII duck hiding in plain sight. Open the page source for amazon.com, scroll all the way to the bottom, and there it is, surfing the web and quietly meowing at anyone who looks. <!-- _ .__(.)< (MEOW) \___) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--> A few years ago I stumbled onto this meowing duck, and it turns out the internet had too. MEOW has lived in that source code for years. If you've never seen it, go look now! One day I thought, why not bring t

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