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OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll to advise on responsible AI for national security modernization, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies.
is now available on AI Gateway. This model combines native visual understanding with coding and multi-step tool use for agents working across complex codebases and full-project builds.LongCat 2.5 from Meituan improvements in visual programming, creative design, and 3D tasks, alongside longer agent workflows that carry engineering work from planning through execution. The model supports text and image inputs with a 1M-token context window for code, documents, and extended task histories.Meituan
Vercel now checks for blocked npm packages before and during dependency installation in , helping prevent malicious install scripts from running.builds The checks use a blocklist of specific package versions selected for blocking because of malware or security vulnerabilities, with new rules typically reaching new builds within minutes. Existing checks of installed dependencies and function outputs continue before deployment. These protections apply automatically to new builds on all plans, with
The PostgreSQL ODBC project has released version 18.00.0006 to fix multiple security issues see the Changelog for details
Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 1 Nov 2026 HypoPG 1.4.5 I'm pleased to announce the release of the version 1.4.5 of HypoPG, an extension adding support for Hypothetical Indexes, compatible with PostgreSQL 9.2 and above. Changelog Bug fixes: Fix long standing thinko in hypo_estimate_index (Julien Rouhaud) Fix relid handling in hypothetical indexes, that could lead to a crash (Julien Rouhaud) Links & Credits Thank to the users who reported bugs, they are all cited in the CHANGELOG file. HypoPG is an open
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