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Vercel Blog

Tencent Hy4 now available on AI Gateway

from is now available on , at 50% off through December 31, 2026.Hy4TencentAI Gateway Hy4 supports , , , and image input, and has a 1M-token context window for work across a codebase or many documents.reasoningtool callingstructured outputs Hy4 is the first Hy model with vision. It can pick out fine detail in an image and read complex charts. It also supports computer use in both command-line and graphical interfaces. Compared with , it follows instructions more closely and does better with long

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Cloudflare Changelog

Radar - Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities

Cloudflare Radar now includes Zero Wire ↗︎, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities and threats. Each briefing separates confirmed facts from open questions, lists remediation steps, and shows what Cloudflare observes about the threat. Briefings Briefings are grouped by urgency. Needs attention covers active incidents, new guidance, or unresolved scope that security teams should review now. Reference keeps stable briefings available, even if not every affected system has been

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Cloudflare Changelog

Bots - See which AI assistants act for your users in Account Abuse Protection

Account Abuse Protection now shows when a recognized AI assistant makes a login or sign up request, and which account it was acting for. Population overview: See which AI assistants are active across your users and how many accounts use them. Account activity: Every login and sign up event shows whether an AI assistant made the request, and which one. AI assistant filters: filter accounts by number of AI assistant events or number of AI assistants. Use this to investigate and mitigate a single a

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Cloudflare Changelog

AI Gateway - New AI Gateways require authentication

New AI Gateways now require authentication to prevent unauthorized requests. Once authentication is on, you cannot turn it off through the dashboard or API. When you create a new AI Gateway through the API, authentication is on by default. You can leave out the authentication field or set it to true. If you set it to false, the API returns HTTP 400. When you update an existing gateway, leaving out authentication keeps its current setting. If you try to turn off authentication after it is on, the

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PostgreSQL News

pgbadger v13.3 has been released

Antananarivo, Madagascar - November 03, 2026 pgBadger pgBadger is a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, built for speed with fully detailed reports based on your PostgreSQL log files. pgBadger 13.3 was released today, this is a maintenance release that fixes issues and applied patches reported by users since last release. Add scroll on legend and mouseover graphs when the list of item is > 10. Fix several issues when the --explode option is used. Add filter of remote logs in watch mode on the remot

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PlanetScale Blog

The hidden latency inside your database

Network-attached storage is a fine choice and a bad default. Application performance 101 says you want to move your application as close as possible to your database. The shorter that distance across the network, the faster reads and writes move between them. But did you know there is network latency inside your database cluster? Most commonly, cloud-hosted databases have network-attached storage: a disk on a separate server, connected over the network, with impressively small, but still measur

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Cloudflare Changelog

Agents - Agents SDK now supports Pi 1.5 with fewer storage writes and lower memory use

Agents SDK v0.33.0 upgrades PiHarness to Pi 1.5 ↗︎. The release reduces storage transactions while streaming, improves throughput across many sessions, and reduces memory use when streaming large tool calls. Performance improvements Far fewer storage writes while streaming. Pi stores streamed answers and tool output in batches, within a second of each update, instead of on every update. Over SQLite, this cuts storage transactions by about 27x for long answers and 5.7x for turns with parallel t

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