Amazon owns the company behind DuckDB, and your Postgres now runs analytics on S3
Amazon's DuckLabs deal puts DuckDB inside Aurora PostgreSQL, so one query can join live tables with Iceberg and Parquet files in S3.…
Issue #261017
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Anthropic built its own Git replacement because agents now merge 30,000 times a day
Anthropic says AI agents pushed its monorepo from about 2,500 to over 30,000 merges a day, so seven engineers spent five months…
Issue #261016
Linus Torvalds let Claude Code rewrite the Linux page cache read path, and a human reviewer caught the race
Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to write a 10-patch fix for a Linux page cache bottleneck that showed up to 23x synthetic…
Issue #261015
Anthropic ran an AI on 15 cheap TV boxes, and the self-replicating worm question got a date
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran a model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and estimates small open models could replicate across IoT…
Issue #261014
Drones hit three Yandex data centers in four days, and AI compute is now a target
Yandex says its Vladimir data center is fully shut down after a drone attack, the third strike on its sites in four…
Issue #261013
Google put a diagnostic chatbot in front of 98 real patients, with a doctor watching every word
Google and Beth Israel Deaconess tested its AMIE diagnostic chatbot on 98 real urgent-care patients, and the doctor's final diagnosis appeared in…
Issue #261012