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“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters
Peter Farkas warns of the threat of “open washing”. And he thinks the AI industry could set a damaging precedent for software more broadly.
Harness bought Augment’s coding agents. The best feature hasn’t shipped yet
Harness bought Augment Code’s Cosmos to link AI coding agents to its delivery platform, but the part that learns from failed deployments hasn’t shipped.
Claude can now build your dashboards
Anthropic’s answer to OpenAI’s Data agent shows the query behind each number.
GitHub Copilot is going local — but Microsoft won’t say what gets sent to the cloud
GitHub Copilot will soon route coding tasks between local and cloud models, but Microsoft hasn’t said what context leaves your machine or how to stop it.
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Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime
AI safety is on fire.
You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres
Postgres holds up well until live data keeps growing. See why performance slips at scale, what tuning can still solve, and when TimescaleDB offers a better path.
Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans
In our October 22 webinar, Traversal CTO Raaz Dwivedi explores what it takes to trust AI agents to decide when production incidents need attention.
OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
With contributions from Dan Gomez Blanco (New Relic). If you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack, whether to satisfy compliance, manage costs, or centralize all their observability data in one place. Locking them into your built-in dashboards or limiting exports to certain vendors creates unnecessary friction.
Your AI agent just provisioned a resource. Who owns it?
Stop runaway cloud costs from AI agents. Use queries, policies, and TTLs to enforce human ownership on all provisioned cloud resources.
The audit log says my name: what an agent inherits when you hand it your credentials
Discover what AI agents inherit when borrowing human credentials, from collapsed audit logs to wide production database permissions.
AI data lakes are driving new storage demands
AI data lakes are driving new storage demands. Learn how ultra-high-capacity QLC NAND flash solves critical data center bottlenecks.
The API tax: Why AI agents stall without infrastructure context
An AI agent saw a single EC2 instance and flagged nothing. It couldn’t see the policy it was breaking.
AI changed how you respond to incidents. Your tabletops haven’t caught up
AI changed incident response, but tabletop exercises haven’t caught up. Learn why and how to test AI tooling alongside human responders.
Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign
We redesigned Cloudflare Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to a wider audience — including journalists, less technical researchers, and everyday users. By introducing an interactive map and standardized components, we simplified navigation while preserving technical depth.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs. Opus 5.5: 42% cheaper and perfect on every run
Opus 5.5 failed two of 15 coding runs. It thought until it ran out of tokens.
Building scalable, agent-friendly APIs for AI applications
Apply microservices principles like bulkheads to scale agent-friendly APIs, handle bursty AI traffic, and prevent lost conversation context.
Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption
Valkey-proxy lets companies stuck on Redis migrate without having to rewrite their apps. The code is set to go public this month.
OpenSSH 10.6 deliberately breaks two features in the name of security
OpenSSH 10.6 weakens SSH compression and rejects $ and in command-line usernames to close a plaintext leak and a shell injection risk in automation.
Claude’s cyber safeguards are getting more flexible — but not for everyone
Anthropic expands verified cyber access, but fewer safeguards require deeper review. Offensive tests leave the impact on everyday defensive work unclear.
Decision models are suddenly everywhere. OpenAI’s is now public
Decisions API enters public beta with image inputs as Perplexity, Cloudflare, and Amazon push open-weight alternatives.
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