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The Polars team ships Polars 2.0: initial out-of-core spill-to-disk support on by default, core engine and optimizer speedups, first-class SQL that leads DuckDB and DataFusion on TPC-H and TPC-DS style benchmarks, a new Map dtype, and stricter dtype handling, plus a detailed benchmark appendix.
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Mistral launches a public API preview of Mistral Large 4 ("le Chonk"), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 49B active parameters, pitched as the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe, with weights due at the end of the month and training funded by its €3B Series D.
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TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26
The TidesDB team announces TideSQL-MySQL v2.0.0, which loads the TidesDB LSM-tree storage engine into stock MySQL 9.7 and 26.7 as a plugin rather than a fork. The post covers per-table options via ENGINE_ATTRIBUTE, compression, value separation for large values, durability modes, TTL, encryption, optimistic MVCC, and sysbench comparisons against InnoDB.
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Evan Czaplicki announces Elm 0.19.3, the second incremental release on the road to an end-to-end Elm experience with Acadia, outlining the rough roadmap for upcoming releases and the compiler infrastructure work aimed at making it correct by construction.
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Introducing Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model
Reflection introduces Beam, its first open-weight model: a sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 501 billion total and 23 billion active parameters, pretrained on 23.8 trillion tokens and trained with large-scale reinforcement learning for coding and agentic work, with Apache 2.0 weights, a technical report, and a model card promised later this month.
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
The Wikimedia Foundation reports that its own investigation found activity by so-called rogue OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms: sandbox test edits and some possibly malicious citation-tool config edits, failed attempts to misuse its Etherpad as a proxy, and millions of automated API and crawl requests, while finding no evidence its systems were compromised.
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Our approach to EU text provenance rules
OpenAI explains how it will meet EU AI Act text provenance rules: watermarking model text with its textGrain technique, giving approved researchers and expert organizations detector access rather than a public tool because of false-positive risk, and keeping image and audio verification publicly available.
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Flirt, a local-first code review tool built for the patch-series workflow where authors keep amending, rebasing, and force-pushing, is now open source on Codeberg. It remembers what you reviewed and shows the diff to the current state, works with GitHub and mailing lists, and is not yet ready for general use.
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eth68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
eth68 is an Ethernet audio interface for Linux: bare-metal STM32H7 firmware that emulates a netJACK1 master endpoint, aiming for low-latency networked audio without a traditional USB audio gadget.
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The MusicBrainz team announces Picard 3.0, a major release of the official MusicBrainz tag editor that moves to Qt6, introduces a completely new plugin system, and improves the user interface, cover art processing, and ISRC submission after 14 pre-releases and 393 resolved tickets.
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FTL: A new operating system for clouds
FTL introduces itself as a new operating system designed for clouds—outlining goals around cloud-native systems software and pointing to the project’s public materials.
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The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Microsoft’s ThinkingBox grades AI agents on backend records they leave behind—not chat claims—running isolated MCP tool sessions and scoring terminal state consistency across repeated trials; now available on Hugging Face.
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Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an English-German open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model (78B total / ~3B active, up to 1M context) under Apache 2.0 for sovereign, self-hosted use.
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Demoting i686 Windows targets to std-only
The Rust compiler team announces that with Rust 1.100.0 the i686-pc-windows-msvc and i686-pc-windows-gnu targets lose host tools: the standard library is still shipped, but 32-bit Windows binaries must be cross-compiled from a supported host such as 64-bit Windows.
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OpenClaw integrates Tencent's AI-Infra-Guard into ClawScan so every skill and plugin uploaded to ClawHub runs through AIG as part of security review, with benchmarks and a feedback loop.
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marimo launches marimohub, a self-hostable open-source platform to store, manage, and run marimo notebooks on your own compute, storage, and SSO—without operating a separate database.
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Introducing wpd: Faster, safer WebP decoding
Halide Compression open-sources wpd, a Rust WebP decoder aiming to be faster and safer than libwebp — with strong multi-thread gains and a feature table targeting libwebp replacement.
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can continue them, while the team focuses on Orion for macOS and iOS.
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Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway
Cloudflare announces OHTTP Gateway, expanding access to its privacy-preserving Oblivious HTTP infrastructure so apps and services can route requests without exposing client IPs to origin servers.
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Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Apple says it will add stronger, more explicit controls around macOS Full Disk Access as capable AI agents make broad access to files, mail, messages, and browsing history riskier for users and contacts.
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