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Workers AI, AI Search - Workers AI toMarkdown and AI Search now supports GIF and BMP image conversion

Workers AI Markdown conversion (toMarkdown) now supports .gif and .bmp image files, in addition to the JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG formats already supported. GIF and BMP files run through the same image pipeline as other formats. Each image is resized if needed (and for animated GIFs, only the first frame is used), then passed to an object-detection model to identify what it contains. Those detected objects prompt a vision model that writes a natural-language description of the image, which becomes

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Cloudflare One, Cloudflare WAN - IPsec downgrade protection (beta)

Cloudflare IPsec now supports the IKE_SA_INIT_FULL_TRANSCRIPT_AUTH IKEv2 extension to protect against downgrade attacks on IPsec tunnels. IKEv2's original authentication design has each endpoint sign only its own outbound messages, not the full handshake transcript. A quantum-capable on-path attacker can exploit this to bypass post-quantum key exchange by downgrading the connection to classical cryptography. The IKE_SA_INIT_FULL_TRANSCRIPT_AUTH extension addresses this by having both peers sign

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Workers AI - Moondream 3.1 now available on Workers AI

Partnering with Moondream to bring their latest model @cf/moondream/moondream3.1-9B-A2B to Workers AI. Moondream 3.1 is a fast vision language model built on a mixture-of-experts architecture with 9B total parameters and 2B active, delivering frontier-level visual reasoning while retaining fast, cost-efficient inference. Moondream 3.1 is designed for real-world vision tasks, with a 32K token context window for handling complex queries and structured outputs. Key capabilities Query — ask open-end

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Workers - Cloudflare Drop

Cloudflare Drop lets you deploy a static site to Cloudflare without requiring a Cloudflare account to get started. Upload a folder or zip file of static assets (static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts) and get a temporary live preview that stays live for 1 hour. During that window, you can test the site, share the preview URL, or claim the deployment to keep it. When you are ready to make the deployment permanent, click Claim to sign in or create a Cloudflare account. You can claim the

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PostgreSQL News

Barman 3.19.0 and 3.19.1 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Barman 3.19.0 and 3.19.1, which shipped in quick succession on May 20 and May 26, 2026. This announcement covers both releases. Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for remote backups and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers in business-critical environments. It relies on PostgreSQL's point-in-time recovery technology, allowing DBAs to manage a complete catalog of backups and the recovery phase of multiple remote

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pglayers: PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers

🚀 Announcing pglayers Pre‑built PostgreSQL extensions as composable Docker image layers Project: https://github.com/pglayers/pglayers 📌 What It Does pglayers publishes 53 PostgreSQL extensions as minimal Docker images (FROM scratch). Shared libraries Control files SQL scripts Correct filesystem paths You compose them onto the official postgres Docker image using COPY --from: dockerfile FROM postgres:17 COPY --from=ghcr.io/pglayers/pgx-pgvector:17 / / COPY --from=ghcr.io/pglayers/pgx-pos

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PDU: an open source PostgreSQL Data Unloader for full-database offline export and targeted WAL recovery

PDU helps recover offline PostgreSQL databases by reconstructing metadata, exporting tables, and reading WAL for targeted row recovery. When a PostgreSQL instance cannot be started, normal SQL tools are no longer available. PDU, PostgreSQL Data Unloader, is an open source recovery tool for that situation. It reads PostgreSQL data files and WAL archives directly, without modifying the original data directory. PDU can reconstruct database, schema, and table metadata while the database is offline.

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Autobase 2.9.0 released

Autobase 2.9 focuses on the next step in the platform's evolution: simplifying PostgreSQL infrastructure management after deployment. See the full details in the release notes. Highlights Platform users & email/password authentication Added support for platform users and email/password authentication. Each user can now sign in with their own credentials instead of using a shared access token. The Operations log now also records which user performed each change, providing a complete audit trail.

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