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Cloudflare Changelog

R2, R2 Data Catalog - R2 Data Catalog adds table maintenance visibility and manual queueing

R2 Data Catalog now provides table-level maintenance visibility and manual compaction queueing in the Cloudflare dashboard. These updates make it easier to understand when maintenance is eligible to run, inspect completed operations, and request maintenance without leaving the table view. To view table maintenance details: In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to R2 Data Catalog. Select a catalog, then select the Explorer tab. The Explorer tab opens by default. Select a table. Select the Maintenance

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Vercel Blog

TypeSafe AI's Jev now available on AI Gateway

is now available on .Jev from TypeSafe AIAI Gateway Jev is a probabilistic decision model for software: state goes in, typed Choice, Score, and Boolean answers come out. Regular language models generate text one token at a time, which the application then parses and validates. Jev evaluates all declared questions in parallel and returns typed answers plus probabilities directly. That removes unnecessary text generation and makes it straightforward to automate clear cases while routing uncertain

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Building Answer Lineage for Enterprise Data Agents

If a data agent returns €18.6M, production observability should tell you exactly how that answer was constructed. Most Text-to-SQL pipelines log prompts, generated SQL, latency, tokens, and execution status. Those signals matter, but when a business user says, “This number is wrong,” they are not enough. The failure may have happened before SQL generation: "Revenue" → wrong metric "Germany" → wrong dimension Customer data → wrong relationship path "Last quarter" → wrong time interpret

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The Verge Tech

Voters mostly don’t like AI and data centers, but neither party seems to have an edge

Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular. Asked if they support or oppose the construction of data centers to power AI tech, 61 percent of the 1,503 likely voters surveyed in early September (ahead of the recent AI safety slowdown discussion) said they were opposed, with only 14 percent saying they strongly support. The split was about even a

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DEV Community

‘Gotten Lazy’: A Week of Users Watching Their AI Do Less

There is a complaint that sounds like nostalgia but usually isn’t: “it used to be better than this.” Last week we listened to paying users ask what their money still buys — a story about price, ads and upsell. This week the sum people are doing is different, and quieter. Not “what does it cost” but “what does it still do.” Across the busiest AI forums, the through-line was a felt sense that the tools they already pay for are being hollowed out from the inside: shorter answers, tighter limits, a

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Expiry Windows: Node.js Email Status, SMS Escalation, and Event Traces

TL;DR: For Node.js event notifications, send transactional email first, poll its delivery status, and use SMS fallback only while the password-reset token remains useful. The deciding constraint is the expiry clock: a late fallback can create noise without helping a locked-out customer. For a customer-support system, this is a reliability problem with a security boundary. The useful outcome is not “an API accepted a request.” It is a reset message that is observable, bounded by its expiry, and s

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Examining the "Boolean-Switch" in Java \_(ツ)_/

While reading through some ai-generated code today, I was caught off guard when I saw a switch statement inside of a boolean. What on earth has ai done now, I wondered. Here is the suspect: public boolean canChangeTo(OrderStatus newStatus) { switch (this) { case PLACED: return newStatus == PROCESSING || newStatus == CANCELLED; case PROCESSING: return newStatus == SHIPPED || newStatus == CANCELLED; case SHIPPED:

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