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PostgreSQL News

pgAdmin 4 v9.18 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 9.18. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 29 bug fixes and new features, including fixes for four security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-86861 through CVE-2026-86864). For more details, please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading open-source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. Notable changes in this release include: Features Collapse and restore the Object

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Vercel Blog

Native Marketplace integrations now support custom environments

You can now connect native Marketplace resources to . Previously, resource connections could only target production, preview, and development environments.custom environments Choose custom environments when connecting a resource from the Vercel dashboard, Vercel CLI, or REST API. Vercel scopes the environment variables created by the connection to the selected environments. For example, from the CLI: Existing deployments do not change. Create a new deployment after connecting a resource or chang

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PlanetScale Blog

Introducing Lead: TIN-compatible full-text search for CI

Yesterday, we announced TIN, a fast, full-featured search index extension for Postgres. We got a question from several readers and customers: how can I build apps on this if I can't run it in CI? Here's our answer: Lead. It's another Postgres full-text search extension, with the same feature set as TIN. All the same SQL statements and all the same TINQL searches will work fine. One big difference: it's slow. What Lead is Lead has the same features as TIN. Search results are correct, even for com

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Vercel Blog

GPT-Live 1 now available on AI Gateway

is now available on AI Gateway. GPT-Live 1 from OpenAI GPT-Live 1 is a full-duplex voice model and can listen and speak at the same time. Many voice models use turn detection to respond. Full duplex removes that boundary, so a user can pause, interrupt, or add detail while GPT-Live is speaking. GPT-Live 1 also supports client delegation. Client delegation lets you choose the background model independently from GPT-Live 1. A basic session runs only the voice model. When deeper work is needed, you

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DEV Community

The system lives in your files, not your prompts

AI Harness Engineering · Essay One · derek wang (derekwang85) Ask a senior engineer where "the system" lives and they'll point at the code, or the org chart. After shipping enough AI-governed projects, I'd point somewhere else: the system lives in the files that fence in what a model is allowed to generate. The longer I watch teams steer language models, the surer I am that the difference between a project that drifts and one that holds a line is decided here, in a file the model reads before i

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DIVING DEEPER INTO POWER BI

Introduction If you’ve ever packed a backpack for a long trip, you know that just throwing everything into one giant pocket makes a total mess. When you urgently need your passport, you have to dig past tangled headphones, loose change, and extra clothes. Power BI is no different. If you dump all your data into one big, messy spreadsheet, your reports will break and run painfully slow. Mastering Power BI is simply the art of packing your data into the right compartments so that finding answers

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