Month: May 2025

New WAL Archiving Tool ‘pgrwl’ Delivers Zero Data Loss for PostgreSQL in Containerized Environments

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🚀 About The project serves as a research platform to explore streaming WAL archiving with a target of RPO=0 during recovery. It’s primarily designed for use in containerized environments. The utility replicates all key features of pg_receivewal, including automatic reconnection on connection loss, streaming into partial files, extensive error checking and more. The tool is … Read more

Bitcoin Slips Below $104K, Cryptos Slide as U.S.-China Tariff Tensions Flare Up

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Markets went red on Friday on renewed tariff-related apprehensions. Bitcoin BTC is down 2.1% in the last 24 hours, trading just above $104,000 after briefly hitting a session low of $103,900. The CoinDesk 20 — an index of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, except for stablecoins, memecoins and exchange coins — slumped even … Read more

Bella Protocol Joins Forces with GOAT Network and NuDEX to Launch Joint Trading Campaign

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Earlier this month, Bella Protocol revealed that it had teamed up with several leading crypto entities to devise a dynamic fusion of tech, incentives, and user engagement. Most recently, the pursuit saw the firm joining forces with decentralized exchange NuDEX and Bitcoin layer-2 GOAT Network to launch a multifaceted campaign blending trading, community growth, and … Read more

Deploy Amazon SageMaker Projects with Terraform Cloud

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Amazon SageMaker Projects empower data scientists to self-serve Amazon Web Services (AWS) tooling and infrastructure to organize all entities of the machine learning (ML) lifecycle, and further enable organizations to standardize and constrain the resources available to their data science teams in pre-packaged templates. For AWS customers using Terraform to define and manage their infrastructure-as-code (IaC), … Read more

Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again after pause

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WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction… again. In a blog post titled “Returning to Core” published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project. This is despite having said only last month that the 6.8 WordPress release would be the final major release for all of 2025. “After pausing … Read more

How ZURU improved the accuracy of floor plan generation by 109% using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker

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ZURU Tech is on a mission to change the way we build, from town houses and hospitals to office towers, schools, apartment blocks, and more. Dreamcatcher is a user-friendly platform developed by ZURU that allows users with any level of experience to collaborate in the building design and construction process. With the simple click of … Read more

Going beyond AI assistants: Examples from Amazon.com reinventing industries with generative AI

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Generative AI revolutionizes business operations through various applications, including conversational assistants such as Amazon’s Rufus and Amazon Seller Assistant. Additionally, some of the most impactful generative AI applications operate autonomously behind the scenes, an essential capability that empowers enterprises to transform their operations, data processing, and content creation at scale. These non-conversational implementations, often in … Read more

Taylor Swift now owns all of her music

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Taylor Swift now owns “all of the music I’ve ever made,” she says in a letter posted on her website on Friday. Swift has purchased the masters of her first six albums back from Shamrock Capital, which owned them after entertainment executive Scooter Braun sold them to the company. “All I’ve ever wanted was the … Read more

Architect a mature generative AI foundation on AWS

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Generative AI applications seem simple—invoke a foundation model (FM) with the right context to generate a response. In reality, it’s a much more complex system involving workflows that invoke FMs, tools, and APIs and that use domain-specific data to ground responses with patterns such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and workflows involving agents. Safety controls … Read more

Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site

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A lot of Polygon’s staff was laid off following Vox Media’s sale of the publication to Valnet, but two of its former guides writers are launching their own guides-focused website: Big Friendly Guide, which you can find at bigfriendly.guide. Ryan Gilliam and Jeffrey Parkin founded and are co-owners of the site. Guides make Gilliam “feel … Read more

Mountainhead succeeds at showing you how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

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The degree to which Mountainhead, HBO’s new black dramedy from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, will make you laugh depends almost entirely on how much news you consume about tech billionaires who see themselves as übermensch chosen by fate to shape the arc of history. The more time you’ve spent listening to Silicon Valley types wax … Read more

AVAX Slides 7% Before Establishing Strong Resistance at $22.35 Level

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The cryptocurrency market is experiencing significant downward pressure as global economic uncertainties impact digital assets across the board. Avalanche (AVAX) has been particularly affected, with increased selling occurring at high volume, establishing strong resistance at the $22.35 level. New Jersey’s Bergen County announced on Wednesday that it plans to digitize all property deeds on the … Read more