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Introduction When people first start reading PostgreSQL execution plans, they quickly learn a few common scan types: Seq Scan, Index Scan, Index Only Scan. But eventually another one appears that is less obvious: Bitmap Heap Scan, which is almost always accompanied by Bitmap Index Scan. At first glance, it sounds like two scans on the same table – a very inefficient choice?! But bitmap scans are actually one of the planner’s most practical tools for balancing random I/O vs sequential a...

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Christophe Pettus: Notice of Obsolescence

Yesterday David Steele announced that he is stepping away from pgBackRest. After thirteen years, the most widely-deployed dedicated backup tool in the PostgreSQL ecosystem is no longer maintained. The current release, v2.58.0, is the last release. Steele asks that any forks pick a new name, which…

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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes. But…

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Authors: Richard Huang | Machine Learning Engineer II; Yu Liu | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Ziwei Guo | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Andy Mao | Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Supeng Ge | Sr. Staff Machine Learning EngineerIntroductionAt Pinterest, conversion ads are crucial for matching users with products they are likely to purchase, boosting value for both users and advertisers¹. While conversion actions like checkout or add-to-cart are highly valuable, they are also technica...

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Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026)

Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and a powerful reminder of something […]

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Lætitia AVROT: pgBackRest is dead. Now what?

I have been recommending pgBackRest as the best backup tool for PostgreSQL for years. I even wrote a blog post about it. My students at Université Lyon I were able to backup, restore, and perform PITR in four hours with zero prior knowledge of the tool. That is how good it was. I say “was” because David Steele, the sole maintainer of pgBackRest, has announced on the project’s GitHub page that he is stopping all work on the project.

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The Head of Product, Customer Service, and the CTO of Slack were sitting in the front row at an important conference. This was peak Slack; we were all the buzz, the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history. The conference speakers were singing out praises, and at that precise moment, Slack was down. Again. I wish… more

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Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

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Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI at scale requires something far less glamorous but far more consequential: data…

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Christophe Pettus: Online Checksums Are Not Instant

For about fifteen years the answer to “can I turn on data checksums without an initdb?” has been “not really.” pg_checksums showed up in PostgreSQL 12 and made the job survivable, but you still had to shut the cluster down. For anyone running 24×7 production, that has left…

Christophe Pettus: Retail DDL Arrives, One Function at a Time

For thirty years, the answer to “how do I get the DDL for this object?” in PostgreSQL has been: shell out to pg_dump -s and grep. Every tool that has ever needed to reconstruct an object definition — migration tools, schema diff utilities, \d replacements, every ORM that has tried to …

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

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The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts…

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