cartero Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · No. 25939
PostgreSQL

Shaun Thomas: Looking Forward to Postgres 19: The New REPACK Command

Postgres has had a thorn in its paw for a very long time regarding table size. Every modified tuple leaves an old version in the heap for use by older transactions. While  locates these old tuples, it only marks them as reusable rather than returning the space to the OS. Tables only ever grow larger in Postgres.Maybe Postgres 19 can fix that for us.Options GaloreHistorically, the only sanctioned solutions to table bloat have been the VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER commands. Sadly, both of these re...

X / Twitter

Launch Day

engineering:Where’s that comment?Hello Tumblr! @jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we’re building: Comments by author!Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we’re working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more i...

Storage Engines

The case for Direct I/O - why it matters for high performance storage

Hello everyone, Recently I published on GitHub HedgeDB, my high-perf and persisted Key-Value store. Internally, it uses Direct I/O (O_DIRECT) almost everywhere. In this article I explain the reasons behind this choice, also motivated from some fun experiments I had with fio that you can find in the article. and some consideration about the Linux page cache. submitted by /u/IlPresidente995 [link] [comments]

NVIDIA

The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions

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. China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next Sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province last October, Dong Hui decided to try holding a…

PostgreSQL

Cornelia Biacsics: Contributions for week 21, 2026

On May 26 2026, the Bratislava PostgreSQL Meetup came together, organized by Pavlo Golub and Meego Smith. Mayur B. and Devrim Gündüz delivered a presentation. About 90 attendees showed up for the NYC Postgres meetup that took place May 27 with Gleb Otochkin speaking. Organizers: Xuan Tang Mason Sharp Mila Zhou Justin Iso Lloyd Massiah On Thursday, 28 May, the PostgreSQL User Group Vienna met for a casual networking event, organized by Cornelia Biacsics. On Friday, 29 May 2026 the Gha...

Defense Tech

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province, Dong Hui decided to see if he could hold a pen to write.  Dong, 39, had sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident six years earlier that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Slowly but determinedly, he wrote…

Algorithms and Data Structures

Best of the Heap: First post of the past​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌​‌‍​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​​​‍‌​​‌​​‍‌‍‌​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‍‌‍​​‌‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍​‍‌‌​​‍‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌​‌‌​‌‍​‌‌‍​‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌‍‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‍‌‍​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌​​‌​‌‍​‌‍​‍​‌‍‌‍​​‌​‌‍​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍​​‌‌​‍​​‍‌​‌​​​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌​​‍‌​​​​‍‌​‌​‌‌‌‍​‌​​​‍‌​​‌​​‍‌‍‌​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‍​‍‌‍‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌‌​​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‍‌‍‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌‍‌‌​‍‌‍‌​​‌‍‌‌‌​‍‌​‌​​‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‍​‍‌‍​‌‍‍‌‌​‌‍‍​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​​‍​‍‌‌

Let's take a moment to shout out all the articles we’re seen posted so far and encourage folks reading to reach out about your own.​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​�...

Storage Engines

Benchmarking SlateDB vs. RocksDB

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Generative AI

Escaping the Linearity Trap: Manifold Detours for Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Singing Audio Deepfake Detection

arXiv:2605.30366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) advances enable highly realistic but potentially malicious AI covers, making singing voice deepfake detection (SVDD) crucial. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL)-based detectors achieve state-of-the-art performance by fine-tuning speech SSL backbones to capture singing-specific spoof artifacts. Existing adversarial attacks often fail against SSL-SVDD, creating a false impression of inherent robustness. We reveal ...

Prompt Engineering

Mental Damage: Caption Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Music Generation

arXiv:2605.30365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented text-to-music (TTM) systems augment underspecified user prompts using captions retrieved from a music caption dataset. This design introduces an integrity dependency on the music knowledge database. We show that an attacker can poison the database by injecting a small number of crafted music captions, causing the system to retrieve malicious captions that bias prompt augmentation and steer generation away from the user's int...