cartero Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · No. 25955
Search Engines

A Task-Centric Perspective on Recommender Systems

Reformulating the recommendation task as a mathematically rigorous mapping function that enforces a global timeline to eliminate data leakage and ensure models only learn from information available before the recommendation point.

Java

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PostgreSQL

Stefan Fercot: Memories from PGConf.dev 2026

Thanks to the organising team, I had the chance to attend PGConf.dev last week in Vancouver, Canada. And luckily, I wasn’t alone there — Valeria could join as well! This year’s edition was particularly special: we celebrated 30 years of open source PostgreSQL together! Many activities revolved around the anniversary, including a special celebration-themed conference t-shirt, stickers, commemorative posters, and more. My personal highlight was definitely Wednesday’s round-table...

Security Engineering

Christophe Pettus: Twenty Years, Three CVEs, One AI

Three heap buffer overflows in PostgreSQL — including a 20-year-old pgcrypto bug — were found by an AI code analyzer. But.

PostgreSQL

Vibhor Kumar: Postgres as an Execution Environment for AI: Failure Modes, Hooks, and the ORBIT Framework

A field report from PGConf Dev 2026 — and a working framework for everyone who has to keep AI workloads running in production. It’s 3:47 AM. The Pager Goes Off. A production AI batch job is stuck. Sixty thousand rows are locked. Your application performance is degrading. The post-mortem the next morning will be filed under “unknown cause.” Here is what actually happened, minute by minute: T+00:00 — The summarization job kicks off. Two hundred workers open transactio...

Query Planning

warda bibi: Automating PostgreSQL Index Tuning Using AI

If you have a slow query, one of the obvious moves is to add an index. So you look at the WHERE clause, pick a column, run CREATE INDEX, and test again. Sometimes it helps, often it doesn’t. And now you have an index sitting there, not helping reads, but slowing down every write, because INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE all have to maintain it. And it gets worse as your system grows.Five queries are manageable. You can reason about column choices, test combinations, and check EXPLAIN output. When...

NVIDIA

The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns

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. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitting a $6 billion valuation. X-energy, which builds small modular nuclear reactors, followed…

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can…

Startups and Venture

Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next?

This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the same in April, and its stocks surged on its first day…

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