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The Data Act turns one on September 12. Check your contracts first.
September 12 marks a year of regulated cloud switching. A pre-anniversary note on what to audit before the think pieces arrive.
#regulation#eu-data-act#cloud
Releases · Aug 13
Postgres 19 Beta 3 ships alongside 28 security fixes for the stable line
Third beta on August 13, 28 vulnerabilities patched across the stable branches, and Postgres 14 gets an end-of-life date. GA is weeks out.
This week's dispatches
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In praise of beta season
An editorial on why a database beta deserves more of your attention than most general-availability launches.
#releases#databases#editorial
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Moonshot published Kimi K3 open weights. The license carries the model's own name.
2.8 trillion total parameters, 104 billion active per token, a million-token context window, and terms written by the lab. The license is the story.
#open-weights#licensing#models
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GitHub started grading its own homework in public
The June availability report keeps the transparency section, admits a month-long deliberate pause, and reports a missed 50% target with no new date attached. More of this, everywhere.
#github#availability#transparency
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What the desk read this week
The first of an occasional micro-column, three links and the reason each earned its place.
#editorial#reading