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Database
#663 — September 2, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Read Your Own Writes Off the Primary: WAIT FOR Measured — Last week, we shared an item explaining what Postgres 19's WAIT FOR is. Now, Radim puts it to the test: naive replica reads were stale 992 times out of 1,000 even o
AI & ML
Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway, in both the standard and contributor pricing tiers.This model improves on prior Muse Spark models at agent work and coding, with a 1M token context window and text, image, and PDF input. On coding it takes fewer turns and writes less filler th
AI & ML
Gemini 3.8 Flash from Google is now available on AI Gateway.The model is 50% off through December 31st. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input, returns text, and supports tool calling and web search. Maximum output is 65,536 tokens.Gemini 3.8 Flash improves on pr
AI & ML
GLM-5.3 is 50% off on AI Gateway through Tuesday, September 8, in partnership with DigitalOcean.How to use the model during the offer periodUsing the promo name (zai/glm-5.3-promo-50) gets the discounted rate. It routes only to DigitalOcean, with no fallback to another provider, and it stops serving
Cloud
Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM) is now generally available, enabling near-zero-downtime repository migrations from GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency (GHEC DR), so you can move… The post Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available
Open Source
You can now set an optional expiration date on an individual user budget, and GitHub removes the budget on that date. This capability is generally available. The user then falls… The post Set an expiration date for individual user budgets appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Open Source
Copilot now tells you when a pull request is ready to approve, and admins can authorize it to sign off on approval. The ability for Copilot to approve is off… The post Copilot code review can now approve pull requests appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
General
The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has changed around us and, in particular, prices have changed considerably. B
Open Source
You can now block or unblock users directly from discussion comments in repositories owned by personal GitHub accounts, extending the in-context blocking controls already available for issue and pull request… The post Block users from discussion comments in personal repositories appeared first on Th
Open Source
Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot. The latest model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks.… The post Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHu
Cloud
Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.
