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Etleap Launches Iceberg Pipeline Platform to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Apache Iceberg
Etleap has recently launched the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new managed data pipeline layer designed to let enterprises adopt Apache Iceberg without building or maintaining a complex custom stack.
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Dev Proxy v2.1 Introduces Configuration Hot Reload and Stdio Traffic Proxying
The Dev Proxy team has released Dev Proxy version 2.1, introducing new features aimed at improving developer productivity and simplifying local testing workflows. This release focuses on faster iteration, better support for modern development tools, and several refinements across the proxy and its related tooling.
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MongoDB Introduces Embedding and Reranking API on Atlas
MongoDB has recently announced the public preview of its Embedding and Reranking API on MongoDB Atlas. The new API gives developers direct access to Voyage AI’s search models within the managed cloud database, enabling them to create features such as semantic search and AI-powered assistants within a single integrated environment, with consolidated monitoring and billing.
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Airbnb Expands Global Checkout with “Pay as a Local,” Scaling to 220 Markets in 14 Months
Airbnb expands its global checkout with the “Pay as a Local” initiative, supporting over 20 locally preferred payment methods across 220 markets. The company replatformed its payments system with domain-oriented services, reusable flow archetypes, and a centralized configuration, enhancing integration speed, reliability, testing, and observability for diverse payment methods worldwide.
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MyTerms: a New IEEE Standard Enabling Online Privacy and Aiming to Replace Cookies
Nicknamed MyTerms, the new 7012-2025 IEEE standard defines mechanisms for exchanging personal information between individuals and online service providers, and specifies how individuals can enforce their privacy requirements during transactions.
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Daggr Introduced as an Open-Source Python Library for Inspectable AI Workflows
The Gradio team has released Daggr, a new open-source Python library designed to simplify the construction and debugging of multi-step AI workflows. Daggr allows developers to define workflows programmatically in Python while automatically generating a visual canvas that exposes intermediate states, inputs, and outputs for each step in the pipeline.
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Open Responses Specification Enables Unified Agentic LLM Workflows
OpenAI's Open Responses standardizes agentic AI workflows, tackling API fragmentation and enabling seamless transitions between proprietary and open-source models. Supported by partners like Hugging Face and Vercel, this specification enhances reasoning visibility and tool execution, streamlining complex workflows and boosting productivity for developers. Empower your AI integration today!
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Cloudflare's Matrix Homeserver Demo Sparks Debate over AI-Generated Code Claims
A Cloudflare blog post claiming a "production-grade" Matrix homeserver on Workers didn't survive community scrutiny. Missing federation, incomplete encryption, and TODO comments in authentication logic pointed to unreviewed AI output. Matrix's Matthew Hodgson welcomed the effort but noted the implementation "doesn't yet constitute a functional Matrix server."
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for January 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: an update on milestone and GA release schedule for Jakarta EE 12; the January 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of Quarkus; maintenance releases of Spring Shell, Apache Tomcat and Gradle; and the first and second beta releases of JHipster 9.0.
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Chainguard Finds 98% of Container CVEs Lurking outside the Top 20 Images
The latest State of Trusted Open Source report from Chainguard gives details on current industry thinking about vulnerabilities in container images and the long tail of open-source dependencies. The report offers a data-driven view of production environments based on more than 1,800 container image projects and 10,100 vulnerability instances observed between September and November 2025.
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OpenAI Launches Prism, a Free LaTeX-Native Workspace with Integrated GPT-5.2
OpenAI has released Prism, a free, cloud-based LaTeX workspace designed for academic writing and collaboration, with GPT-5.2 integrated directly into the authoring environment. The platform combines document editing, compilation, citation management, and AI-assisted revision in a single web-based workspace, aimed at researchers producing long-form scientific documents.
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OpenEverest: Open Source Platform for Database Automation
Percona recently announced OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management that supports multiple database technologies. Launched initially as Percona Everest, OpenEverest can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud, or on-premises.
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Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB
Google Cloud has launched managed connection pooling for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, boosting client connections by 3x and transactional throughput by up to 5x. This feature simplifies database management by automating connection management and reducing latency.
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NVIDIA Dynamo Planner Brings SLO-Driven Automation to Multi-Node LLM Inference
Microsoft and NVIDIA have released Part 2 of their collaboration on running NVIDIA Dynamo for large language model inference on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The first announcement aimed for a raw throughput of 1.2 million tokens per second on distributed GPU systems.
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Microsoft Ships OData .NET (ODL) 9.0.0 Preview 3: Safety, Modern APIs, and Spec Compliance
Microsoft released OData .NET (ODL) 9.0.0 Preview 3, the latest preview iteration of the OData .NET client and core libraries, continuing the modernisation effort of the library. This preview focuses on safer default behaviours, runtime API cleanup, and closer conformance with the OData specification as the team works toward a stable 9.x release.