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  • AWS News Blog: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-dsql-is-now-generally-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. It makes it effortless for customers to scale to meet any workload demand with zero infrastructure management and zero downtime maintenance. With its active-active…

  • Scott Logic: Read the books! Should junior developers use LLMs?

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/27/read-the-books-should-junior-developers-use-llms.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Read the books! Should junior developers use LLMs? Feedly Summary: Large Language Models are powerful tools that can greatly enhance software developers’ productivity, but for junior developers starting a career in tech, they may hinder long-term growth by abstracting away essential programming fundamentals. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sean Heelan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/24/sean-heelan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sean Heelan Feedly Summary: The vulnerability [o3] found is CVE-2025-37899 (fix here), a use-after-free in the handler for the SMB ‘logoff’ command. Understanding the vulnerability requires reasoning about concurrent connections to the server, and how they may share various objects in specific circumstances. o3 was able…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…

  • Slashdot: ‘Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C’

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/18/0257255/rust-is-so-good-you-can-get-paid-20k-to-make-it-as-fast-as-c?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Prossimo project aims to enhance Internet security through the development of the rav1d AV1 decoder using Rust, which focuses on memory safety. While the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…