Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 ships DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(), letting developers rank embeddings by similarity directly in SQL across five distance metrics.
Homebrew 7.0.0 adds a brew vulns scanner and advisory database, swaps Linux Bubblewrap sandboxing for Landlock, and patches a cask sandbox-escape flaw.
Git 2.56.0-rc1 adds new git refs subcommands and, via an amended 2.55 release note, confirms Rust will become a mandatory build dependency in Git 3.0.
DoorDash built a two-phase Claude-based multi-agent system that produced usable pull requests for 45 of 50 stale feature flags, averaging $4.79 and 13.8 minutes each.
StepFun's new Step 5 Preview outscores Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at roughly 42% lower cost per task, with open weights due October 15.
Adobe's Premiere mobile video editor is now available on Android, offering free unlimited 4K exports with no watermarks or Creative Cloud subscription required.
AWS says data held only in Bahrain's me-south-1 region and the UAE's mec1-az2 zone, hit by Iranian strikes in March, cannot be restored.
GNOME 51 launched September 16 with reworked Mutter frame scheduling, a Reduced Motion accessibility toggle, and, per OMG Ubuntu, FIDO2 passkey login support.
Kotlin 2.4.20, released September 7, maps sealed classes to Swift enums, adds new Kotlin/Wasm compilation modes, and ships a first experimental native compiler image.
The Rust Security Response Team disclosed and patched a Miri flaw that stored all environment variables in target/, letting cached CI output expose secrets to pull requests.
Newly unredacted filings in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright suit quote a Microsoft director calling AI scraping practices theft and OpenAI's ChatGPT head calling them an existential threat to publishers.
GitHub says it rewrote the Copilot agent runtime into more than 800,000 lines of Rust using its own Copilot coding agents, at a roughly $120,000 token cost.