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UC Berkeley and MIT researchers, with Databricks co-founders Matei Zaharia and Ion Stoica, released an open-source engine that serves up to 753-billion-parameter MoE models on a single workstation GPU.

Databricks has acquired Electric, pairing its WASM-based local Postgres, PGlite, with a real-time sync engine to give AI agents fast local data alongside its centralized Lakebase database.

AWS open-sourced Kiro Crew, an agent-orchestration tool already used internally at Amazon by more than 39,000 developers, under an Apache 2.0 license.

A Rustdoc team member traced a Crater-flagged regression to an expensive impl-inlining pass and shipped four PRs averaging a 33% speedup.

CVE-2026-80590, a bug letting unprivileged users trigger a kernel panic via mismarked IPv4/IPv6 fragments, is fixed across eight stable and longterm kernel releases.

A new paper on the mold linker reports it is 2.4-16.1x faster than lld and up to 112x faster than GNU ld, and has been accepted to ASPLOS 2027.

Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund has raised $350,000 and named its inaugural cohort of six paid maintainers, resolving details left open when the fund launched in June.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation gave Kubeflow its top maturity tier, citing 6,600-plus contributors and 260 million PyPI downloads.

TrueFoundry's MIT-licensed TrueForge harness matched Claude Managed Agents on a 14-task enterprise benchmark while costing up to 75% less per run.

PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 landed August 13 alongside 19 Beta 3, patching 28 security flaws and over 110 bugs, with PostgreSQL 14 set to lose support in November.

A crafted marimo notebook could run an attacker's command as a local subprocess the moment it was opened in edit mode, via a fake MCP server entry in its configuration.