Durable workflow engine Obelisk argues a SQLite file plus Litestream backup can replace Amazon SQS and RabbitMQ for AI agent workflows and tenant-isolated pipelines. The open-source, pre-release ...

Depending on how intensively you use the messenger, it can take days for a deleted message to disappear. Signal ignored the ...

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as ...

In this digital age, organizing and managing data efficiently is crucial. Whether you are keeping records on people, products, livestock, and/or fields, managing projects, or planning events, having a ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

VectDB is a self-contained, local-first vector database that enables semantic search across your document collections. It combines the reliability of SQLite with the power of modern embedding models, ...

The federal government posts grant opportunities to their grants.gov database. There are over 2,000 posted federal grants and cooperative agreements in the database. You can create an account to set ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...