I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Google quietly updated one of its Google Ads help pages with a clarification that could raise concerns for some advertisers. The updated documentation suggests that search terms shown in reporting for ...

Microsoft has officially retired one of its longest-running server platforms. As of January 13, 2026, support for Windows Server 2008 has finally ended, including Windows Server 2008 R2 for customers ...

As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a daunting and time-consuming task, it doesn’t have to be a particularly ...

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what has been described as the first-ever instance of a malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server spotted in the wild, raising software supply chain risks ...

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

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Abstract: High-performance key-value (KV) storage is critical for the cloud, providing KV services to various cloud applications. A key challenge for KV services is that workloads of cloud ...