Tech news, November 8, 2026

LanceDB adds ASOF join support to Apache DataFusion, improving time-series joins while giving back to the open source projects we rely on.

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Updated on November 6th, 2026 We’ve been able to keep DDR5 pricing stable for the last few months by buffering inventory.

A fix has been deployed for Claude Fable 5.1 and we are monitoring for recovery.

The Xen Project has released one or more Xen security advisories (XSAs).

Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.

Back in July with v2.2, we added support for Windows guests.

Cloud Asset Inventory Feature The following resource type is publicly available through the SearchAllResources and SearchAllIamPolicies APIs.

Modern software increasingly interacts with AI models, query languages, and other specialized programming models, forcing you to switch contexts, embed foreign code, or write verb…

Google Summer of Code 2026 @ LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Commits on GitHub | Pullrequests Motivation Clang can warn about lifetime bugs.

Our honeypots use "Cowrie" to collect SSH data.

The Xen Project has released one or more Xen security advisories (XSAs).

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

The update for vim in DSA 6600-1 did not correctly built binary packages for the s390x architecture due to test failures during during build.

Take a deep dive into Python memory management and learn how CPython allocates and frees memory for your objects with arenas, pools, and blocks.

What is pip?

What happens when students can one-shot last year’s homework?

What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt?

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LLMs don’t know how to design software that uses LLMs.

While I'm not shy about my pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian politics, this blog has kept to a more technical lane, veering into policy only out of necessity.