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PostgreSQL 19 Slips to Mid-November After AI Code Reviews Found More Bugs Than Developers Could Fix

The open-source database's next major release is late, with up to ten features pulled to version 20, because machine-assisted review caught flaws that used to surface years after launch.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

A terminal screen filled with rows of SQL query output with dates and timestamps, photographed on 24 February 2017, a file photograph illustrative of database work and not of PostgreSQL 19 or its release

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Rocket Lab Pushes Neutron's First Launch Into 2027 After Finding Voids in a Carbon-Fibre Dome

CEO Peter Beck says full-stage testing will run into the first quarter of next year, with no new launch date yet, and the shares fell nearly 10 percent on the news.

Oct 17, 2026/2 min read

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifting off against a blue sky with a plume of exhaust at its base, photographed on 7 May 2023 by NASA and Rocket Lab, a file photograph of the company's smaller Electron and not of the Neutron rocket

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For the First Time, Saudi Team Lynx Takes the Top Spot at the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, an Aramco initiative, announces that, for the first time, the First Place win for the STEM Racing World Finals at Singapore goes to Saudi team Lynx.

Oct 17, 2026/3 min read

Members of Saudi Team Lynx in their green racing suits holding the flag of Saudi Arabia on the stage of the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore, October 2026, a photograph supplied by Ithra

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Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Fell to 3,335 Square Kilometres, the Lowest Level Since Records Began in 1988

Annual clearing dropped nearly 42 percent, but fire counts have tripled since 4 October and a presidential runoff on 25 October could decide whether the gains hold.

Oct 16, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of the edge of the Amazon forest meeting cleared farmland in Rondonia, Brazil, photographed on 7 August 2020, a file photograph illustrative of forest clearing and not of this year's figures

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Google Cuts Quantum 'Magic State' Errors 40-Fold on Its Willow Chip in a Science Paper

Google Quantum AI reports T-states at 99.99 percent logical fidelity using a technique called magic state cultivation, a step toward cheaper error-corrected quantum computers.

Oct 16, 2026/2 min read

A computer-rendered illustration of a wire-bonded superconducting quantum chip with six transmon qubits on a grey carrier, dated 8 September 2025, an illustration of a generic superconducting chip and not of Google's Willow processor

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Some White Dwarfs Would Look Green, Pink or Purple, Warwick Astronomers Calculate

Modelling the light of nearby dead stars suggests one cool white dwarf may be the first genuinely green star and another the reddest known, though no human eye could see either.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the bright star Sirius with its faint white dwarf companion Sirius B, released in 2005, a file image illustrative of a white dwarf and not of either star named in the study

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Oxford Physicists Reproduce the Aharonov-Bohm Effect on a Hybrid Quantum Computer

A trapped-ion machine mixing qubits and quantum oscillators halted a particle's tunnelling by interference alone, a 1959 prediction now seen in a simulated gauge theory.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

The Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford's physics department, photographed on 26 April 2008, a file photograph of the building and not of the experiment

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Japan Will Fund Up to $21 Billion for Two GlobalFoundries Chip Plants in New York

Tokyo supplies the money, GlobalFoundries runs the plants at Malta, New York, and Washington takes a bigger equity stake, with the first fab due to produce chips in 2029.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of GlobalFoundries' Fab 1 chip factory in Dresden, Germany, photographed on 26 July 2011, a file photograph illustrative of a GlobalFoundries fab and not of the Malta, New York site

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Apple's $299 HomeView Smart Display Takes Preorders, but Not in the European Union

Apple's first home hub pairs a seven-inch screen with Siri AI and face recognition for six people, ships on 13 November, and is held back in Europe by a missing assistant.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of the ring-shaped Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California, photographed on 4 May 2019, a file photograph and not of the HomeView product

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Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Widely Available, With a Half-Price Launch Rate Until 30 November

Google's newest frontier model is now open to developers, businesses and paying app users, at an introductory $2 and $10 per million tokens that doubles once the promotion ends.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

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YouTube Music Starts Labelling Songs Made With Generative AI, a Day After Deezer Promised an Off Switch

Listeners on the player page will see when a track leans on generative AI, as streaming services split between disclosure and outright filtering of machine-made music.

Oct 14, 2026/2 min read

The YouTube Music web player showing a track by Kevin MacLeod with an up-next queue, a screenshot dated September 2025 that predates the new AI labels and does not show them