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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide), this version introduces three major features: database migrations, nested transactions (via a new db.atomic() method), and support for compound foreign keys. Database schema migrations using sqlite-utils Schema migrations define a sequence of changes to be made to a…

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Coordinated npm and PyPI Campaign Typosquats Popular Secure Payment Apps

Coordinated npm and PyPI Campaign Typosquats Popular Secure Payment Apps

Socket’s AI scanner detected a cluster of npm and PyPI malware published on July 7, 2026. The 17 packages, published nearly simultaneously, target SDK developers and users of the popular PaySafe, Skrill and Neteller payment applications. Ultimately, the packages perform credential and token theft, exfiltrating stolen data to AWS infrastructure. Affected Packages # At the time of publication, the following packages were affected. Each npm package published four malicious versions (1.0.0 through…

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github-code Web Component

github-code Web Component

Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt: let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub <github-code href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/blob/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py#L9-L18"></github-code> It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py, then uses fetch()…

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Livewire 4’s Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead

Livewire 4’s Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead

Caleb Porzio shipped Livewire v4 in January 2026, and it’s not a minor bump. The release introduces islands architecture, single-file components as the default format, scoped styles, built-in drag-and-drop sorting, and a suite of optimistic UI directives that make your interfaces feel instant. If you’ve been building with Livewire v3, the upgrade path is smooth […] The post Livewire 4’s Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1, and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10. Across benchmarks, inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year, with a median decline near 50x. Even frontier models are getting dramatically cheaper each generation, with open-source models following closely behind. And…

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tencent/Hy3

tencent/Hy3

tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April, we gathered feedback from 50+ products and scaled up post-training with higher quality data. Today, we introduce Hy3, which outperforms similar-size models and rivals flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters. It also shows…

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