TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The Stuff Gadget Awards 2025: our electric cars and bikes of the year
The best EVs, ebikes and escooters of 2025, revealed!
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Branching as the Environment: How Sharing Excess Ships Faster on Neon
“For a small team, branching and scale-to-zero just make our lives markedly easier. We’re able to use real data without risky scripts touching production, and we don’t pay overnight for what we don’t use.” — Ryan McHenry, Head of Technology, Sharing Excess What is Sharing Excess?...
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Compressing nginx logs 170x with column storage
Learn how giving logs a structured format can unlock 170x compression and make large-scale log storage practical.
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The Stuff Gadget Awards 2025: our gaming hardware of the year
Here are the gaming consoles and peripherals that dominated our downtime in 2025
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Zero-config backends on Vercel AI Cloud
The same ease of use you expect from Vercel, now extended to your backends. introduced the AI Cloud Since weat Vercel Ship, teams have been building AI applications that go beyond simple prompt-to-response patterns. These apps orchestrate multi-step workflows, spawn sub-agents, and run processes…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Agent Investigations now in Public Beta
Vercel Agent anomaly alerts can now run AI investigations onto help teams diagnose and resolve incidents faster. AI investigations streamline incident response, improve production stability, and reduce alert fatigue to accelerate your team's shipping velocity. When an anomaly alert detects…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
You can just ship agents
Building agents should feel like shaping an idea rather than fighting a maze of code or infrastructure. And we've seen this story before. A decade ago, the web moved from hand‑rolled routing and homegrown build scripts to opinionated frameworks and a platform that understood what developers were…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Introducing AI agents & services on the Vercel Marketplace
AI Agents & Services The Vercel Marketplace now includes a dedicatedcategory, making it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered automation, observability, and infrastructure directly into their projects. This category introduces native support for agentic integrations with unified…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Python SDK is now available in beta
Vercel Sandbox Blob Runtime Cache API The Vercel Python SDK is now available in beta, bringing first-class Python support for many Vercel features such as,, and the. pip install vercel. To get started, install the vercel package with Vercel Python SDK lets you directly interact with Vercel…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AI agents and services on the Vercel Marketplace
Agents and agentic AI give developers new ways to move faster and build better. They create connected, autonomous systems that continuously improve applications and raise the bar for speed and quality. But typically, integrating AI services means managing separate dashboards, billing systems, and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Introducing Vercel Agent: Your new Vercel teammate
We're launching Vercel Agent, an AI teammate for your development workflow. Vercel Agent uses AI, deep platform expertise, your application code, and telemetry data from across Vercel to help you ship faster with higher quality. Starting today, Vercel Agent is available in Public Beta with two core…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Open source Workflow Development Kit is now in public beta
Workflow Development Kit, a framework for building durable, long-running processes, is now in public beta. Workflow Development Kit brings durability, reliability, and observability to async JavaScript so you can build apps and AI agents that suspend, resume, and maintain state with ease. "use…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Built-in durability: Introducing Workflow Development Kit
Building reliable software shouldn't require mastering distributed systems. Yet for developers building AI agents or data pipelines, making async functions reliable typically requires message queues, retry logic, and persistence layers. Adding that infrastructure often takes longer than writing the…
OpenAI News
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky—a natural language interface for Mac that brings AI directly into your desktop experience. Together, we’re integrating Sky’s deep macOS capabilities into ChatGPT to make AI more intuitive, contextual, and action-oriented.
OpenAI News
Consensus accelerates research with GPT-5 and Responses API
Consensus uses GPT-5 and OpenAI’s Responses API to power a multi-agent research assistant that reads, analyzes, and synthesizes evidence in minutes—helping over 8 million researchers accelerate scientific discovery.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Google Earth AI: Unlocking geospatial insights with foundation models and cross-modal reasoning
Climate & Sustainability
OpenAI News
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT
Company knowledge brings context from your apps into ChatGPT for answers specific to your business, with clear citations, security, privacy, and admin controls. Available now for Business, Enterprise, and Edu users.
OpenAI News
AI in South Korea—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint
OpenAI's Korea Economic Blueprint outlines how South Korea can scale trusted AI through sovereign capabilities and strategic partnerships to drive growth.
Hugging Face Blog
Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
How Netflix optimized its petabyte-scale logging system with ClickHouse
“To make our logging system work, we had to make a lot of choices. The key is how you simplify things in order to do the least amount of work.” Daniel Muino, Software Engineer