⚡ Blazing-Fast Aggregations Land in PostgreSQL 19
A substantial leap forward for PostgreSQL’s query planner, closing the gap with specialized analytical engines while keeping the developer experience simple.
PostgreSQL 19 introduces a powerful optimization that lets the query planner choose an ‘aggregate-first, join-later’ strategy, dramatically accelerating aggregation workloads with no code changes required. Benchmarks show more than 5× performance improvements on common multi-table joins, especially for large datasets with repeated lookup values. A few advanced constructs, such as GROUP BY CUBE, remain outside the scope of the new optimization.
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🖼️ FLUX.2: Next-Generation Frontier Visual Intelligence
A major milestone for open, multimodal visual AI—positioning FLUX.2 as a compelling alternative to closed platforms like Midjourney or OpenAI’s advanced image models.
Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX.2, an open-core visual intelligence model built for professional creative pipelines. It delivers higher image fidelity, stronger prompt alignment, improved typography rendering, and supports multi-reference inputs at up to 4-megapixel resolution. Powered by a new latent-flow architecture and integrated with Mistral-3, FLUX.2 unifies generative and editing capabilities in one system. Open-weight releases foster experimentation, while enterprise APIs target production-grade deployment.
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🌆 Jakarta Becomes the World’s Largest City
Jakarta’s rise reflects the shifting center of global urbanization and raises crucial questions about sustainability, housing, and infrastructure resilience in megacities of the Global South.
According to Axios, Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo to become the most populous city on Earth. The report highlights this milestone as a symbol of Southeast Asia’s rapid urban expansion and demographic transformation. A photo from the city’s 2025 New Year celebration captures its growing global prominence.
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🔬 Ilya Sutskever: From the Era of Scaling to the Era of Research
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🐍 Python Isn’t the Best Language for Data Science
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