Archive of September, 2025

Async IO in Postgres 18

Postgres 18 is coming. Async IO seems big! Postgres 18 is adding asynchronous i/o. This means faster reads for many use cases. This is also part of a bigger series of performance improvements planned for future Postgres, part of which may be multi-threading. Expect to see more on this in coming versions.

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NX get vibe-hacked

Holy moly… et tu, NX? When a programmer runs the hacked version of NX, the malware drops the exploit into their GitHub and runs that code. The malware stole a lot of people’s login keys and, apparently, their crypto wallets. Here’s the novel bit — the malware code doesn’t steal your logins or crypto directly.…

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