Well, they aren't really here yet. 🙄 Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2026 www.oracle.com/security-ale...
Just noticed Patch Set Bundle APEX 26.1.2 was released 3 days ago. www.oracle.com/tools/downlo... @OracleAPEX #orclapex
Say goodbye to your solid state drive.😱 OpenAI Codex CLI Bug Silently Writes 640 TB/Year to Your SSD: No Patch www.techtimes.com/articles/318...
OpenAI Codex CLI Bug Silently Writes 640 TB/Year to Your SSD: No Patch
OpenAI Codex CLI bug writes 640 terabytes per year to local SSDs through a TRACE-level SQLite logger that ignores RUST_LOG, silently exhausting drive endurance below 12 months. No patch exists as of J...
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Note for non-UK folks. The UK is extremely hot at the moment, so most people I know are not sleeping well. Expect us to be more miserable than usual. You have been warned. 😀
Man Sweating on a Hot Day
ALT: Man Sweating on a Hot Day
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Join me online at the ODTUG - Oracle ACE Alliance where I'll be presenting a session on public speaking tips. Wednesday, June 24, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT) www.odtug.com/events/odtug... @odtug @oracleace @debralilley @thtechnology
🛠️ Oracle APEX 26.1 Patch Set Bundle 1 is available! Learn More: apex.oracle.com/download Known Issues: www.oracle.com/tools/downlo... #orclAPEX
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AI Vector Search : Generating vectors outside of the database using Ollama and EmbeddingGemma oracle-base.com/blog/2026/06...
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency blog.google/innovation-a...
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.
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Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge developers.googleblog.com/bringing-gem...
Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge- Google Developers Blog
Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 12B model brings agentic, multimodal AI capabilities to everyday laptops with 16GB of RAM, enabling local data processing and visual insight generation. Users can leverage th...
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Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine oracle-base.com/blog/2026/06...
Yep. I switched to DockDuckGo for search too... Google’s AI Search Just Exposed The Whole Sh*tshow www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQyK...
Google’s AI Search Just Exposed The Whole Sh*tshow
YouTube video by House of El - AI
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via @JulianFreyCH If you have any public facing ORDS installations, you need to patch them again. Oracle Critical Security Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement - May 2026 www.oracle.com/security-ale... @OracleREST
No Agile? No DevOps? Without them your AI assisted development will fail! oracle-base.com/blog/2026/05...
Strategic Trendslop is my new favourite phrase. Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return hbr.org/2026/03/rese...
Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return.
Leaders might assume that LLMs are able to offer a kind of unbiased, outside perspective. But new research found that leading LLMs have clear biases when it comes to strategy and consistently recommen...
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Ouch... ☹️ RU 19.31 has been put on hold and will be available soon again mikedietrichde.com/2026/05/13/r...
I've been playing with the "gemma4:e2b" model on my crappy old laptop. It is surprisingly fast with good results. I think this will be my new default small model when playing with local LLMs using Ollama or LM Studio.
The Oracle Database 19c (19.31) patches are now listed on MOS, but the download fails for me when using the MOS website. I am able to download them using AutoUpgrade though. See here. oracle-base.com/articles/mis...
APEX Patch Set Bundle 16 released (APEX 24.2.16). www.oracle.com/tools/downlo... @oracleapex #orclapex
The delayed Linux x86-64 Oracle database patches were scheduled for release today. Looking at the patch notes they have been delayed again, and are now due out on 01-MAY-2026. This is really starting to mess up our patching schedule... 😡
