Planet Ingres

 Neon has released Lakebase Search, a suite of Postgres extensions designed to enhance vector and text search capabilities within the Neon database platform.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19081-lakebase-search-hybrid-vector-and-text-search-on-neon-postgres.html

 J-Spring is the Java Spring conference organized by the NLJUG, the Nederlandse Java User Group that brings together top speakers and the Java community to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and drive insightful conversations.

 Floci is a high performance, open source AWS service emulator designed for local development and continuous integration environments.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/19067-floci-a-high-performance-local-aws-emulator-guide.html

 Version 2.0.0 of the C# SDK has been updated to implement the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification revision.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/19065-c-sdk-for-model-context-protocol-version-20-announced.html

 As of July 30, CISA released a set of guidelines available as a single file download. We look into its key points.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/19058-cisas-oss-security-principles-and-practices-.html

 Introducing a comprehensive GitHub repository which hosts 70 cybersecurity projects ranging from foundational to advanced difficulty. 

This is an educational collection which includes practical tools like hash identifiers, metadata scrubbers and Caesar cipher utilities, each accompanied by detailed "learn" modules. These modules explain security theory, system architecture and step-by-step implementation to help students understand real-world applications.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/19050-the-cybersecurity-learning-lab-70-hands-on-practical-projects.html

 Wren AI is an open-source development framework designed to translate complex business data into trustworthy natural language answers.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19042-wren-a-i-the-generative-business-intelligence-engine.html

 Minimus is a specialized platform designed to provide hardened container images and supply chain security for cloud-native environments. Its images are now free.

Minimus' hardening consists of stripping away unnecessary packages and rebuilding from source daily, hence significantly reducing the vulnerability surface compared to standard public images, up to 98% on average. It achieves such magnitudes in reduction through several key structural and operational strategies:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/19040-minimus-releases-hardened-images-for-free-what-does-it-do-differently.html

 Genkit is Google's open-source framework designed for building full-stack, AI-powered and agentic applications.

Genkit is a set of modular building blocks that help you transition from making simple model requests to creating highly autonomous, reliable and production-ready AI systems.
To understand what it offers you must compare it to how one builds AI applications at the moment.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19032-build-flexible-ai-agents-with-the-genkit-framework.html

 We take a look at a series of interviews in which Java Champions share their expert advice on career growth, technical mastery and the future of software engineering.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/19020-asking-a-java-champion-contains-gems-ready-to-be-discovered.html