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Windows 10 consumer security updates ending on October 13, 2026

Windows 10 security updates stop on October 13

Consumer Windows 10 security updates stop on October 13, 2026. That date ends the first and only year of the consumer Extended Security Updates program. Microsoft's Windows 10 ESU page is explicit

Fri Aug 21 2026 · 5 min read · 3 views

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PostgreSQL 18.6 security and bug-fix release, with 18.5 skipped

PostgreSQL 18.6 is out, and 18.5 never shipped

PostgreSQL 18.6 arrived on August 13, 2026, and there was no 18.5. The 18.5 build was never released, because a regression was discovered after the release was wrapped. The result is a double-sized

Fri Aug 21 2026 · 5 min read · 10 views

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Kubernetes 1.35 upgrade: cgroup v1 nodes fail to start the kubelet

Kubernetes 1.35 will not start your cgroup v1 nodes

If the kubelet fails to start after a Kubernetes 1.35 upgrade, and the node runs cgroup v1, the cause is a changed default. Kubernetes 1.35 sets the kubelet option failCgroupV1 to true. On a cgroup v1

Fri Aug 21 2026 · 6 min read · 21 views

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Amazon Bedrock prompt caching write and read pricing multipliers

Bedrock cache writes ate 85 percent of one AI bill

Prompt caching is sold as a saving. It can also be the single largest line on an inference invoice, and the failure is quiet, because a cache write succeeds whether or not anything ever reads it back.

Fri Aug 21 2026 · 6 min read · 12 views

AI

Claude Opus 5 API request parameters that now return a 400 error

Claude Opus 5 returns 400 on temperature. What to do

Set temperature=0.7 on Claude Opus 5 and the request fails. The API returns a 400 error, not a warning and not a silently ignored parameter. The same happens with topp, topk, and with the manual

Fri Aug 21 2026 · 6 min read · 74 views

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Comparing AI agent frameworks by how often each one broke existing code in 2026

Best AI agent framework 2026? Rank them by churn

Which is the best AI agent framework in 2026? Rank them by churn: pick by how often a framework breaks your code, not by its feature list. Capability is close enough across the main options that

Thu Aug 20 2026 · 6 min read · 6 views

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