Ephemeris.
Agents spread to every surface, video learns to take direction, and half the internet's backbone still trusts a forged route.
The route says it came from you. It didn't.
Forged-origin BGP hijacks strip the attacker's own network out of the path and impersonate someone legitimate. Cloudflare makes the case for "First AS" enforcement — a router check that the leftmost hop in an announcement matches the peer that actually sent it, and a treat-as-withdraw when it doesn't. Their measurements found 7 of 14 Tier-1 backbones enforce it by default; the other 7 will still carry a forged path.
Months of systems work, done in weeks.
Wasmer pointed Codex with GPT-5.5 at a hard, low-level target — a Node.js runtime for the edge — and kept the loop tight. The build that usually eats a quarter of specialist time landed in weeks. The lesson is the shape of it: a small team, an agent aimed at a real systems problem, and verification close to the work.
- Built
- Node.js edge runtime
- With
- Codex · GPT-5.5
- Shipped
- Weeks, not months
One agent, five surfaces.
Google rebuilt Antigravity from an IDE into a platform: a desktop app, the agy CLI, an SDK you can host on your own infrastructure, and Managed Agents you spin up with one Gemini API call into an isolated Linux box. Gemini CLI and Code Assist are folding into it. The desktop app runs up to five agents in parallel across different parts of a codebase.
Now the video takes direction.
Gemini Omni Flash folds text, image, audio and video into one model and reasons across them instead of stitching clips together. Once a shot exists, you direct it in conversation and it holds character identity across edits. It launched May 19 across the Gemini app, Flow and YouTube Shorts, every frame carrying a SynthID watermark.
Pick by the workload, not the logo.
PostHog's Mathew Pregasen lays out a comparison worth bookmarking. Postgres is a row-based, client-server OLTP database built for transactions and concurrent writers; DuckDB is an embedded, vectorized OLAP engine built for analytical scans. Past ~100M rows, Postgres strains on aggregations where DuckDB — batching thousands of values at a time — accelerates. They solve different problems, and the value here is drawing that line cleanly.
Postgres
- Model
- Row-based · client-server · OLTP
- Best at
- Single-row lookups, concurrent writers
- Past 100M rows
- Strains on big aggregations
- Reach for it
- Transactions, shared source of truth
DuckDB
- Model
- Columnar · embedded · OLAP
- Best at
- Aggregations over millions of rows
- Past 100M rows
- Vectorized scans accelerate
- Reach for it
- Zero-setup analytics, Parquet in place
That's today.
Five picks on a dense morning: a backbone-routing fix, an agent-built edge runtime, a dev platform that spreads across surfaces, conversational video, and a clean read on when to choose DuckDB over Postgres.