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  Two great PostgreSQL conferences, PGConf.dev and Posette, took place during May and June this year. We take a look at the key talks of each of them. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18298-postgresql-conferences-in-2025.html

  The Open Data Institute has launched its European Data and AI Policy Manifesto in order to advise policymakers ahead of the rollout of the EU AI Act.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18288-the-european-data-and-ai-policy-manifesto-for-a-stronger-europe.html

  Memobase is a user profile-based memory system designed to bring long-term user memory to your LLM applications. What does that mean? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18295-memobase-add-memory-to-your-ai-agents.html

  Oracle adds MCP support to two of its flagship tools, SQLcl and  SQL Developer for VS Code, in an attempt to simplify user interaction with the database. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18289-oracle-database-adds-mcp-tooling-support.html

  After a few years we revisit the fun annual JavaScript Golfing competition. So what's new? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/18312-js1024-revisited-in-2025.html

  AWS has turned S3 buckets into Vector stores. This makes it  the first cloud object store with native support to store and query vectors. What are the advantages of that? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18280-amazon-s3-vectors-or-postgresql-is-this-the-end-of-specialized-vector-stores.html

  Cactus is the "Cross-platform framework for deploying LLM/VLM/TTS models locally in your app". What does that mean? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/83-mobilephone/18272-cactus-lets-you-build-llm-powered-applications-on-your-mobile-phone-.html

  Strands is a new Python SDK from Amazon that aims to shorten the time required for developing agentic AI applications. If MCP wasn't enough, now there's Agents everywhere! Agentic AI promises to go beyond simple MCP cases and enable task completions with complex coordinated workflows. As such, SDKs have started to appear to help build such agents. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18265-aws-open-sources-strands-agents-.html

  This is the general availability of the Java's interface to Google's Agent Development Kit, the toolkit for building smart AI agents. Google Agent Development Kit or ADK for short, is a flexible and modular framework for developing and deploying AI agents that promises an easier and more streamlined workflow for developers. While it integrates seamlessly with Google's products and especially Gemini, it's model and deployment agnostic thus it can be integrated to other agentic frameworks as well. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18258-java-agent-development-kit-goes-ga.html

  MCP has changed the way you interact with your tools overnight. Now it targets your documentation. Wouldn't be great to have the latest and updated code samples and documentation of your favorite framework and libraries ready at your fingertips? Plus, be able to talk to it in natural language? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18248-with-mcp-docs-servers-youll-never-run-out-of-fresh-documentation-.html

  After a period of inactivity, the EC Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) has awarded a contract for organizing bug bounties on open source software. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/18239-eu-commission-reactivates-bug-bounties-.html