Late on Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusive cloud-and-revenue-sharing arrangement — the deal that made Azure the de facto home for OpenAI’s models since 2019 and gave Microsoft a percentage of OpenAI’s revenue in return …
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Commentary on this week’s tech news, with original analysis.
pgBackRest is no longer maintained: a calm migration plan for production Postgres operators
The pgBackRest GitHub repository was archived this week — the maintainer announced that the project is no longer being actively developed. For anyone running production PostgreSQL backups via pgBackRest (and that’s a lot of people; it’s been the de facto …
GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing: what changes on your team’s invoice
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing — announced this week on the GitHub blog. The flat $10 / $19 / $39 per-seat pricing isn’t going away entirely, but each tier now comes with a “premium request” budget, and once …
The networking changes coming in macOS 27 — and which workflows might quietly break
Howard Oakley’s eclectic-light blog flagged this week that the upcoming macOS 27 release brings a non-trivial reshuffle of how the OS handles networking — specifically the deprecation of a few long-standing low-level APIs and a tightening of how routing tables, …