Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 577 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted permission to intervene for the second time at the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case where Apple is challenging the European Commission's decisio…
`setTimeout(fn, 0)` does not execute code instantly but instead defers it to the Macrotask queue, allowing all Microtasks and pending browser renders to complete first. It argues that relying on this technique to fix rac…
Free, four-node n8n workflow that automatically saves incoming webhook data from services like Stripe, GitHub, and Typeform into a PostgreSQL database. The workflow uses a persistent HTTP endpoint to receive POST request…
Experienced engineers are quietly shifting from cloud-based AI inference to on-device processing due to two specific, practical pain points: complex regulatory compliance (such as GDPR and PIPL) and unpredictable latency…
HIVE, a decentralized peer-to-peer knowledge base designed as a "Wikipedia for machines" that provides cryptographically verifiable content for LLMs using the Holepunch stack. It uses a two-tier architecture of "BEE" pro…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool stack, which integrates 13 specialized servers offering approximately 180 tools for an AI-native development workflow. These servers cover a wide range of functions including web intelli…
Free n8n workflow that automates the creation of a daily business report. The workflow reads sales data from a Google Sheet, calculates key metrics like revenue and order count, and sends a formatted HTML email and optio…
Squn**, a lightweight, type-safe SQL query library built specifically for Bun that avoids ORMs, code generation, or schema files. It uses tagged template literals to ensure all interpolated values become bound parameters…
DynamoDB Contributor Insights pricing consists of a fixed rule fee of $0.50 per rule per month (with one table auto-creating four rules, resulting in a $2.00 monthly minimum) and a variable event fee of $0.03 per million…
The Gulf's artificial intelligence ambitions are threatened by a strategic vulnerability: a heavy reliance on a small number of undersea cables that run through politically volatile waterways like the Strait of Hormuz an…
Prisma Guard is a tool that automatically generates Zod validation schemas from Prisma models, eliminating the need for manual input sanitization. It offers two modes: a runtime extension that silently strips unknown fie…
A digital platform initially excluded users in Kenya and Ethiopia by relying on traditional payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, which did not support the widely used mobile payment system M-Pesa. After a failed atte…
On May 20, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a formal investigation into Meta's AI glasses over concerns about the device's "always enabled" recording mode, which continuously processes video for AI produc…
DevOps engineer's experience inheriting a 47,000-line Terraform codebase with a single state file, no modules, and poorly named variables. The author explains how they refactored the infrastructure by splitting the monol…
At the HumanX conference, MinIO co-founders Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy discussed how their platform eliminates storage bottlenecks that cause GPU underutilization. They highlighted a new partnership with NVID…
The article compares Vector RAG and Graph RAG, two retrieval-augmented generation patterns that help large language models use external knowledge. Vector RAG retrieves relevant context by finding semantically similar tex…
According to a 2026 State of Web Dev AI survey, the proportion of code generated by AI tools has nearly doubled from 28% in 2025 to 54% in 2026, with developers using AI "constantly" rising from 11% to 21%. While develop…
French companies adopting AI chatbots, particularly for customer support, must navigate strict GDPR compliance, as integrating chatbots with live customer data reclassifies them from simple tools to data processors, trig…
In 2026, AI agents are performing real-world transactions like booking flights and mutating databases, but standard database transactions fail when dealing with asynchronous LLM API calls. To maintain data consistency, t…
Enterprise AI agents pose significant risks—such as regulatory violations, chained vulnerabilities, and untraceable actions—because they operate faster than humans can review. To mitigate these risks without slowing down…