Weeknotes 2026.17
Posted on So 26 April 2026 in Blog
This week was a week of a couple of first-timers. On a business trip, the train to Vienna used the Pottendorfer Linie between Wiener Neustadt and Vienna. And on the way back, I used the first time the Westbahn.
Despite that, the business trip was exhausting as usual. It is always a long day traveling in the early morning for a meeting in Vienna.
At least I consider it a successful business trip.
This week I finally moved some Ansible legacy playbooks to roles. It needed quite some refactoring, but at least it was finally done.
Content:
Story of the week
The Highlight of the Week is a wonderful article about how GPS works. It is interactive and a wonderful piece of information.
Postgres and the world of data
Explore Jamaica with PostGIS
There is a nice writeup about finding the population center of Jamaica using Postgres and PostGIS.
Finding the centre of Jamaica.
Lakehouse
Christophe Pettus has written a comparison between two Lakehouse options in Postgres.
Postgres Goes to the Lake, Two Ways
Market shares
According to numbers of Gartner's DBMS Market Share Ranks, there is a shift to cloud-based Vendors. All the big vendors, except Microsoft, lost some market share. But there is a limitation:
Gartner's DBMS Market Share Ranks is a stack ranking of revenue. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and other popular open source systems are not measured in and of themselves – only as part of commercial services.
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping
Postgres Release Monitor
- pg_dbms_job v2.0 released
- credcheck v4.7 has been released
- SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL 2.0 Is Here — Faster, Safer, and More Efficient
- storage_engine 1.0.7 – columnar + row-compressed Table Access Methods for PostgreSQL 16-18
Security and Privacy
Digital sovereignty
The European Commission has announced four companies/providers that should strengthen the cloud independence. At least two of the winners have strong ties to Google.
One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all
Bitwarden
Bitwarde CLI was compromised in a supply chain attack.
Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
Vercel
Vercel announced a breach this week. It was an OAuth supply chain attack. The origin of the compromise was Context.ai and a stolen token of a Vercel employee's Google Workspace account. The token was stored in the Context.ai AWS environment.
- Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data
- The Vercel Breach: OAuth Supply Chain Attack Exposes the Hidden Risk in Platform Environment Variables
Data breach ticker
- Agency for Secure IDs Hacked – Millions of French Affected
- Cosmetics giant Rituals discloses data breach affecting customers
- Medical data of 500,000 Britons put up for sale on Chinese website
- Crypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers
AI
Anthropic - fresh money
This week Google announced that they will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic: Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets.
And Amazon "invested" as well. Or something like that. Because in return of the investment, Anthropic pledged $100 billion in cloud spending: Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return.
Anthropic Mythos
Besides the fresh money, Anthropic model Mythos is still a hot topic:
- Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
- FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 Log Suggests Mythos is a Marketing Trick
- Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
And Firefox announced that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities were fixed in this week's Firefox 150 release.
Around the world
John Ternus will be following Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Apple announced that Tim Cook will become Executive Chairman of Apple and John Ternus will become CEO. John Ternus is a hardware guy, so let's see what new products Apple will launch.