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The architecture of MCP Apps relies on two key MCP primitives:

Tools with UI metadata: Tools include a _meta.ui.resourceUri field pointing to a UI resource UI Resources: Server-side resources served via the ui:// scheme containing bundled HTML/JavaScript // Tool with UI metadata { name: "visualize_data", description: "Visualize data as an interactive chart", inputSchema: { /* ... */ }, _meta: { ui: { resourceUri: "ui://charts/interactive" } } } The host fetches the resource, renders it in a sandboxed iframe, and enables bidirectional communication via JSON-RPC over postMessage.

LanceDB is designed for fast, scalable, and production-ready vector search. It is built on top of the Lance columnar format. You can store, index, and search over petabytes of multimodal data and vectors with ease. LanceDB is a central location where developers can build, train and analyze their AI workloads.

A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.

This is a Container Storage Interface (CSI) for S3 (or S3 compatible) storage. This can dynamically allocate buckets and mount them via a fuse mount into any container.

GeeseFS allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a file system. GeeseFS is a high-performance, POSIX-ish S3 (Yandex, Amazon) file system written in Go

An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting

Garage implements the Amazon S3 API and thus is already compatible with many applications.

The main goal of Garage is to provide an object storage service that is compatible with the S3 API from Amazon Web Services. We try to adhere as strictly as possible to the semantics of the API as implemented by Amazon and other vendors such as Minio or CEPH.

Useful links:

• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/quick-start/ *
• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manual/configuration/
• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/operations/multi-hdd/
• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/kubernetes/
• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manual/monitoring/

In December 2025, MinIO officially entered “maintenance mode” for its open-source edition, effectively ending active development. Combined with earlier moves like removing the admin UI, discontinuing Docker images, and pushing users toward their $96,000+ AIStor paid product, the writing was on the wall: MinIO’s open-source days were over.

Garage: What I chose. Lightweight, Rust-based, genuinely open source. SeaweedFS: Go-based, active development, designed for large-scale deployments but works at small scale. Ceph RGW: If you’re already running Ceph, the RADOS Gateway provides S3 compatibility.

Object Mount includes its own CSI driver for Kubernetes, allowing you to use AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure storage seamlessly within your Kubernetes clusters.

Object Mount was originally developed to deliver high-throughput, POSIX-compatible filesystem access to object storage for high-performance workloads in the genomics industry. It has since evolved into a full Mountpoint alternative that can mount AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure Blob Storage as a filesystem in virtually any Linux environment.

the Mountpoint CSI driver presents an Amazon S3 bucket as a storage volume accessible by containers in your Kubernetes cluster

In May 2024, at the height of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet had voted to shut Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, weeks after the Israeli parliament passed a law allowing the temporary closure of foreign broadcasters considered to be a “threat to national security”.

In September that year, Israeli forces also stormed Al Jazeera’s offices in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah city, confiscating equipment and documents and closing the network’s office.

In December last year, the Israeli parliament approved an extension of the 2024 law, also called the “Al Jazeera law”, for two more years.

What happened before and at the moment of the shooting? published at 08:14 08:14 As we've posted earlier, our colleagues at BBC Verify have analysed seven videos showing the moments leading up to and around the shooting. The footage shows an agent pushing someone over, with Pretti standing between them and the agent while filming on his phone. The agent pepper sprays Pretti in the face. Pretti raises his hand defensively and turns away, pockets his phone, and starts to help the woman on the floor as the agent continues spraying. Other agents rush over. They drag Pretti away and several agents wrestle him to the floor. Pretti then tries to crawl away - he’s clearly not holding a gun. An agent in a grey jacket is seen reaching for something from Pretti’s waist. Next to him, another agent draws his gun. The agent in the grey jacket turns away from Pretti, holding what appears to be a pistol. Less than a second later, an agent shoots Pretti. Ten shots are heard in total. For context, after the shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave the following description of what happened: "An individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots."

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has defended the carrying of a gun as a "constitutional right", following the Department of Homeland and Security's claim that Alex Pretti was armed when he was shot dead by federal agents yesterday. "Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right," Massie says, criticising an X post from US attorney Bill Essayli, which alludes to Pretti's death. Essayli, in his own post, says there is a "high likelihood" federal officers will "be legally justified" in shooting an armed person who approaches them. Generally, Republicans celebrate the right to possess firearms as enshrined in the US Constitution.

Clawdbot is, at a high level, two things:

An LLM-powered agent that runs on your computer and can use many of the popular models such as Claude, Gemini, etc. A “gateway” that lets you talk to the agent using the messaging app of your choice, including iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp and others.

Which brings me to the most important – and powerful – trait of Clawdbot: because the agent is running on your computer, it has access to a shell and your filesystem. Given the right permissions, Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them, install skills to gain new capabilities, and set up MCP servers to give itself new external integrations.

The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

The AI Gateway is designed for fast, reliable & secure routing to 1600+ language, vision, audio, and image models. It is a lightweight, open-source, and enterprise-ready solution that allows you to integrate with any language model in under 2 minutes.

Blazing fast (<1ms latency) with a tiny footprint (122kb)
Battle tested, with over 10B tokens processed everyday
Enterprise-ready with enhanced security, scale, and custom deployments

What can you do with the AI Gateway?

Integrate with any LLM in under 2 minutes - Quickstart
Prevent downtimes through automatic retries and fallbacks
Scale AI apps with load balancing and conditional routing
Protect your AI deployments with guardrails
Go beyond text with multi-modal capabilities
Explore agentic workflow integrations
Manage MCP servers with enterprise auth & observability using MCP Gateway

Arize Phoenix: Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation Evaluate, experiment, and optimize AI products in real time.

AI & Agent Engineering Platform. One place for development, observability, and evaluation.

Shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took office in February, the DOT suspended the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, which was part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Biden signed into law in 2021.

The Trump administration has pursued a number of policies to boost the sale of gas-powered vehicles and cut EV incentives for automakers and consumers.

imagine that you can ask Leo Tolstoy a question. Or ask for the opinion of a departed loved one. Or create a digital copy of yourself that will continue to manage your projects after your death. Does it sound like science fiction? For the Russian futurologist Alexei Turchin and a small but enthusiastic community of enthusiasts, this is already the current reality, available here and now. Ultra-large language model technologies (LLM) have paved the way for the creation of digital personality replicas - processes known as sideloading (loading a living person) and offloading (resurrection of the deceased).