Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Tools

TIDE 2.0 aims to remove patient identifiers without breaking links between notes

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An October 5 preprint reports lower detection recall on a second institution’s notes. The authors describe the engine as open source, but its companion recognizer has gated access.

• arXiv, TIDE 2.0: an open, model-agnostic engine for keyed de-identification of clinical notes

  arxiv.orgOct 7, 2026, 2:10 PMUTC

Agents

Atlassian announces AMP for shared human-agent work

The company describes agent ownership, scoped access and visible contributions across team tools, but leaves feature-by-feature availability unclear.

• The End of Single-Player AI

  atlassian.comOct 7, 2026, 1:06 PMUTC

Agents

Sourcegraph says Execute can queue batch work while the agent is busy

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The Cloud update also expands Select all to cover matching workspaces that have not loaded on screen.

• Sourcegraph, October 5th updates (changelog)

  sourcegraph.comOct 7, 2026, 1:05 PMUTC

Tools

Snowflake says cross-query learning cut a long-running query to 30 seconds

Optima Planning matches pieces of execution plans, allowing new queries to borrow feedback from earlier work.

• Blog / Core Platform / Snowflake Optima Planning: From Two Hours to 30 Seconds

  snowflake.comOct 7, 2026, 6:04 AMUTC

Infrastructure

PlanetScale adds configurable dedicated read replicas for Postgres

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Cluster size, replica count, storage and supported database parameters can differ from the primary cluster, the company says.

• PlanetScale, Changelog: Postgres dedicated read replicas

  planetscale.comOct 7, 2026, 2:05 AMUTC

Tools

GitHub brings stacked pull requests out of preview

The release preserves review approvals when unchanged stacks are rebased, while stack auto-merge is set for a phased rollout.

• More flexible merging and rebasing

  github.blogOct 7, 2026, 12:06 AMUTC