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Oracle has released MySQL Workbench twenty-six, the latest version of its long-running database management tool. Workbench has been a quiet workhorse for developers and database administrators for years, and this update continues Oracle's commitment to keeping the platform relevant in an increasingly cloud-native landscape.
On the AI creativity front, a developer has been exploring Meta's Muse model as an unexpected tool for web scraping, finding it surprisingly capable at interpreting and extracting structured data from web pages. It's a reminder that large language models often find their most interesting use cases well outside the boundaries their creators originally imagined.
And in a project that blends gaming nostalgia with modern AI, LLMario puts a language model in the driver's seat of a classic side-scrolling platformer. Watching an AI reason its way through jumping and timing challenges raises genuinely interesting questions about how these models handle real-time spatial logic versus the text tasks they were trained on.
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