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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
The session you cannot take with you
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
The AI Aesthetic
GCC steering committee announces AI policy
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
The Religion of Speed
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
The lost civic life of movie rental stores
The End of an Era
CodePen 2.0
JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie
Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US
New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption
A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack
Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History
ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship'
Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls
Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot
Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide
GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code
Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims
Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight
How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026
Go 1.27 interactive tour
Stripe Just Wants a Number
A question about a factorial operator
Full flattening of nested data parallelism
The AI Aesthetic
Correlated RNG
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
GCC steering committee announces AI policy
C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
Private data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal
what the double-fork?
Project-Specific clangd Configuration with a Temporary Shell
C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents In The Attic
Derivations to Deployments: Practical Nix in Production - John Murray
What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
std.Io.Writer.Allocating ate all my memory
Logic for Programmers
A universal approach to mocking with continuations
Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
New keyboard: Alicjav2
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Shazam Updated With iMessage Stickers
iPhone 18 Pro Models Could Be Up to $300 More Expensive, Says Analyst
MacBook Ultra's New Design Won't Stay Exclusive for Long
Apple Says App Store Changes and Mobile Gaming Softness Affected Services Revenue
Apple Plans Paid iCloud+ Upgrades for Heavy AI Users
Tim Cook: Apple 'Reluctantly Raised Prices' Due to '100-Year Flood on Memory Pricing'
Tim Cook Thanks Shareholders on His Final Apple Earnings Call
Apple Warns of Growing Supply Constraints for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Apple Reports 3Q 2026 Results: $29.8B Profit on $109.4B Revenue
Fortnite Returns to iPhone in Brazil as Epic Games Store Launches
Senators Demand Apple Commit to Not Buying Chinese Memory Chips
FCC Bans New Foreign-Made Robot Vacuums, Threatening Future Matter and HomeKit Models
Apple Donating to Japan Earthquake Relief Efforts
Spotify Adds Running Mode to iOS App With Tempo-Matched Music
AirTag 2 Available for Record Low Price of $89 for 4-Pack
You Can Listen to Tim Cook's Final Earnings Call as Apple CEO Today
Apple Donating to European Wildfire Relief Efforts
iOS 27 Finally Unlinks Alarm Volume From Your iPhone Ringer
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
iOS 27: Tone Down Liquid Glass Transparency
Anders Hejlsberg demos TypeScript 7's 10x speedup
TanStack's new look, and life without RSC
npm to scan packages for malware at publish time
Cognizant and Anthropic expand their partnership to bring Claude to enterprise clients
Our position on open-weights models
Advancing responsible AI across Europe
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency
Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI
How AI is expanding what people do at work
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
llm 0.32rc2
Quoting Bruce Schneier
llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0
llm 0.32rc1
Quoting D. Richard Hipp
AI Worming through Word
Quoting Matthew Green
Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
Quoting Akshat Bubna
uv 0.12.0
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
sqlite-utils 3.39.1
Ruff v0.16.0
Quoting Boris Cherny
Introducing Claude Opus 5
[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web
[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
An API for MoQ: provision your own isolated relays
Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Post-quantum authentication to origins is now supported
Natural disasters and government interference: examining Q2 2026’s major Internet disruption events
We’re open-sourcing our privacy proxy CLI
BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet
Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast
Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions
The harness is all you need (mostly)
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started
GitHub Models is now retired
Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update
Limit remote control to managed devices
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases
Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available
Default model enablement for Copilot Business and Enterprise
CodeQL 2.26.1 improves analysis accuracy and framework coverage
GitHub Copilot app usage metrics now expand across report rollups
Vercel Passport is now generally available
Server-Timing response headers will pass through to the client
Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen for faster storefronts
Run multiple isolated agents in a single Sandbox
MiniMax H3 now available on AI Gateway
Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway
Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache now support OpenID Connect (OIDC)
AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updates
Deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster
Latest MCP spec now supported in mcp-handler
Introducing Enterprise Flexible Commitment for Vercel Marketplace
Project-scoped Tokens
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 now available on AI Gateway
Edge Config is now Global Config
AI Gateway adds unified fast mode support
Sign in with ChatGPT is now available on Vercel
Additional custom environments can now be purchased
Discover and install eve integrations from the CLI
Vercel Sandbox supports forking
Vercel Connect now supports Custom Environments
Regional inference now available on AI Gateway
eve adds new Slack event hooks and session controls
How Sandstone grew 40x in 147 days on Vercel
DeepsecBench: evaluating model performance in finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities
WebSocket support for OpenAI Responses API live on AI Gateway
Nuxt July 2026 security advisory
Kimi K3 and Kimi K3 Fast with ZDR and US-based providers now on AI Gateway
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Vercel WAF for Blob is now in beta
Introducing Profile Frames: Decorative Borders to Make Your Discord Profile Museum-Worthy
Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
Node.js 24.18.1 (LTS)
Node.js 26.5.1 (Current)
Node.js 22.23.2 (LTS)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Security Releases
Check out the New Node.js API Documentation Preview