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Don't be a meat proxy
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
SwiftUI After 7 Years
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Show HN: ssh ssh.place
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K
The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town
Octane – React's programming model, compiled
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released
Train Simulator Controller
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone
'AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun'
Massive Debian 13 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches 68 Vulnerabilities
Hollywood Fights AI In Public While Quietly Building It Into Movies
Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool
GOG Officially Expands Linux Support With Native Galaxy Client In Development
IT Teams are Spending 11 Hours a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems
New Spinning Drone Hides In Plain Sight
Is There a Way to Promote Open Document Formats Instead of 'MS Office' Format?
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster.
Does Eating Less Protein Produce Healthier Aging and Metabolism?
In a First, 'Super-Earth' Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers' Trust in Workplaces?
As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide 'SCREEN' Act
Don't be a meat proxy
Your JSON Is Lying to You
9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)
Kill the Cookie Banner
Retries don't fix eventual consistency
Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API
I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
Practical Memory Safety
help wanted
Rust Project Goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)
Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
KC3 v0.1.17 released
Where's your website?
Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000)
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in c
The Future Isn’t Evenly Distributed
Going Backward
Anxiety
Modelling Actors with Redex: Part I
bonsai: A library for building dynamic webapps, using Js_of_ocaml
This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026
AirPods With Cameras Could Arrive Sooner Than Expected
Amazon Doubles Down on 2026 MacBook Pro Discounts, Some Prices Now Lower Than July
Apple Acquiring Materials Science Company PlasmaSolve
MacBook Air Experiencing 'Major' Shortage Despite $200 Price Increase
AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2 Discounted in Latest Amazon Deals
6 Things We Already Know About the 2028 iPhone
Apple Watch Series 11 GPS Models Available From $299.99 on Amazon
Top Stories: 'Apple Upgrade' Launches, iOS 26.6 Released, and More
iPad Air Could Finally Be Redesigned Next Year
How Apple Changed Under Tim Cook: 15 Years in Numbers
The MacRumors Show: Revisiting iOS 27 Ahead of iPhone 18 Pro
Set a Custom EQ for Your AirPods in iOS 27
iPhone 18e Rumored to Feature Increased RAM
iPhone Air 2 Expected to Launch Early Next Year With Five New Features
Best Back to School Apple Bargains: MacBook Pro, AirPods, Apple Watch, and AirTag 2
Shazam Updated With iMessage Stickers Inspired by Ariana Grande's New Album
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
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
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Advancing responsible AI across Europe
Building abundant intelligence
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
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
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
condense-json 1.0
Open letters about AI development
July 2026 newsletter
Quoting Greg Brockman
datasette-apps 0.2a0
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
Slack Emoji Maker
datasette-agent 0.4a0
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
[AINews] not much happened today
[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
Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer
Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC
Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScript
Welcome to Agents Week
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
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
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
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
Enterprise teams model policy targeting in public preview
Restricting npm bypass-2FA granular access tokens
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
Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets
DeepSeek V4 Flash now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
Chat SDK now supports reactions and ephemeral messages on Teams
AI Gateway logs now have a dedicated page
Vercel MCP now supports the 2026-07-28 MCP specification
Expanded search for workflow runs in Vercel Observability
10x more capacity for Laguna S 2.1 on AI Gateway
Vercel Passport is now generally available
AI Gateway adds unified fast mode support
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
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
Introducing Profile Frames: Decorative Borders to Make Your Discord Profile Museum-Worthy
Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
Node.js 26.6.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS)
Node.js 24.18.1 (LTS)
Node.js 26.5.1 (Current)
Node.js 22.23.2 (LTS)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Security Releases