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Mario Meets Pareto
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Taste Is All That's Left
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
Sao Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
Dress Made of Living Mycelium Can Renew and Repair Itself
Scientists Make First Viruses Designed By AI
Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth
Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns
'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional
Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time
OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach
The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn
FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress
Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See
Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing
Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet
FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot
BMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads
New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet
tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
jujutsu 0.44.0
i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
Taste Is All That's Left
Super Mario Derivations
the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD
python string literals are kinda funny
I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
The following is a valid DOS COM executable
AI-generated vulnerability patches require human review
celld — Durable Objects, self-hosted
cl-forth: Forth 2012 Standard in CL
schrodingers-toctou: The binary you run is not the program you wrote
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Crubit, C++/Rust Bidirectional Interop Tool
Zapscape - Guest to host escape in KVM/x86
Offensive Internet Posture
A Vision for Cargo
Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark
rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Could Sell Out Fast Due to Memory Shortage
Original iPhone Loses Its Last Cellular Network as T-Mobile Kills 2G
Google Maps Can Now Order Your Dinner and Track Your Train Delays
Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition Now Available on Apple Arcade
BMW Owners Angry Over Spider-Man Ads Appearing on Dashboard Screens
OpenAI's ChatGPT Speaker Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300
Free ChatGPT Users Get Unlimited Text Chats and GPT-5.6 Luna
Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 With Security Fixes
Last Day for Up to $350 Amazon Gift Card With Samsung Galaxy Pre-Orders
Apple Raises Trade-In Values for iPhone, Mac, and More
iPhone 18 Pro Launching Next Month With These 12 New Features
Apple Scrambling to Secure Memory Ahead of iPhone 18 Pro Launch
Amazon Takes Up to $190 Off M5 MacBook Air With Best Deals Since Price Hike
Apple Account Card in Wallet Now Available in Four More Countries
AirPods Pro 3 Drop to One of the Best Prices of the Year So Far at $189.99
Apple's Bid to Use Chinese Chipmaker as Leverage Backfires
OpenAI Asks Judge to Dismiss Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit
Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data
Disney+ Could Get a Free Ad-Supported Tier
SpaceX Plans Starlink Mobile Service to Compete With Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
Reimplementing htmx from scratch
Node.js 26.7, vlt 1.0, and Shai-Hulud Returns
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
Apple is getting this wrong
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Advancing responsible AI across Europe
Building abundant intelligence
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
datasette 1.0a38
datasette 0.65.3
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
llm-anthropic 0.26
PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx
llm 0.32
Quoting Steve Yegge
Don't be a meat proxy
Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt
Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
condense-json 1.1
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
[AINews] AMD buys Taalas
[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
[AINews] not much happened today
Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data
The next generation of MCP
From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Give any website a WebMCP interface
Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports
The Agent Access Model
How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
WriteGuard: fine-grained controls for MCP Servers
Catching rogue AI behavior with identity-aware analytics
The Agent Development Lifecycle has arrived on Cloudflare
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Run CI/CD for millions of repos — on your platform, on Cloudflare
How Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI
Introducing: Cloudflare Agents
Your agent can now debug Workers with local tracing
How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero
Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking
GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model
A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app
How we took malware advisories beyond npm
How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Customize code scanning default setup at scale
Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app
Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com
Customize Dependabot pull request branch names
Code coverage automatic enablement in Code Quality settings
CodeQL 2.26.2 adds Swift 6.3.3 and Kotlin 2.4.10 support
Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent
Enterprise team specialization for managed settings
Trigger Copilot automations with comments
Introducing Agent Plugins
Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Marketplace integrations now install provider skills
Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway
Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0
Pause workflows for approval with Chat SDK
Set your own project avatars
New setup page after domain checkout
Export AI Gateway traces with Vercel Drains
Introducing the new v0 API
AI Gateway is now available on AWS Marketplace
Muse Spark 1.2 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel Sandbox now supports 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and 5,000 vCPUs per minute
Search and buy domains in the dashboard
Measure time between steps in Vercel Workflows
Full Sandbox egress firewall now available on Hobby plan
Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts
Next.js 16.3 support on Vercel
Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps with many ISR pages
Give your eve agent a browser
DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway
Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available
How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel
Share Vercel Container Registry repositories across teams
Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets
Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026
General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10
Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve Mobile
How we built an automated debugging workflow at Sentry
Your OTel spans, our errors: A Sentry love story in one trace
Node.js 26.7.0 (Current)
Node.js 26.6.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS)