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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs- England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
- Compression is prediction
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining- Mojo 1.0
- Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
- London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo- Grok Bot
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
- WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
- Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
- The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
- llama.cpp
- Making holograms with a pen plotter
- How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
- The Human Is the Loop
- The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
- Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout
- Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux
Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter- Contiguous US Breaks Its Record For Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says
Linux Desktop Use Surged To 22% On One Workday, Cloudflare Data Shows- Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network
Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time- A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call
- Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations
- Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit
- France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls
- England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C
- Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat
- Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA
- The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting
- Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's
- Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China
GNOME Shell Design Dreams- My Anti AI computer
- Reviewing code is a skill
- Compression is prediction
- Briar is in maintenance mode
- Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
- The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
- Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
- Introducing Automatic Key Verification
- Who's Hiring? - Not-A-Coder Edition - Aug 2026
- C++26: std::indirect
- Chicken Scheme 6.0 released
- Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
- msword: Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64
- There's a dungeon under this blog
- A noob learns FFT
- Mojo 1.0 is here
- RangeFrom, Part 1․․
- Reducing Graphics API Complexity: A Clean Slate Design for Modern GPUs
- Unpacking ionCube
- Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust
- Bevy's Sixth Birthday
- No, local models will not win
- A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
- Performance impact of Alignment
- Samsung is Starting to Catch Up to Apple on Hearing Health
- Sonos Preparing AirPods Max Rival With Voice Assistant Support
- Satechi Launches 240W ChargeView Desktop Charger With Six USB-C Ports
- Apple Extends 2026 Back to School Promotion Until September 24
- Grok Bot Brings Always-On AI Agents to macOS and iOS
- Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
- Apple Can't Delay App Store Fee Fight While Waiting on Supreme Court
- Apple Releases New iOS 27 AirPods Firmware for Public Beta Testers
- Amazon Offers AirPods Max 2 for $100 Off in All Five Colors
- Third macOS Golden Gate Public Beta Now Available
- Third iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Public Betas Now Available
- tvOS 27 and watchOS 27 Third Public Betas Now Available
- Apple Now Stockpiling More Components Amid Rising Prices
- iPhone Users Who Pay for Enough iCloud Storage Get New iOS 27 Perks
- Two New Games Coming to Apple Arcade's Growing Puzzle Catalog
- Apple Accused of 'Fraud' in iCloud Private Relay Class Action Lawsuit
- LG Launches Back to School Sale With Major Discounts on OLED TVs and Monitors
- iPhone 18 Pro Will Reportedly Start With 256GB of Storage
- Apple Pay to Launch in India by October
- Latest iOS 27 Beta References Six Unreleased iPhone Models
Shipping less JavaScript with Baseline
TanStack Table v9 and Next.js 16.3
Node.js 26.7, vlt 1.0, and Shai-Hulud Returns
Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards- Testing ads in ChatGPT
- Daybreak models are now available on AWS
- OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
- Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol
- What building an AI-native finance function taught me
- Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows
- Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands
- Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business
- How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work
- Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work
- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
- How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
- 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
- WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens- Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
- Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
- Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
- TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
- Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text- Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
- datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
- Introducing Muse Glimmer
- Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)
- Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
GitHub Models is now retired- SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
- Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
- Quoting John Gruber
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
- Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
- The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
- datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
- 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
[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace- 🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- [AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
- [AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
- [AINews] AMD buys Taalas
- [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…
Mapping the AI economy- Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
- Everything we launched during Agents Week
- Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
- Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
- Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
- Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
- Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
- 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
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking- From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
- Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
- A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app
- How we took malware advisories beyond npm
- GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate
- Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
Automatically migrate branch protection rules to repository rulesets- Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash
- MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
- Per-model token breakdown in the usage report
- Copilot on web expands conversation controls
- GitHub billing in India now supports automatic recurring payments
- Custom thread subscriptions are being deprecated
- GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
- Vercel Connect adds observability support
- Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
- Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
- Everything hackable will get hacked
- DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
- A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
- LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace
- Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
- Simplified onboarding for deepsec
Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint- Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
- Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
- Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther- Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
- Free domain now included with new Pro subscriptions
- Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox
- 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
Link Discord and WoW to Keep the Guild Chatting Wherever You Are- Discord Update: August 11, 2026 Changelog
- Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026
- General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10
What's new in Sentry Logs: The summer 2026 roundup- 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)