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Gemini 3.7 Flash
DeepSeek Harness developer preview- Spaghettifying DRAM
- Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
- GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
- Choose Boring Technology (2015)
- Mistral OCR 4.1
- Understanding is the new bottleneck
- Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
- Ordinary Abundance
- Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
- Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
- NP-overrated
- Hello, me. It's been a while
- Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
- Bluesky Protocol Services
- How Compaction Works in Pi
How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]- How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Blog about things you don't understand yet
Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere- UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
- Microsoft Retreats In China
- Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut
Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App'- Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public- World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York
Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI- University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis'
- VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression
- Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe
- How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
- Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups
- Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
I want extern "fil-c"- python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
- Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
- Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
- EuroZig
- AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
- A preview of Roc 0.1.0
- GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
- OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
- C3 0.8.3 Feature flags
- Logging into a Linux machine from a flip phone over Bluetooth (2020)
- Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
- Let Them Write RFCs
- What’s new in Flutter 3.47
- The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here
- SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
- Write for people
- How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
- A long division story
- I hate packaging my software for Linux
- I Made the World's First "Link Compressor"
- Speeding Up (small) Ruby Hashes
- My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
- On Hacking
- Write a SQL Optimizer using Egg (2023)
- iPhone 17 Pro One Year Later: What Held Up and What Didn't
- What's Coming in September: New iPhones, Apple Watches and More
- Ted Lasso Season 4 Premiere is Apple TV's Biggest Launch Ever
- Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
- iFixit's Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown is a Preview of Apple's Foldable Challenges
- Apple Says iPhone X is Now Obsolete
- Apple Opens Houston Advanced Manufacturing Center Ahead of Mac Mini Production
- iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
- Amazon Discounts Every 2026 MacBook Pro With Up to $500 Off
- Apple TV Gains Classic Movies Collection
- 'iPhone Ultra' Could Face Staggered Market Rollout, US Only at Launch
- Apple Closing Basingstoke Store as Nearby Reading Location Expands
- Base iPhone 18 Tipped to Get These Two Pro-Level Upgrades
- WhatsApp Now Lets You Save a Contact's Username
- Apple's 2026 Back to School Offer is Now Live Across Europe
- Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for News Content to Power Siri AI
- Supreme Court Lets Apple Delay App Store Fee Fight for 24 Hours
- Google's $100 Pixel Price Hike and Trade-In Push Hint at Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Plans
- Google Kicks Off Fall Hardware Season With New Pixel 11 Smartphones
- Google Unveils $29 Pixel Tag to Take On Apple's AirTag
Shipping less JavaScript with Baseline
Building terminal UIs with HTML and CSS- The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
- Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
- OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
- From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work
- How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops
- 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
- Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands
- Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows
- Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business
- Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work
- How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work
- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
- How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
- Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets- What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
- Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
- LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
- 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
sqlite-utils 4.2.1- sqlite-utils 4.2
- llm-gemini 0.33
- alchemy-utils 0.1a1
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)
- alchemy-utils 0.1a0
- Quoting Florian Herrengt
- 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
- [AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot- [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
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…
Mapping the AI economy
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal- Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available
- 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
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees- Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!
- What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era
- GitHub availability report: July 2026
- Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app
- Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
- From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
- Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
License data quality improvements- Block users from comments in personal repositories
- Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
- Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
- Rule insights for organizations in public preview
- 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
Inside the Vercel intern experience- GLM 5.2 free for eve agents through August 27 via Blackbox on AI Gateway
- Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off
One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions- Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
- Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
- DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
- Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
- Building a software factory for AI SDK
- Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway
- Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams
- Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway
- How we migrated the database behind every Vercel build
- 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
Link Discord and WoW to Keep the Guild Chatting Wherever You Are- Discord Update: August 11, 2026 Changelog
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb
How we improved APM Java startup by encoding a prefix trie as a JVM constant- Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude Routines
What's new in Sentry Logs: The summer 2026 roundup- Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentat…
- Watching Silo genuinely makes me want to hook up some generative AI abomination…
- Witchy Friday morning session in Belfast 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22704
- Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast…
- Friday evening street session in Belfast 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22706
- Most people use an agent to write the code.
- A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible.
- Ronan Berder on design process: no boundaries means no creativity.
- Realizing backpacks have these strap things to attach them to luggage handles is…
- Pretty niche, but @codepen.io passes the ?query params from a Pen down to the pr…
- Just me and the GOAT hanging out.
- Stories that did not happen for 100.
- @samuel.fm @darrin.bsky.team when the design requires a layout shift during page…
- ok i'm really glad this explanation exists bsky.network/docs/how-it-...
- tfw you're a non-technical pm on a software project
- I bought $100 of Claude API credits for $8 on the Chinese black market It's an i…
- svelte is the number two framework
- you should come to Ljubljana even if you already know!
- What happens inside a company which has no external customers, no deadlines, but…
- when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant s…
- I’m old enough to remember when we as a community of professional developers cam…