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The Amazon tax
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative- Being ambitious and being a dad
- OpenLogi
- Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
- How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
- And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome- Cerebras CS-4
- Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
- Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
- Finger: the 1971 social network that never died
- Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows- Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
- A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
- Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
- AI usage patterns in software teams
- Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
- Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics
Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers- Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes
- Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative
- Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors
- Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses
- Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months
- You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone In the US
- Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models
- Apple Lowers App Store Fees In Europe to Settle Dispute With EU
- Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced
- India Paves the Way For Charging Merchants a Fee On UPI Transactions
- Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim
- Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable
- 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent
- Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine
Mojo is now open source- How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
- What software do you use daily in 2026?
- Kakoune code editor
- Rethinking Database Programming
- Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
- Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
- CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
- How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
- Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
- Things I want in a modern relational query language
- Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates
- When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
- Incident Report for GitHub outage on 2026-08-17
- How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser
- Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
- GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
- Alibaba's TSMC-Built 5nm RISC-V Chip, XuanTie C950, Now Runs Qwen-3.8 27B Model Natively, Unlocking Massive Vertical Integration Tailwinds
- Experiment in reducing target directory size on nightly
- Biboumi – XMPP gateway to IRC
- Fargate Is Not Firecracker (2024)
- Palomar – a registry of Lean verified mathematics
- dgit: Git forge on Durable Objects
- Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera
- Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
- Apple's iPhone 18 Release Schedule: What's Coming and When
- iCloud, Photos, Find My and More Experiencing Issues
- Apple's Home Hub Will Have a Widget Gallery With iPhone Widget Support
- National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching August 23
- Apple's Camera AirPods May Launch as 'AirPods Pro,' Not 'AirPods Ultra'
- Apple Overhauls EU App Store Fees to Settle Digital Markets Act Dispute
- Apple Card Offering 5% Cash Back on Select Purchases for Limited Time
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT for Teens With Built-In Safeguards and Learning Prompts- Apple's M4 iPad Air Gets Best-Ever Discounts Since Summer Price Hikes
- Apple Donating to Indonesian Earthquake Relief Efforts
- New Apple TV to Come With Upgraded Siri Remote
- AirTag 2 Drops to Low Price of $89 for 4-Pack
- Apple's US App Store Commission Revenue Down 18% This Year
- Sonos iPhone App Finally Gains Live Activities Support
- Unreleased AirPods 5 Models Referenced in macOS 26.7
- iPhone 18 Pro Max Rumored to Get Exclusive Camera Upgrade
- Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
- macOS Tahoe 26.7 is Full of References to Unreleased Apple Products
- Apple Releases New iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27 Public Betas
The Next.js team is doing a Reddit AMA
Building terminal UIs with HTML and CSS- How Claude’s text watermark works
- ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe
- Strengthening democratic oversight in national security
- Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
- Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections
- How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work
- Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
- The Defender’s Window
- OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
- New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age
- 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
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash- Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?- Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
- Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order
- State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
- 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
Mojo🔥 is now open source- Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- Markdown SVG upgrades
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
- Quoting Dario Amodei
- CORS Chat
- Northern Gannet
- Don't classify. Hallucinate!
- 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
Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue- [AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes
- [AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront
- [AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
- New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234- How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
- Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications — in one click
- Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal
- Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees- How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
- How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps
- 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
- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt
- Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
- Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
Credential revocation and deauthorization by token type- Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth apps
- Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 10
- 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
- Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter
- Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories
- $1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox
- Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway
- Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
- Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta
- GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month
- Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN
- 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
A letter to the Discord community in Brazil
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI- Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude Routines
- Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap
- Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this m…
- The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max MacBook P…
- Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a…
- Monday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22719
- Blink and you’ll miss it, but apparently I was in a BBC news report from Belfast…
- Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22722
- A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible.
- The craft "dying" is your opportunity.
- Join me, @t3.gg, @angiejones.tech, and @johnlindquist.com for a quick workshop o…
- Pretty niche, but @codepen.io passes the ?query params from a Pen down to the pr…
- ok i'm really glad this explanation exists bsky.network/docs/how-it-...
- tfw you're a non-technical pm on a software project
- unexpected and cool
- svelte is the number two framework
- stable release coming soon!
- between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and…
- when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant s…