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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint- HTML Can Do That
- I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
- The August 17 outage
- Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
- CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
- Git at any scale
- Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
- AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
- I should have loved biology (2020)
- Linux 7.2
Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM- Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
- Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
- Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
- Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges
- Ox Alpha
- SpacetimeDB: a short technical review
- Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
- Project Cybersyn (2022)
China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet- Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
- China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global
- Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network
- Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books
- Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
- Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument?
YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix- Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces
- FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies
- Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data
- New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids
- Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope
- Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta
- PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages
Bun 1.4
How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare- Supply chain attack on arrayref
- Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
- Announcing Rust 1.98.0
- Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
- What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
- AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
- Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
- If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
- Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
- Survival Guide for a Censored Internet
- Reclaim the terminal
- Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
- HTML Can Do That
- Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool
- Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
- X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years
- Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
- Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
- Decoding Magic School Lunar's Save Game Format
- Better Batteries
- Going freestanding
- A Personal Computer For Children Of All Cultures (2019)
Dark Cherry and More: Every iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra Color Rumor- Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs
ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac- Apple Releases New AirPods Beta Firmware With iOS 27 Features
- Apple, Where is CarPlay Ultra?
- Apple Card Turns Seven With Big Change Ahead
- Apple Watch Alerted Runner to Serious Heart Problem
- Apple's New Beats 360 Headphones Keep Leaking
- iPhone 18 Pro: Pre-Orders and Release Date
- Apple Watch Series 11 Discounted by $100 at Best Buy and Amazon
- 5 Apple Products to Get OLED Displays
- Ceramic Apple Watch Rumored to Return With Series 12
- iOS 27 Shared Albums Go Full Res at the Cost of Your iCloud Storage
- Fake Cases Hint at New Clear and TechWoven Colors for iPhone 18 Pro
- Strong iPhone Sales Are Giving Samsung Display a Big OLED Boost
- Apple Fires Back at OpenAI's Bid to Toss Trade Secrets Suit
- EU Welcomes Apple's App Store Changes, Epic Slams 'Junk Fees'
- Apple's Camera AirPods Not Launching Until 2027 Despite Leaked Video
- Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen Sharing and Dictation
- New Apple Store Reportedly Opening in Idaho
- Introducing AI Futures
- Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work
- Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
- Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna
- 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
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark- 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
- ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
- A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript- Quoting Jeremy Morrell
- Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
- 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!
[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud- The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
- [AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
- [AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
- 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- Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
- New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent- A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
- 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
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
- How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
- How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps
Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar is generally available and more- Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available
- Code scanning adds a mitigated alert dismissal reason
- Separate GitHub Actions path for GitHub Code Quality
- Track GitHub Code Quality enablement changes in the audit log
- CodeQL 2.26.3 improves GitHub Actions queries and JavaScript modeling
- Track organization code quality trends
- Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
- Credential revocation and deauthorization by token type
- Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth apps
Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI- Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability
- How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token
- Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels
- Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI
- Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions
- Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace
- Introducing Vercel for Slack
- Compliance documents are now available in Team settings
- Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free
- Vercel for Slack now in public beta
- Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft
- 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
A letter to the Discord community in Brazil
How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI
20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog- Bun 1.4
- 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
- Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22722
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22724
- @shaundai.com on collaboration: every cross-team ask is a micro-sale.
- The craft "dying" is your opportunity.
- MCP is a stateless protocol now.
- This is why I was ranting the other day on @shoptalkshow.com about why favicons…
- I finished one post.
- stable release coming soon!
- Meta laid off 10% of devs when the business posted record revenue+profits & real…
- between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and…
- Happy/nervous to announce argon2-cffi-bindings, the low-level C binding wheels u…