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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down- ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
- Scrap (2006)
- Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
- Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
- Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
- typ.ing
- A Friendly Introduction to Racket
- New MCP Roadmap
- RF Cafe
A week of using Codex more than Claude- How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
- ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
- Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
- Thinking in Python
- Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime
- NetBSD and my life (2005)
- Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
- NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
- What's in a PowerPoint File?
Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial- Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues On RGB Lighting Devices
- Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK £1bn a Year
- How Will AI Change the Field of Mathematics?
- Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails
- Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police
- Low Emission Zone Led To Better Lung Size, Function Among London Children
- Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope
- Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say
Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support- New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market
- Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button
- 'Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began
- China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux
- Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
You should never be angry at work- There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
- NetBSD and my life (2005)
- A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
- Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug
- OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
- The cool things of Gleam
- The immortal 1984 Macintosh (restoration diary)
- Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
- nss-userhosts - hosts files for unprivileged users
- Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
- Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
- Robot comment classifier
- Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
- Stop Making TUIs
- Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
- Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety
- I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
- Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
- Foundational Verification of Running-Time Bounds for Interactive Programs
- InjectionBunny, a NTFS3 SUID injection for privilege escalation
Integrating Discord SDK into EVE Frontier- ‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
- The Schrödinger Email
- KDE Linux experiences
- Apple's Biggest Summer Deals Drop: AirPods Max 2 Plummet to $429, M4 iPad Air $100 Off
- Top Stories: Apple Leaks - Camera-Equipped AirPods, Beats 360, and More
- Apple Vision Pro Was Almost Called 'Reality Pro'
- 10 Ways to Improve Your iPhone's Battery Life
- Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods: All the New Rumors
- Apple's New Beats 360 Headphones Spotted in Another Regulatory Filing
- Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff
- The MacRumors Show: Michael Fisher Talks iPhone Ultra
- Apple Pay Supporting U.S. National Park Foundation Over the Next Week
- MG Could Be Next Automaker to Get Apple Car Key Support
- Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
- Apple Paid $17 Billion in Taxes to Ireland Last Year
- Smartphone Sales Are Falling Worldwide, But Apple Keeps Growing
- Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees
- Camera AirPods Code Reveals Image Capture Resolution, Status Light, Person Detection, and More
- 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?
- 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
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition- 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
Quoting Linus Torvalds- llm 0.33
- More than just code review
- llm 0.32.1
- llm-openrouter 0.7
- Stop Making TUIs
- Quoting Matt Webb
- 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
[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over- The Evolution of the Agent Harness
- Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- [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
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers- Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
- New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync- 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
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
Better tools for managing blocked users- The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
- Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
- 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
How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel- Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready
- Vercel CLI expands support for DNS, domains, and project commands
- GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
- Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
- Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic
- 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
- The Vercel Sandbox CLI is now more agent-friendly
- 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
- 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…
- This is the genuine logo used by the Amazon location that destructively scans bo…
- 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.
- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- Website I recently visited.
- This is why I was ranting the other day on @shoptalkshow.com about why favicons…
- Life is amazing.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- I finished one post.
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- 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…