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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
Moon (2024)
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
What's new in Emacs 31.1
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
Training AI to Paint with Code
World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund
Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas
Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck
Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China
China Delays Ambitious Chang'e 7 Lunar Mission Until 2027
FDA Approves First Alzheimer's Blood Test For Americans As Young As 40
Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace
Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs
After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force
SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey
One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?
The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward
I cannot survive from burnout
Your executable is a SQLite database
Intent to Ship: JPEG XL
Emacs 31.1 released
Can a blog post be handwritten?
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise
Perspec 1.0: A Haskell desktop app for perspective correction of document photos
IPython is All You Need
Routeup – stable local HTTPS URLs and opt-in public tunnels
distributed identity
Everything I own, owned
POP-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect
Dynamically Naming Servers
What are you doing this week?
3 constraints before I build anything
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA targets RISC-V
offgrid electric car (2025)
Replicating Reddit's best feature on other forums
kudu - easily manage VMs on Linux
Control and complexity: tension in systems design
Micro language implementation: Calcium
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
The changing role of finite-state model checking
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
New iPad Mini With Four Upgrades Expected to Launch by Late October
AirPods 5 to Launch as Early as Next Month
New Mac Mini Reportedly Set to Launch Before iPhone 18 Pro Event
Apple Reportedly Will Announce iPhone 18 Pro Event Date This Week
Siri AI Will Have a Waitlist When iOS 27 Launches
Apple Releases New iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27 Public Betas
Home Hub Code Hints at Face-Based Profile Switching
Apple Won't Change Hide My Email Domain After Backlash
Apple Holds Farewell Party for Tim Cook as Ternus Prepares to Take Over
Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 7
Apple Seeds Seventh iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Betas to Developers
Apple Seeds watchOS 27 Beta 7 to Developers
Apple Seeds Seventh visionOS 27 Beta to Developers
Apple Seeds tvOS 27 Beta 7 to Developers
Apple Watch Series 12: Everything to Expect Next Month
iOS 27: All the New Safari Features
Amazon Offers Up to $150 Discounts on M5 MacBook Air
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When Will Apple Event Be Announced?
AirTag 2 4-Pack Hits New Low Price of $79.99 on Amazon [Updated]
Apple Store App Rolling Out 'Early Preview' of New Shopping Assistant
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
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
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
llm-anthropic 0.27
Your executable is a SQLite database
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Quoting Drew Breunig
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
[AINews] Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering
[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
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders
Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
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
MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
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
Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades
Vercel Sandbox is now globally available
Environment variables now use Config and Secret types
Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration
Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
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
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
Vercel Python Queues SDK is now available in beta
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
Exa joins the Vercel AI Gateway and Agent Marketplace
Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories
$1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox
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- People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September…
- Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22722
- You should come to this gig!
- @shaundai.com on collaboration: every cross-team ask is a micro-sale.
- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- The craft "dying" is your opportunity.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- Website I recently visited.
- This is why I was ranting the other day on @shoptalkshow.com about why favicons…
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- I finished one post.
- just got a tentative confirmation from a mathematician that i was able to get a…
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- i think the main thing i learned with my llm math detour (and now see with specu…
- Meta laid off 10% of devs when the business posted record revenue+profits & real…
- til `set -e` is “exit immediately” and `set -x` is “print commands before execut…
- Happy/nervous to announce argon2-cffi-bindings, the low-level C binding wheels u…