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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra- Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
- New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
- My Friend Aaron
- New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell- FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
- Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
- Don't Wordle
- Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
- Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
- Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
- Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
- How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
- Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
- Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases
- C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
- Queryable Executables
- Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana- Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images
- Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face
- New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban
- FDA Approves First Wearable Device to Monitor Glucose, Ketone Levels
- Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue
- Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs
- AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds
- Waymo Is Expanding to Germany
- Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips
- Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS
- Windows Backdoor 'Sleepwalker' Hides in Memory Until Activated by a 'Magic Packet'
- AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting
- World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows
- Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
The Move to Python 3 Begins- I stabilized never type
- C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact With Reality
- MNT Station - A modular, open hardware desktop computer and server
- Adding CPU affinity in a 24-core build machine made builds take longer
- Migrating from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS
- I cannot survive from burnout
- Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
- An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol
- the beauty in dsl-able languages
- Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-bit Embedded Systems
- AI Review Loops Don't Always Stabilise
- mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
- What's in a tag name? JavaScript, apparently
- Solving the 1+N query problem
- Intent to Ship: JPEG XL
maiao: Gerrit-style stacked diffs for GitHub, Cursor Origin, GitLab, Codeberg and more- Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
- AI At Home Part 2: Multi GPU Drifting
- Fuzzing The Gleam Compiler
- Can a blog post be handwritten?
- The XY Problem
- Porffor goes alpha August 11th
- Your executable is a SQLite database
- Galaxium, a WebGPU universe explorer
- BenQ's New iScreenBar is a Monitor Light Bar Made for the iMac
- Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off
- New Mac Mini and Mac Studio: 13 Things You Might Have Missed
- Apple to Release 13 More New Products Later This Year
- Apple's 40W Dynamic Power Adapter Expands to More Countries
- Mac Studio With M5 Ultra Chip and 512GB of RAM Launching in October
- New Macs and More: Here's Everything Apple Announced Today
- Apple Smart Home Display Still Coming This Year
- Labor Day Accessory Deals on Anker, Sony, Samsung, and More Live Now
- Apple Quietly Refreshes Magic Keyboards
- Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
- Apple's New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are Now Available to Pre-Order
- Apple Unveils New Mac Studio With M5 Max and M5 Ultra Chips
- Apple Debuts M5 Ultra as Most Powerful Chip Ever
- Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips and More
- Apple Reveals M6 as First-Ever 2nm Chip
- Apple Watch Series 12 to Get Fitness Tracking Upgrades
- 'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With Touchscreen and 5 Other Changes
- iPhone Trade-In Values Slide Ahead of New Model Launch
- New iPad Mini With Four Upgrades Expected to Launch by Late October
Bun 1.4 is (finally) fresh out of the oven
Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing- The full stack behind abundant intelligence
- Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference
- Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
- Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
- 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
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built- Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
- Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
- How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code
- Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
- Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!- 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
[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
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders
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
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
- How to evaluate LLMs before production
- 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
Rule insights dashboard generally available- GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
- Block users directly from security advisories
- Push rules in rulesets now support path exceptions
- 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
Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities- Speed Insights now has a free tier
- Introducing Run SDK: secure eval for your agents
- The end of credential sprawl for agents
- MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway
- Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway
- AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
- Vercel Connect is now generally available
- Chat SDK now supports Slack Enterprise Grid
- Vercel Connect now supports Linq
- Bring your agent to Notion with Chat SDK
- Chat SDK now supports XChat
- 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
- 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
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize- How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)
- Bun 1.4
- People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September…
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22724
- Eavesdropping on the mandolinists preparing for this evening’s performance.
- @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.
- MCP is a stateless protocol now.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- Website I recently visited.
- She was bluegrass when bluegrass wasn't cool, they said.
- 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…
- WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, o…
- Meta laid off 10% of devs when the business posted record revenue+profits & real…
- It's rate to see a non-AI frontier lab build an in-house AI coding tool that wor…
- 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…