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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
- Htmx 4.0
- U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
- Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
- Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
- Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
- The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework- Migrating to HTTPX2
- State of the Map 2026
- EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality
- Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
- 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
- I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
- Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
- Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
- Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
- Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
- Visual Analysis of Binary Files
Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts- Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?
- New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update
- States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI- Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts
- Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%
Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules
Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid- Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling
- US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors
Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats- Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities
- Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing?
- AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps
Yap: a particular kind of slop- htmx 4.0.0 has been released
- OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays (2009)
- EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution to improve laptop speaker sound quality
- Quest for eternal dock on Wayland - lambdock (C + GTK4 + Lisp GNU Guile Scheme)
- How I made Rustdoc 33% faster in one week
- How cats.txt showed llms.txt evidence is GEO astrology
- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
- LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited
- Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer
- Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
- What are you doing this weekend?
- Zero-Cost 'Tagless Final' in Rust with GADT-style Enums
- Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
- How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
- Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
- Nobody Argued For Your Stack
- I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy
- Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
- Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs
- Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist
- A Perfect SimCity
- 25x Performance, Three Optimizations
- Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (2018)
- UZDoom 5.0
- Steve Jobs' 8th Grade Science Project Sells for $34,375
- Which Macs Will Get an M6 Chip and Which Won't?
- Apple's Siri Settlement: Here's When iPhone Owners Can Submit Claims
- This New App Brings 1990s 'After Dark' Screen Savers to Modern macOS
- The MacRumors Show: Apple's Surprisingly Big Week of Announcements
- Apple TV Buys an Existing Hit for the First Time Ever
- iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders May Start at an Unusual Time
- What NOT to Expect at Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' September 9 Event
- Apple One Just Went Up in Price
- Apple TV Streaming Service Receives Price Increase
- Apple's M6 Mac Mini Gets First Pre-Order Discounts at Amazon
- Apple Watch SE 3 Hits New Low Price of $199.99 on Amazon
- Apple Pledges Donation for Nepal and Tibet Flood Relief
- Spatial Audio in CarPlay Now Rolling Out in Volvo Vehicles
- Pikachu Visits Apple Park, Meets Tim Cook and John Ternus
- Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO Next Week: 15 Years in Quotes
- 2025 vs. 2026 Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: All Upgrades Compared
- LG Labor Day Sale Brings Major Discounts on OLED TVs and Monitors
- Apple Event: Six New Products to Expect on September 9
- Apple's New Macs to Ship With macOS Golden Gate
Bun 1.4 is (finally) fresh out of the oven
Moving a 400-route app from Next.js to TanStack Start
Node 26.8 reads and writes ZIP files- Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
- Expanding our support for scientists
- Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
- Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
- Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
- Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
- Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
- Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
- Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead- How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex
- 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
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
- Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
- Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
- Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
- 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
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days- Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- Quoting Paul Dix
- 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
- [AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
- [AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
- [AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
- [AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use- 🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
- [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
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents- How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
- The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
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
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
- How to evaluate LLMs before production
- Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
- GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update
- GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24
- Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing
Better label management on issues is generally available- Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities
- GitHub Classroom deprecated
- Actions retention will cover checks, workflow runs, and statuses
- Close all open contributions authored by a blocked user
- Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces
- Global model policy generally available
- Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
- Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
- Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects
- Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
- Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
- The best workflow engine is a programming language
- Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
- Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
- Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
- GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
- Python projects now support routing rules
- 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
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize
From one switch to a control panel: meet `dataCollection`- How to evaluate session replay software: a developer's guide
Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)- Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)
- Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)
- My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-c…
- People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September…
- Met up with brainbox Steven Pemberton for coffee and a chat.
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22736
- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- @shaundai.com's product habit: walk the feature as a user first.
- You already pay for more than one agent.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- She was bluegrass when bluegrass wasn't cool, they said.
- Life is amazing.
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- Some thoughts of anger vs anxiety for people in tech when it comes to what AI do…
- just got a tentative confirmation from a mathematician that i was able to get a…
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- Happy birthday @chriscoyier.net 🎂🎂🎂
- WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, o…
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- a few weeks ago I recorded an updated Svelte(Kit) workshop with @frontendmasters…
- 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…
- Only one year in, I have finally found the final shape for the example project o…