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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Muse Spark 1.3
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
Exit the Cave
Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Wendell Berry has died
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
Poisson Disk Sampling
Holden's Lightning Flight
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes'
FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking
1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project
CERN Transitioning From RHEL To Debian
OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of AI is 'Non-Negotiable'
NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School
Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale
Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers
Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App
NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter
GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger
Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
A note on subscription prices from LWN
Static Allocation, Constant Work
Dependent if expressions without dependent types
I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
deforester - Logging for Janet
I Think the Military Commissary Freezers Were Hacked
Let's build a compressor from scratch
The holy grail of nixpkgs: version ranges
Implementing FMA and finding bugs in C and Rust standard libraries
The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Goroutine Leak Profiles
TinyGo 0.42 - Recover Is Real
CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linear
Security Incident – BGP Hijacking
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
What will you do after tech?
ESP32 as counter-surveillance platform
A Crash Course in Predicate Logic
Check if a file was made with Claude
Is Minifying CSS Necessary? (2023)
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor
asciiQuake
New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)
Revisiting Joel's Test - exe.dev blog
Aqara Debuts Five Matter Smart Lights With Apple Home Support
Govee Debuts $400 Matter-Enabled Sky Ceiling Light
Rare Working Apple-1 Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction
iOS 27 Introduces New 'iPhone Handoff' Feature
'I Wouldn't Be Talking to You': Apple Shares Apple Watch Survival Story
Open the Current App's Settings From Control Center
Apple's New Mac Mini Already Discounted - See the Pre-Order Deals
iPhone Driver's License Feature in Apple Wallet Launches in Oklahoma
Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: M5 Max vs. M5 Ultra
Apple's iPhone Ultra Crease Fix Set for Android Foldables Next Year
Leaked iPhone 18 Pro Parts Point to Three Color Options Excluding Black
Apple Launching Eight New Products This Month
Mac App Store Apps Can Now Drop Support for Intel Macs
iPhone Air Review: One Year With Apple's Super Thin $999 iPhone
Here's What Apple is Paying John Ternus to Run the Company
Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'
macOS Golden Gate Seems to Hint at MacBook Pro With OLED Display
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Lower Costs and Fewer False Positives
Foldable iPhone Ultra Likely Has MagSafe Charging
Read John Ternus' First Memo to Apple Employees as CEO
How to fit Minesweeper into 247 bytes
Moving a 400-route app from Next.js to TanStack Start
Improving our alignment and security efforts
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
A milestone in expanding access to AI
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
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
llm-gemini 0.34
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Quoting Rick Brewster
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Codex bundles LibreOffice
GeoJSON Map Viewer
Quoting Tarn Adams
datasette-mcp 0.2
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
Introducing wrapture
Quoting Andrew Digby
Understanding ChatGPT Work
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
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
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
Enterprise-managed settings support any default model
Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI
Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available
Set an expiration date for individual user budgets
Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
Block users from discussion comments in personal repositories
Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub CLI: Media in issues, pull requests, and comments
Copilot model access update for GitHub Team plans
Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated
Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway
GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Compute that takes any shape
Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AI Gateway
AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise
fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md
Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
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
Testing cookie behavior across hundreds of web surfaces with our in-house auditor
Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry
Application Metrics caught my broken size estimator
From one switch to a control panel: meet `dataCollection`- My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-c…
- A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got…
- Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full cop…
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22747
- Journal: Salter Cane this Saturday An excellent triple bill in The Prince Albert…
- Tuesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22743
- Ticket-taking used to feel like the job.
- AI is not a silver bullet.
- You already pay for more than one agent.
- 46 It's my birthday!
- Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.
- Woke up excited about subdomains.
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- okay, it's out github.com/gaearon/conw...
- preparing to publish my vibecoded math lean proof to github and i kinda feel ner…
- I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts.
- a few weeks ago I recorded an updated Svelte(Kit) workshop with @frontendmasters…
- When I was advocating for nogil/free-threading, I always said that it’s importan…