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iPhone Duo
Shopify acquires Tailwind
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
AirPods 5
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
No Man's Sky Cosmos
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Apple Watch Series 12
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills
Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
GNU Radio in the browser
Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs
Planet Labs' open satellite feed
OpenAI might have stolen another major proof
Factoring RSA 260
The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI
Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland
Apple's New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn't AI
Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI 'Could Kill All Humans'
OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications
Apple Launches iPhone 18 Pro With Variable-Aperture Camera System
Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone
Microsoft Breaks Another Patch Tuesday Record
GOG Brings Back 'Big Box' PC Games, One Printable Template At a Time
Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'
Star Trek Turns 60
Google Will 'Degrade' Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
Feds Accuse China of 'Systematic' Distillation of US AI Models
Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent
Apple Event for September 9th, 2026
I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots
A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
ID design and primary keys
A decade of rustls
How to build a f**king printer
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
Better AI code comment detector
Solaris Turnstiles
Review a pull request by booting it
SystemIO conflicts are not firmware bugs
Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
Analysing 2048 on a 3×3 board
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in rust
Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
Switching Password Managers in 2026
The State of Allocators in 2026 - 6 Months Later
Why Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors
Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom
Every Millisecond Counts
Email, decoupled from where and how: A cross-runtime, cross-provider email library for JS & TS
Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average
I changed my license to EUPL
Efficient and accurate systems for querying unstructured data
Bulk AbuseIPDB reporting using command-line tools
Hands-On With the iPhone Duo: The Crease is Still There, But Barely
Everything Apple Announced at the September 2026 Event
iPhone Duo is Dust-Tight With IP68 Rating, Unlike Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8
iOS 27's 'iPhone Handoff' Feature Limited to T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom at Launch
Apple Explains What's Inside the iPhone Duo's Folding Screen
iPhone Duo Beats iPhone Air as Apple's Thinnest iPhone, But Only When Open
Here's What Apple Says About the iPhone Duo's Crease
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Get Wave of New Bands
iOS 27 Will Let You Redeem Apple Gift Cards on the Back of Your iPhone
Apple Watch Series 12 Comes in New Finishes, Including Ceramic
iPhone 18 Pro is eSIM-Only in These Countries
iPhone Duo Will Ship With iOS 27.1, Hinting at Update's Release Date
Three All-New 'Audio Intelligence' Features Arrive With Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4
iPhone Duo Only Works With the $79 USB-C Apple Pencil, Not the Apple Pencil Pro
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Offer These Eight New Health and Fitness Features
iPhone Duo Doesn't Have an Action Button
Apple Reveals iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Battery Capacities
iPhone 18 Pro Max Is Heavier Than iPhone 17 Pro Max, Not Thicker
AirPods 5 Include ANC as Standard, Pricier Variant Now Gatekeeps Wireless Charging Instead
Samsung Mocks iPhone Duo
When 8 chunks weigh more than 355
Why StyleX is having a moment
The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
The Work Now Within Reach
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
1Password increases engineering productivity 21% with Codex
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
An Alien Mind
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Quoting Calif Research
.blend URL Viewer
Quoting Terence Tao
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
llm 0.35
Creepy crawlies
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
Video compressor
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Quoting Zach Kehs
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
August newsletter is out
GPT‑6 Astra
[AINews] not much happened today
[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded
The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)
OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
[AINews] Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident...
[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
GitHub availability report: August 2026
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
CodeQL 2.27.0 adds support for Linux ARM64
Enterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations
GitHub Advanced Security expands trial availability
Block pull requests with exposed secrets from merging
Remediate Code Quality findings with agentic autofix
Enterprise-managed sandbox in Copilot for JetBrains
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 is now generally available
New customer portal help.github.com
Automatic Dependabot access to GitHub-hosted registries
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31
Password Protection is now available per project on Pro
Protect production deployments for free on every plan
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway
You can now read and search changelogs from the CLI
Persistent memory for eve agents
v0 adds one-click integrations for email, auth, search, and databases
Deployment step now 10% faster
Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally
Introducing Flat Rate CDN
GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway
Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teams
Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is now available on AI Gateway for free
GPT 6 Astra now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox
Discord Patch Notes: September 8, 2026
Node.js 26.8.2 (Current)
Node.js 24.21.0 (LTS)
React 19.3
Bun v1.4.2
Bun v1.4.1- New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms…
- Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem…
- Got access to GPT-6 Astra.
- Sunday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22752
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22750
- Today is Bandcamp Friday: https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water…
- This is the sort of thing kody.codes enables
- Switching from one agent ecosystem to another stinks.
- You will not interview your way to latent needs.
- I'm down for this.
- Nice article; but wow `html { text-transform: lowercase; }` is a wild choice.
- Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day en…
- Have you too started hacking on hardware projects because of LLMs?
- Future language designers please don't make the mistake of Python to use indenta…
- silo just went into all time greats i think
- i was on a podcast!
- astra is very hit and miss.
- this is a fascinating (and sobering) read
- tag yourself
- Due to popular demand (it's me—I'm the demand), I've decided to cut pgbg in two…
- tru fact