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iPhone Duo
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
Neki – Sharded Postgres
OpenAI Agents API
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography
NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Climate 'Feedback Loops' Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds
Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers
ABC Show Won't Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats
OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street Junior Bankers
IMDb Adds 'Digital Creator' Profiles For the First Time
Automattic's Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade
Europe May Finally Have Found a Space Entrepreneur Who Is Meeting the Moment
Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion
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'
A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)
Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
Forgejo 16.0.4 has a critical security bug fix (RCE - Remote Code Execution)
Xteink X4 Pro review
It's not the YAML spec's fault, but
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
What comes after git
How CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU
Fastly Speedtest Test
Soft-deprecating re.match()
Gleam Gathering 2027
It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
My HTML Boilerplate
Review a pull request by booting it
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026)
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Models Don't Go Rogue
Optimizing a Spin-Lock
The terrible menu bar in the Windows 11 Notepad
Conversations with JJ
Making Social Media Social
Announcing the first Guix-Science release
An untrusted site can freeze a Mac using WebGPU
Apple Event for September 9th, 2026
phlex-hanami v0.2.0
Apple Explains What Happens to Conversations Siri Recap Hears
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Drops GLONASS Support
T-Mobile to Charge $5 a Month for iOS 27 iPhone Handoff
You Can't Use Apple Watch's Live Rewind Secretly, Apple Says
Ceramic Series 12 is Pricier to Repair Than Apple Watch Ultra 4
Mac's Edge Light Feature Rumored to Expand to iPhone
Apple Rates iPhone 18 Pro Slightly Easier to Repair Than 17 Pro
Upgrading to Apple Watch Series 12 Could Cost You Hypertension Notifications
iOS 27 Apple Health App Redesign: Every New Feature Coming in 2026
RIP, iPhone Ultra
Apple Watch Series 12 Received a Price Increase You Might Have Missed
Ceramic Apple Watch Series 12 Is Bigger and Heavier Than Other Models
Skipping the iPhone 18 Pro? Redesigned 'iPhone 20' is Coming Next Year
Apple Watch Series 12 Has Smaller Screens and Bigger Cases
AirPods 5 and Apple Watch Series 12 Pre-Orders Open on Amazon, With Early Discount
Why iPhone Duo's Under-Screen Camera Isn't in the Corner
Shop the Best Cases for Your New iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone Duo
Apple Isn't Revealing the iPhone Duo's Under-Screen Camera Resolution
iPhone Duo Has Similar Main Camera to iPhone 17e
iPhone 17 Pro vs. iPhone 18 Pro: 35+ Upgrades Compared
When 8 chunks weigh more than 355
Node is getting a built-in benchmark runner
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
Now everyone can put data to work
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
Introducing the Agents API
Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
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
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
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
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases
Any Nix package, live in your browser
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
Quoting Calif Research
.blend URL Viewer
Quoting Terence Tao
Some thoughts 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
[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...
1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
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)
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser
GitHub availability report: August 2026
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Refreshed repository pull requests page in public preview
AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview
Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode
MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecated
Xcode 27 runner image now runs on macOS 27
npm extends recovery-code security holds to all accounts
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
Vercel Sandbox now provides 64 GB of storage
GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
FastAPI frontends and static files served from the CDN
How we cut CDN metadata lookup latency by 91%
Build with OpenAI Agents API on Vercel
Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30
Vercel Sandbox is now available in all regions
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
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- 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
- Today I’ll mostly be listening to The Bothy Band, in memory of Paddy Keenan—what…
- 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.
- Pretty AI diffs still need a why.
- Super neat.
- Nice article; but wow `html { text-transform: lowercase; }` is a wild choice.
- I've never seen this "Add to Preferred Sources" button like @flaviocopes.com has…
- 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…
- One meal in, Albania is solidly in my Top 5 cuisines.