A tech digest, every weekday. About
Everything else
The full seven-day window, including what did not make the email.
Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
SAML: A fractal of bad design
What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
Unreal Agent
People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system
Markdown in /src
Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)
Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents
Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?
'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit
Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced 'Googlebook' Laptops
Meta's New 'Personal AI Agent' Muse Beats ChatGPT in Downloads - and Get Blocked by Amazon
Paramount Skydance 'Emerges Victorious', Finally Wins Settlement for Warner Bros Takeover
As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong
Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?
Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection
North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'
The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs
To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
Plain-text files are at risk
That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI
No Sloptober
Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here
Looking forward to Git 2.56 - and 3.0
Jev-powered autocorrection
tokens too cheap to meter
Arguing about arguments
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached
Self-Hosting Behind CGNAT
Redis is not a map you talk to over TCP
Design your programming languages right (2024)
Named and Optional Arguments are Awesome
Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware
Sandboxing with minimal effort
rift - a tiling window manager for macos
Why 0xCAFEBABE?
Parsing JSON Objects without intermediate ASTs
Serious editors are a commitment (at least for me)
Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
Why do common Rust packages depend on C code? (2023)
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
EvilVM: Forth shellcode (2019)
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security (2025)
New Mac Mini Has Two Storage Downsides, Including Unremovable SSD
Apple Card Savings Account's Interest Rate Just Went Up
Apple Releases First Public Betas of iOS 27.2 and macOS Golden Gate 27.2
OpenAI's New GPT-6 Sol and Luna Models Bring Astra Improvements to Cheaper Tiers
Apple Park Visitor Center Just Lost an Attraction Offered Since 2017
Shazam App for iPhone Updated With New Icon and iMessage Stickers
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Fable-Level Performance at a Lower Price
Apple Testing Prototypes of Whoop-Like Screenless Fitness Band
Apple Releases Firmware Update for Beats 360
Beats 360 Pre-Orders Open at Amazon With Cushion Kits on Sale, Plus More Beats Deals
Apple Puts AirTag-Sized AI Pin on Hold
Beats 360 Ear Cushion Kits Just $9.99 Each Until the End of October
Apple Will Soon Announce an All-New Operating System
Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?
Apple's Smart Glasses to Enter a Rapidly Growing Market
Apple Event This October? These 7 New Products Expected Next Month
Massive Discounts Hit 2026 MacBook Pro, Save Up to $600 on Amazon
Beats 360 Deliver Customizability and a Revamped Over-Ear Headphone Design
Apple Planning to Bring iPhone Duo Display Tech to Pro in 2029
Apple Announces 'Tap to Pay on iPhone' Availability in 8 More Countries
JavaScript desktop apps in under 10MB
Why Lovable built a Vite-compatible dev server in Rust
Node 26.9 turns on FFI by default
Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program
Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
Better prompt caching for GPT-6
Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Building standards for the next phase of AI
Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory
Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Introducing Astra for Law
Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
Reimagining advertising with AI
Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
How to connect AI usage to business value
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
How workers are unlocking new ways of working
How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
llm 0.36
Quoting @therealcornpop
llm-anthropic 0.29
llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Quoting voxium
MCP was always a bad idea?
llm-keys-ui 0.1
datasette-explain 0.2.2
datasette-auth-github 1.0
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Note on 18th September 2026
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
How To Write With An LLM
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
datasette 1.0a40
datasette 0.65.5
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Quoting Mustafa Suleyman
[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
[AINews] not much happened today
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs
Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
New trends in global card fraud: How 3D Secure and regional mandates are affecting risk
Analyzing rising fraud attempts among travel and leisure businesses on Stripe
SaaS platforms are surging despite the SaaSpocalypse
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes
Python Workers are now generally available
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
Open-Sourcing Rebalancer: A Generic, High-Performance Library for Solving Assignment Problems
Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable
Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app
New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains
Faster C++ code intelligence with whole codebase indexing
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available
Security improvements for SSH
Deprecation notice: All-platform CodeQL bundle
Refreshed repository pull requests page generally available
GitHub Enterprise adds credential inventory exports
Grok 4.7 is now available in GitHub Copilot
GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams
Deployments now show billable duration and CPU minutes
MiMo V2.6 models now available on AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports TypeSafe clients and an HTTP API for Jev
Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve
Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans
WebMCP support now available in mcp-handler
v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables
Jev is the fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway history
Reproducing, disclosing, and fixing the libheif vulnerability with Hacktron and the maintainers
GLM 5.3 FlashX now available on AI Gateway
Sub-second artifact deployments are now supported in Vercel CLI
Turbo build machines can now be enabled per deployment
Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox
The skills CLI now supports Notion hosted skills
Open-weight models take 56% of token volume, Astra doubles Fable 5.1 spend
GPT-Live 1 now available on AI Gateway
Native Marketplace integrations now support custom environments
Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage
Secure Compute and Static IP builds start 64% faster
Mem0 joins the Vercel Marketplace
Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
What Dropbox has learned from deploying AI at company scale
Introducing our new Dropbox API documentation
Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration
Node.js 26.10.0 (Current)
Node.js 26.9.0 (Current)- Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting r…
- Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision m…
- Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Lu…
- Back from Spain with a good haul… 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22773
- On stage in Cáceres.
- Last night’s fun.
- If you can only repeat the feature request, you do not understand the problem ye…
- You would be surprised how many people never click through the feature they just…
- This is fantastic.
- This is such a weird thing you can do.
- sloptalkshow.com lol @ @gregwolanski.com
- It's a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation.
- i spent all of my free time for a month on this.
- great guest post by @3blue1brown.com
- we're on hnnnn
- iPhone duo simulator just released: No sign of the viewport segment or device po…
- *takes a glance at my GitHub inbox* I’m gonna block so many accounts once I’m ba…