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Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats- Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
- Meta VR Glasses
- Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech- Tokens too cheap to meter
- Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
- VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals- Making Tailscale Faster
- ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
- A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
- The "Windows XP Box" (2003)
- Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
- The mystery animal on an ancient god's head
- LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages
- Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest
- Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
- Lambda MicroEgg
- Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules- Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
- Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
- Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
- 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?
Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol- I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted
- The Story of Mel
- Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
- The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want
- KDE for People
- Beware overreliance on metaphor
- Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
- A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
- No Sloptober
- Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
- The Zig Journey
- Automatically detecting AI text in my browser
- Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language
- Cheaper LLM labelling
The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern- Plain-text files are at risk
- That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI
- SAML: A fractal of bad design
- Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux | Qualcomm
- Latest BGP hijack targets hosting software vendor
- We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
- Why you should check your gem's lines of code
- Solid Modeling in your browser
- Parsing JSON Objects without intermediate ASTs
iPhone Handoff in iOS 27: How It Works, Pricing, and Carrier Support- ChatGPT in Siri 'Persistently Underperforming,' Says OpenAI
- You Can Now Try Apple's Unreleased Copland OS in Your Browser
- Apple Releases watchOS 27.0.1 With Fix for Restart Bug
- iOS 27.0.1 is Coming Soon
- Disney+ and Hulu Raise Prices Again, Ad-Free Plans Now $21.49
- Apple Sports App Updated With Even More Soccer Leagues
- AirTag 2 4-Pack Hits $79.99 on Amazon, Matching Record Low
- Siri AI Coming to HomePod
- Apple Watch Ultra 3 Drops to Record Low $599.97 on Amazon [Updated]
- iPhone Air vs. iPhone 18 Pro Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Buy?
- Apple Podcasts Subscriptions Will Soon Support Video
- AT&T Responds to iOS 27's New iPhone Handoff Feature
- Launch Discounts Arrive for New Mac Mini and Mac Studio, Plus Massive Deal on Samsung's Portable SSD
- New iPhone Setting Lets Users Shake Off Motion-Sensing Ads
- Apple Intelligence Taking Up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27
- 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
JavaScript desktop apps in under 10MB
Why Lovable built a Vite-compatible dev server in Rust- Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
- The Situation Report
- Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
- Two years of OpenAI Academy
- OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
- Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
- Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
- How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
- Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
- Introducing MentalHealthBench
- ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models- Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
- 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
- Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows- 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
- Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Shadow roots, explained with live examples- 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
🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)- [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)
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
- 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)
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses- Open-Sourcing Rebalancer: A Generic, High-Performance Library for Solving Assignment Problems
- Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable
- Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
- Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need.
- Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
- More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews
- Node 20 is no longer available in GitHub Actions
- Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app
- 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
Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI- Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway
- Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
- GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
- 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
Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults- The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan on moving from AI adoption to transformation- Introducing our new Dropbox API documentation
Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration
Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)- Node.js 26.10.0 (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…
- This is fantastic.
- A daily friction log.
- This is such a weird thing you can do.
- It's a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation.
- I’ll be at Axe-Con 2027 What?
- i spent all of my free time for a month on this.
- great guest post by @3blue1brown.com
- ok i take it back Astra is good how to work with it: 1.
- iPhone duo simulator just released: No sign of the viewport segment or device po…