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Sonnet 5.5
Pirating the Pirates
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
World Labs Is Joining AMD
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Bananas That Don't Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing
China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2 Billion
TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement
Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households
Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia
Bill Gates Says an AI 'Kill Switch' Isn't Enough
SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
Walmart Says It's Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels
Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
Yes, no AI is now a feature
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
Leaving them behind
When did Google get so weird?
What makes Lisp difficult to read?
My experience writing automated tests for a SPA
HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report
State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley
Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
How to Solve Hallucination (with RLCD)
What are you doing this week?
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
the normalization of inexplicable failures
Output-to-seed mappings for CPython's PRNG
postmarketOS rebrands as Nura
Fool's Expertise
Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
Thoughts on Flash (2010)
Intuitive equals familiar
Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit
iPhone Duo StandBy Leak Reveals Five Unannounced Faces
Apple Releases watchOS 27.0.1 for Additional Models
iPhone 18 Pro First Impressions: What Do You Think So Far?
iOS 26.7.1 Fixes Vulnerability Used in Targeted Attacks
Early Prime Day Deals Offer Up to 65% Off Anker and Jackery Power Stations
Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1 With Bug Fixes
Apple Releases iOS 27.0.1 With Face ID Bug Fix
Last Chance: OWC's Best Mac Accessories Are on Sale Just for MacRumors Readers
12 New Things to Expect From Apple This October
AirPods 5 vs. AirPods Pro 3 Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Buy?
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion Over Haptic Patent Infringement
New Vision Pro Headset: Apple Considering Four Different Concepts
Amazon Just Knocked $900 Off Apple's Latest 16-Inch MacBook Pro
Top Stories: Apple Leaks, Siri AI Settlement, and More
watchOS 27: 12 New Things To Check Out on Your Apple Watch
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
Apple Finally Shares tvOS 27 Release Notes With List of New Features
Amazon's $199 Discount on Apple Watch Ultra 3 Returns to Help Clear Stock
Apple Code Confirms iPad 12 Specs: A19, 8GB RAM, N1, C1X Modem
MacRumors Giveaway: Win an Apple Watch Ultra 4 From Lululook
Signals come to React-Redux
12 Node built-ins that replace npm packages
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5
How we will do better for Australia
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
Are you a Codex Original?
Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
Two years of OpenAI Academy
OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
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
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Quoting @joedaroo
Quoting Muse AI Agent
2026 in LLMs (so far)
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
Bluesky reply bot checker
Kākāpō Party
Quoting John Gruber
Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican
Note on 24th September 2026
commit-rewriter 0.2
datasette 1.0a41
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
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
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
🔬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
Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute
Travel’s AI dilemma at Skift Global Forum
Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0
Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON
Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents
Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more
The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update
Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect
EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry
Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen
Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin
How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses
How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
Highlights from Git 2.56
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
When chat is the wrong UI
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1,000 GitHub users told us they need.
Self-hosted runner version enforcement date has moved
Claude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot
Enterprise managed settings in-product validator
Usage metrics API adds pull request review stages
Private saved views for repository issues and “Relates to” issue relationship is generally available
Changes to query results in the GitHub Actions API and UI
Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 21
Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams
CodeQL 2.27.1 adds C and C++ query and Kotlin 2.4.20 support
Search domains without authentication
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway
Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
State of agent skills
Vercel Marketplace database browser now supports Redis
Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
The Vercel Bug Bounty Program is now publicly available
How Klaviyo shipped 356 internal apps in two weeks on Vercel
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
Discord Update: September 25, 2026
Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan on moving from AI adoption to transformation
Measuring the back/forward cache with Application Metrics
Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)
Node.js 26.10.0 (Current)- Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Lu…
- I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video…
- The new Gemini 3.8 TTS models are super-cheap and can generate conversations bet…
- Back from Spain with a good haul… 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22773
- Journal: Think local Warning: this post is about large language models.
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22775
- PMs should understand the architecture.
- This is fantastic.
- A daily friction log.
- get ready web design-elopers.
- 1) Place a little cutie on the border of parent element with `offset-path: borde…
- Bass I bought a standup bass back in June!
- ok i take it back Astra is good how to work with it: 1.
- astra may be my favorite model now.
- guys
- Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!
- I was not joking folks www.negroniweek.com