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Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Web Search API
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Apple and a hacker's future
Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
The lamps in my house
Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients
An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot
Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage
Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens' Records From Danish Government Database
Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement
Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI
Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?
Flirt is now Open-Source
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Another step towards elm v1
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
Mold 3.0.0 Released
Golang tool to check SPF, DKIM, TLSA, and TLS settings for mailservers
Using docker-compose with Podman rootless
What are you doing this week?
ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
Factor Overview
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Refinement E-Graphs
hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised
You don't need an effect system
spoonful: static site generator written in Nix
Reverse Engineering Comanche Terrain Maps
How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
Iroh global content discovery
Nix on the Steam Frame
Tufte's Razor: an interactive guide to the data-ink ratio
A new, bespoke static site generator to replace Jekyll
Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging
Why Continuations are Coming to Java (2019)
Apple Announces iPhone Duo Apps Can Now Be Submitted to App Store
Sources: Apple Planning Two Sets of Product Launches in October
tvOS 27.2 Code Hints at Apple Intelligence for New Apple TV
macOS 27.2 Adds Touch Gestures Ahead of MacBook Ultra
Apple and AT&T Have Yet to Explain Cause of iPhone 18 Pro Max Issue
Apple Seeds Third macOS Golden Gate 27.2 Beta to Developers
Apple Releases Third iOS 27.2 Beta
Apple Releases Third watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2 Betas
Apple Cash Adds ID Check for Reloads, Teases Bank Funding
Apple Configurator App Updated
Prime Day Is Not Just Amazon: See the Biggest Competing Deals From Sony, Best Buy, and Walmart
Apple One Just Went Up in Price in These Countries
iPhone 13 Pro vs. iPhone 18 Pro Buyer's Guide: Is It Worth Upgrading?
iPad Could Get Significantly Thinner Bezels, Leaker Says
Apple's Newest Macs Just Got Their Biggest Price Cuts Yet on Amazon
Apple Watch Prime Day Deals Arrive With New All-Time Low Prices for Series 12 and Ultra 4
Apple Releases MagSafe 3 Charging Cable Firmware Update
AirPods Max 2 Drop to $429 in All Colors for Prime Day
Apple Quietly Triples iCloud Mail Alias Limit to Nine
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
Building advertising for the way people use AI
A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI
The eternal complement
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Helping small businesses put AI to work
DevDay 2026 Recap
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio
Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Quoting Felix Rieseberg
Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
September sponsors-only newsletter
Rex's Dino Store
pwasm 0.2a0
Quoting Matthew Green
He Built This City
Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model
[AINews] not much happened today
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
Why I tried to kill token billing (and why we kept it)
OUSD is now the default stablecoin on Stripe
Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026
One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns
8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability
Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers
Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway
Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone
Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure
Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse
Protected Quick Tunnels: simple accountless authentication for your next dev project
Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare
2026 Birthday week: network performance update
Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice
Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver
Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you
Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
AI Search is now generally available
Support for modern cryptographic algorithms in Workers
ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead
Secret scanning adds detectors for Lovable, Supabase, and more
Stateless GitHub App installation tokens rolled out
Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level
Unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations now expire
npm staged publishing now supports creating new packages
Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated
New fields for SecurityAdvisory GraphQL API
Confidential comments on repository security advisories
Repository security advisory comments API in public preview
Rate limits for private vulnerability reports
Jev for Python engineers
How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel
Speed Insights deprecates First Input Delay on November 1st
Laya decision model now available on AI Gateway, free through October 31
Microsoft AI models are now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Agent now installs private packages from npm and custom registries
AI Gateway adds Browserbase Search and Fetch tools
Edge Requests are now called CDN Requests
Voyage Rerank 3 and Rerank 3 Lite are now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Sandbox now supports Secure Compute
Ling 3.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway
Vercel CDN no longer caches responses with Vary: Cookie
Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions
Search trace spans from the Vercel CLI
Cauldron Bubble w/o the Trouble? It’s Discord Halloween, Witches
Personalization without user identity
Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over
How we extended Apache DataFusion to execute one query across many machines
How we built an async-aware Python profiler
Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
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- Execution got cheaper.
- Come for the webperf, stay for Ben's smooth intelligent voice
- Based on some @css-only.dev feedback 💙
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- We released Pi 1.0!
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- i’ve been doing some research on using Lean with AI to prove software properties…
- been unironically upping my p doom over the last few months
- your favourite framework just got a lil' upgrade
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