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Mistral Large 4
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
Decisions API is in public beta
AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
Benchmark in Milliseconds
Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
State of Devs 2026
California closed the Montana license plate loophole
LLMs may have helped my RSI
The cost of lies: A Mineserver story
Calling It Quits on ServerFault
ESP32-C3 Adblock
What Is Codemode
When random is not actually random enough
South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks
Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health
HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring
Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore
Asos Confirms Hackers Sent 'Unauthorized' Notification to App Users
IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds
Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China
Researchers Are Tracking a Chinese AI 'Agent Fleet'
Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap
OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex
Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People
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
That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief (2025)
Janet on x32: 32-bit Pointers, 64-bit Speed, 25% Less RAM
Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools
A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
Email Self Hosters - what are you using?
A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
Is COSMIC DE mogging KDE Plasma?
Montray - a tray icon for systemd service health
Pared - remove unwanted Apple Intelligence models without disabling SIP
OpenAI shares mathematics research catalogue
When random is not actually random enough
Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?
How fast is Python 3.15?
Reasons to dislike AI coding
Bidirectional Type Slicing
Why We Should Inject Dependencies
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
Release of Polars 2.0
What is Codemode
Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
Burn 0.22.0: Faster Builds, Easier Extensions, and Smarter Autotuning
Inside the Windows I/O Manager: Deep dive into how read I/O requests are initialized
Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Three Years of 80% Charge Limits on iPhone: The Results
LG Making Doorbell, Lock, and Cameras for Apple's Home Hub
AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2 Get Big Price Drops for Prime Day
Apple to Report Q4 2026 Earnings on November 2
macOS 27.2 Further Hints at MacBook With Touch-Enabled OLED Display
The 15 Best Apple Deals Under $200 for Prime Day
Apple Releases Second Public Betas of iOS 27.2 and macOS Golden Gate 27.2
'Crossy Road Rush' Launching Exclusively on Apple Arcade in November
Apple Watch Series 9 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: Is It Worth Upgrading?
Prime Day Savings: TVs, Headphones, Chargers, and Other Tech Accessories
Apple TV 4K Rumored to Support Four HomePods for Surround Sound
iPhone 18 Pro and Duo Were Once Planned With 16GB RAM, Leaker Says
Apple's Entire Mac Lineup Gets Massive Discounts for Prime Day
Prime Day iPad Deals Include Low Prices on iPad Air, iPad Mini, and More
Apple's $634 Million Apple Watch Patent Bill Just Got Even Bigger
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Offers Major Discounts on AirPods, iPads, and Much More
Microsoft OneDrive to Drop Support for These iPhone Models
HomePod Mini Waits Reach Eight Weeks Ahead of Rumored Refresh
Apple Music Is Getting a New Logo
Apple Quietly Boosts Email Feature for iCloud+ Subscribers
Why don't more developers 'use the platform'?
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
Expanding the Cyber Verification Program
How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Advancing computer use with Ironclad
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
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
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
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
Quoting Jake Boggan
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Quoting Victoria Kim
llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0
llm-mistral 0.16
EmbeddingGemma 2
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
Mistral Large 4
datasette-atom 0.11a0
Scrimshaw Jukebox
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
[AINews] Quasi-Riemann-Hypothesis: OpenAI publishes 722 math papers solving 90 of the top 500 open math problems; “the most significant moment” in >100 years of mathematics
[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
Why I tried to kill token billing (and why we kept it)
The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?
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
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
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
Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics
Stacked pull requests generally available
Code scanning AI Scan enablement status in security overview
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
AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks
Nano Banana 2.1 now available on AI Gateway
Mistral Large 4 now available on AI Gateway
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
Discord Patch Notes: October 6, 2026
Cauldron Bubble w/o the Trouble? It’s Discord Halloween, Witches
Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb
How we extended Apache DataFusion to execute one query across many machines
Unreal MCP now speaks Sentry
Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
How Etsy gets its mobile apps ready for peak traffic- If you have not yet been to see the scale model of NYC built by Joe Macken out o…
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- I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I…
- Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Happy birthday to my little…
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22785
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22782
- I'm going to be joining @drblack.bsky.social on the main stage at @github.com Un…
- You still have to pick what is worth building and worth telling people about.
- Execution got cheaper.
- Kelsey My sister is in a currently-running-on-TV political ad.
- Come for the webperf, stay for Ben's smooth intelligent voice
- Based on some @css-only.dev feedback 💙
- We released Pi 1.0!
- I wrote a bit about what Codemode actually is and how it works.
- In Österreich kann man dieser Tage erleben was passiert wenn der Gesetzgeber etw…
- in my experience, AI is excelling at most technical work except for ”what is the…
- 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
- saw Behemoth!
- a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly…