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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
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This newsletter is sponsored by Unblocked. [Webinar] How to stop babysitting your agents Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system, team conventions, and past decisions is the hard part. You end up wasting time and tokens in the correction loops. More MCPs, rules, and bigger context windows give agents access to information, but not understanding. The teams pulling ahead have a co...
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development, maintenance, or documentation of software, packaging, documentation, and other media published within the Debian Project. We recognize that such tools can substantially improve the productivity of contributors when used responsibly, allowing volunteers t...
Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
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In-memory compute has been an attractive proposition for many years because compute within a memory chip can exploit its higher internal bandwidth. Additionally, in-memory compute avoids the long latency path between DRAM and traditional compute cores. At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung discusses their continued pursuit of in-memory compute with their PIM (Processing-in-Memory) push. They’re implementing ...
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. To maximize the time that developers can retain access to our models through Cursor, we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract. This decision was incredibly tough, as we ca...
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
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Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master? Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason! The entire entertainment and streaming industry wants one of these devices in your living room. Not only wanting access to your wallet; companies are willing to violate custo...
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
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Z.ai on X: "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight. Our most capable model for agentic coding and cyber defense is now available to download, run, and customize. Weights: https://t.co/v1IbWMXxg4 Tech blog: https://t.co/ekQkO83jCv" GLM-5.3 is now open-weight. Our most capable model for agentic coding and cyber defense is now available to download, run, and customize. Weights: huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3 Tec...
State of the Map 2026
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State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. In 2026 the State of the Map conference will be taking place in Paris and online. It will be a three day conference packed with talks, workshops, discussion rounds and more. Your organising team. If you are attending the conference either in person in Paris or online, here are some useful links to find information: Paris...
Htmx 4.0.0
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htmx 4.0.0 Release The htmx team is very happy to announce the release of htmx 4.0.0! This is the culmination of 8 months of work (plus a game) and we are very happy with the results. The idea of htmx 4 started to germinate when I decided to create fixi and, in doing so, got more familiar with the fetch() API and async programming in JavaScript. (htmx had always used XMLHttpRequest due to backward...
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
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This month, EPA issued guidance clarifying that the Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid, commonly referred to as “islanded” power generation facilities.
“It works better in the app”
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The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had my Google™ Pixel® phone running the latest Android© 17 with an updated calendar a…
Migrating to HTTPX2
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The OpenAI Python SDK now uses HTTPX2 for its synchronous and asynchronous HTTP clients. HTTPX2 is installed automatically with openai ; the previous httpx package is not. This guide explains what changes for applications that interact with the SDK's HTTP layer. If you construct an OpenAI or AsyncOpenAI client without providing http_client , your existing API calls, parsed response models, streami...
Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules
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Posted by softwaredoug. Score: 317 points. Comments: 3.
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
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Luanti’s Android app is currently not available on the Google Play Store due to a baseless DMCA notice filed on behalf of Microsoft by Tracer.AI, alleging that Luanti infringes Minecraft’s copyright. The Luanti app does not contain any proprietary code or assets, from Minecraft or otherwise. We received a similar notice from the same company in 2023 and successfully appealed against it. This compa...
Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal
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Supported by Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote. The Trump administration acted illegally when it labeled the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic a security risk and barred the company from working with the U.S...
Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
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Advent and Stripe Abandon $50 Billion Pursuit of PayPal A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc., a potential deal that would have ranked as one of the biggest-ever leveraged buyouts, according to people familiar with the matter. The group is no longer pursuing a deal for PayPal, the people said, aski...
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
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Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for intelligent voice interactions. Unlike conventional speech recognition models that struggle with background noise, complex jargon, and disfluency cleanup, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe converts raw audio directly into accurate, polished, formatted tex...
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
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Oh noes! Access Denied: error code 8d404b6f750adefd. Go home
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control Today, we’re introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to support developers. Gemini Omni brought real-world reasoning to generative creation, and today’s updates make Omni 1.1 production-ready for professional use via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. Whether you’re building genera...
Small Models Have Arrived
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Small Models Have Arrived For the past few weeks, I've been playing with gpt-5.6-luna. It is shockingly capable, fast, and smart. I regularly see it do ~100 tps, and rip around my codebase, email, and knowledge base. Of course, the biggest thing with luna is the cost. I've tried running some fairly complicated research threads, and it's pretty tough to run up a large bill. Even having it search ac...
Microduck
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MicroduckMade to move · Ready to learn A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box. The launch film · sound on Roll thetape Waking up the duck… Meet the twin sim2realthat works Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot. This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on. Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain. Teach it newtricks Every behaviou...
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
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All press releases IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 24, 2026 – At the annual Hot Chips conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today is announcing the first dual-architecture mainframe processor, which is being designed to enable enterprises to run operating systems and applications on both the IBM and Arm® compute platforms in future IBM Z and ...
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
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A top Uber exec said AI is not giving the company bang for its buck. In a Rapid Response interview released on Saturday, Uber's operations chief, Andrew Macdonald, said it was becoming harder to justify AI costs within the company. He said that Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga went viral after telling The Information in an April interview that Uber had already blown through its Claude Code budget fo...
Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
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In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human. The 83-page papal teaching document, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” ...
Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday launched an impassioned call for regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that “opaque algorithms,” controlled by a handful of powerful private companies, can bring “new forms of dehumanization.” In his eagerly awaited new encyclical called “Magnificent Humanity” – an encyclical is an ancient form of Vatican communication – Pope Leo also warned that it is crucial that ...
Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
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Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI Overviews feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming. At the Google I/O 2026 keynote this week, the company announced that it is overhauling Search to embrace a conversational, AI-driven approach, even inviting users to enlist AI agents to automatically notify them if, for example, their favorite band were to go ...
Leave Me Behind
8 min read
Leave Me Behind “If you don’t learn how to use AI, you’re going to be left behind.” So leave me behind. I learned to build Android applications in 2014. I was in college taking a Java programming class, when a classmate shared a free online course to learn Android development. The goal was short: build a todo list app with local storage. When I completed the minimum requirements, I unplugged my ph...
Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
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ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ___________________________ The res novae of our time Two biblical images Building for the common good Remaining human CHAPTER ONE A DYNAMIC APPROACH FAITHFUL TO THE GOSPEL A Church journeying through human history The wisdom of the word of God in dialogue with...
The Eternal Sloptember
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The Eternal Sloptember I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harde...
Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity
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A new study published in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal has confirmed what many workers have quietly hoped for: companies can switch to a four-day work week and not only survive, but thrive. The research tracked 15 Australian companies that trialled the 100:80:100 model between 2022 and 2024. The model is simple: workers receive 100% of their pay, work 80% of their ...
Migrating from Go to Rust
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Out of all the migrations I help teams with, Go to Rust is a bit of an outlier. It’s not a question of “is Rust faster?” or “does Rust have types?”, Go already gets you most of the way there. The discussion is mostly about correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics. A quick disclaimer before we start: this guide is heavily backend-focused. Backend services are where Go is ...
Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
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· Charlie Holland · Architecture · 7 min read Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend. Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag. Iâve seen it...
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
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Open-source AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around DeepSeek's prefix-cache. MCP first-class · plan mode · MIT.
Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
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About We introduce PICO (Perceptual Image Codec) — the first learned codec that is both practical, and optimized directly for the human visual system. To derive it, we perform a comprehensive study of modeling choices for practical learned codecs, and search over millions of model configurations to jointly optimize over perceptual quality and on-device runtime. Based on large-scale subjective user...
Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
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Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday. I have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company. This past year, while I was doing my best to make AWS play nice in open source communities, there were two main drivers making me un...
'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
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Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code. Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund a war against Bambu — and the future of 3D printers could be at stake. ‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private messa...
The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers
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A WIRED investigation this week found that a former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that offers firearms training to Immigration and Customs enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were deadly. Meanwhile, a New York police officer’s lawyer has been banned from Madison Square Garden amid a lawsuit the cop filed over injuries sustained during a boxing match at an MSG venue...
I Miss Terry Pratchett
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There is a theory, not necessarily a really good theory, but a theory nevertheless, that all memories are a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs. Sir Terry Pratche...
Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
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So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that might've worked before or saw on a tweet. "Use in-place operations! Set gradients to None! Install PyTorch 1.10.0 but not 1.10.1!" It's understandable why users often take such an ad-hoc approach performance on modern systems (particularly deep...
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
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BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it? There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️ So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law ...
Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
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Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and those cracks may be irreparable. Microsoft has reportedly begun canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses, according to The Verge, instead moving engineers toward using GitHub Copilot CLI. That comes just six months after the firm f...
Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Posted by poyu. Score: 205 points. Comments: 148.
Don't just paste the AI at me
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Don't quote the AI at me. If your reply starts with "Here's what Claude said:" or straight eight hundred words of unedited ChatGPT text, congratulations: you just proved your brain is a gizmo, Darwin would be proud. Please, don't reproduce. Here's what you just did Someone asked you a real question. They had context and all good intentions. They came to you specifically. You took their question, d...
Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
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Project Glasswing: An initial update Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it. Since then, we and our approximately 50 partners have used Claude Mythos Preview to find more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across the most systemically im...
Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
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Parallel agents on the board Dispatch on as many cards as you want; each agent runs in its own git worktree on a kanbots/issue-N branch. The board updates live as runs progress, decisions surface, costs accrue. Drop a folder. Get a board. Dispatch Claude Code or Codex agents on as many cards as you want — each in its own worktree. Or hit autopilot and let personas split the work, run in parallel, ...
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
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Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment with coding for the first time, and sources tell me that Claude Code has proved very popular inside Microsoft over the past six months. Perhaps a little ...
Bun support is now limited and deprecated
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- - Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 13.8k [Announcement] Bun support is now limited and deprecated #16766 Description Due to foreseeable compatibility and security issues, yt-dlp's support for Bun as an ejs -compatible JavaScript runtime is being both limited and deprecated. As of the next yt-dlp and/or ejs release, only Bun versions 1.2.11 through 1.3.14...
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
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Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “ten blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn’t seem to have considered. For instance, this is what you’ll now get if you type the word “disregard” into Google Search. Google has been cat...
I’m writing again
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I’m Writing Again For those of you who are still here — and given how long it’s been, “still here” is a real act of patience — thank you. I haven’t written a column since 2022. Just like everyone else, I’ve been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains (why it wasn’t 3Brains I’ll never know) that I will explain to you shortly. The work we w...
AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
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This issue of my newsletter was sent to newsletter subscribers. Sign up to receive future issues! Hi there! I want to talk a bit about AI and the related shifts in the tech industry. I know this is top-of-mind for lots of y’all, and you might be wondering if it even makes sense to learn new programming skills in this environment. Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: AI models have become shock...
Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost
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A famous logic puzzle takes place on a mythical island divided between the knights, who never lie, and the knaves, who always do. A foreign traveller encounters a fork in the road: one way guarantees safe passage, the other certain death. A member of each tribe is present, though it isn’t clear which is which, and the traveller is granted only one question. The solution is well known: ask either o...