APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
Evening stroll in the park
In the early evening of Wednesday August 27, delegates and friends of Peter Hedman ran, walked and supported a community event in his honour.
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
From Hobby to Hustle: The Artisan of the Day Is Ryan Bilesky
Ryan Bilesky built a SaaS from domain pain, turned it into X7 Media, his solo Laravel agency, and continues sharing creative tech ideas.
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
GenAI risks and global adoption
Daniel and Chris sit with Citadel AI’s Rick Kobayashi and Kenny Song and unpack AI safety and security challenges in the generative AI era. They compare Japan’s approach to AI adoption with the US’s, and explore the implications of real-world failures in AI systems, along with strategies for AI…
OpenAI News
Collective alignment: public input on our Model Spec
OpenAI surveyed over 1,000 people worldwide on how AI should behave and compared their views to our Model Spec. Learn how collective alignment is shaping AI defaults to better reflect diverse human values and perspectives.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
s1ngularity: supply chain attack in Nx packages
Threat actors published modified versions of the Nx package and some of its supporting libraries to the npm registry with the goal of exfiltrating developer and service credentials. Builds on Vercel are safe from this vulnerability by default. Visit the GitHub advisory to check if your local or…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Anomaly alerts now in limited beta for Enterprise customers
Enterprise customers can now receive alerts when anomalies are detected in their applications, in order to quickly identify and mitigate issues. Observability Plus Alerts are available in limited beta for Enterprise customers with. Try it out Alerts or learn more about. Read more Anomaly detection…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Deploy Slack's Bolt.js to Vercel with @vercel/slack-bolt
@vercel/slack-bolt Bolt for JavaScript We've published, our official adapter for deploying Slack'sto Vercel's AI Cloud. Bolt provides a type-safe library for responding to Slack webhook events. However, Slack's API requires a response within three seconds or users are faced with timeouts. This has…
OpenAI News
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a joint safety evaluation
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highlighting progress, challenges, and the value of cross-lab collaboration.
Huntress
Join Huntress' John Hammond & Dave Kleinatland on a | Huntress
Huntress researchers take a tour through the dark web, from innovative threat actor marketing techniques to cybercrime drama on BreachForums.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Scaling observability at Character.AI: thousands of GPUs, 10x logs, and 50% lower cost with ClickStack
Discover how Character.AI scaled observability for thousands of GPUs, handling over 450PB of logs a month, by unifying logging on ClickStack - storing over 10x more data, while improving search performance and loweing costs by 50%.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Agentic BI in Slack: MCP-powered analytics and visualisations
Traditional BI assumes a dashboard is the destination. Most often, the destination is a conversation. We’re not replacing BI; we’re right‑sizing it. Dashboards remain for curated KPIs. Chat picks up the fluid, investigative 80%.