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Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law
New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap
Friday, 30 January 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
What's new in Swift: January 2026 Edition
A Reddit thread earlier this month asked about building web apps with Swift. For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience: Hi, I’m Nick Sloan. I’m the head of engineering at Studioworks, a platform that makes it easy and fun to run your creative…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
How DoControl delivers real-time, AI-driven SaaS security insights with ClickHouse Cloud and MCP
“We were super excited to start working with ClickHouse. It has been a game-changer in how we serve the world’s largest companies, in a way that no competitive solution can match.” Amit Fidler, Director of Engineering
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Run untrusted code with Vercel Sandbox, now generally available
AI agents are changing how software gets built. They clone repos, install dependencies, run tests, and iterate in seconds. Despite the change in software, most infrastructure was built for humans, not agents. Traditional compute assumes someone is in the loop, with minutes to provision and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AssistLoop joins the Vercel Agents Marketplace
AssistLoop Vercel Marketplace is now available in theas an AI-powered customer support integration. The integration connects natively with Vercel, so adding AI-driven customer support takes minutes. With AssistLoop, teams can: This integration fits naturally into existing Vercel workflows, with…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Sandboxes are now generally available
Vercel Sandboxes are now generally available, providing an ephemeral compute primitive for safely executing untrusted code. It lets teams run AI agent-generated outputs, unverified user uploads, and third-party code without exposing production systems. Each sandbox runs inside Firecracker microVMs…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
cubic joins the Vercel Agents Marketplace
Vercel Agents Marketplace cubic Thenow includes, an AI code reviewer that that deploys thousands of AI agents to find and fix bugs in your PRs and codebase. Most code review tools only see what changed. cubic sees how those changes connect to everything else. It learns from your team’s past reviews…
Wiz Research
The Year in Wiz Research: 2025 Most Read Blogs
A look back at the cloud security investigations and vulnerabilities that defined the year, from AI breakthroughs to supply chain shifts.