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Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter The Linux Foundation is celebrating 35 years of Linux, and training is discounted through August 18. Use code TUX35 for 35% off certifications, courses, and bundles across cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and more. Beyond the discount…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
A surge of openness in AI has defined 2026. Amid calls for both caution and support, prevailing trends point to a future in which models are built and released openly. Recent research offers new insight into the adoption of open AI systems, who benefits, and the role of Open Source across the AI…
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
We rebuilt our mobile end-to-end testing framework with a strict API and computer vision, raising test stability drastically.
Tenable Research
Control iD iDSecure Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Control iD iDSecure is an on-premises access control and time attendance management application for Windows. Version 4.8.1.0 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-92625 : Unauthenticated Service Restart Denial of Service…
Tenable Research
ScadaLTS Multiple Vulnerabilities ScadaLTS is an open-source, web-based SCADA/HMI application. Version 2.7.8.1 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-19656: Authenticated Remote Code Execution (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) A server-side method is exposed without any authorization…
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Made by Google expands what's possible across the Android ecosystem. With the introduction of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, and the…
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Registration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open...
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in real time. The company is…
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key actions using only the hand on which the device is worn. First introduced on Pixel…
Huntress
Planning your cybersecurity budget shouldn't be a headache. See how to protect your business and get the most out of your security spend without the fluff.
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI. In 2026, it's not, anymore. With Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. People switch to Kotlin not because they have…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
AI infrastructure spans multiple layers, from compute and networking to storage, orchestration, and applications. When performance degrades, identifying the...
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack Compose Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), introducing rich visual APIs like Mesh Gradients and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) support, structural…
Microsoft — Official / Windows / Azure Updates / Research
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities appeared first on Microsoft Research.
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
3GPP creates specifications at the cutting edge of modern communications technology – but how “cutting-edge” are the technology and processes that 3GPP itself uses to create those specifications? In June 2025, a cross-3GPP Study Item was launched to review 3GPP’s specification formats and working…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Gödel Prize winner Noam Nisan on the sum-check protocol — how a "purely theoretical" proof technique became the engine behind fast, modern SNARKs.
Apple Developer News & Releases
Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea receive a region-specific age rating based on…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language questions across an entire RelativityOne matter and get back answers with citations to the underlying record. Relativity CEO Phil Saunders calls it a fundamentally new way for lawyers to…
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
Meta — Newsroom / Engineering
WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s…
Huntress
An Akira affiliate rebooted into Safe Mode to kill EDR and Defender, then Safe Mode broke their own ransomware. Here’s the full attack chain.
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.
NCSC UK
The NCSC wants to collaborate with organisations developing technologies and approaches for secure, resilient and deployable private 5G
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Neon Functions are Node.js 24 compute you deploy onto a Neon branch, in the same region as your Lakebase Postgres database, with DATABASE_URL injected automatically. They're long-running enough that agents can stream for minutes and WebSockets or SSE can stay open while data flows.
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
On International Youth Day, we highlight young leaders within our community who are using the Internet for opportunity, inclusion, and positive change. The post Youth in Action: Contributing to a More Connected and Inclusive Digital Future appeared first on Internet Society.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
How corporate and investor communications have changed in the age of social media, AI, and the retail investor
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Generative AI
Vercel (blog + changelog)
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs on updated weights on AI Gateway. They are used by default when you call, so existing requests pick them up with no change to the model ID or your code. deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 AI SDK To use the updated DeepSeek V4 Pro, set model toin the. AI…
OpenAI News
OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 5.4. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-91129.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass certificate validation for OTA updates on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 6.8.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. An attacker must first obtain the ability to access the device's localhost interface. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. An attacker must first obtain the ability to access the device's localhost interface. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Home Assistant Green. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 5.4. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-91131.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 4.3.
Zero Day Initiative — published
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Amazon Smart Plug. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.5.
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Ordinary WiFi networks could quietly become powerful surveillance tools, allowing people to be identified without cameras, special sensors, or even carrying a connected device. Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create…
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Powered by Coforge Nuuron, its AI operating system and enterprise autonomy platform, Coforge’s PE business unit aims to combine technology, data, governance and execution expertise to deliver services that go beyond traditional deal advisory or technology solutions.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Exa AI Gateway eve web search is now free onthrough August 31, and it's now the default web search foragents. The tool works with any AI Gateway model, with no separate Exa API key. When the model calls it, AI Gateway routes the request to Exa's Search API, returning web results and extracted page…
Home Assistant / Connectivity Standards Alliance
Back in April during State of the Open Home 2026, we gave you a sneak peek of ESPHome’s very first official product… And after months of hard work alongside the community, the ESPHome Starter Kit is here! 🎉
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Learn how secretless authentication for Datadog’s Azure integration helps prevent telemetry interruptions that result from expired client secrets.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AI SDK Theis one of the most popular open-source AI projects in the world. It serves over 20 million npm downloads a week and the repo has over 26,000 stars. Maintaining the codebase means tracking four moving targets at once: After multiple years of growth, the repo was getting 100+ new issues…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
AI Gateway Using coding agents means setting up multiple accounts, provisioning API keys, and scattering observability and billing. Now, you can route them throughto centralize all of this and add controls, with set up in one command: To start: vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup connects Claude…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Grok 4.6 AI Gateway from SpaceXAI is now available on. The model has a 500K token context window and accepts text and image inputs. Grok 4.6 supports low, medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels and defaults to high. model xai/grok-4.6 AI SDK To use Grok 4.6, settoin the: coding agent vercel…
OpenAI News
See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
PlayStation Blog / Xbox Wire / Unity / Godot / Meta Quest
Last November, close to 500 people joined us in Munich for the first GodotFest. We had 34 speakers, two stages, a workshop room, and two busy days of Godot. For a first edition, it was quite a turnout. GodotFest is an annual conference for people who build with Godot. We are the small Munich team…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
iFood rebuilt its in-house security platform on ClickHouse Cloud, getting 9-16x faster queries at 40-50% of the cost and unlocking agentic threat hunts that cut a week of analyst work down to two hours.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
The guests on this episode of This Week with EdSurge say good tools fail without good follow-through.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
I left my school to ask tech executives how to prepare students for the future.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
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