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AI Now Institute / CSET Georgetown
CSET’s Kathleen Curlee shared her expert insight in an article published by The New York Times. The article examines how Chinese aerospace companies are making progress toward reusable rockets, potentially lowering launch costs and helping China compete with U.S. companies like SpaceX in the global…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
NVIDIA Holoscan is a platform for building real-time AI applications at the edge, from medical imaging to robotics. HoloHub is its companion repository: a...
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Dispatch tables are a common way to map names to functions, but traditional C++ implementations inevitably involve either repetitive boilerplate or runtime initialization. C++26's static reflection opens the door to a fundamentally different approach, allowing the compiler to discover functions…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises? It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global brand…
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Blair Harmon, Director of Product Management, Android Platform A great user experience is central to Android's mission, and delivering on that promise requires keeping devices fast, responsive, and reliable. This is why memory optimization is more critical than ever. Across the ecosystem…
OpenAI News
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
On the product team here at Grafana Labs, we consider AI agents our users, too. That’s why we set out to test how well agents can debug incidents across the full stack, and how much better they perform with Grafana Cloud’s Knowledge Graph vs. using raw telemetry alone. Our early results are…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data...
Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
Roll-ups vs. AI-Native Services. Here’s the download on why some VCs are betting that startups will build AI-native law firms & insurance companies.
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Fairphone is finally bringing a smartphone to the US market. Framework is upgrading its cheapest laptop. And RAMageddon claims another victim. Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Pine64 is halting production of Linux devices like the PineTab2 tablet and PineNote E Ink slate…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
Addy Osmani shares lessons from 14 years at Google and how AI agents are reshaping software engineering, developer workflows, and the skills engineers need to succeed.
Actively exploitedCritical 100Rapid7
Overview On August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Your location isn't just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billion dollar industry. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering a new EFF…
Cisco PSIRT
On August 19, 2026, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) published the following advisories: Cisco Security Advisory CVE ID Security Impact Rating CVSS Base Score Cisco Crosswork Security Hardening Release: August 2026 CVE-2026-20030 CVE-2026-20357 CVE-2026-20358 CVE-2026-20359…
Cloudflare Blog
In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-location and how new defenses further harden Cloudflare Workers.
Cisco PSIRT
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. These…
Cisco PSIRT
A vulnerability in the Open Client Interface (OCI) XML Parser of Cisco BroadWorks could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read sensitive configuration information on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because XML entries are improperly parsed due to external entity resolution…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for...
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
AI agents are only as effective as the context they receive. Even with capable models and well-documented NVIDIA libraries, agents can spend extra steps finding...
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t. Yet, the code might be invalid. The signing window might have closed. The database…
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Say you get a support escalation about a page in the app that won’t load. But when you pull up your synthetic checks, they're all green: 100% uptime, probes are passing. Something's not adding up, but which one do you trust? If you’ve run Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, you’ve been on both…
Wiz Research
Transform point-in-time pen-tests into continuous exposure management with unified platform combining pen-test findings and real-time cloud context
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Gisting compresses context into a set of learned tokens, preserving its quality while making the model faster and cheaper.
Huntress
Huntress researcher uncovers post-Black Hat & DEF CON phishing campaign using X DMs & malicious documents to deliver AMOS, NetSupport RAT, and other malware.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Analyzing recent developments in stablecoins, tokenization, stablecoin spend cards, and more
Actively exploitedCritical 70CISA advisories & alerts
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-64849 MLflow Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses…
Rapid7
Cássio De Alcântara is Director, LATAM Sales at Rapid7. Across Latin America, organizations are embracing cloud, AI, and digital transformation to drive innovation and business growth. These technologies create new opportunities, but also introduce greater complexity and expanding attack surfaces…
IonQ / Google Search Central
MOU establishes IonQ as a listed provider for the FABrIC Quantum Computing Sandbox, accelerating quantum research and enterprise adoption.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Solana will reduce its slot times from 400ms to 200ms. This change will make the protocol more competitive in terms of latency. Here we explore some possible implication on validators economic.
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
A new, scalable technique could enable powerful radars and sensors based on quantum technology that works at room temperature.
OpenAI News
Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
A honeycomb of small cells, one person at a screen in each, a purple filament threading cell to cell and turning each one cold while bundles are drawn out the bottom/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp I think one form the first big AI hack could take is a prompt…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Algolia You can now provision and managedirectly from the Vercel Marketplace. Algolia is a hosted search platform. You send it your content, it builds an index, and your app queries that index instead of your database. Results come back in milliseconds, with typo tolerance, synonyms, and facet…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
MIT researchers’ approach, which uses naturally occurring sugars as antifreeze, could make it easier for hospitals to deploy this type of cancer treatment.
Huntress
Before delegating work to AI, ask one question: can you check the output? A detection engineer on why verification, not trust, decides what tasks you hand over.
SemiAnalysis (free portion)
Double the Performance with Double the Power
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Indian technology firms are increasingly leveraging borrowed funds for acquisitions and share buybacks to elevate revenues and align with investor demands. Leaders such as Cognizant, Persistent Systems, and Coforge are exploring external credit options. This aggressive financial strategy signals a…
Platformer (Casey Newton)
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Learn how Datadog built gitretriever to handle 20× more CI Git traffic while maintaining low latency and reducing backend CPU usage.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Learn how CISA’s BOD 26-04 mandates risk-based vulnerability prioritization and how Datadog helps teams prioritize and remediate critical findings.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
A new Compliance section in Team settings lets you preview and download Vercel's compliance documents directly in the dashboard. These include attestations like SOC 2 Type 2, security policies, and other security documents that are available through the Trust Center. You can select a single…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Exa Vercel AI Gateway Agent Marketplace is now available on theandas a native integration. Exa's neural search engine grounds models in current information. built-in tool gateway.tools.exaSearch() Every model on AI Gateway can search with Exa through a, with no Exa account or key of your own…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
The Python SDK for Vercel Queues is now available in beta, bringing first-class Python support for running background workloads on Vercel. You publish messages to topics, and independent consumer groups process them in parallel with automatic retries, sharding, and delivery guarantees. Messages can…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Instagram adapter You can now build bots for Instagram with the newfor Chat SDK. Bots can send and receive DMs and media, render cards as quick replies and link buttons, show typing indicators, receive reactions, and handle story replies. The adapter connects through Meta's Instagram Messaging API…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
@Vercel Vercel Agent is now available in Slack. Mentionin any channel or thread, and Agent joins the conversation with relevant context from your Vercel projects, including deployments, builds, logs, metrics, configuration, and connected repos. For example, use it to: Vercel Agent acts through its…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Fish Audio Fish Audio 's audio models are now available on AI Gateway. To celebrate the launch, everymodel is free on AI Gateway for the next 30 days, through September 18. Four models from Fish Audio are available, including their latest text-to-speech model: How to use models during the offer…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Agent now works in Slack. Mention it the way you'd pull a teammate into a thread, and it reads the discussion, answers with the context of the platform running your app, and turns the team's decisions into changes you approve. Vercel for Slack is available today in Public Beta for Pro and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Connect Microsoft now includes a managed connector for, so your apps and agents can access all Microsoft products such as Teams, OneDrive and more. Vercel Managed Connector As a, Vercel registers the Entra application and configures federated credentials for it, so you don't have to create…
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
On This Week with EdSurge, searching to see where artificial intelligence quietly adds up.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
Instead of banning the technology, schools have an opportunity to promote digital citizenship and student engagement.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.