Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.
Unit 42
Attackers are targeting CI/CD pipelines and developer tools instead of application code, requiring total SDLC visibility and strict security controls The post Connecting the Dots: Securing the Overlooked Corners of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Supply Chain appeared first on Unit 42.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Ora on Vercel Every harness expects its own infrastructure One platform under every harness Testing eve like any other harness The framework behind Ora's own agents Front end, back end, and agent runtime on one platform Every major agent tested side by side on live sites Hundreds of commits a day…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Calgary company reaches $250-million valuation, hopes to grow after Moneris sells to US private equity. The post Helcim raises $53 million amid shakeup in Canadian payments first appeared on BetaKit.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.
AI Alignment Forum / LessWrong (curated)
Consider the following situations: when you are a small, growing startup in a big market, standard advice is not to worry too much about your competitors or try to do anything adversarial “against” them, but just to focus on growing and providing value to your own customers. when you are a small…
Huntress
Account takeover (ATO) fraud happens when attackers steal login credentials to access accounts. Learn how to detect and prevent account takeover fraud.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Challenges Facing the Bond Trader in Chief
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Generative AI
Huntress
RMM abuse jumped 277% & now shows up nearly 40% of Huntress investigations. See how attackers exploit trusted remote access tools, and how to stop it.
Cisco PSIRT
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Crosswork engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. These…
SemiAnalysis (free portion)
Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Use AdaptGrow, a GPU-accelerated matrix factorization algorithm, to turn rolling correlation and tail-dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor...
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottinghamshire Police Force in the UK raising concern about the proposed roll-out of live facial recognition technology (LFR), and called for its…
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to our platform. The second came from the Apache Flink community, and it can scale…
The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOUL…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
Researchers explore how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Here we dive into implications related to the SGP-0003 (namely resource and inclusion fee).
Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
Plus, the latest on OpenAI & Anthropic financials & the data center backlash builds.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Running Alloy as a single-instance sidecar is simple. Running it as a centralized gateway that absorbs the full telemetry stream of an enterprise platform—tens of millions of active series, terabytes of logs per day, and tens of thousands of trace spans per second—is a different challenge…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Global leaders are gathering in Toronto as quantum science edges closer to real-world use. The post What Quantum Week’s keynote lineup says about the tech in 2026 first appeared on BetaKit.
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Five years after starting to ship its first open source, modular laptop, the folks at MNT Research are expanding beyond laptops (and mini-laptops) with the introduction of a new mini PC called the MNT Station. It’s basically a compact desktop computer that could be used as a PC, network-attached…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
ClickHouse Managed Postgres uses runtime budgets, cgroup limits, and disk-full session exemptions to keep supporting services from compromising database availability.
Stack Overflow Blog
When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important....
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives...
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Run AI agents in GitHub Actions with Docker Sandboxes. See how isolated agents can run Testcontainers tests, fix code, and open draft pull requests.
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Un article sponsorisé permet à une marque de prendre la parole dans un cadre éditorial crédible, auprès d’une audience déjà attentive au sujet traité. Contrairement à un format publicitaire court, il laisse le temps d’expliquer une expertise, de présenter une offre et de donner au lecteur des…
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Scientists watched a light-triggered hidden state form inside a material in only 30 femtoseconds, revealing a step that had never been seen before. The material first entered a fleeting electronic state in which its bonds reorganized in a repeating pattern, followed by tiny atomic shifts. This…
Actively exploitedCritical 85CISA advisories & alerts
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-73570 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) OS Command Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Montréal startup Élisa Interactive is using AI to help bring 3D world design to non-developers. The post Father-son founders raise $875,000 to help anyone build worlds in Roblox first appeared on BetaKit.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Algorithms & Theory
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Outsourcing giants like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Cognizant are rejigging business models, increasingly tying fees to performance outcomes instead of hours worked, as clients demand steep price cuts and more productivity.
Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson) / ChinaTalk
ChinaTalk travel writing returns!
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Welcome to the August 2026 ClickHouse newsletter, which will round up what’s happened in real-time data warehouses over the last month.
Stack Overflow Blog
Ryan chats with Brian Alvey, CTO at WordPress VIP, about how AI agents are changing the business models of the web, what parts of how we build our sites won’t survive our current digital evolution, and why your site will always need structured content.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Every deployment produces a set of files, including the pages, functions, and assets Vercel serves. Deployment Storage keeps those files available so you can inspect previous deployments and roll back when needed. Instantly roll back to previous deployments in seconds Instant Rollback If a…
NASA / ESA / JAXA
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Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
While potential for multiple service options remains huge, new AI-led services such as physical AI, silicon engineering and SaaS replacement are seeing lower capture rates than services built around existing enterprise systems, according to the study by consulting firm Zinnov.
Platformer (Casey Newton)
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Learn how to configure tail-based sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector to drop noisy traces, keep the ones that matter, and control APM costs.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Microfrontends can now link Preview Deployments across repositories when their Git branch names match exactly. In a monorepo, projects share the same Git repository, commits, and branches, so Vercel can automatically link their previews. Cross-repository projects have separate commit histories and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
With always-on tracing, you can now debug your real user requests without reproducing them. session tracing Always-on tracing continuously collects traces from your production and preview traffic. Unlike, which only captures requests from your own browser, it samples your live traffic. /checkout…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
GPT-5.6 Sol discount OpenAI lowered list pricing for, and the 50% AI Gatewaynow applies to the new, lower price through September 18. Input drops 20%, output drops a third. The discount applies on every OpenAI service tier: pricing page Rates are per million tokens for requests up to 272K tokens…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway. This model is an experimental version that accepts images alongside text. You can ask it to describe a picture, read text out of a screenshot, or work through a chart in the same request as your prompt. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision…
Hugging Face Blog
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
The DuckDB Java driver can now return query results as a lazily fetched sequence of columnar data chunks, avoiding JDBC's row-at-a-time ResultSet and its per-value overhead.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
Bringing together award-winning reporters and leading educators, the board will provide strategic guidance on newsroom priorities and emerging issues ...
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single change to the Rust compiler since its initial…