Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Two VPP bills are awaiting California Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature, meanwhile, Octopus Energy US has completed its investment in Uplight.
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
Guest Post: While many L7 protocols are complex to parse, the logic needed to enforce L7 policies tends to be simple. For the vast majority (89%) of L7 policies in the wild, Beeline can eliminate the service proxy from the critical path.
Krebs on Security
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning…
Hugging Face Blog
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
There’s never been a better time to build energy storage in the U.S. than right now. Grid batteries — which sop up power when it’s abundant and discharge that energy when it’s needed — have been ascendant for a decade, as the price of the underlying lithium-ion cells fell precipitously . Bolstered…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A full month before FY2027 begins, the House today joined the Senate in passing a Continuing Resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown on October 1. Both parties are eager […]
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: The Settlement…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought — and a unified awareness of thought and experience — arises from analog computations, MIT neuroscientists argue in a new review.
SemiAnalysis (free portion)
Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Mark Carney gave an update on Canadian trade to 23 organizations, but they aren’t saying what they discussed. The post OpenText, MDA Space among execs who joined Prime Minister’s trade meeting first appeared on BetaKit.
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing. That page points out that: Humans are notoriously bad at…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Tech and innovation projects across the province are aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The post Emissions Reduction Alberta doles out nearly $51 million in slew of innovation investments first appeared on BetaKit.
Coin Center
On August 10, 2026, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Warren Davidson (R-OH), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote a letter to the Acting Comptroller General for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Orice W. Brown, requesting “a comprehensive review of federal…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of…
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda and panelists for its Sept. 17, 2026, roundtable on preparations for 24-hour trading.The roundtable will be held at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., from 10…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
We took 201 real analytics questions from our production data warehouse, benchmarked 29 models on correctness, cost, and speed, and released an open harness so you can run the same test on your own.
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
With a deficit of younger farmers around the world, a local-meets-global approach is critical for closing the generation gap. The post With young farmers struggling, PepsiCo explores ways to keep agriculture ‘a viable and attractive livelihood’ appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
Fervo Energy inked a landmark deal to supply Google with nearly 400 megawatts of clean electricity from the startup’s geothermal project in southwest Utah. The agreement is the largest of its kind for a next-generation geothermal system — an emerging technology that involves drilling deep into hot…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Climate & Sustainability
LATAM: Contxto / Startupi / LAVCA
Companies are taking a larger share of their insurance risk into their own hands, and Huscarl wants AI to help them manage it. The startup has raised $5.6 million in seed funding led by FRST, with participation from Y Combinator and Silicon Valley investors. Huscarl will use the capital to expand…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. The cost of large reads The API server serves most list and watch…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Montreal-founded FinTech says its platform helps lenders complete previously “weeks-long processes” in days. The post Landjourney rebrands to Sweet, secures $7.4 million USD to simplify commercial lending beyond agriculture first appeared on BetaKit.
IEEE Spectrum
Across IEEE, our strength lies not only in the excellence of our individual communities but also in our ability to bring them together around shared problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. Our mission as a public charity—to advance technology for the benefit of humanity—is becoming an…
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Mark D. Hanf, the former CEO of Novato, California-based Pacific Private Money Group LLC (PPMG), and Hoai-Nam Chu Phan, the former COO of a PPMG subsidiary, with orchestrating an offering fraud that…
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
In this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier for AI, and what it means to build models that can understand, generate, and…
Home Assistant / Connectivity Standards Alliance
IoT標準規格を策定する無線通信規格標準化団体Connectivity Standards Alliance（所在地：アメリカ カリフォルニア州デイビス、プレジデント兼CEO トビン・リチャードソン、以下、アライアンス）の日本支部は、一般社団法人電子情報技術産業協会（JEITA）が主催する国内最大級のデジタルイノベーション総合展「CEATEC 2026」（2026年10月13日（火）〜16日（金）、幕張メッセ）において、「暮らしのDXパビリオン」に23社で共同出展をすることをお知らせいたします。…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Embattled luxury e-commerce platform will maintain Canadian fulfillment centre and headquarters. The post Ssense to open US warehouse to avoid tariffs on its largest market first appeared on BetaKit.
Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson) / ChinaTalk
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore, of AI) was going to have a lot to do with…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
As the newsletter reaches its fifth birthday, we reflect on how the publication has changed, and what to expect. Also: the launch of the ‘How Software Engineering is Changing’ essay contest
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program for contributing to Django, is open for applicants for our next cohort! 🚀 Session 7 launches October 12th, 2026. We are currently accepting applications until September 6th, 2026 Anywhere on Earth. More details can be found in…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
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
AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to...
OpenAI News
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
Huntress
New regulations, data exfiltration tactics, and shifting premiums are reshaping cyber insurance. Our 2026 report reveals what businesses need to know now.
LATAM: Contxto / Startupi / LAVCA
For a radiologist who must review dozens of studies every day, not all exams necessarily require the same level of urgency. The challenge lies in identifying which ones might reveal an anomaly before the doctor gets a chance to review them. That is one of the applications that Pixeon, a Brazilian…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
HashiCorp Boundary modernizes mainframe access with identity-based controls, JIT credentials, and central auditing via a mainframe-adjacent worker.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise advances AI agent security with recent enhancements now generally available.
Huntress
Understand the critical role of cyber insurance in safeguarding your business from cyber threats. Learn how this coverage can protect your assets.
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient Giving. She is one the three authors of METR and Redwood Research’s “Brief independent investigation of…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
Models have grown roughly 100-fold in a few years, while consumer graphics memory has roughly doubled. It’s not just a matter of tightening things up to make them fit.
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Not every enterprise product needs to be intuitive. Complex workflows often require complexity, and trying to eliminate it can make products less powerful for experienced users. Explore why enterprise UX should balance intuitiveness with learnability, efficiency, and long-term mastery. The post The…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Uken Games replaced Datadog with an open-source observability stack built on ClickHouse, cutting costs by 87% while storing every trace on a single node.
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
SPACE CARGO entre au capital de NOVESPACE pour relier vols paraboliques et usines orbitales SPACE CARGO réalise un investissement stratégique, dont le montant n’est pas communiqué, dans NOVESPACE, filiale du CNES dirigée par Thomas Pesquet ; son CEO Nicolas Gaume rejoint le conseil…
Apple Developer News & Releases
In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year, we’re now concluding this transition. What this means for developers who have macOS apps: macOS 26.4 or later: Users may receive a system…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently...
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed to update the rules and forms that apply to registered transfer agents.Transfer agents are a key component of the national clearance and settlement system. Transfer agents now perform a more diverse…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
PLD SPACE porte sa Série C à 288 millions d’euros, avec une nouvelle tranche de 108 millions menée par MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC. Après quinze ans à développer ses technologies de lancement, l’entreprise espagnole finance désormais ses capacités de production, ses bancs d’essais et ses infrastructures de…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
A16z crypto is proud to lead Félix's Series C.
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has blocked an effort to keep the state’s most successful virtual power plant program funded through next year. State budget language finalized last week does not authorize additional money for the Demand Side Grid Support program , one of the biggest…
Huntress
Healthcare organizations and banks handle highly personal information. But a new Huntress survey shows many threat actors frequently target these companies.
CERT/CC
Overview A vulnerability in the Hugging Face Transformers library (versions 4.57.0 to 5.16.1) allows remote, attacker‑controlled Python files to be written to the local disk without user authorization. The library performs a remote module fetch and local cache write before evaluating the…
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Learn how to offload long-running Gemini AI requests to Trigger.dev background jobs in Next.js using Server Actions and real-time React hooks. The post Building a Next.js text summarizer with Trigger.dev and Gemini AI appeared first on LogRocket Blog.
Apple Developer News & Releases
Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout. And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tools that create seamless mobile experiences for an…
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Honeycomb is donating its adaptive tail sampling processor, built on years of Refinery experience, to the OpenTelemetry Collector. See how adaptive sampling, trace fingerprinting, and sample rate attribution work, and how to try it today with the Honeycomb Collector Distribution.
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