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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,661 posts.
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RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
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OpenAI Agents API
Build durable cloud agents with a managed Codex harness.
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Creativity is the new moat
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly…
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Neki – Sharded Postgres
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
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Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…
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Julia 1.13 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.13 release.
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's random, really.
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Factoring RSA 260
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…
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iPhone Duo
Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.
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Apple Watch Ultra 4
Apple today introduced Apple Watch Ultra 4, the ultimate sports and adventure watch, now with new health, fitness, and audio intelligence capabilities.
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Apple Watch Series 12
Apple today introduced Apple Watch Series 12, engineered to deliver the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable.
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AirPods 5
Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design and even better sound quality.
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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
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Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs
A deep dive into the massive June 2026 DDoS attack on Read the Docs, the attack patterns we observed, and the mitigations and defenses we used to defend our infrastructure.
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of…
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What will our economic future look like?
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
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Shopify acquires Tailwind
We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.
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Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before they occurred.
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Mercury 2.5
Mercury 2.5 is the most capable diffusion LLM on the market. It runs at 1,107 tokens/sec and offers a 40% increase in intelligence over Mercury 2, comparable to cost-optimized frontier models.
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ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.