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Casey Newton’s hands-on take on OpenAI’s Dots agents at DevDay: capable coworking inside ChatGPT, paid-only positioning versus Meta Muse, and the trust/safety tradeoffs of always-on agents.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
Backblaze’s Q2 2026 Drive Stats: 354,415 drives at 1.73% quarterly AFR, lifetime AFR 1.41%, plus a clear CMR vs SMR primer as 20TB+ drives become a larger share of the fleet.
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OpenAI launches the Agents API in public beta: a managed Codex harness with durable cloud sessions, sandbox compute, context compaction, subagents, and resumable multi-hour agent work for developers.
7 min · 1,539 words
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
SquareOrbits argues Apple's macOS Golden Gate release echoes Snow Leopard's stability pitch but ships with serious bugs—including a Colours eyedropper hang that force-restarts the system—and catalogs the breakage from a working-Mac perspective.
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Using any C++ library in Godot
Using any C++ library in Godot Godot has become one of the most popular game engines of the last few years. It is free, open source under the MIT license, and small enough to download and start using in minutes.
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Mass Fraction: a love letter to Deuteros, in sixteen colours
Arda Karaduman launches Mass Fraction, a hard-SF space-industry strategy game at 640×512 in sixteen colours—mapping Deuteros and Millennium 2.2 into a Godot sim of Lid debris, named crews with dose ledgers, and indifferent Harrow machines.
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How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
GitHub Security Lab explains the targeted AI taskflows behind 24 Android findings, the bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source Taskflow Agent on your own app.
10 min · 2,349 words
The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
9 min · 2,081 words
An update on Angular’s TypeScript 7-powered Compiler
The Angular team explains ngp, a hybrid preprocessor that rewrites parts of the Angular compiler in Rust with Oxc, decoupling transforms from TypeScript to prepare for TypeScript 7 and native tooling.
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Anthropic introduces Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster and lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5 that improves agentic coding and everyday task performance versus Sonnet 5.
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What is the biggest unsolved problem in science? what 84 AI models think
We put "What is the biggest unsolved problem in science?" to 84 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
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Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Cloudflare releases cf, a new open-source agentic CLI that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API with TypeScript configuration, alongside Forge, their internal SDK generator—aimed at agent-heavy Wrangler usage.
9 min · 1,989 words
Build an LLM Tokenizer and Attention from Scratch in TypeScript
SitePoint tutorial that implements BPE tokenization, cosine similarity vector search, and scaled dot-product attention in TypeScript—exposing LLM primitives as ordinary readable code.
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Historians often blame drought, famine, and invaders for the Late Bronze Age collapse—but that can’t explain why the empires never came back. Patrick Fitzsimmons argues for a deeper structural story.
14 min · 3,253 words
How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 PercentHere’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix
IEEE Spectrum's Mini Shaji Thomas recounts how Delhi slashed electricity losses from about 50% to 5%—the privatization, metering, and grid-operations reforms that turned candlelit kitchens into reliable power.
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Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
OpenAI argues frontier RL runs should require structured safety documentation approaching “safety cases”: technical safeguards, operational practices, and incident investigation before continuing training.
7 min · 1,571 words
Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude
Lance Martin (claude.dev) explains principles for production-like evals with held-out sets, then shows how the claude-api skill’s build-eval and hillclimb commands automate design and overfitting-aware improvement—including cost and performance case studies.
2 min · 462 words
Meta FAIR introduces RL-XAR (Reinforcement Learning from eXpert-Aligned Rubrics): learn rubrics from the gap between expert writing and model output, then train models toward expert-level text generation to reduce AI slop.
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AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production
A practical guide from AIBackends on when to use deterministic AI workflows versus autonomous agents, why control flow ownership is the deciding difference, and how hybrid agentic workflows hold up in production.
8 min · 1,885 words
Can a Model Learn New Skills as Add-Ons?
Connito Research trains residual MoE experts with their own routers on a frozen DeepSeek-V2-Lite base, then merges independently trained math, code, medical, law, and finance experts in seconds without retraining—lifting domain benchmarks while leaving the original model untouched.
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