Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
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AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available
AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transform is supported. This capability helps engineering teams analyze and remediate technical debt across source code…
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock, enabling you to process full codebases, lengthy documents, and multi-turn agent histories in a single request. Models reason…
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports sharing streams with stream URLs
Amazon GameLift Streams now offers stream URLs, which give end users temporary, unauthenticated access to a playable stream session in a supported web browser. Recipients need no AWS account, no credentials, and no…
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7 instance types
Amazon G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance compared to previous-generation G6 instances. Whether you are deploying conversational AI…
AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for WDL workflows
AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows, enabling you to set maximum execution duration for individual tasks. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that…
aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.50.3
2.50.3 2026-08-03 AWS Direct Connect Features Added route visibility support for AWS Direct Connect, allowing customers to call ListVirtualInterfaceRoutes to view the BGP routes including AS path and BGP communities…
aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1102.0
3.1102.0(2026-08-03) Chores scripts: add api-extractor.json validation for packages with public annotations (#8242) (77c1c5c0) core/protocols: switch to v2 JSON codecs (#8234) (54c1c236) Documentation Changes…
AWS Resilience Hub now provides recommended resilience tests
AWS Resilience Hub now offers recommended resilience tests that help platform engineering and site reliability teams validate how their services respond to and recover from known failure scenarios. Resilience Hub…
AWS Organizations now provides maximum account quota visibility in Service Quotas
AWS Organizations customers can now view their maximum number of accounts quota and its utilization directly through AWS Service Quotas instead of relying on AWS Support or AWS account teams to determine their current…
aws/aws-cli: 2.36.15
Tagging 2.36.15 release.
Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services
Learn how to use the calling services feature in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to identify which applications are calling your databases and view their performance metrics, so you can pinpoint root causes and…
AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers
AWS Lambda now supports a maximum of 10,000 event pollers for Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings (ESMs), a 5x increase from the previous limit of 2,000. This enables you to reach up to 100,000…
Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors…
Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning
Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning for over 25 open-source models. These include popular models from gpt-oss, Gemma, Llama, Nemotron, and Qwen model families. In addition to…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day…
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive…
AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQL
Today, AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization announced general availability of offline source transformation, enabling customers to modernize Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL…
AWS WAF now supports Miggo Security managed rule groups for emerging threats and AI/ML application protection
AWS WAF now supports two new partner managed rule groups from Miggo Security, available through AWS Marketplace: Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – High Emerging Application Threats, and Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – AI/ML…
Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) has increased the maximum image layer size limit to 200 GB, for images pushed via Docker push. Previously, packaging assets required splitting data across multiple layers…
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 15 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS…
Node.js 26.6.0 (Current)
nodejs/node: 2026-08-03, Version 26.6.0 (Current), @aduh95
Notable Changes [5a36018abc] - doc: add MikeMcC399 as collaborator (Mike McCready) #64656 [9b04f82d7b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) ffi: add getCurrentEventLoop (Paolo Insogna) #64323 [bb51f2c960] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner: add…
Node.js 24.19.0 (LTS)
nodejs/node: 2026-08-03, Version 24.19.0 'Krypton' (LTS), @aduh95
Notable Changes [d08872b530] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: implement blob.textStream() (Matthew Aitken) #64036 [35222948be] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update OpenSSL build config to support compression (Tim Perry) #62217…
rust-lang/rust-analyzer: 2026-08-03
Commit: b54a82b Release: 2026-08-03 (v0.3.2997) New Features #22306 emit inactive-code diagnostics in macros. #22959 support CovariantUnsafeCell. Performance Improvements #22966 avoid having a separate query for defined…
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
Attackers Exploit N-able Patch Bypass Flaw on RMM Servers
Over the weekend, the vendor discovered another vector of authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 that gives attackers administrator access.
New Tool Traces AI Videos Back to Their Source
Researchers dug into the root of the problem with the goal of promoting industry collaboration on improved protective measures.
Anthropic: Claude Attacks Result of Security Gaps, Not Model Issues
Last month's incidents in which the AI model breached real-world systems derived from over-permissioning, especially with Internet access.
“If You Have a Good Idea, People Will Listen”: Akshay Joshi’s 15 Years at EDB
EDB employees tend to stick around. Learn how Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager Akshay Joshi has evolved his role over 15 years with EDB.
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children,…
supabase/supabase: self-hosted/v0.7.1
Self-hosted Supabase v0.7.1: Add update.sh for in-place updates
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New
Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control. Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New…
The Codename One JavaScript Port Is Now Free and Open Source
Codename One's JavaScript port is now open source, available on every plan, and buildable locally without an account. ParparVM is the default, while TeaVM remains available through a build hint. The post The Codename…
Chinese Actor Weaponizes Deepseek AI Agent to Attack Security Firm
Researchers intercepted and investigated the model, which was attempting to compromise more than 1,200 hosts for proxyjacking to launch further attacks.
Umair Shahid: PostgreSQL Lockup vs Stale Connection: How to Tell Them Apart
“The database is locked up.” We heard some version of that sentence more than once this past week, from the same team, about what looked like the same problem. It was not the same problem. Once, Postgres had genuinely…
ChronoWatch X2040 – A DIY watch with off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi RP2040 round display, 3D printed case, and custom firmware
If you’ve ever wanted to build your own watch, the ChronoWatch X2040 DIY watch allows you to do it the easy way with a Waveshare RP2040-Touch-LCD-1.28 touch LCD board, a 3D-printed case, a 3.7V LiPo battery, a few…
Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, GraalVM, TornadoVM, Micronaut, Quarkus, JobRunr, Maven
This week's Java roundup for July 27th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 28; the GA release of GPULlama3.java 1.0; point releases of Micronaut, Quarkus and JobRunr;…
MCP Gets Its Biggest Rewrite and Other Python News for August 2026
MCP drops sessions and renames FastMCP, Claude Opus 5 turns thinking on by default, and Python 3.15 ships its final beta.
Is There Really a Fix for CISO Fatigue?
Accountability without any real authority is driving CISO burnout, and organizations need to take notice.
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
When do we build the moon arcology?
Quiz: Bypassing the GIL for Parallel Processing in Python
Test your understanding of the GIL, process-based parallelism, and the ways to run Python threads in parallel across multiple CPU cores.
Podcast: WebAssembly on the JVM: Feature Evolution, Performance, and the Transition to Endive
Andrea Peruffo discusses the evolution of WebAssembly beyond the browser and its growing role on the server-side JVM. He covers performance advancements in Wasm runtimes, moving from interpreters to efficient JIT…
28.9M-parameter LLM runs locally on ESP32-S3 at 9 tokens/s
Slava S. (slvDev) has optimized a 28.9M-parameter LLM running locally on an ESP32-S3 development board at around 9 tokens/s while generating text, or more exactly, telling short stories. We’ve written about LLMs and…
A 13-year-old PostgreSQL bug, found by running Postgres on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG
Every so often, running Postgres differently teaches the project something it couldn't have learned any other way. This is one of those times. A cascading standby reconnect bug that has been sitting in PostgreSQL's…
Notes from week 31
A big week, with a couple of long-running efforts finally wrapping up: the Source Cooperative mirror is essentially complete now that we have direct write access, and the three-week Ceph resize has converged. Elsewhere,…
Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the…
$299.99 ASUS UGen300 USB AI accelerator combines 40 TOPS Hailo-10H chip with 8GB LPDDR4
ASUS UGen300 USB AI accelerator features a 40 TOPS Hailo-10H AI processor and 8GB of LPDDR4 memory to support large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs), and AI vision workloads while consuming less…
Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0
Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to define agents as typed domain objects. Built on Spring AI, Embabel supports multiple model…
Aliensense NXS is a plug-and-play GMSL 2/3 and CAN-FD sensor board for robots
Abu Dhabi-based Aliensense has introduced NXS, a compact sensor board designed to easily connect cameras and sensors to robots, without custom wiring or driver work. The board relies on a single GMSL 2/3 cable for…
OpenAI Astra 🤖, Larry Ellison's bet 💰, GitHub CLI stacked diffs 👨💻
eve: AI agents without the plumbing
The same agent, built twice: once without eve, once with it. Before a support agent answers a single customer, you need a Slack app with tokens and webhooks, auth for your billing providers, somewhere safe to run code,…