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09 Aug 2026 edition
Python AI Django

Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

GitHub Models is now retired

GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

SQLite compressed text-history prototypes

Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Java

With LLMs Web Frameworks Become Irrelevant

Web frameworks solve human problems. Readable abstractions, conventions a team can share, a line on a CV that outlasts the project. All of it is about people, and all of it assumes a human types the code and another…

Source: Adam Bien Blog
Rust GitHub

actix/actix-web: actix-web: v4.14.1

Close idle HTTP/1 keep-alive connections during graceful shutdown and let active connections finish only their current request before closing.

Source: Actix Web Releases robjtede
Rust GitHub

actix/actix-web: actix-http: v3.13.3

Close idle HTTP/1 keep-alive connections during graceful server shutdown and close active connections after their current request finishes.

Source: Actix Web Releases robjtede
Java

Security Baked Into the JVM: two Subjects, one call

The constraint system stops a bad call before it leaves the JVM. The Safe Codebase Audit Pipeline stops bad code before a client ever loads it. What remains is identity: who is calling, and can you verify it? Most…

Source: A Java geek