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08 Sep 2026 edition

418 articles · 56 sources · 5 papers ·

Top topics: General · JavaScript · AI

AWS AI

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
Python AI Django

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
AWS

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 now supports custom plugins

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets you run your own custom Python plugins on the managed versions of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions. You host your plugin code in public or private repositories you control…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
Rust

Why is this unaligned?!

I have a struct of two u64's, and the code that tries ref_from_bytes, crashes, even though alignment is 8, and the slice is a multiple of 8. Even if I try a slice multiple of 16 (336..352 instead of 328..344), it still…

Source: Rust Users Forum culebron
AWS

AWS Transform is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. With this launch, customers operating in…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
Java

Fast JSON and Furious Runtime-airhacks.fm podcast

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes The #413 airhacks.fm episode with David Kral (Verdent) about: high performance JSON parsing without bytecode manipulation is available for download.

Source: Adam Bien Blog
DevOps

Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling

AI/ML and complex batch workloads continue to push the boundaries of Kubernetes scheduling. Following the foundational workload-centric enhancements introduced in previous releases, Kubernetes v1.37 delivers the next…

Source: Kubernetes Blog
Architecture

Fragments: September 8

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them:. This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image…

Source: Martin Fowler Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)
Rust

How do I cast String to &str?

Sorry for the noob question. But I need to use &str, but can't find a way to concatenate it to return a value. I don't know how to implement the as_str() or just & here as instructed here. (click for more details)…

Source: Rust Users Forum canina

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