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05 Aug 2026 edition
Python AI Django

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Django Python

Django 6.1 released

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1. The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are: Model field fetch modes for configuring…

Source: Django Weblog Jacob Walls
Python GitHub

astral-sh/uv: 0.12.2

Release Notes Released on 2026-08-05. Python Add CPython 3.15.0rc1 (#20948) Add CPython 3.14.7 (#20971) Enhancements Ensure diagnostic hints end with a newline to prevent malformed terminal output (#20959) Preview…

Source: uv Releases astral-automations-bot[bot]
JavaScript GitHub

nodejs/node: 2026-08-05, Version 26.7.0 (Current), @aduh95

Notable Changes [58717685a1] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: support loading private keys through STORE loaders (Filip Skokan) #63949 [44b940ee8c] - crypto: update root certificates to NSS 3.125 (Node.js GitHub Bot) #64746…

Source: Node.js Releases aduh95
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.1

What's Changed Default thread_minimum_size in GZipResponder by @Kludex in #3415 Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.4.1

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
Java

A 5.4 kB AWS Bedrock AgentCore Agent in Vanilla Java

An agent running on the AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime has to implement a minimal HTTP contract: POST /invocations answers requests, GET /ping reports health, both on port 8080. The JDK's built-in jdk.httpserver is…

Source: Adam Bien Blog
Java

Java Annotated Monthly – August 2026

July gave the tech world plenty to talk about, from fresh releases and useful tutorials to Kotlin updates, AI experiments, and new ideas across the wider ecosystem. We packed the best of it into one issue, so you can…

Source: IntelliJ IDEA Blog Irina Mariasova
FastAPI GitHub Python

encode/starlette: Version 1.4.0

What's Changed Lazily allocate GZipMiddleware compression resources by @Kludex in #3407 Use zlib.compressobj instead of GzipFile in GZipMiddleware by @Kludex in #3411 Offload large GZip compression by @Kludex in #3410…

Source: Starlette Releases Kludex
Vue.js GitHub JavaScript

vuejs/core: v3.5.41

For stable releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md for details. For pre-releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md of the minor branch.

Source: Vue.js Releases github-actions[bot]
Python

Announcing RetroVault

RomM is the best thing to happen to my game library, and I think it is a preview of how personal media should work generally. Point it at a collection and it scans the files, identifies their systems, enriches them with…

Source: Kenneth Reitz
Rust

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Recently, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy that I originally authored, governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to the rust-lang/rust monorepo. Notably, the new policy is not an…

Source: Inside Rust Blog Jynn Nelson
Python

Validating Data With Pointblank in Python

Learn how to validate data in Python with Pointblank: declare quality checks, split clean from failing rows, and rerun validation plans from YAML.

Source: Real Python
Java

Presentation: Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers

Laurence Tratt discusses yk, an open-source meta-tracing JIT compiler framework. He shares how to automatically speed up C-based language interpreters like Lua and MicroPython with minimal, non-invasive code changes. He…

Source: InfoQ Java Laurence Tratt
Java

Jakarta Agentic AI Hits Its First Milestone

Jakarta Agentic AI just shipped its first deliverable: version 1.0.0-M1 is live on Maven Central and the draft 1.0 specification is out for review. The project now has a specific API surface that developers can look at,…

Source: Foojay Today Dominika Tasarz
Rust

This Week in Rust 663

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want…

Source: This Week in Rust TWiR Contributors
Python

Core Dispatch #9

Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers July 18 through August 5, 2026. Python 3.15.0 release candidate 1 landed on August 4, followed by Python 3.14.7 and 3.13.15 on August 5. With the first release…

Source: Core Dispatch