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05 Aug 2026 edition

42 articles · 15 sources ·

Top topics: Rust · Python · AI

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
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
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
Python

Add a threading.run convenience function

When writing code, if one want to use some threads it’s often the same recipe: import threading def func(n, t): time.sleep(n * t) print('done') t = threading.Thread(target=func, args=(3, 1.0)) t.start() # or t =…

Source: Python Ideas Romain
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

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