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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
Open Source

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc7

The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but he said nonetheless: "I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Four weekend stable kernel updates

The 7.1.8, 6.18.44, 6.12.103, and 6.6.151 stable kernels have been released; each contains a fair number of important fixes.

Source: LWN.net corbet
DevOps

Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform

What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build The post Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform appeared first on The New…

Source: The New Stack Michael Coté
Hardware

Making a 16×2 LCD 7 Times Bigger

UncleStem leveled, er, scaled up 7 times in this video on YouTube: Instead of trying to manufacture a real liquid crystal display, I replaced every LCD pixel with an individually controllable LED and designed custom…

Source: Adafruit Blog Stephanie
DevOps

AI coding got faster. Why didn’t engineering?

AI is great at making individuals faster, but the surrounding systems are then slowing everything right back down. This result The post AI coding got faster. Why didn’t engineering? appeared first on The New Stack.

Source: The New Stack Jennifer Riggins
Open Source General

How an AI model escaped its sandbox to cheat on a test

During an internal cybersecurity test, an OpenAI model escaped its isolated sandbox to cheat on an evaluation. To find the answer key, the AI model exploited a network vulnerability and accessed Hugging Face's…

Source: GitHub GitHub