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Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection

Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI

The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

How to Get Your Side Project Seen and Gain Paying Users

In 2022, I built a small micro-SaaS in my spare time and eventually sold it for a few thousand dollars. And today, with AI tools, it probably would've been even easier to build. But what has changed d

AI Evaluation Engineering: Build a Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Platform from Scratch [Full Handbook]

The gap between a demo that impresses and a system you can trust is measured in evals. I want to start with a story that's happening in hundreds of engineering teams right now. A team builds a RAG app

Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer

30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow

Everything we launched during Agents Week

Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.

North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief

Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?

LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity

Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved

As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them

Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK

Flutter Frontend Systems Design: How to Think Like a Senior Engineer in the AI Age

Systems design has always been treated as a backend problem. Ask a group of Flutter engineers what systems design means, and most will describe server architecture: load balancers, databases, and micr

How to Add Dynamic Features to a Static Site Without a Server

Static sites are having a moment, and it makes sense. A folder of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files is fast to load, cheap to host, and very hard to break. Tools like Astro, Eleventy, and Hugo build tha

Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack

Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either

Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status

Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to…

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

No, no nasties to see here, guv...

Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack

Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape

Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up

The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic

Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2

Apple Watch redesign ⌚, OpenAI hack timeline 🔒, agentic code quality 👨‍💻

How to build stacked PRs with the gh-stack skill

AI coding agents can generate massive amounts of code, which often leads to huge pull requests that are difficult to review. Using the gh-stack skill and GitHub Copilot, you can automatically break down these massive…

The hardest part of scaling AI

In this clip from our OpenClaw fireside chat, Peter Steinberger reflects on the real bottlenecks when scaling software development. While automation can handle testing and reviews, human attention, taste, and thoughtful…

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