The daily ledger

We Must Open the Frontier: OSI, OFAI Support Calls for the U.S. to Develop More Open Models

The OSI joins the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models.

First Public Working Draft: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 4

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.

[$] Adding BPF to blk-iocost

The scheduling of block I/O requests has long been a challenge for operating-system kernels. For many years, the performance characteristics of rotating drives meant that putting considerable resources into request…

Vondra: PostgreSQL development activity

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ~2010 we were…

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (network-manager-l2tp and urwid), Fedora (perl-Dancer2, perl-Data-Entropy, perl-DBI, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, podman-tui, rust-lru, and rust-lru0.16), Mageia (bzip2, cups-filters,…

Anthropic researchers are quitting... and now we know why

Macroscope can auto-approve your team’s PRs safely. Try it here: https://macroscope.com/?utm_source=fireship Anthropic just dropped a 154-page report on how hackers, scientists, and rival AI labs have been abusing…

How to continue GitHub Copilot app sessions in VS Code

Want to direct an AI agent in the app but finish coding in your favorite editor? In episode 9 of our beginner series, discover how to seamlessly hand off any active session from the GitHub Copilot app straight into VS…

Cursor + GitLab: Modernizing Legacy Java with Dual CI/CD Pipelines

Establish dependable quality gates before migrating legacy code by pairing Cursor with the GitLab MCP Server and GitLab Duo. In this hands-on session, Principal Developer Advocate Michael Friedrich demonstrates how to…

3 ways to streamline AI code reviews across your team

AI coding tools increase developer output, but growing pull request backlogs can easily overwhelm engineering teams. In this video, GitHub experts explain why review fatigue happens and how to calibrate your workflows…

CSS-Tricks in Limbo

Stalling installing