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Perplexity swaps DynamoDB for in-house database and cuts latency by 5x
The company behind the AI-powered search engine migrated its serving layer to CobbleDB, an internal database written in Rust, and cut batch read latency by up to 5x while saving at least 20% on storage.
Git-bug keeps bug tracking inside the Git repository itself
Open source tool stores issues as Git objects, syncs via regular push/pull, and works without a connection to any external service.
OpenAI and Anthropic Show Reports That Models Try to Escape
OpenAI and Anthropic published technical reports on September 21 with data on the behavior of the new models.
Datadog creates tests on its own and stops relying on scripts that break
Datadog entered technical preview with two features from its Digital Experience Monitoring suite. They are called Journey Monitoring and Bits Testing.
Native Linux arrives on Snapdragon X2 in developer preview
Linux gained an official support preview for laptops with Snapdragon X2 series processors. Qualcomm announced the release on September 24
Vercel launches scriptc, a compiler that turns TypeScript into native binaries without a JS engine
Vercel Labs' experimental project uses TypeScript's own compiler to generate executables in C, LLVM IR, or WebAssembly, promising near-instant startup, but the community has already pointed out serious compatibility and performance limits.
Open source project gives KVM virtual machines near-native Nvidia GPU access
virtio-nvgpu forwards Nvidia driver ioctls between guest and host instead of translating API calls, reaching 98% of bare-metal performance under heavy rendering loads.
Gemini Starts Making Calls for You in Pixel 11 Test
Google has launched Call for Me, an experimental feature that lets Gemini call businesses on the user's behalf. For those building assistants and chatbots, the case is a design study on where AI should decide and where it needs to stop.
Lovable hits $600 million in annualized revenue with its vibe coding bet
The Swedish startup, which became synonymous with 'programming by intent,' jumped from $500 million to $600 million in ARR in three months and says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 already use its platform.
OpenAI sets up board of mathematicians after months of friction
OpenAI created an independent panel of mathematicians to advise the company on the relationship between AI and mathematical research. The group is called Advisory Group
Epoch AI shows AI cost falling 47% per quarter since 2023
A survey by research organization Epoch AI, highlighted by researcher Aymeric Roucher, compares the price drop in artificial intelligence with that of other transformative technologies in history, and puts it well ahead.
ESP32-S31: new Espressif microcontroller runs Linux with a real MMU
The chip brings gigabit Ethernet, USB host, Sv32 paging, and already runs community-made ports of Linux 6.18 and 7.1, narrowing the gap between a microcontroller and an SBC like the Raspberry Pi.
Windows Zenith targets the dev who currently chooses Linux
Windows Zenith emerges as Microsoft's bet on a system built for development and local AI. The proposal circulated on September 21.
WordPress fixes critical flaw that loads PHP without authentication
WordPress released version 7.1.2 on September 22 to fix CVE 2026 87902. The flaw received a CVSS score of 9.2 in the official advisory.
Claude Opus 5.5 audits 200,000 lines in under 3 hours
Claude Opus 5.5 was announced by Anthropic on Tuesday, the 22nd. The model opens the Claude 5.5 family. The company says its performance matches Fable 5.1
Google Adds Cycle-Level Kernel Profiling to XProf for TPUs
The open-source profiling tool for TPU workloads gained a suite that exposes cycle-by-cycle hardware counters inside Pallas kernels, previously black boxes in traces.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half, but benchmarks against rivals come with caveats
OpenAI expands the GPT-6 family with two models cheaper than Astra, promising near-flagship performance at a fraction of the cost. The numbers check out, but the comparison methodology deserves a close read.
Type punning in C and C++ silently fails at -O2
A pointer cast that has always worked in practice can be undefined behavior and disappear from the binary as soon as the compiler turns on aggressive optimizations. Understand why this is even more treacherous in C++.
Linear rewrote its CI to keep up with AI-generated code
The company behind Linear explains how it cut CI wait time and runner cost after code agents started multiplying the volume of pull requests. The account, published on September 21, is a practical playbook for anyone facing the same bottleneck.
Password-stealing malware exposes more than 1,700 US water utilities to hackers
SpyCloud research found stolen credentials from nearly two in ten US water and wastewater utilities, including access to networks that control physical pumps and valves.
Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Audio, camera-free AI glasses to respond to spying accusations
At Connect 2026, the company introduced smart glasses that swap the camera for high-quality audio, trying to escape the "pervert glasses" nickname that video-recording models had earned.
Apple's LensVLM-9B compresses long documents into images and expands only what matters
The 9B-parameter model, published on Hugging Face on September 21, 2026, turns text into compressed images and only decodes at high resolution the passages the user's question actually needs.
Cloudflare Cuts 100 TB of Memory From 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache by Rewriting Structures in Rust
Five successive changes to the in-memory data representation, from Vec to a wire-format byte buffer, reduced the size of each cache entry by 56% and freed up about 100 TB of RAM across Cloudflare's DNS resolver fleet.
Google hit with €403 million fine for tracking location
Google was fined €403 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission, known as the DPC. The decision came out on September 21.
Muse tops the App Store and gets blocked by Amazon in the same week
Muse, Meta's AI agent, reached first place among free apps on the App Store in the US. The assistant even surpassed ChatGPT.
Grok 4.7 targets code and keeps the same per-token price as its predecessor
Grok 4.7 was launched by SpaceXAI on September 21, with a focus on coding and knowledge work. The company promises half the operational cost.
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With 40% Lower Inference Cost
Anthropic's new flagship model promises the performance of Claude Fable 5.1 at a much lower price, at a moment when Anthropic and OpenAI compete over who can cut the cost of production AI the most.
Cloudflare Workers gets gateway pattern and feature workers to avoid a monolith at the edge
A technical report published on InfoQ describes how to split edge logic into specialized workers connected by service bindings, without paying a network hop, so that a deploy doesn't become an incident for every tenant.
Zig banned AI-generated contributions and swapped GitHub for Codeberg
Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig language, detailed in an interview with JetBrains why the project rejects AI-generated code and why it moved its infrastructure away from GitHub.
Npunlock runs custom C kernels on Intel Core Ultra NPUs
Open source project reverse-engineers the path Intel never opened: writing C directly for the NPU's ACT-SHAVE cores, bypassing the official graph compiler.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with 40% lower cost and coding gains
New model matches the performance of Claude Fable 5.1, outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol in a software development benchmark, and arrives on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure clouds with a reduced price.
Google Open-Sources AX, a Kubernetes-Inspired AI Agent Orchestrator
AX treats autonomous agents as stateful actors, not as microservices or batch jobs, and uses Kubernetes-style CRDs to suspend and resume tasks in under a second.
Agentes de IA otimizam código Rust e superam bibliotecas de referência como umap-learn e xgboost
An experiment documented by Max Woolf shows how well-designed prompts lead Claude Opus, GPT-5.3 Codex and GPT-6 Astra to rewrite Rust crates up to 20x faster, but it also exposes how the agents cheat if you leave a gap in the benchmark.
GitLab Duo Self-Hosted now runs models via Microsoft Foundry in customer-owned environments
The GitLab Duo Self-Hosted extension allows the use of GPT, Claude, Llama, and Mistral hosted within the customer's own Azure environment, without sending prompts and code to GitLab-managed infrastructure.
Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 with 20% cheaper tokens and Fable-level coding performance
The new model replaces Opus 5 with lower prices and performance that surpasses Fable, Anthropic's larger model, on several coding benchmarks.
AMD tops $1 trillion and joins the club once reserved for Nvidia
AMD topped the $1 trillion mark in market value for the first time this Monday, the 21st. The figure is equivalent to about R$5.14 trillion.
Codex Stored a Year of Drafts, Only OpenAI Could Investigate
For about a year, Codex received all of the drafts by Tristan Buckmaster, a professor at the Courant Institute at NYU. Alongside Levent Alpöge
Astra for Law hits the mark and arrives at law firms
Astra for Law is OpenAI's new platform for legal work, launched on Thursday, the 17th. The infrastructure combines GPT 6 Astra.
Changesets v3 cuts install size by 88% and switches peer deps from major to patch bump
Seven years after v2, the JavaScript monorepo versioning tool went ESM only, requires Node 22.11+, and changes a behavior that had drawn complaints for years.
OpenAI uses ad cookie to link external browsing to ChatGPT accounts
A study by Buchodi's Threat Intel shows how the __obi cookie, classified as 'analytics' by OpenAI, leaves ChatGPT and returns from partner sites carrying the user's browsing and purchase data.
Laya arrives as an open source alternative to TypeSafe AI's Jev
ConvAI Innovations launches a sub-35ms decision model with open weights, routing for more than 100 languages, and benchmarks the author says outperform Jev, even though it's free.
Alibaba open-sources OpenCodeReview, an AI-powered code review tool
A Go CLI under the Apache-2.0 license blends deterministic pipelines with an LLM agent to review pull requests, promising higher precision than Claude Code while spending a ninth of the tokens.
Uber redesigns M3DB sharding with subclusters to contain cascading failures
Uber changed M3DB's shard placement algorithm to limit the blast radius of node failures, maintenance, and scaling in large time-series clusters.
OpenAI Has Accounts Hijacked From an Image Sent to the Forum
OpenAI had employee accounts on ChatGPT hijacked by three researchers. The trio is made up of Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini.
There's still time: Vinted opens Tech opportunities in Europe with a relocation package
Vinted, Lithuania's first tech unicorn, is looking for Brazilian tech talent to join its teams in Vilnius.
Gemini breached three companies during security test
Gemini, Google's consumer-facing AI model, breached the systems of three companies during cybersecurity evaluations.
Anthropic opens its doors for external evaluators to test its models
Anthropic chose Accenture as its first external evaluator. The announcement came on 9/18. Amodei to slow down the advance of the most advanced AI systems.
Qwen-Image-2.1 arrives open source, merging image generation and editing into a single model
Alibaba releases new Qwen family image model with 7 billion parameters, 2K support, and editing via up to 10 reference images, available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Bun rewrites 535,000 lines of Zig to Rust in four months with AI
The creator of the JavaScript runtime used AI agents to port the entire codebase, eliminated chronic memory leaks, and reopened the debate over trusting millions of machine-generated lines in production.
Google ADK for Kotlin reaches version 1.0 with feature parity to Python
Google's Agent Development Kit gains a mature Kotlin implementation, with hierarchical multi-agent systems, compile-time typed tools, and native support for on-device AI on Android.
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