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AI & Machine Learning

1. Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models

Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Enterprises face operational vulnerabilities when relying entirely on monolithic AI APIs. Japanese AI firm Sakana AI designed Fugu as a response to these concentration risks by creating an orchestration language model that calls upon a pool of varied models […] The post Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models appeared first on AI News.

2. L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT

L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production, […] The post L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT appeared first on...

3. Building Browser-Using AI Agents in Python

Most AI agent tutorials start with an API.

4. Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

5. Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.

6. Codex-maxxing for long-running work

Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

7. Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.

Software Development

1. Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot

The AI developer tools consolidation continues apace, with news that Cursor has snapped up open-source coding assistant Continue — its The post Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams.

Late-night debugging sessions aren’t a rare edge case anymore. They are what happens when reviews can’t keep up with volume. The post Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams. appeared first on The New Stack.

3. A public Sentry key is all it takes to hijack Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

On June 17, the Threat Labs team at Tenet Security, an AI-agent security startup newly out of stealth, documented an The post A public Sentry key is all it takes to hijack Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant

AI agents need the right information to work well. Whether they manage to find it is the difference between success The post Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant appeared first on The New Stack.

5. “An agent is an LLM and a harness”: What Nvidia really thinks about OpenClaw

How much of Nvidia is reflected by their visionary CEO, Jenson Huang? With his praise and later support of OpenClaw, The post “An agent is an LLM and a harness”: What Nvidia really thinks about OpenClaw appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare

Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare I run a small Astro blog on Cloudflare Pages. It mixes developer write-ups with personal, everyday posts, so adding comments came with one hard constraint: no login wall. A GitHub-login widget like Giscus or Utterances would shut out every non-developer reader. That ruled out the easy paths. Disqus is heavy and tracker-laden. Waline is genuinely good, but it wants a backend + database running outside Cloudflare — one more thing to ...

7. The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)

There's a chart going around: intelligence on the y-axis, cost to run on the x-axis, and a green "most attractive" quadrant in the upper left where high intelligence meets low cost. The takeaway everyone's posting is that the green quadrant is almost entirely open source. DeepSeek, GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, Qwen all show up smart-enough and cheap, while the closed frontier models sit expensive on the right. It's a real trend and the chart isn't wrong. But read the x-axis label: cost to run is a blende...

8. Scale Databases: Read/Write Replicas in Laravel

The Single-Node Bottleneck In the early days of a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, a single database instance handles everything. When a user submits an invoice, the database writes the row. When an executive loads their dashboard, the database runs a complex GROUP BY read query. As you scale, this creates a catastrophic resource collision. Heavy analytical read queries require massive amounts of CPU and RAM to sort and aggregate data. If a reporting query takes 3 seconds to run, it locks t...

9. The Best Developers I Know Have Terrible Resumes

Your GitHub Is Your Real Resume Most developer resumes look exactly the same. Same skills. Same buzzwords. Same claims. "5+ years experience" "Expert in React" "Senior Full Stack Developer" But very little proof. When evaluating developers, I've found that the strongest signal is rarely a resume. It's what they've actually built. A GitHub profile can reveal more in five minutes than a resume can reveal in five pages. You can see: Real projects Commit history Open source contributions Technologie...

10. Safari Technology Preview 246 widens color, images and attr()

I opened the STP 246 notes between meetings and ended up writing four little test stylesheets before I closed the tab, which is usually how a release earns its keep. The short version: this preview pushes on the CSS color and image surfaces, gives attr() a longer reach, and quietly turns on two typography knobs in preview. Per the source, this is Safari Technology Preview 246 — a preview build, not a stable Safari release, so treat everything here as engine-specific behaviour you can experiment ...

11. React in Production — Ship It, Monitor It, Sleep at Night

Read Time: ~15 minutes | The gap between "it works on my machine" and "it works for everyone, always" Prerequisites: The full React Mastery Series — Parts 1–5 Part 6: The Finale 🎉 📌 What You'll Learn By the end of this guide, you'll be able to: ✅ Implement authentication with JWT and session cookies ✅ Add OAuth (Google / GitHub login) in minutes ✅ Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions to automate your deployments ✅ Catch and monitor errors in production with Sentry ✅ Protect routes and handle auth st...

12. I Was Quiet, But I Was Building: My Journey After the First Step

A few days ago, I shared my first step toward becoming the person I want to be. I talked about changing my habits, becoming more consistent, and starting a journey of growth. I planned to keep writing regularly, but sometimes life takes you into a different direction. During this time, instead of writing about progress, I was actually making it. I spent my time working on projects, strengthening my foundation, and taking small steps toward the mission of becoming the person I want to become. Som...

13. The Plan Blocked Me. That Was the Correct Outcome.

The brief was approved. Scope defined, questions closed, acceptance criteria written. The obvious move was to start building. I ran the Plan phase first. Planning and the Plan phase are not the same thing. Planning produces direction. The Plan phase produces a gate. Every engineer plans. Sprint boards. Jira tickets. A rough sequence before a large refactor starts. It works well enough because a human engineer carries what the plan does not say. They know what they did not write down. An agent do...

14. Use a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API in Aider or Cline — one npx command

Coding assistants like Aider, Cline, and Continue all speak the OpenAI wire protocol — point them at a base_url, give them an API key, done. That makes swapping in a different LLM backend trivial... if that backend uses Authorization: Bearer. The flat-priced, auto-routing API I'd been using doesn't. It's distributed through RapidAPI, which authenticates with an X-RapidAPI-Key header instead of Bearer. So I couldn't just drop it into Aider. The fix turned out to be ~120 lines, so I open-sourced i...

15. Python for Beginners — Part 8: Object-Oriented Python

Part 8 of an 8-part beginner-friendly series on learning Python from scratch. Congratulations — you've made it to the final part! Everything you've learned — variables, control flow, collections, functions, file I/O, error handling — can be organized into classes and objects. This is object-oriented programming (OOP), and it's how professional Python code is written. OOP isn't required to write working programs, but it's essential for writing code that scales, is maintainable, and professional. ...

Programming Languages

1. How 4 bytes of padding make array clearing 49% faster

I wrote about interesting amd64-specific quirk. If a large array is 4-byte misaligned, making it 8-byte aligned can make the array clearing ~49% faster (at least on my Intel machine). In the post I also touch on Intel's REP STOSQ implementation, ERMS and also on other optimizations related to array clearing. submitted by /u/watman12 [link] [comments]

2. p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names

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3. Deno Desktop Apps

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4. Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show

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5. 256 Lines or Less: Test Case Minimization

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6. Your code is fast - if you’re lucky

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7. Datastar: It’s Pretty Good — with David Nolen

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8. PivCo-Huffman “merge” operations

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9. OCaml 5.5.0 released

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Game Development

1. Steam Machine pricing starts at $1,049 for 512GB model

The Steam Machine price tag has soared past $1,000 (though not by much).

2. Report: EA conducts layoffs in Hyderabad, India and the US

The latest round of layoffs reportedly impacts workers across the 'recruitment, customer support, trust and safety, and IT teams.'

3. Ubisoft eliminates 93 roles in San Francisco

A California WARN notice shows 93 roles impacted.

4. Godot confirms it tolerates 'some AI assistance' but rejects 'vibe coded' tag

'Any slop PR is automatically rejected, as simple as that.'

5. French union STJV to commence national strike outside Quantic Dream

The strike will begin in Paris later this week in protest of ongoing layoffs and instability.

6. 'Larger budgets and longer schedules do not lead to better games:' Thank You For Your Application recoups dev costs in 22 hours

The indie title was made by a team fresh out of university.

7. Obituary: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Guillemot established the influential French publisher in 1986 alongside his brothers.

Gaming News

1. How To Play Call Of Duty’s DMZ Beta In 2026

Call of Duty's DMZ extraction mode returns with the launch of Modern Warfare 4, adding new features to expand on the beta version previously introduced in 2022's Modern Warfare 2. If you've never tried DMZ or want to get some reps in before the new game releases, you can still play the original mode. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to access this free-to-play mode and give you some tips for getting started with the DMZ beta. How to access DMZ on all platforms This beta version of DMZ l...

2. Halo: Campaign Evolved Cross-Play and Cross-Saves Explained

Halo: Campaign Evolved is an Unreal Engine 5-powered remake of the seminal FPS that fans first fell in love with over two decades ago. And for the first time, this beloved entry in the franchise finally sports four-player co-op, allowing friends to team up together both online and in local split-screen play. However, in an age where there are so many ecosystem choices, you're bound to have friends on different platforms than you, leaving you to wonder if you'll be able to play with them via cros...

3. These Official PS5 Gaming Earbuds Are 50% Off

If you're looking for a lightweight gaming headset--or in this case, gaming earbuds--Sony's PlayStation Pulse Wireless Earbuds are discounted to their lowest-ever price of $99 at Walmart right now (down from $200). It's also $50 less than Amazon's previous lowest-ever price of $149. Note that the price cut only applies to the White Pulse Wireless Earbuds; the Midnight Black model is still listed at full price. See at Walmart These earbuds feature planar magnetic drivers and built-in microphones ...

4. DualSense Controllers Are Discounted For A Limited Time At Target

First-party controllers are quite pricey these days, but Target has a limited-time sale on the PlayStation 5 DualSense wireless controller for a limited time. Numerous color options are on sale at steep discounts compared to thier normal $80 price tags. The Gray Camo colorway is the best of all the deals, marked down to just $55, while the Chroma Indigo, Chroma Pearl, Sterling Silver, and Cobalt Blue are all $60. See all deals at Target The Gray Camo colorway is the best of all the deals, marked...

5. The Lego Piranha Plant Set Is Down to Its Lowest Price Ahead Of Prime Day

Lego Super Mario Piranha Plant (540 Pieces) $37.97 (Was $60) See at Amazon See at Target One of the most popular Super Mario Lego sets, the Lego Super Mario Piranha Plant, is currently down to $37.97 (was $60) at Amazon and Target, which is the kit's lowest-ever price to date. The Lego Piranha Plant set is rumored to be scheduled for retirement at the end of July, so this might be one of your only chances to pick up the 540-piece build before it's too late. It's worth noting that other Lego sets...

6. AMD’s FSR Upscaling 4.1 Comes To Older GPUs, Steam Machine And Xbox ROG Ally Support On The Way

AMD has announced that owners of RDNA 3 GPUs can now enjoy the benefits offered by its latest version of AI-powered upscaling, FSR 4.1. This comes a few weeks earlier than its July estimate, with the promise for more devices down the line, too. FSR Upscaling 4.1 functions similarly to other upscaling technologies on the market, and comes much closer to the performance and quality of Nvidia's market-leading DLSS than previous iterations. It's the same technology that underpins the PlayStation 5 P...

7. Death Stranding Movie Is A “Two-Hour Art Movie,” Kojima Says, Admitting It Might Not Work

Hideo Kojima has shared new insight into the Death Stranding movie, while director Michael Sarnoski has revealed a key detail about it as well. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima said he wanted to "try a different path" with the adaptation of Death Stranding for film. That path, he said, is to make a "two-hour art movie" as opposed to re-telling the story of the games. Kojima admitted this plan might not work. "I don't know if this will be successful, but that's the goal," he said. The Dea...

8. The Internet Has Some Thoughts On The Steam Machine’s $1,000+ Price

Valve has officially announced the Steam Machine's price, and if you're looking to get one of the not-consoles when they launch on June 30, you're going to have to spend over $1,000 at minimum. As you can probably guess, eager players on the internet were not exactly thrilled by that news, and they let their voices be heard on social media. Some questioned if the Steam Machine should even be released at all at this point, pointing to the massive price tag that was required as AI puts a strain on...

9. Supergirl’s Milly Alcock Reacts To Seeing Her Fortnite Skin

Epic Games is teaming up with DC and Warner Bros. to bring Milly Alcock's Supergirl to Fortnite, alongside her cute little pooch Krypto. Epic has posted a video showing Alcock's reaction to seeing her Supergirl outfit in the game. "I think it's pretty cool," she said. While she's excited to see her Supergirl come to Fortnite, she thinks her canine companion will steal the show. "I think I will soon be forgotten and Krypto will reign," she said. Alcock also had a plea for people playing Fortnite ...

10. Valve Is Making It Easier To Build Your Own Steam Machine

The specs and pricing for Steam Machine have been revealed, and the preorders are opening soon. But if you'd rather sidestep that headache and build your own Steam Machine, Valve is officially making it easier for players to do so. While speaking with The Verge, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the recently launched SteamOS 3.8.10 is part of the company's ongoing attempts to make the Steam operating system "more compatible with desktop hardware." That includes "improved compatibility"...

11. Sand: Raiders of Sophie is like Sea of Thieves on land, but even tougher for solo players

Cruise the dunes in search of loot and get into cannon battles with other salty crews.

12. 'Our game isn't gore porn' says director of game whose trailer features a zombie baby's skull being crushed and someone's eye getting scooped out with a knife

Ill's extreme gore-horror actually draws inspiration from Half-Life 2's Ravenholm: "We are doing our best to achieve that exact same effect, but with modern standards."

13. Realistic Roblox FPS made by two people hits 7 million plays, reminding us that Roblox games don't have to be terrible

TTK is a tactical shooter inspired by Ready Or Not.

14. An absurdly large patch filled with over 2K lines of changes is how the devs of early access co-op RPG Fellowship hope to hook players on running MMO-like dungeons without the MMO

Season 3 brings its biggest and most important update ever.

15. I usually skip soulslikes not made by FromSoftware, but one Steam demo just won me over

Me to my fiancee when I'm playing Prison of Husks and I reach the Prison of Husks: "That's the Prison of Husks."

Robotics

1. FORT and NVIDIA launch AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint

FORT Robotics and NVIDIA launch Outside-In Safety, using external sensors to improve autonomous robot productivity and worker safety. The post FORT and NVIDIA launch AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. How Intrinsic eliminates manual robot coding

Alphabet’s Intrinsic has debuted its AI-powered "Intelligence Cell" to simplify factory automation and eliminate complex robot programming. The post How Intrinsic eliminates manual robot coding appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities

Kinisi's KR1 humanoid robot, its Bristol-based engineering team, and its physical AI capabilities will be integrated into Bear Robotics. The post Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Eclipse Automation launches RealitySync simulation platform

Eclipse said its new RealitySync platform allows manufacturers to step into their future factory before it’s built. The post Eclipse Automation launches RealitySync simulation platform appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics

NVIDIA said Halos connects AI compute, system software, sensor data, safety applications, and inspection for robotic systems. The post NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation

Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks without human intervention. The post Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Güdel to show grinding beyond stationary robots with vertical, horizontal motion at Automate 2026

Güdel has added two degrees of freedom to heavy-duty robotic grinding applications through its TMV and TMF systems. The post Güdel to show grinding beyond stationary robots with vertical, horizontal motion at Automate 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report.

Tech General

1. The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

2. OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

3. Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.

4. Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents

The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber's board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsuits.

5. The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

6. Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US

Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.

7. AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

8. Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

9. Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.

10. A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.

11. Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data […]

12. Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn't subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis […]

13. AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, […]

14. The Apple Watch SE 3 is just $199 for Prime Day

The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures like double tap and wrist flick, a […]

15. The Steam Machine is the start of an even more expensive future for game consoles

It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shortage, which has had a similarly costly impact on PC gaming, […]

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