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AI & Machine Learning

1. Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease targets will be covered under the collaboration. The agreement gives Takeda access to Insilico’s Pharma.AI platform, which supports biological target […] The post Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico appeared first on AI News...

Software Development

1. Why cheaper models alone won’t save your AI budget

Finding the most capable model at the lowest cost has always been the goal. But as agentic AI evolves, a The post Why cheaper models alone won’t save your AI budget appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Apple just turned Safari into something AI agents can control

Earlier this week, Apple’s WebKit team shipped Safari Technology Preview 247 with a built-in Model Context Protocol server β€” 16 The post Apple just turned Safari into something AI agents can control appeared first on The New Stack.

3. The $1.3 million theft that exposed AI’s blind spot

Cyberattacks used to be the biggest security issue surrounding AI infrastructure, but that could be changing. A recent cargo theft The post The $1.3 million theft that exposed AI’s blind spot appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Microsoft just admitted its biggest AI mistake β€” and spent $2.5 billion fixing it

Microsoft’s latest AI services announcement suggests the era of standardizing on a single model may be ending. This week, the The post Microsoft just admitted its biggest AI mistake β€” and spent $2.5 billion fixing it appeared first on The New Stack.

5. β€œAI contributions are demoralizing”: Godot bans coding agents to save its mentoring model

Godot Engine, the open-source alternative to game engines such as Unity, is rewriting its contribution policy to bar most AI-generated The post β€œAI contributions are demoralizing”: Godot bans coding agents to save its mentoring model appeared first on The New Stack.

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Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qualitative signals with quantitative metrics when evaluating AI, and how open-source eval protocols and community efforts are setting the standard for AI evaluation.β€‹β€‹β€‹β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€ο»Ώβ€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€‹β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€‹β€ο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹β€ο»Ώβ€‹β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€β€Œβ€β€Œβ€Œβ€Œβ€β€Œβ€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€‹β€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€Œβ€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€‹β€ο»Ώβ€β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œβ€β€‹β€Œβ€Œβ€β€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€...

7. Fable May Not Be the Best Choice for Some Engineers

Fable and Opus may not be the most comfortable tools for engineers who learned to code by hand. I started thinking about this after reading Simon Willison's recent note. His point is simple: with a strong coding agent like Fable, it may be better to let the model exercise its own judgment than to spell out every condition yourself. Instead of writing detailed rules like "run tests for larger features, but not for small copy changes, except for design changes...," you can simply say: write and ru...

8. 5 Free Browser-Based Dev Tools: GraphQL Formatter, Docker Compose Validator, Dockerfile Linter, and More

I just shipped 5 new tools to DevNestio β€” a hub of 172 free, browser-only developer utilities. All tools are zero-signup, zero-upload, and work offline. 1. GraphQL Query Formatter & Minifier https://devnestio.pages.dev/graphql-formatter/ Paste any GraphQL operation and get: Pretty-print β€” consistent indentation Minify β€” strips comments and whitespace for smaller request payloads Validation β€” brace/parenthesis balance check Operation detection β€” lists all named query, mutation, subscription, frag...

9. GitHub Copilot's enterprise managed-settings.json is now GA

GA in a sentence GitHub moved its enterprise managed-settings.json to general availability on July 1, giving GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins a single JSON file that overrides Copilot behaviour in VS Code and Copilot CLI for anyone holding a Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise seat issued from the enterprise or one of its organizations. The changelog frames it as a place to define AI standards for the tenant. In practice it is a supported home for Copilot policy that shipped one setting at a ti...

10. Dev Log: 2026-07-04

TL;DR Two Laravel backends started serving Flutter apps on the same day β€” an events platform (auth, orders, offline check-in) and a helpdesk product (ops mode for agents). gatherhub-web moved to plans-only pricing with a comparison matrix driven by one data file. A hardening pass: payment-safe queues, gateway reconciliation, one heavyweight dependency dropped. Two mobile APIs in one day Coincidence, but a useful one: two products I'm building both needed their Laravel backends to serve mobile ap...

11. Offline-First Check-In: A Laravel API That Survives Venue Wi-Fi

TL;DR A gate check-in app can't depend on live Wi-Fi: scans must work offline and sync later. Four endpoints do it: manifest download, idempotent batch push, delta pull, online search. Client-generated UUIDs + a unique index make retries safe. Duplicates are a success status, not an error. The problem Physical event, staff scanning tickets at the door, venue Wi-Fi exactly as reliable as you'd expect. If your API sits in the hot path of every scan, the queue at the gate grows at the speed of the ...

12. From MVP to Enterprise: Architecting AI APIs That Don't Fail at 3AM

From MVP to Enterprise: Architecting AI APIs That Don't Fail at 3AM I've been on-call for enough production incidents to know that the difference between a startup's AI integration and an enterprise one isn't just budget. It's everything downstream β€” your p99 latency, your failover story, the size of your blast radius when a provider has a bad Tuesday. Most guides lump these two worlds together and that's exactly why teams end up rearchitecting at the worst possible moment. Let me walk you throu...

13. Stop Overtraining: Build an AI Agent to Auto-Sync Your Fitness Plan with Your Heart Rate (LangGraph + Notion)

We’ve all been there. You have a "Leg Day" scheduled in your Notion database, but you woke up feeling like a truck hit you. Your Apple Watch says your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is in the gutter, but your rigid calendar doesn't care. Usually, you’d either push through and risk injury or manually move cards around in Notionβ€”which is a friction-filled nightmare. In this tutorial, we are building a Self-Optimizing Health Agent using LangGraph, Notion API, and HealthKit. This agent acts as a close...

14. Summary β€” Your Next Steps as an AI Architect

What We Built in This Guide In the previous guide, we went from RAG to cloud deployment. In this guide, we systematically implemented everything needed to take that system to production. evals/ dataset.py # Evaluation dataset eval_rag.py # Context Recall Β· Relevancy Β· Faithfulness observability/ traced_rag.py # RAG pipeline tracing with @observe() (Langfuse v4) traced_agent.py # Trace each Agent step security/ input_validator.py # Prompt injection detection output_validator.py # PII masking and ...

15. kubeadm init fails with "the number of available CPUs 1 is less than the required 2" on an Azure B1s VM β€” how I fixed it

While setting up a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure VMs, I hit this error when running sudo kubeadm init on a Standard_B1s VM (1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM): [ERROR NumCPU]: the number of available CPUs 1 is less than the required 2 After checking Stack Overflow and the official Kubernetes documentation ("Before you begin"), I confirmed that kubeadm requires at least 2 CPUs to install the control plane. The fix: I stopped the VM and resized it from Standard_B1s to Standard_B2s (2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM) f...

Programming Languages

1. Linux has officially won

Actually it happened in June of 2025, but the process has completed recently, though. After Apple had announced the support of OCI-compatible containers in the June '25 it took a year to complete development and implement full support of continers. Apple had published 1.0 version of own container manager (https://github.com/apple/container). And Microsoft had announced native support of containerization without Docker in Windows 11 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now...

2. Division Polynomials of Elliptic Curves in Python

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3. Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected?

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4. The Vertical Codebase

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5. Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)

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6. Zed Editor Review (after using it for a couple of weeks)

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7. Software, from First Principles

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8. Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel

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9. Understanding Traceroute

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Game Development

1. Enginefall developer Red Rover Interactive is making layoffs

The studio has raised $20 million since breaking cover three years ago.

2. Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 40 million copies worldwide

From zero to hero.

3. Rockstar workers hit back, PlayStation ditches physical discs, and chipmakers accused of price fixing - Patch Notes #59

Plus: Union creates hardship fund to support laid off developers and Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature.

4. Games made with Unity: June 2026 in review

June was a big month for Unity games: both 33 Immortals and Zenless Zone Zero hit their full 1.0 releases, Unity sponsored Day of the Devs at Summer Games Fest β€” featuring world premieres from across the Unity community β€” and developers showed up in force for Steam Next Fest and the Wholesome Direct. Get the recap in our summary of Made with Unity games for June 2026.Made with Unity at Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest 2026Unity was proud to sponsor Day of the Devs at Summer Game Fest 2026. The ...

Gaming News

1. Prime Slimes: A Guide To Gaming’s Greatest Goo-Getters

When God of War Laufey was unveiled a few weeks ago, the titular late wife of Kratos was supposed to be the star of the showcase. Things turned out differently, however, as much of the online discussion was centered around one of Laufey's sidekicks: a square of goo by the fancy name of Phranque. The sludgy sidekick--voiced by Jack Quaid in one of the funniest mo-cap setups we've ever seen--quickly stole the show, whirling and twirling as he helped Faye mow down a mob of foes with shocking agilit...

2. It’s Surprisingly Easy To Customize SteamOS

If you want to enhance your SteamOS experience, Decky Loader is an easy way to start.

3. GTA Online Beginner’s Guide

With the GTA 6 release date creeping up ever faster, you might want to scratch the GTA-shaped itch that we're all getting. GTA Online has been around for years, but there's never been a better time to jump into the sprawling sandbox. If you've never stepped foot in Rockstar's shared open-world multiplayer experience, here's a full guide on how to get started. What is GTA Online? GTA Online is an open-world shared multiplayer experience for servers of up to 32 people. It's set in Los Santos, whic...

4. GTA Online Doesn’t Tell You These Things, But It Should

If you've been playing GTA Online for a little while now, you might be familiar with the basics but there's so much more hidden under the surface. The game has come a long way since its 2013 launch, adding new businesses, heists, vehicles, and other improvements that make Los Santos more accessible than ever. Whether you're fairly new to the game or returning to GTA Online in anticipation of the GTA 6 release date, there are plenty of mechanics, shortcuts, and money-saving tricks that Rockstar b...

5. What To Buy First In GTA Online

If you're new to GTA Online, or just coming back ahead of the GTA 6 release date, you might want to know the best first purchases. Joining, or rejoining, the game can feel a bit overwhelming due to its size and the number of regular updates GTA Online has had since its release in 2013. While it might be tempting to fill a garage with supercars, there are several purchases you should focus on that might help to increase your GTA$ rather than drain it. After you've read through our GTA Online begi...

6. All Phasmophobia Difficulty Levels And Differences Explained

Phasmophobia offers five preset difficulty options, plus a custom and challenge mode, for you to choose from. But these difficulty levels don’t simply dictate how aggressive the ghost will be; they also influence critical aspects such as how much official evidence you can gather, how quickly your Sanity drains, the number of cursed possessions, how long (if any) set-up time you get, and, most importantly, your rewards. That doesn’t mean you should jump to Insanity, the hardest preset difficulty ...

7. Phasmophobia Sanity Explained: How To Increase It And Prevent Drain

In Phasmophobia, keeping an eye on your Sanity level is critical, as it impacts important game aspects, including when a ghost can start hunting and whether you can safely use a cursed object. There are two measures of Sanity in Phasmophobia: a player’s individual sanity level and the average sanity level of your team. You can track each player’s Sanity level using the Sanity Monitor in the van, as long as you’re playing on a difficulty level that has it enabled. Your individual Sanity level, wh...

8. Counter-Strike 2 might be the biggest game on Steam, but Global Offensive is breaking player count records since it went standalone again

Do not pass GO.

9. Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strikeβ€”and the last one was made by Remedy

But you might struggle to stay A Wake for it.

10. Modders made a Fallout 4 quest in a weekend for charity, and it features iconic Elder Scrolls actor Wes Johnson

It's raised over $7,000 so far.

11. Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider is pitching a heist RPG that's 'make or break' for his studio

Publishers are enthusiastic, but they're not yet stumping up the funds.

12. Somehow, the $1,000 Asus ROG Ally Xbox X is the best value gaming handheld I can think of right now

Handheld gaming PC pricing is ridonculous.

13. This little orb's going to be sitting on my minimap for the rest of WoW's current expansion, and I couldn't tell you why

Omnium Folio, why art thou?

14. Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker

No more leaking for you!

15. Mouthwashing's follow-up is self-described 'friendsweat' where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: 'We're definitely not quite at Peak, but we're not trying to make Arma either'

It sounds stressful as hell, and I can't wait.

Robotics

1. Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots

Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Quarterhill discusses transport modernization as U.S. marks 70 years of federal highways

At the U.S. celebrates 250 years of independence and 70 years of its highway system, an expert looks at the future of autonomous transport. The post Quarterhill discusses transport modernization as U.S. marks 70 years of federal highways appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHEnjoy today’s videos! NASA is considering a mission concept ...

Tech General

1. New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

2. Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

3. Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

4. What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to β€œput frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

5. The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

6. The browser wars aren’t about search anymore β€” here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

7. The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more

The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.

8. Chevy built an all-American EV truck β€” why is nobody buying it?

The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.

9. Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.

10. Last chance to apply β€” Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6

If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.

11. NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth

The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmosphere as soon as this year. To try and stave off its demise, NASA has enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies. The company's Link spacecraft launched Friday with the goal of intercepting […]

12. White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz […]

13. Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing it sooner than later. The company will raise its price by $250 on September 9th, going from $1,245 to $1,495. Matic told The Verge that the new price reflects […]

14. Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard

Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel and Fallon, played Coachella, and collaborated with everyone from Joey Bada$$ and the Rza to James Blake and hardcore punk band Trash Talk. But perhaps the most unexpected collab was with […]

15. Hey number pad lovers, this is a keyboard we can finally agree on

I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven't cared about using one - until I put my hands on the Epomaker RT98. It's a mechanical keyboard with a charming retro aesthetic, a fun CRT-like screen, VIA compatibility, a nice typing feel, […]

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