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AI & Machine Learning

1. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

Software Development

1. Kubernetes upgrades don’t have to break things: How EKS is making cluster lifecycle management simpler and safer

Kubernetes moves at a pace of three minor version releases per year, and staying current is not optional if you The post Kubernetes upgrades don’t have to break things: How EKS is making cluster lifecycle management simpler and safer appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Designing APIs for agents

In early 2025, Webflow started building for MCP before there was a clear playbook for agent-ready APIs. We publicly announced The post Designing APIs for agents appeared first on The New Stack.

3. What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests

This week, just days after OpenAI announced that two of its advanced AI models had interacted with real-world systems during The post What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.

For the final two weeks of the year, Temporal clears its calendars. The company calls it a reading period: no The post Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Why Developer Experience (DevEx) Dies in the Backlog?

"Technical debt" might be one of the most successful terms ever coined in software engineering. Not because it solved the problem. Technical debt is still everywhere. But it fundamentally changed the conversation. Before the term existed, engineers struggled to explain why seemingly harmless shortcuts eventually become expensive. Calling it technical debt gave business leaders a language they already understood. Debt accumulates interest. Debt carries risk. Debt demands attention. It was a brill...

6. Bidirectional Sync Between Radar Chart Vertex Dragging and Sliders

📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech. Introduction to Interactive Radar Charts In a UI for adjusting multi-dimensional parameters, radar charts (also known as spider graphs) are very intuitive. Being able to see the current balance at a glance through the area and shape of an octagon is more intuitive than having eight sliders lined up. However, in many implementations, radar charts are read-only. Values are input through sliders, and the radar chart only displays the res...

7. Migrating an Expo app from Japanese to multi-language support in stages

This article is an English translation of the original Japanese article. I migrated an Expo app from Japanese only to Japanese, English, and Simplified Chinese. Instead of translating everything at once, I divided the work into three stages: foundation, core flows, and remaining screens. The harder part was not gathering translations, but deciding device language versus manual setting priority, date formatting, and handling untranslated screens. Defined language setting responsibility first I us...

8. A 7am Report on My Short-Term Rental

This is what 7am looks like: Who's in which room, when they check out, how much battery the front door lock has left, and that two knowledge base topics are duplicated. All of it already sits in the software I use to run the place. What isn't in there is that message. So I built the thing that writes it. (Screenshots use synthetic data to protect guest privacy.) Why I run a short-term rental: one property, three listings on Hospitable, the whole unit plus two rooms rented separately. My question...

9. COLDCARD Predictable RNG: From Seed Recovery to About $8.86M Bitcoin Theft

COLDCARD Predictable RNG: From Seed Recovery to About $8.86M Bitcoin Theft 1. Basic Information Article Title: COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft Source: BleepingComputer Publication Date: August 2, 2026 Severity: Urgent Original Link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coldcard-wallet-rng-flaw-likely-linked-to-88-million-bitcoin-theft/ Related Sources: Block Engineering "Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in COLDCARD Firmware": https://engine...

10. I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It — Here's What Changed

I remember the day I hit my breaking point. I had spent the entire morning — five hours — wrestling with a React component that an AI assistant had generated for me in about four minutes. The code looked flawless at first glance. Proper hooks, clean JSX, even decent comments. But it didn't work. And worse, I couldn't figure out why. Everyone talks about how AI speeds up coding. And it's true — when it works, it's magical. I've personally seen my feature delivery time drop by maybe 40-50% on good...

11. Self-Hosted SSO from Scratch with Laravel Passport

A hands-on guide to being your own Identity Provider — with Laravel 12 and Passport v13. You will build a Central Portal that acts as an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server, then wire up child sites (Site A, Site B, Site C) so a user logs in once and gets access to all of them. No Google. No Auth0. No Keycloak. No "Sign in with…" anything. You own the users table, you issue the codes and tokens, you hold the signing keys. The only dependency is laravel/passport, which implements the OAuth 2.0 protoco...

12. Okay Let me Switch to Unreal

Hello. No idea if anyone's going to read this, but writing it feels like I've done something, so here we go. And maybe it helps someone. For the past few years, I've been building a piece of software in Unity. It has actual users, somehow. My role was everything: founder, product owner, and whatever else needed doing. Development, UI, the website, the content. That's startup life. I'm good at learning fast and shipping, so it worked.(of course not all of it... I'm not trying to take all the cred...

13. GitHub Actions for developers who still deploy manually

Manual deployments follow a fairly predictable pattern. They work fine until someone on the team pushes a rushed change on a Friday, forgets to run the tests, and the bug hits production while everyone's offline. It's not a discipline problem. It's a process problem. A manual process fails exactly when there's the most pressure for it not to. GitHub Actions solves that by putting the pipeline inside the repository. There's no separate CI server to maintain, no external integrations to configure....

14. The Missing Silver Layer Behind Social Campaign ROI

The ROI Black Hole in Social Marketing Consider a mid-market B2B software company whose social team manages campaigns across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok from a single shared workspace. Each week the managers review platform-native dashboards that display rising follower counts, solid engagement rates on short-form video, and respectable click-throughs from carousel posts. They export weekly performance reports, paste the numbers into shared spreadsheets, and celebrate the month-over-month...

Programming Languages

1. Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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2. Every byte matters

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3. Project Valhalla -- JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) JDK 28 integration

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4. The Debate of Mockist v Classicist TDD Is Like OOP v FP.

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5. An Unexpected Computer – Universal computing with echo, ed, test and exec [pdf]

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6. Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?!

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7. Understanding Raft Leader Election by building from scratch

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8. Project Valhalla, real-talk... what is it?

For decades, Java's object model has powered one of the world's most successful programming languages. But the hardware we run on today looks very different from the world Java was born into in 1995. Modern CPUs are incredibly fast, but memory access, cache locality, and object allocation have become some of the biggest performance challenges in software. Project Valhalla is one of the most ambitious changes in Java's history. It isn't just about making Java faster... it's about rethinking what ...

9. Quantum Computers May Put Internet Traffic at Risk. NIST Is Safeguarding Computers With New Standards.

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Gaming News

1. Preorder Beast of Reincarnation At A Discount And Get Some DLC For Free

Beast of Reincarnation is an interesting action RPG. Developed by Game Freak, the studio behind the beloved Pokemon series, it's a chance for the developer to step out from Pikachu's enormous shadow and create something fresh. If you're looking to give it a chance, you can preorder a Steam key at a discount, making it cheaper than buying directly through Steam while also scoring some extra content. Forget the father-figure, adopted-daughter dynamic that games like The Last of Us and Pragmata del...

2. Pokemon Go August 2026 Events: Raid Bosses, Spotlight Hours, Pokemon Debuts, And More

August has arrived, marking the final month of Pokemon Go's Forever Forward season. The mobile game is closing the season out with a host of events and Pokemon debuts over the next few weeks, including the arrival of some big new monsters like Gigantamax Rillaboom and Mega Starmie. On top of that, players have a few summery festivities to look forward to this month, including an Arctic Embers event and a week-long Water Festival. There will also be new Raid bosses and Spotlight Hours, as well as...

3. Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'

Press X.

4. Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer

At this point, I think I trust the process.

5. One day Owlcat will make an RPG that's perfect out of the box, but 3 years after launch, it's time to get disgustingly into Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader

I love builds.

6. American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC

Next stop: the Peace Garden State.

7. Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all

Daddy's home.

8. Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all

ShiftUp's marketing tactic has backfired.

9. Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary

Dungeons, dice, and bear sex await.

10. One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'

The creator of KSP talks us through what's on his PC, from Full Throttle to Old School Runescape.

11. Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'

The zombie survival sim has also gone up in price.

12. Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want

Terminator too.

Robotics

1. Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control

Gemini Robotics 2 enables robots to reason through every movement, unlocking a broad range of tasks, DeepMind said. The post Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026

In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing

OSARO’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers

KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers appeared first on The Robot Report.

Tech General

1. The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

2. Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

3. Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

4. TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

5. These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

6. Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

7. Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

8. YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

9. Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

10. Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

11. Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing

Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar's Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar's debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Comes Crashing is almost entirely […]

12. Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]

13. Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170

When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they're dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is […]

14. Skylight’s smart calendars are up to $90 off during its back-to-school sale

The start of a new school year can feel hectic, as parents juggle their kids’ classes, extracurriculars and sports on top of work, appointments, and other responsibilities. It’s easy for things to slip through the cracks, but Skylight’s shared smart calendars can help keep everyone on track, and from August 2nd through August 9th they’re […]

15. HP’s HyperX Omen 15 isn’t quite the budget-friendly gaming laptop its predecessor was

The HP HyperX Omen 15, which I first saw at CES, replaces the HP Victus 15, a longtime bestselling budget gaming laptop. The Victus cost just $800, or less when on sale, and was a good entry point to decent laptop gaming. The Omen 15 has nice little upgrades over the Victus. Its RTX 5050 […]

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