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AI & Machine Learning

1. Measuring Performance of Transformer Inference

This chapter is divided into eight parts; they are: β€’ Metrics for LLM Inference β€’ Measuring a Single Request β€’ Warmup and Synchronization β€’ Measuring GPU Work with CUDA Events β€’ Measuring Memory Usage β€’ Measuring Concurrent Requests β€’ Multiple GPUs and Multiple Machines β€’ Cost per Token The most common inference metrics are: β€’ Latency: How long a request takes from start to finish.

2. Static vs. Dynamic vs. Continuous Batching in LLM Inference

In this article, you will learn how static, dynamic, and continuous batching work in LLM inference, and why the differences between them matter at production...

3. Decoding Strategies and Output Control

This chapter is divided into nine parts; they are: β€’ Reading Logits from a Model β€’ Greedy Decoding β€’ Temperature Sampling β€’ Top-$k$ Sampling β€’ Nucleus Sampling β€’ Repetition Penalties β€’ Beam Search β€’ Stop Conditions β€’ Structured Output Constraints The model returns a vector of logits for every position in the input sequence.

4. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

5. New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.

6. Apple is getting this wrong

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.

7. How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.

8. Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.

Software Development

1. CSPM adoption jumped 60%. Tickets stayed open.

A cloud security finding becomes useful only when someone decides what matters, assigns an owner, and follows it through. For The post CSPM adoption jumped 60%. Tickets stayed open. appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Today’s Codex will feel β€œprimitive” by fall β€” and its own team’s roadmap backs it up

Thibault Sottiaux, who leads core products at OpenAI, believes that today’s version of Codex will seem outdated before the year The post Today’s Codex will feel β€œprimitive” by fall β€” and its own team’s roadmap backs it up appeared first on The New Stack.

3. OpenAI’s Astra just proved 10 long-standing math and science theorems. The tokens cost $2,000.

OpenAI shared a big research update this week, announcing that an internal version of Astra, its next frontier model, created The post OpenAI’s Astra just proved 10 long-standing math and science theorems. The tokens cost $2,000. appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none of them should.

For the past two years, most of the conversations about AI and software development have centered on security: How do The post Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none of them should. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max reactions: β€œAn API business model wearing an open source jacket”

Alibaba this week announced the launch of Qwen3.8-Max. The most powerful model in the Qwen series to date, this multimodal The post Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max reactions: β€œAn API business model wearing an open source jacket” appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Nvidia’s NOOA makes an agent one Python class

When Nvidia announced NOOA (Object-Oriented Agents) last week, it signaled a broader shift in agent development: The harness around a The post Nvidia’s NOOA makes an agent one Python class appeared first on The New Stack.

7. AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents!

The next database scaling problem may not be how big a database gets, but how many databases an enterprise suddenly The post AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents! appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Astro’s GitHub issue backlog is heading to zero for the first time in 5 years. Now Cloudflare is open-sourcing the tool that did it.

Most open source maintainers will know the feeling of opening GitHub to a growing pile of issues that can’t feasibly The post Astro’s GitHub issue backlog is heading to zero for the first time in 5 years. Now Cloudflare is open-sourcing the tool that did it. appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Apple’s bug bounty limit reveals a problem no one knows how to solve yet

Apple now caps how many security reports some researchers can have open at once. And once they hit that cap, The post Apple’s bug bounty limit reveals a problem no one knows how to solve yet appeared first on The New Stack.

10. Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal model with 2.4 trillion parameters and built for complicated tasks that may take several The post Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub appeared first on The New Stack.

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12. What I learned reading ten EU company registers

I built a free tool that checks a supplier before you pay them. The part that took most of the work, and taught me most, was reading ten national company registers instead of relying on the EU's own VIES service. This is what I found out, mostly so the next person doesn't have to. The problem with "the VAT number is valid" VIES β€” the European Commission's VAT Information Exchange System β€” answers one question: is this VAT number currently registered. That sounds like the question you want answer...

13. To big to lie, cheat, steal?

Remember when Volkswagen cheated and lied on their emissions testing for their clean diesel… That was so crazy in retrospect. Imagine Anthropic and OpenAI were completely training on everyone’s data and just lying about it and promising not to in their Terms and Conditions? I guess we’ll see.

14. From Snoring to Science: Fine-Tuning OpenAI Whisper for Sleep Apnea (OSA) Screening

Is your snoring just a nuisance, or is it a health warning? Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) affects nearly 1 billion people worldwide, yet most remain undiagnosed due to the high cost of clinical polysomnography. Today, we are pushing the boundaries of AI Healthcare by repurposing OpenAI Whisper from a speech-to-text powerhouse into a clinical screening tool. In this tutorial, we will explore how to leverage Audio Signal Processing, Hugging Face Transformers, and Librosa to detect breathing patter...

15. I Wanted to Hear Every Telnyx Voice in One Scene, So I Built a Multi-Character Narrator

Telnyx ships over 700 Ultra voices across 36 languages with sub-100ms time-to-first-byte. The voices are not the problem. Hearing them is. The docs list three. The Voices API returns 4,000+ across every provider. Voice pickers play a fixed sample sentence per voice. None of that tells you how a voice handles emotion, pacing, or character inside a real scene. So I built a small app that lets you do exactly that. You write a short scene with a few characters, assign each character a different Teln...

Programming Languages

1. The Lua community needs to learn to move on

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2. Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025

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3. How Zanzlanz released a game that has no assets

Specifically, the video is about developing a game where all the textures and sounds are generated at runtime using Sine waves. I thought it was high-quality and explained complex math concepts well. submitted by /u/TheBrokenRail-Dev [link] [comments]

4. Reverse Engineering Google Slides

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5. Cloudflare introduced tool that synchronize its servers

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6. Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic

https://ekxide.io/blog/byte-wise-atomic-wrapper-to-prevent-ub iceoryx2 provides zero-copy inter-process communication mechanisms based on shared memory and data structures that are modified concurrently by multiple processes. One of the key operations in these algorithms is a memory copy using core::ptr::copy. However, this results in undefined behavior if one process reads the data while another process writes to it concurrently. Even if our lock-free algorithm reliably detects such a race, ice...

7. Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026

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8. The true power of regular expressions

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9. Rust Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

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Game Development

1. EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

2. Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers

The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.

3. Amid child safety lawsuits, Roblox says it 'continues' to push toward a standard for digital safety

Roblox Corp is defending its ability to set the 'global standard' for healthy, safe, and age-appropriate digital engagementβ€”all against the backdrop of multiple lawsuits accusing the company of endangering children.

4. Update: Tencent-owned Lightspeed LA lays off 68 staff

The Last Sentinel developer attributes the job cuts to a shift in creative and development direction for the project.

5. Live service revenue dominates in EA's last fiscal report ahead of Saudi deal

The company's take-private deal with a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is expected to conclude later today.

6. How Silent Hill: Townfall gets deep into its protagonist's headspace

We spoke with Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto and game director Jon McKellan about embracing analog horror and fully immersing players in a new perspective.

7. Report: FIFA World Cup developer Refactor Games shuttered by Delphi Interactive

The international soccer simulator only launched onto Netflix in June.

8. Xbox hardware now costs a lot more in the UK and Europe

Consumers will be expected to pay up to 50 percent more for some console hardware.

9. PlayStation 5 sales have topped 95 million units worldwide

Sony has also secured over $510 million in U.S. tariff refunds.

10. Games made with Unity: July 2026 in review

Stay updated with the latest creations from the Unity community. Explore our list of standout games made with Unity in July 2026.

Gaming News

1. 7 Beast of Reincarnation Tips You Need To Know

Beast of Reincarnation's mechanics are deeper than you think, and we show off 7 tips and tricks that can change the way you play the game.

2. Big Walk Just Hit A Major Milestone On PS Plus

It's been nearly seven years since developer House House released its breakthrough title, Untitled Goose Game. The company's follow-up, a co-op puzzle-solving game called Big Walk, is out now, and it's already achieved an unexpected critical milestone on PlayStation Plus Essential. As reported by GameSpot's sister site Metacritic, Big Walk has landed with a 94 score among reviewers. That makes it the most critically acclaimed game to ever be released on PS Plus Essential on day one. Last year's ...

3. EA Has Officially Been Sold, And What Comes Next Could Be Painful

The blockbuster buyout of Electronic Arts has been completed, with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund taking ownership of the gaming giant in the biggest leveraged buyout (LBO) in the history of commerce. The $55 billion deal includes billions in debt for EA, which has prompted fears of massive cost-cutting with projected layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations. Nothing has been confirmed as of yet, however. "This moment recognizes the extraordinary people whose creativity, ambition,...

4. Riftbound Directors Says Game Used To Be A Lot Like Magic: The Gathering–Until Players Rejected It

In recent years, the trading card game (TCG) environment has seen a boom of new games entering the market. There are still genre mainstays, like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, which continue to receive support and feature a thriving secondhand market. However, new original IP TCGs like Flesh and Blood and Sorcery are making rounds at the local game store level and beyond. But licensed IP TCGs, like One Piece and the upcoming Cyberpunk TCG, have also taken the tabletop world by sto...

5. Mistfall Hunter Has Made Me A Believer In Extraction Games

Mistfall Hunter is a fascinating mix of games. On the one hand, it’s a dark fantasy action-RPG with some deep class-building and light souls-like mechanics. On the other, it’s a PvEvP third-person battle royale that sits firmly in the extraction shooter genre. Typically, I’d avoid the latter kind of game, as my low vision makes shooters difficult for me to play, but for some reason, I just can’t get enough of developer Bellring Games’ take on the extraction shooter. In fact, Mistfall Hunter is c...

6. How To Cancel PlayStation Plus

Life is expensive these days. If you're looking to cut back on spending and want to do away with your PlayStation Plus membership, it's very easy to do so. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to cancel PlayStation Plus, just like there are numerous reasons for cancelling Xbox Game Pass. Below you can find instructions on how to cancel PlayStation Plus, as shared by PlayStation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwBu7M023s How to cancel PlayStation Plus from the internet Sign in to Acco...

7. Turns Out, The Team Behind Riftbound Is Shockingly Small

During last week's Gen Con, Riftbound, the League of Legends trading card game (TCG), boasted a massive presence. Fans were able to enter two different booths to get their hands on cards and exclusive merchandise, as well as meet some of the talent behind the game's creation and design. GameSpot was onsite for the show, and had the opportunity to interview Riftbound Game Director Dave Guskin, during which we learned that the team behind the popular TCG is significantly smaller that you might thi...

8. PSA: A Big Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Reveal Gets Spoiled In The Nintendo Direct

Fire Emblem fans had plenty of information to sink their teeth into during today's Fortune's Weave Direct presentation, with new characters, new settings, and a new "gun" showcased during the 22-minute livestream. However, the Direct also threw a wrench into the plans of those who wish to be spoiler-free going into Fortune's Weave, as a major story beat from early in the game was revealed in the final five minutes of the video. We're about to dive into that spoiler right now and its implications...

9. Riftbound Director Says TCG Will Eventually Include All League Of Legends Champions

After launching in English late last year, Riftbound, Riot Games' League of Legends trading card game (TCG), has quickly grown into one of the most popular TCGs to date. The game had a big presence at this year's Gen Con, featuring not one but two large booths that fans could stop by to learn to play, meet some of their favorite creators, and buy convention-exclusive merch. During the show, GameSpot had the opportunity to sit down with Riftbound game director Dave Guskin to chat about some of th...

10. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let us recruit a space elf pirate and one of the holy psychics whose lives are nasty, brutish, and short

What fun!

11. Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'

The budget blew out, and so did the scrutiny of executives.

12. Embrace the great Tech Pause

It's a great time to enjoy the stuff we already have.

13. The deal is done: Electronic Arts is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia

Right on schedule.

14. 'I was this close': Teenage dev's $200 joke game made nearly $1.4 million on Steam before the refunds came flooding in

Game dev Michael Major ultimately ended up with a little over $2,000 for his efforts, which still isn't bad for a teenager's gag.

15. Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were

Valve wasn't joking when they said the next few weeks would be "rocky".

Robotics

1. Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion

Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve rider comfort. The post Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys

Blue Water Autonomy creates unmanned ships that can operate autonomously on the open ocean for months a time. The post U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop

The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufacturers are already running. The post Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots

igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing. The post igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators

This Phase I award is only part of HEBI Robotics' roadmap. The company also plans to continue developing its existing actuation hardware. The post HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that β€˜learn on the job’

Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, is developing systems that do not require specialized programmers. The post Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that β€˜learn on the job’ appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) β€œCovered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms and power inverters commonly used in solar panels to the list, meaning that new products from any foreign country in these categories are no longer eligible for import.The move is a Department of Defense (DOD)-driven expa...

8. Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first couple of years of the humanoid explosion has stuck around, but there’s also been an industry-wide sobering leading to pointed questions about practicality and value. In other words, starting a commercial humanoid company ...

Tech General

1. Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.

2. Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.

3. How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.

4. SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

5. SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

6. Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant permission to the app.

7. Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

8. Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

9. Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

10. Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

11. Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probably never going to give up the Spider-Man film rights, and highlighted how Marvel Studios was smart to strike a […]

12. Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether […]

13. AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said […]

14. SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its […]

15. EA is now a private company

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would be taking the company private in a $55 billion deal, and on Tuesday, EA said the deal successfully closed. The PIF will reportedly own 93.4 […]

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