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AI & Machine Learning

1. Interpretable Text Classification: Probing Scikit-LLM Embedding Spaces

In this article, you will learn how to use probing classifiers, UMAP visualization, and SHAP values to interpret and analyze the quality of text embeddings...

2. Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.

3. Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

Software Development

1. Your container runs. Everything around it shouldn’t be your problem.

The promise with containers was simple: if it runs on your local machine, it will run in production. And this The post Your container runs. Everything around it shouldn’t be your problem. appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not.

I have been waiting for agent-generated code to show up in public infrastructure data rather than in vendor benchmarks. In The post Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not. appeared first on The New Stack.

3. The 3 roles AI agents play in your developer platform

Engineering organizations are trying to deliver as fast as technology allows, bringing agentic AI into their developer platforms and working The post The 3 roles AI agents play in your developer platform appeared first on The New Stack.

4. JetBrains told everyone to patch. It didn’t patch itself.

JetBrains is urging users of its Cadence cloud development service to rotate credentials and treat previous executions and their outputs The post JetBrains told everyone to patch. It didn’t patch itself. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant.

A command as ordinary as git diff can become a problem for an AI coding agent once a variable gets The post LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant. appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”

Alibaba this week unveiled Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model. Hot on the heels of Qwen 3.8 Max, which The post Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4” appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers

Earlier in August, Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab behind the viral ox-alpha model that turned out to be GLM-5.3-Flash, launched The post Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Google found a way to test Gemini without seeing the questions

Growing datasets and public benchmarks are making it harder to tell whether a model is being tested on something it The post Google found a way to test Gemini without seeing the questions appeared first on The New Stack.

10. When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct

Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements probabilistic AI models, and the use of AI for continuous code optimization.

11. From Zzz's to Data: Building an AI-Powered Sleep Apnea Monitor with Whisper-v3

Sleep is the ultimate black box. We spend a third of our lives doing it, yet we have almost zero data on what happens during those eight hours—unless you're willing to pay for an expensive sleep clinic. Today, we’re going to change that by building a high-fidelity Sleep Apnea and Snore Monitoring system using Whisper-v3, Librosa, and PyAudio. In this tutorial, we will tackle Whisper-v3 audio processing, real-time sleep apnea detection, and audio fingerprinting to filter out the sound of your fan...

12. The nginx misconfigurations that fail silently

Most nginx misconfigurations announce themselves. You typo a directive, nginx -t fails, you fix it. That feedback loop is fast and it works. The dangerous ones are different. The config is valid. nginx -t passes. The server starts, serves traffic, logs nothing unusual. And the thing you configured is quietly not happening. I maintain gixy-ng, a static analyzer for nginx configs. A growing share of its checks exist for exactly this category, because it turns out static analysis is the only practi...

13. Do Zero ao SOC: Por Que a Lógica de Programação é o Primeiro Passo na Cibersegurança?

A área de Cibersegurança atrai profissionais devido à complexidade das ameaças e à necessidade de proteção de infraestruturas críticas. No entanto, iniciantes costumam se perguntar por onde começar. A resposta estratégica envolve dominar a lógica de programação, o funcionamento de redes de computadores e os fundamentos dos sistemas operacionais. Compreender linguagens de programação, especialmente Python, permite que um analista de segurança compreenda a mecânica dos sistemas em vez de apenas op...

14. Minha transição de carreira para Tech: a bagagem da Geração X e o primeiro Hello World

Olá, comunidade! 👋 Este é o meu primeiro post por aqui e quero começar compartilhando um pouco da minha jornada. Sou da Geração X e, ao longo dos anos, vi o mundo digital transformar completamente a forma como vivemos e trabalhamos. Decidi que não queria apenas acompanhar essas mudanças como espectadora e sim quero fazer parte delas.#pharma#love#TI****

15. Standing Up a GPU Cluster on AKS for vLLM

This article is Part of a series on running vLLM on AKS and walks through creating an AKS cluster with a GPU node pool, deploying vLLM onto it, and wiring up Prometheus and Grafana for visibility. Companion pieces: Choosing the right GPU | Why your autoscaler flaps| Source Setup Summary Cloud: Azure GPU node: Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5 (1Ă— A10, 24 GB) Image / model: vllm/vllm-openai:latest serving Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Observability: kube-prometheus-stack (Prometheus + Grafana), KEDA, NVIDIA...

Programming Languages

1. Zod v4.5 adds schema compilation (3-9x faster validation)

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2. htmx ~ Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics

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3. Coding a database proxy for fun

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4. Inside the TypeScript Checker: From Text to Types

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5. htmx 4.0.0 has been released!

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6. Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events

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7. Pattern in Number Spirals

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8. Lean explained with TypeScript

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9. Crystal Lang: Releasing Execution Contexts

About a month ago, Crystal's multi-threading moved out of preview. I'm a little late with the blog post, but figured I'd share it here in case someone is interested in the language. To those unfamiliar with Crystal, it's basically an AoT-compiled language with a syntax that's inspired by Ruby but with static type safety. It doesn't have a big org behind it, so Manas Tech still working on the language and shipping enhancements is quite amazing imo. I will add that while it's used by Kagi and Lavi...

Game Development

1. GDC Side Quest - Inside Austin Wintory's Collaborative Composing Process

This month, celebrated composer Austin Wintory joins content marketing manager Beth Elderkin for a conversation about his creative process.

2. Panic refunds tariff fees, 1047 Games pivots from Splitgate, and Gamescom Dev grows - Patch Notes #67

Plus: No More Room in Hell 2 surpasses 1 million players after exiting a pivotal Early Access period.

3. Warlock's magic system was built on game-bending player choices

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

4. Spanish union calls for ongoing strike action at Ubisoft Mobile Barcelona

'The strike was communicated to the company in early August; however, the workers' representatives are still awaiting a response.'

Gaming News

1. The Witcher 3: Songs Of The Past Is A Mystery Centered On Dandelion

GameSpot was also able to attend a hands-off presentation, where we learned all about The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt Songs of the Past’s Dandelion-centered storyline. CD Projekt Red returns to its fantasy-themed action-RPG after over a decade, and the developer says this expansion takes Geralt on one last ride “before passing the torch.”

2. Xbox Kept At Least One Big Promise In Its Most Tumultuous Year Ever

When it drastically increased the price of Game Pass Ultimate on October 1, 2025, Xbox made a promise in a now-deleted Xbox Wire post: “Ultimate subscribers now get access to over 75 day-one releases a year.” In the year since, a lot has changed at Xbox. It has hired a new CEO, laid off thousands of developers, spun off several studios, and scaled back its multiplatform plans. This past year has been one of pivots and changes in strategy for Xbox, so I wondered if that day-one release commitment...

3. 7 Minutes Of New Hellraiser: Revival Gameplay Breakdown

Saber Interactive has unleashed some gnarly and frightening new gameplay for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, featuring a section reminiscent of the infamous Silent Hills teaser, P.T.

4. Tech Experts Call Grand Theft Auto 6 The Most Visually Advanced Game To Date, Which Explains Why It’s Stuck At 30FPS

Grand Theft Auto 6 has finally had its first big gameplay reveal, giving us our first real look at Rockstar's massive open-world and the amount of detail it holds. It's one that might be the most visually-impressive game we've ever seen, according to the experts at Digital Foundry. Digital Foundry's Oliver Mackenzie and Richard Leadbetter have praised GTA 6's visual presentation, with Mackenzie specifically going as far to call it the "most impressive example of real-time game rendering" he's ev...

5. Fable Hands-On Impressions

My actual experience of Fable's combat is far different from the disappointing footage released earlier this week.

6. CD Projekt Red Offers To Help Gamescom Theft Victim As Industry Shows Its Support

The annual Gamescom event is meant to showcase some of the best upcoming video games, but at least two apparent thefts have thrown a damper on this year's festivities. Indie developer Ryan Laley reported that his equipment was stolen from his Gamescom booth, which he said was "a huge blow financially and mentally." Fortunately, Laley has received an outpouring of support from the industry, including The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red. On X, CD Projekt Red responded to Lale...

7. Leaked DLSS 5 Mod Shows Just How Much Nvidia’s AI Filter Can Mess With Your Games

Nvidia hasn't yet announced a release date for DLSS 5, which it revealed to widespread backlash earlier this year. But a recent leak has provided PC modders the ability to inject the neural rendering in almost any game, which is being used to showcase just how awful its AI-powered face filters can get. Accidentally included in a build of NBA 2K27 (via VideoCardz), an early version of DLSS 5 was accessed and made useable by the RenoDX modding community, who quickly developed a crude toolset allow...

8. Xbox’s Disc-To-Digital Program Means Microsoft Is Probably Done With Discs Too

Despite mixed messages when it comes to when we can expect the next PlayStation and Xbox, one aspect about the next generation seems to be clearer than ever: Discs are going away. Earlier this year, Sony announced that it would be ending physical disc production for all PlayStation games launching after January 2028, confirming that the company's next console will almost certainly be digital-only. Microsoft hasn't made as strong a statement yet, instead opting to introduce a program allowing Xbo...

9. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Is Good If You Do The Necessary Homework Beforehand

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy faces a difficult balancing act. Can it move away from its predecessors' terrifying waves of rats and still deliver a supernatural terror that ties into rewarding environmental puzzles? Can it ditch the series' sibling protagonists and still tell a moving story focused on two people learning to lean on one another? And can it add fierce, frenetic combat to the franchise's formula as a new gameplay pillar without abandoning its core identity as a puzzle game? At ti...

10. Fable Dev Happy About Delay To 2027 To Avoid “Chaotic Window,” And We All Know That Means GTA 6

Microsoft's new Fable game was supposed to launch this year, but it was delayed to February 2027. The game's director, Ralph Fulton, said in an interview that he feels "great" about the launch timing for Fable, adding that shifting to 2027 helps the game avoid the "chaotic window" of its original timeframe of late 2026. Speaking to IGN, Fulton said the reason for the delay "is pretty apparent to everybody." He said he was "really looking forward to" launching Fable in 2026, saying he wasn't happ...

11. PSA: Swap the radial ability menu in Star Wars Zero Company for more of a trad XCOM-style experience

It's the Runa-approved way to play.

12. A native port of Donkey Kong 64 is finally playable on PC thanks to a team of programmers who boast that 'no generative AI [was] used at any point in the process'

The unofficial native port of the classic Nintendo platformer runs on modern hardware.

13. Elden Ring players are hard at work putting the new Tarnished Edition DLC's gear to the test

Some poor bosses are getting "the Matador treatment".

14. Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready

Yoshi said to expect the new big update by the end of September.

15. All the key details on HoYo's co-op monster slayer Nodusfall

Paimon could never.

Robotics

1. The differences between decentralized and centralized power in swarm robotics

A robotic swarm typically relies on centralized or decentralized power management, but a hybrid approach could offer the best of both. The post The differences between decentralized and centralized power in swarm robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap

John Black, chief technology officer at Brian Corp, shares insights on how to build trust for robotics fleets and AI. The post From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership

Deere beats Q3 expectations, raises guidance, and partners with Reservoir on a $10 million agtech AI initiative. The post Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit

The EXL and iMerit executives explain how their companies' combined expertise and platforms will help developers with reliable physical AI. The post EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. How Locus is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges: manipulation

Locus Robotics recently acquired Nexera Robotics, which create unique soft picking technology, bolstering its manipulation capabilities. The post How Locus is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges: manipulation appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats

Teradyne Robotics sued cobot maker JAKA over alleged patent infringement, marking its second battle with a Chinese cobot company in 2026. The post Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Video Friday: Meet Microduck

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.Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOULIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHCoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026, AUSTINEnjoy today’s videos! NVIDIA just paid US$12.9 billion dollars for the company that acquired Pollen Robotics, and this...

Tech General

1. Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

2. At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

3. “We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

4. Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

5. The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve tried a few off-brand ones and just assumed […]

6. Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

7. Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

8. Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

9. Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

10. An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

11. Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren't thrilled with the idea of you disappearing for three months.) But I've been longing […]

12. Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing, […]

13. Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the […]

14. Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it's at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text […]

15. Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships, […]

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