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AI & Machine Learning

1. M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […] The post M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul appeared first on AI News.

2. 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating

Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […] The post 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating appeared first on AI News.

3. Dataclasses for Structured Application Data

Scalar defaults work the way you'd expect, and batch_size: int = 500 is all you need.

Software Development

1. Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 this week, calling it “our most advanced model for coding and knowledge work.” There was The post Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart. appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence

Basic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) follows a straightforward pattern. A user asks a question, the system finds relevant content in a The post Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence appeared first on The New Stack.

3. “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra to most paying users a day after its unveiling

Update: As of 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Friday, September 4, GPT-6 Astra was available on ChatGPT for all paying users The post “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra to most paying users a day after its unveiling appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.

Microsoft flagged a phishing campaign last week that exploits a gap in how machines read text. Attackers are slipping invisible The post Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3

Investor Matt Turck, whose fantastic podcast has hosted the people who built ARC-AGI, summed up Astra’s blockbuster benchmarks with three The post OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 appeared first on The New Stack.

6. AI agent evaluations are part of the product

A team builds an agent, gives it a few representative questions in a test chat, and watches it produce useful The post AI agent evaluations are part of the product appeared first on The New Stack.

7. “1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things

Coder announced its Coder Agent Relay service this week, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. The service lets software engineering The post “1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things appeared first on The New Stack.

8. OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking

In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to The post OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking appeared first on The New Stack.

9. How to find failures without drowning in tracing data

A metrics dashboard can tell you a system’s health with ease. A log can help you understand a discrete failure. The post How to find failures without drowning in tracing data appeared first on The New Stack.

10. How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.

11. Agentic AI Development with Kiro: The Hidden DevSecOps Layer — Closing the Loop

Level 300 Some time ago we created a blog showing the capabilities of AI DLC and SDD to create quick and efficient prototypes as a MVP, the results were amazing, however, we omitted something: DevSecOps best practices and CICD for the workload. The prototype was built with a serverless framework and modern cloud-native application patterns. However, moving from a working MVP to a production-ready solution requires stronger alignment with DevSecOps, CI/CD, and operational excellence. That transit...

12. Whisper.cpp Vulkan on Arch: A Detective Story With No Crime

A six-week journey through source builds, CI pipelines, and one package pacman never mentioned. TL;DR: pacman -S whisper-cpp ggml-vulkan. That's it. That's the whole answer. Here's why it took me several weeks to find it. The setup I use whisper.cpp for local speech-to-text and as a part of my projects. I have a GPU utilization monitor permanently visible in my GNOME panel via the Vitals extension — so when whisper.cpp started detecting my GPU but running everything on CPU anyway, I noticed imme...

13. Amparo: applying for food aid without reading a single word

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Every year an enormous amount of aid money goes unclaimed. Not because it runs out, and not because nobody needs it, but because of something much stupider. The form is the wall. If you are blind, if you never learned to read well, or if you arrived last month and don't yet speak the language the form is printed in, the help you are entitled to is sitting behind a document you cannot fill in. You need a neighbour, a case...

14. Shopify's agent-commerce category filter doesn't filter. We checked 190 stores.

Since 2026 every Shopify storefront answers an agent-commerce endpoint at POST /api/ucp/mcp, advertised at GET /.well-known/ucp. Merchants did not turn it on and it is not in their admin. It speaks the Universal Commerce Protocol over JSON-RPC, and the tool that matters is search_catalog: an AI shopping agent asks a store for its catalogue and gets structured product data back - integer prices in minor units with a currency, variants, SKUs, canonical URLs, and a Shopify taxonomy category per pro...

15. 133 of 10,099 Shopify stores block an AI crawler. Six block the one ChatGPT shops with.

Merchants are told two opposite things about AI crawlers: block them, because they take your content and give nothing back; and admit them, because that is how a store gets into an AI shopping answer. Both assume a decision is being made. We wanted to know how many stores have made one, and which way. Method Every store in a corpus of 10,099 known Shopify storefronts has its /robots.txt read as part of a scan. The file is parsed the way the major crawlers document parsing it: most specific User-...

Programming Languages

1. There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

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2. .gitignore everything by default

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3. The NX bit is not just about security

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4. I wrote a lighthearted guide to learning Monads - maybe you like

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5. .name Termination

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6. Principles of Memory Management in Java

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7. Avoid adding new library to project: 10-year retrospective

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8. How Email Actually Works

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9. Digital audio between synthesizers

Since Midi 2.0 now supports Ethernet, Ive been creating a digital audio protocol to send digital audio directly between synthesizers without routers and hubs. submitted by /u/micro2970 [link] [comments]

Game Development

1. Strategically making Star Wars Zero Company, ft. Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor CEO and Star Wars Zero Company creative director Greg Foertsch discusses the development of the latest adventure from the world of Star Wars.

2. Xbox to cap Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers

Game Pass subscribers will no longer have unlimited access to Xbox's Cloud Gaming service.

Gaming News

1. All Infamy Edicts In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Vampire Court Guide

Do you want to increase your infamy in The Blood of Dawnwalker? Coen’s Infamy or Notoriety represents how effectively you’ve disrupted the operations of the vampire boyars in Vale Sangora. The more activities you complete, the greater their ire, culminating in epic battles where you can finally put them out of their misery. We're going to tackle all of these mechanics, but be forewarned that there are some spoilers ahead. In This Article The Blood of Dawnwalker - Vampire Court and InfamyCourt ac...

2. How To Defeat All Vampire Court Bosses In The Blood Of Dawnwalker

Are you wondering about how to defeat all major bosses in The Blood of Dawnwalker? These creatures of the night have lorded over the valley, murdering and punishing those they deem unfit to serve them. Now, they’ve also taken Coen’s family, and you must find a way to bring them down. Our guide has all the details that you need, but be forewarned that there will be major spoilers ahead. In This Article The Blood of Dawnwalker vampire court bosses - Brencis, Ambrus, Bakir, and XantheHow to defeat ...

3. Should You Invite Vampire Lords In The Blood Of Dawnwalker?

Are you deciding on whether or not you should invite vampire lords in The Blood of Dawnwalker? The vrakhiri--Brencis, Ambrus, Bakir, and Xanthe--have ravaged the entirety of Vale Sangora. They’ve killed thousands of people and ruined the lives of countless others. They’ve turned entire settlements into charnel houses and they’ve feasted on the anguished cries of the innocent. But, hey, maybe inviting their soul still seems like a good idea. Let's discuss if this particular facet is worth the tro...

4. How To Romance Crake In The Blood Of Dawnwalker

Are you wishing you could romance Crake in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This formidable warrior also happens to be the leader of the Manumits, a group of rebels seeking to overthrow the vrakhiri in Vale Sangora. What starts out as mere camaraderie between Coen and Crake might develop into something deeper. In This Article The Blood of Dawnwalker - Crake romance guideWhat Hunts the NightWhat Moves the DeadDistant ShadowsA Closer Look: Crake sex/romance scene The Blood of Dawnwalker - Crake romance gu...

5. How To Complete A Deal With The Devil In The Blood Of Dawnwalker

Are you hoping to complete A Deal with the Devil in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This is one of the most important quests in the game, though it’s going to take several hours before you even have access to it. Once you tackle it, though, you’ll be presented with crucial decisions that can shape the fates of characters. Our guide has all the info you need, but be ready for spoilers as well. In This Article A Deal with the Devil - Unlock requirementA parlay with BrencisThe crucial choiceWhat happens i...

6. Fall’s Video Game Release Slate Is Intimidatingly Good And Completely Doomed

You know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it. The glut of games coming in Fall 2026 is intimidatingly good. But is that overwhelming wave of exciting titles actually hiding a more gruesome reality? I sure think so. Gaming audiences are no strangers to the rush of fall releases. Even during a slow year, there's almost always an uptick in blockbuster games that launch during this window to best capitalize on the end of the summer and the move toward the winter holidays. This fall is absolute...

7. Fanatical Is Giving Away Another 2TB Steam Machine, And It Only Takes A $1 Mystery Key To Enter

What if I told you that you could get a Steam Machine and a Steam Controller for a buck? It's true, and while there’s only a small chance you’ll actually win, you won’t leave empty-handed. Every dollar gets you a Steam key, potentially filling your library with classic AAA games and underappreciated indies, which can be a great way of finding something new or adding Steam trading cards to your inventory. I’ve written about Fanatical’s limited-time mystery bundles a fair amount. I’ve never won an...

8. The Blood of the Dawnwalker Taught Me the Value of Time

Making touch choices leads to a more memorable game experience.

9. Before HBO’s The Last Of Us, An Entirely Different Adaptation Was Proposed

Naughty Dog's first effort to adapt The Last of Us for the screen was not as an HBO TV show, but a movie, a fact that recently began doing the rounds again on social media. Like with many Hollywood productions, The Last of Us had a tumultuous, long development period as a movie before it was ultimately abandoned in favor of what is now a hit series. While not everyone agrees with the creative departures from the source material for the TV series on HBO, it's undeniably a success and one of HBO's...

10. Onimusha WOTS – High Level Gameplay On Hardest Difficulty

We take on Enhanced Byakue on Carnage Difficulty, a harder version of the secret demo boss while taking no damage in Onimusha: Way Of The Sword. Carnage difficulty is only available after completing the game on normal difficulty. Music: Onimusha 2: Oda's Army Attack

11. Peak studio Aggro Crab is publishing a sick-looking platformer about a blue collar guy doing dirty work on an alien world

That's what's up.

12. Saber CCO says the studio isn't changing up its comms strategy after recent controversies: 'There's always some dust up'

"The games will speak for themselves."

13. Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'

"I try to have good moral qualities, but I am apparently subject to all forms of flattery and vanity and such."

14. Go grandmaster becomes first human to win series against advanced AI engine in 3-hour match

We've still got some fight left in us.

15. 8-year Old School RuneScape saga comes to a close with former dev sentenced for stealing $400K in gold and items from players

You ever just lose your 20s to a self-inflicted RuneScape legal saga.

Robotics

1. ARM Institute gets $90M for 10 projects to modernize military manufacturing

Fifteen member organizations will deliver viable working solutions within a two-year timeframe, the ARM Institute said. The post ARM Institute gets $90M for 10 projects to modernize military manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Enovis to acquire surgical tech provider eCential Robotics for $180M

Enovis said it plans to bring a robotic system targeting the knee within the next two years, followed by a system focusing on the shoulder. The post Enovis to acquire surgical tech provider eCential Robotics for $180M appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security

Eric Sivertson, vice president of security business at Lattice Semiconductor, explains how FPGAs can act as deterministic guardrails for robotic systems. The post How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar

Submit now to be part of the Robotics Startup Radar, which brings together some of the most promising robotics startups. The post Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings

Lyte AI plans to use its second round of funding this year to scale production of its AI and perception capabilities. The post Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Robot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots

Robot.com says college campuses will continue to be an important part of its strategy as it scales sidewalk delivery robots. The post Robot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least, this prototype paramedic cyborg, or “Paraborg,” might one day help deliver lifesaving aid to disaster victims who might be otherwise impossible to reach.The Hardest Problems in RoboticsFor decades, scientists have sought to develop cyborg insects as “a shortcut around some of th...

8. Video Friday: Digit Redecorates

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! I know these videos from Agility can be a little bit silly, but the couch drag in this one is im...

Tech General

1. Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

2. Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

3. OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

4. Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.

5. Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by trying all sorts of approaches to get an edge over it.

6. XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

7. OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

8. AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

9. Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

10. What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]

11. Explore the globe in field recordings

I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient music. They're great background noise for working or sleeping. But they're also great for active listening, focusing in on the fine nuances of burbling brooks or urban chaos. Earth Garden gives you a globe to explore with real […]

12. iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones

When iOS 27 lands later this month, it will have a feature called iPhone Handoff that lets you switch between two phones using the same number. It was briefly mentioned during the WWDC keynote back in June, but there were no details at the time. Now there's a demo clip showing how to set up […]

13. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025. That's a jump of 45.7 percent, […]

14. Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podcasts, netting over 2 million monthly listeners and numerous awards, including Best Sports Podcast from iHeartRadio and People's Choice at the Podcast Awards four years in a row. Holloway's goal has […]

15. Content creators drop the ball

During Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year's US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were packed in a luxury suite became enough of a distraction that the umpire paused the match and repeatedly asked them to quiet down. Elsewhere in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis […]

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