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AI & Machine Learning

1. MG Ship adds AI route optimisation as logistics returns accelerate

MG Ship has introduced an AI route optimisation and carrier selection module as logistics deployments demonstrate rapid cost and time returns. The technical module targets global retailers and commercial shippers, pairing automated routing algorithms with carrier recommendation systems across international trade corridors. The deployment arrives as enterprise supply chain operators report measurable operational returns from […] The post MG Ship adds AI route optimisation as logistics returns acc...

2. Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine

OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

3. An Alien Mind

Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.

4. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

Software Development

1. “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans

Just days after OpenAI launched its newest and most powerful model dubbed Astra, which the company said marked the arrival The post “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans appeared first on The New Stack.

2. AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up

OpenAI says it hit a goal it set last fall, stating researchers are now using what the company calls an The post AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up appeared first on The New Stack.

3. OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway

GPT-6 Astra has an obvious problem for developers considering an upgrade from GPT-5.6 Sol: its tokens cost 2.5 times as The post OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway appeared first on The New Stack.

4. “Twenty years of brand building simply froze in time”: How coding agents select their tools of choice

The impact of AI has led to a shift in interest from Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to Answer Engine Optimisation The post “Twenty years of brand building simply froze in time”: How coding agents select their tools of choice appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Permissions belong in the assembly context

Someone moves off the finance team at 9 a.m. on a Monday. Your sync runs nightly at 2 a.m. For The post Permissions belong in the assembly context appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Polars 2.0 pre-release comes with a 5x speed boost — but it could change row order

Working with large datasets can lead to slow queries and out-of-memory errors. Polars, an open-source library that developers and data The post Polars 2.0 pre-release comes with a 5x speed boost — but it could change row order appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Full-Stack Architecture Patterns That Actually Survive Production

Every full-stack tutorial ends the same way: a working app, a happy demo, and zero mention of what happens six months later when your "simple" CRUD app has 40 endpoints, three types of caching, and a frontend team that's afraid to touch the API layer. This post isn't about picking a framework. It's about the architectural decisions that quietly determine whether your app is pleasant to work on in year two — or a slow-motion disaster. 1. Stop treating your API layer as an afterthought A huge numb...

8. VeraCrypt Done Right: The Practical Guide That Prevents Lockouts, Data Loss, and False Confidence

VeraCrypt is easy to use badly. You can choose an unnecessarily complicated cipher cascade, forget a custom PIM, leave the only copy of a keyfile on a dying USB stick, sync a mounted container through two computers, or discover during a boot failure that your recovery media was never tested. None of those failures means the cryptography was broken. They mean the surrounding system was badly designed. This guide focuses on both sides of VeraCrypt: how to operate it and how to make defensible deci...

9. Tencent EdgeOne Makers: My Technical Review and Best Practices for Website Deployment

Creating a website is more than just writing code. After building a project with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, developers also need to consider how the website performs, how secure it is, and how easily users can access it. As a young developer, I think these aspects are important to learn through practice. In this article, I want to share my experience exploring Tencent EdgeOne Makers, along with some technical considerations and best practices that I found useful. Getting to Know Tencent EdgeOne M...

10. A Small, Checkable Test for AI Memory Systems

AI disclosure: This draft was generated autonomously by AI. The author should review every technical claim before publication. AI memory demos often optimize for a strong first impression. A long archive goes in, a fluent answer comes out, and the result feels convincing. That is not yet evidence that the memory system will be useful in ordinary work. A better evaluation starts small enough that you already know the correct answer. It should test retrieval, interpretation, missing information, u...

11. 🟣 Ever Fluorescent: Live Again!

⭐Excitement! I've had had stores on Shopify, and a successful Etsy store. But after years of ups and downs and general nonsense, I'm done living by someone else's standards. I wanted to build my own fully functional shop. It had been thrown on the backburner for a long time. Today -- I present a working Ecommerce site built by yours truley! Integrations: Stripe Cloudflare Gorgeously simple admin dashboard that is clear and makes sense A small art gallery to represent myself as an artist (only a ...

12. I'm 15 and I got on the front page of Hacker News with my side project

People keep asking how I did it. The honest answer: I didn't "do" anything special. I just shipped something weird and somebody on Hacker News happened to see it. The beginning One year ago I was 14 and bored. I had built maybe 5 "projects" that died on my hard drive. So I spent a Saturday scraping startup names from Product Hunt, pasting them into a JSON file, and throwing together a single HTML page with terrible CSS. I posted it on HN with the title: "Free crunchabse alternative" It hit the f...

13. Atomic writes — how tempfile + os.replace prevent corrupted JSON

What happens if the power cuts out while a process is writing to a config file? Or if antivirus software on Windows briefly locks a file mid-write? If you naively overwrite a file with open(path, 'w'), whatever partial content existed at the moment of interruption is what remains on disk. For JSON, that usually means broken syntax — json.load() throws on the next startup, and the entire configuration is effectively lost. This article walks through a standard technique for preventing that: writin...

14. x402 Explained: HTTP-Native Micropayments for AI Agents (With Real Code)

x402 Explained: HTTP‑Native Micropayments for AI Agents (With Real Code) Target audience: developers who are building autonomous AI agents and need a lightweight way to charge for individual API calls without introducing a separate billing system. Why look at x402? Autonomous agents often expose fine‑grained services—think “summarize this paragraph”, “classify this image”, or “fetch the latest price for a token”. Traditional approaches (API keys + monthly invoices, subscription tiers, or ad‑hoc ...

15. How to Send Email from Cloudflare Workers

There are two real ways to do this: Cloudflare's own native Email Service binding, or calling an external email API like Notify over fetch(). I'll walk through both, but I want to flag something about the native option up front that's easy to miss until you're actually setting it up: it currently requires the Workers Paid plan, not just a Cloudflare account. If you're on the free Workers tier and just want to send a password reset email, that's worth knowing before you spend time on it. Option 1...

Programming Languages

1. A faster way to convert a timestamp ➜ Hour, Min, Sec

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2. Implementing the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm on an 8-bit computer

I recently implemented the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm on a 8-bit TTL computer I hack on. In this video I explain the algorithm, and explore the speed benefits of using it. submitted by /u/MichaelKamprath [link] [comments]

3. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

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4. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

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6. Nuxt co-creator Alexandre Chopin joins Encore

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7. From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits

Here is a story [1] about the first version of B-link optimization for Innodb that is the most used B-tree engine in MariaDB. It started from a sketch on a chocolate wrapper and after some attempts ended up with significant p95 improvement for certain B-tree operations. Thx Zhao Song for his work in this area for MySQL. 1. https://mariadb.org/from-a-chocolate-wrapper-to-concurrent-innodb-page-splits/ submitted by /u/drrtuy-b [link] [comments]

8. Modding a 20-year-old game to make it even better (part 2!)

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Gaming News

1. The Best Tabletop Role-Playing Games To Play That Aren’t Dungeons & Dragons

Tabletop role-playing games have reached an all-time high in popularity. Turns out, there’s a certain appeal about rounding up a group of friends together to go through an adventure while chucking dice in the process. For over half a century, the juggernaut of the genre has been none other than Dungeons & Dragons, designed by Gary Gygax and made super-popular through Critical Role, Stranger Things, multiple feature films, and countless other media. While the latest iteration of the fantastic gam...

2. Blood Dungeon Is A Survivors-Like For People Who Don’t Like Vampire Survivors

Not everybody bought into Vampire Survivors. The 2021 game popularized the idea of "bullet heaven," a reversal of elements normally seen in "bullet hell" games, and made such a huge impact on the industry that some call this subgenre "Survivors-likes." But while Vampire Survivors was a giant leap, it wasn't a wholly satisfying one for some. Blood Dungeon, a new "bullet hell" from Nidhogg and Wheel World developer Messhof, runs with some of the ideas that made Survivors a hit, fleshing them out a...

3. Get The Entire Metro Series For Under $9 Ahead Of Metro 2039’s Release

While I’m a fan of the Stalker games, there’s something about the more linear nature and, ironically, on-rails experience that the Metro games deliver. With a tense atmosphere, mutated creatures, and factions split within the underground of a demolished Russia, the Metro series might be some of my favorite FPS games of all time—and with Metro 2039 almost here, now’s the chance to catch up on the series for less than $9. That’s all three of the games released so far. The series starts with Metro ...

4. See Ripped Game Of Thrones Actor’s Pitch To Play God Of War’s Kratos In Role Already Cast By Another Ripped Actor

God of War fans have been on a rollercoaster ride recently while waiting for the TV show adaptation to come to life. After originally casting Ryan Hurst for the role, Amazon was forced to find another suitably ripped actor after Hurst was horrifically injured on set. Last week his replacement, Dave Bautista, showed off his transformation so far for the role. Now, though, Game of Thrones actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, or Thor Bjornsson, who played The Mountain in the HBO series, has shared an ima...

5. The Weirdest Worlds That Could Technically Be In Kingdom Hearts 4

Over the past couple weeks, we've finally learned a bit more about the next entry in Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series. In an extended Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer revealed during D23, Disney's annual fan event, we were given a first look at Coco's Land of The Dead, and its narrative implications already have us speculating as to what worlds could come next. But while pondering what worlds could realistically be in Kingdom Hearts 4 is fun, you know what's even better? Thinking about all of the wor...

6. Marvel’s Wolverine Everything To Know

From its drastically different narrative to the intricacies of Logan’s moveset, here’s everything to know about Marvel’s Wolverine.

7. GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF

There are reportedly four main states, Professional, Aggressive, Violent, and Psycho, plus a hard-to-reach state you can't come back from.

8. Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day

Onimusha: Way of the Sword's launch day success has propelled the series to 10 million lifetime sales, says Capcom.

9. OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it

Back on track?

10. Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die'

Things are still chugging along over there, it seems.

11. Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

That's a whole lot of compute, and apparently a big chunk of that went into 'safety and alignment'

12. Scuf Omega review

Closer to an Alpha or Beta than an Omega.

13. Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'

The tag fighter failed to capture newbies and veterans alike.

14. Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving

But hey, everyone loves Cloud, so.

15. New DLSS 5 mod offloads Neural Rendering to a second card massively cutting the AI filter's performance hit

DLSS Neural Rendering is being developed hard in the modding community.

Robotics

1. Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s deployment problem at RoboBusiness

Rudy Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of Inbolt, will reframe where physical AI pays off at RoboBusiness this fall. The post Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s deployment problem at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC

Agility Robotics’ S-4 filing reveals $1.8 million in 2025 revenue, a $140 million operating loss and plans to scale its Digit humanoid robot business. The post Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. MassRobotics shares member survey results around FCC restrictions

MassRobotics has found that companies were split on the FCC ban on new foreign-produced mobile robots. The post MassRobotics shares member survey results around FCC restrictions appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Eric Sivertson discusses FPGAs and robot security

An interview with Eric Sivertson of Lattice Semiconductor about FPGAs and how they can improve robot safety and security. The post Eric Sivertson discusses FPGAs and robot security appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. Pressure sensors can help improve robotic gripping accuracy

From first contact through surface deformation, load distribution, and final stable hold, pressure sensors can improve robotic bin picking. The post Pressure sensors can help improve robotic gripping accuracy appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there.A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across the arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and which way it bends. Doppler captures the direction of blood flow to rule out the artery.The cuff tightens around your upper arm. The needle comes down and pierces the skin. Your blood flows into the collection tubes, each ...

Tech General

1. Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

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.

2. A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.

3. What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

While Apple's first foldable iPhone Ultra will headline the September 9 launch, we're also expecting news about AirPods and HomePods.

4. Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans

Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.

5. Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

6. Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

7. TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag

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

8. 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.

9. Audi’s new A2 E-tron is its most affordable and efficient EV yet

When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range loser. Want something that goes the distance? Be ready to pay the price. Surprisingly, here comes […]

10. Six years later, Sony revisits its legendary XM4 headphones

Six years ago Sony and Bose were in the middle of a noise-canceling battle, with each new model of headphones better than the last. In the fall of 2020, Sony released the WH-1000XM4 headphones to wide acclaim. They sat atop best headphones lists for years, thanks to their great sound, competitive ANC, and compact size, […]

11. EcoFlow makes the miniature power station even smaller

If you're in the market for a tiny power station that punches well above its size and weight then have a look at EcoFlow's new fourth-generation River series. The River 260 Gen4 features a 256Wh capacity battery while the 520 Gen4 packs in 512Wh - storing about 2.5x and 5x the energy of the largest […]

12. The real reason your phone is getting more expensive

When Apple debuts the next generation of iPhones this week, they're likely to come with an unwanted change: a higher price tag. A price hike from the supply-chain powerhouse would be the clearest sign yet that soaring memory costs have become unavoidable - with no end to the memory crunch in sight. Call it "chipflation" […]

13. Bentley’s Torcal EV tries to balance authenticity with fake V8 sounds

Thanks to their ability to provide a smooth ride and quiet powertrain with ease, electric vehicles are a true shoo-in for the high-end luxury automotive segment. Rolls-Royce has the Spectre, Cadillac's Celestiq is taking bespoke to a whole new level, and Mercedes has given the EQS the full Maybach treatment. From Volkswagen Auto Group, Bentley […]

14. Huawei copies Samsung’s privacy display in its latest trifold

Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used on Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, it's also the first foldable to include a privacy-enhancing display, much like the one Samsung […]

15. Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by […]

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