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AI & Machine Learning

1. Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational boundaries, and oversight protocols across MAI frontier models. It builds on the division’s humanist superintelligence framework announced last November, establishing […] The post Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct appeared first on AI...

2. Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment

Deloitte’s 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use. Adoption is nearly universal; deployment is rare. The difference is not model […] The post Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment appeared first on AI News.

3. From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing

A video looks simple when you press play. There is a picture, some dialogue, perhaps music in the background, and a few minutes later it is over. However, with the right use of AI, things can become a lot more interesting. To an artificial intelligence system, that same video can become speech to transcribe, faces […] The post From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing appeared first on AI News.

4. How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel

Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood by everyone at once. Vox Group, a 25-year-old guiding technology company operating in over 150 countries, has spent the past year rebuilding its AI-powered technology, Aura, to close that gap, […] The post How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel appeared first on AI News.

5. A Gentle Introduction to Model Distillation

In this article, you will learn what model distillation is, how it has evolved for large language models, and why it has become one of...

6. How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust

Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.

7. Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

Software Development

1. Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch

Running an LLM on your PC is easy enough, but putting an agent to work there is a different story. The post Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch appeared first on The New Stack.

2. AI keeps finding security flaws — here’s what to fix first

A security researcher testing a 300-person B2B company with a global footprint discovered an internet-exposed database with weak authentication during The post AI keeps finding security flaws — here’s what to fix first appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Your AI coding spend bought 25% more output. Duplication rose 81%.

Since they arrived on the scene, a great swathe of the software industry has pinned its hopes on AI tools, The post Your AI coding spend bought 25% more output. Duplication rose 81%. appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US.

Everyone knows the open-weight model pitch by now: companies can download the weights, customize them, run them on infrastructure of The post Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US. appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Why an old caching trick is your secret to lower LLM costs

An LLM can answer the same question a thousand times and charge you each time. Before paying for another answer, The post Why an old caching trick is your secret to lower LLM costs appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware

Last October, the P99 conference — the online gathering for developers focused on high-performance, low-latency applications — featured a cracking The post Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware appeared first on The New Stack.

7. “Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works across The post “Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason appeared first on The New Stack.

8. It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.

A diff is not evidence. It’s a statement of intent. The tests passed. The review’s done. The change is live. The post It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer. appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Why MCP security is about permissions overhaul

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) went into production in late 2024. It spread rapidly after that. Since then, thousands of The post Why MCP security is about permissions overhaul appeared first on The New Stack.

10. “Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI

OpenAI has hired the founders of Git AI, an open-source tool that tracks how much code AI writes and measures The post “Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI appeared first on The New Stack.

11. An OpenAI Agent Swarm Attacked RubyGems

In May 2026, hundreds of malicious gems showed up on RubyGems.org, uploaded by an OpenAI agent swarm. The RubyHack.ai writeup and Aaron Patterson's account both cover it, and together they're worth reading in full. Here's the tl;dr version. The packages didn't try hard to hide, according to Socket.dev's writeup of the campaign. Names carried an "oai" prefix, author fields said "oai," and at least one file was just named hack.rb. One comment in the code read "# malicious probe." Whatever the agen...

12. Upgrading a Locked-Down Linux Fleet with Nothing but kubectl

Say you're running a fleet of machines on an immutable operating system — root filesystem read-only, nothing drifts, and you upgrade the whole OS as a single artifact instead of patching it in place. Great for reliability. But now you need to do something mundane: rotate a login password across every node, or roll out a new OS version. The obvious move is to SSH into each box and do it by hand. Except that's exactly the kind of ad-hoc, drift-inducing change the immutable model exists to prevent ...

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My Thermostat Was Speaking an Industrial Protocol. Just Not to Me. Software dev bridges hardware gap via ESP32 Felice Lombardi Felice Lombardi Felice Lombardi Follow Sep 3 My Thermostat Was Speaking an Industrial Protocol. Just Not to Me. #bacnet #esp32 #iot #ai 23 reactions 10 comments 22 min read

14. OpenClaw Plugin: Connect WAIaaS to LangChain, CrewAI, and Any AI Framework

OpenClaw Plugin: Connect WAIaaS to LangChain, CrewAI, and Any AI Framework Your AI agent can browse the web, write code, and manage files — but can it swap tokens? The OpenClaw plugin is WAIaaS's answer to that question: a drop-in wallet toolkit that connects your existing AI agent framework to real blockchain wallets, without rewriting your agent from scratch. The Problem: AI Agents Are Financially Stranded You've built an agent. Maybe it's a LangChain chain, a CrewAI crew, or something you rol...

15. Designing a Privacy-First Architecture for Sensitive Data: Zero-IP Logging, Postgres RLS, and AI Safety

When building software that handles sensitive human data (like workplace feedback, satisfaction surveys, and compliance reports), security and privacy cannot be treated as optional features or mere legal disclaimers. They must be embedded into the core system design. At Sigilo Profissional (sigiloprofissional.com.br), a B2B SaaS platform focused on Workplace Climate Surveys, eNPS, and Whistleblowing Channels compliant with ISO 37002 and GDPR / LGPD, privacy is the fundamental prerequisite for ps...

Programming Languages

1. Homebrew: 7.0.0 - faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.

Users must upgrade to macOS 11 or later, as this is now the minimum supported version. macOS Sonoma 14: This version is now considered Tier 3, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Sequoia 15+ for full support. Apple Silicon (macOS Golden Gate 27): Fully supported (Tier 1) with prebuilt bottles available. Linux/Ubuntu: The ghcr.io/homebrew/ubuntu22.04 image has been removed, and users should migrate to ghcr.io/homebrew/brew. CI Actions: The master branch has been removed for Homebrew actions; u...

2. When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader

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3. How GCC Eliminates Unnecessary Integer Division

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4. 40ms Go GC stop-the-world pauses caused by swap

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5. JSON parsing in OxCaml: fast, but not too fast

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6. CUDA Tile (cuTile) first working port in Java

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7. Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go

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8. TIL: One lock to rule them all

I've been running multiple migrations recently. A common step in all of them is a long cleanup action at the end. I ended up using postgres advisory locks and sqlx. As part of a larger Today I've learned series, I dug a bit deeper using bpftrace to improve my understanding of how the locks actually work. Hope you will find it interesting as well submitted by /u/realflakm [link] [comments]

Game Development

1. Valve's Steam Frame pricing starts at $1,059

Valve is also rolling out a developer kit for VR developers targeting its new headset.

2. Moss developer Polyarc has shut down

The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.

3. Worker-run studio KO_OP confirms layoffs

The Goodbye Volcano High and Young Suns developer has eliminated 13 roles.

Gaming News

1. Blizzard Says Diablo 5 Was Too Big To Be A Diablo 4 Expansion

Diablo 4 is far from dead, but don't expect any new expansions for the game going forward. Instead, Blizzard is preparing to tell the darkest story yet in Diablo 5, one that required a new numbered game to properly reintroduce Diablo himself back to the series, following his defeat in 2012's Diablo 3. Currently aiming for a 2029 release, this would mean that players are in for a relatively short wait for a new Diablo game--compared to previous releases--as Diablo 5 will arrive a mere six years a...

2. Wardogs Devs Are Watching Economy Cheaters Like Hawks

With the FPS Wardogs dominating the Steam charts, developer Bulkhead is paying close attention to the game's various systems. The studio recently dropped a new patch that makes some necessary changes for server stability, while confirming that the team has their eyes on cheaters and exploiters. As part of Patch 0.11, which came out on September 14, Bulkhead announced that should any dogs of war take advantage of Wardogs' economy by farming servers, they'll find themselves either temporarily or p...

3. How WoW Forever Handles Its Massive Set Of New Quests

One of the big announcements at BlizzCon was WoW Forever, the next iteration of offering a classic-style WoW experience. Blizzard is hoping to draw players back to the OG WoW in a number of ways, including with the introduction of 1,000+ new quests. GameSpot caught up with Blizzard senior game designer Josh Greenfield to discuss this, along with why the game's OG quests--from 22 years ago--still resonate today. If Blizzard is adding 1,000 more quests to WoW with the update, how many does that br...

4. Crazy Taxi Gets Crazier With Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Writers For New Movie

The Crazy Taxi franchise isn't just getting a brand-new game next year; it's also getting a live-action movie. Netflix and Sega have announced a new partnership that will see a Crazy Taxi film coming to the streaming service in 2027. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand are penning the comedy's screenplay, after previously working together on Naked Gun (2025), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and How I Met Your Mother. There's no director attached to the project, yet. However, Original Film's Neal H. Moritz and Toby As...

5. Diablo 5 Isn’t Reinventing The Combat Wheel, It’s Making It Spin Even Faster

Combat has grown massively between each numbered Diablo game, and for Diablo 5, Blizzard is aiming to once again elevate those gameplay mechanics to new heights. "Fundamentally, we're an isometric action-RPG, and we're not looking to shake that up with Diablo 5," executive producer Matt Zitterman said to GameSpot at BlizzCon 2026. "We're looking to improve on it, evolve it, and we have some great, interesting ideas about how to make combat feel even more visceral, even more action-forward. Kind ...

6. Overwatch’s Tracer Once Shot Lasers From Her Eyes, And It Could Happen Again

If early iterations of characters had survived the development process, Tracer could have been a very different Overwatch hero. Speaking to GameSpot at BlizzCon 2026, game director Aaron Keller mentioned that he had been playing Overwatch since 2013, "since Tracer was shooting lasers out of her eyes." When questioned about such a strange sequence of words, Keller explained that the bizarre version of Tracer came from the first days of Overwatch's engine development in late 2013. "When we were cr...

7. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – Official Game Overview Trailer

The Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave game launches September 17, 2026, only on Nintendo Switch 2. Travel through time to gather allies and defeat the demon god Balor. Test your tactical prowess in battle as you guide four heroes on their interwoven journeys from past to present. Together, you’ll save the future from ruin—or fall trying. What is your favorite unit type from Fire Emblem?

8. Wardogs Players Really Want You To Close The Doors … Or Else

The hottest game on PC right now is Wardogs, the Battlefield-like mass multiplayer FPS by developer Bulkhead that's soaring up the Steam charts. While it may not be as hot as the game itself, the game's subreddit is full of hotheads demanding you do one teeny-tiny thing. Close. The. Doors. Behind. You. Released in a closed beta state in August 2026 before entering early access in September 2026, Wardogs has taken PC gaming by storm. It's not only the number-one trending game according to SteamDB...

9. Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve – Official Story Overview Trailer

Lies, conspiracies, and gossip. They make up the dense fog that obscures what really going down in this war. The legendary ace – Wings – is no different. ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE releases October 2nd, 2026! Pre-order now to unlock the F-14A aircraft and exclusive access to ACE COMBAT ZERO: THE BELKAN WAR. The Deluxe Edition of ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE includes: Base Game 3 days of Early Access Customizable Cosmetic Set Premium Ace Pass Plus Voucher

10. Kingmakers – 12 Minute Gameplay Overview Deep Dive

Get a closer look at Kingmakers, the upcoming medieval action-strategy sandbox. In this Gameplay Deep Dive, the developers provide brand-new details on the game's story and key gameplay systems such as combat, settlement management, and RTS mechanics. Go back in time to a war-torn medieval era with a vast arsenal of modern weapons, change the course of history, and save the future in Kingmakers. Build your kingdom, grab a gun, and lead an army of thousands into massive, real-time simulated battl...

11. Bungie delays next Marathon update and ends 'strict seasonal schedule' as it goes all-in on Destiny-like features

Big changes are coming, but not until December.

12. Valve had next-gen VR 'headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices' but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them on

The versatile Steam Frame's focus is "on being lightweight and being comfortable".

13. Lies of P publisher files trademark for likely sequel 'Wonders of O'

Sure sounds like a sequel to me.

14. Forget GTA 6, I have brought GTA 5 closer to being the true greatest game of all time: Hulk – Ultimate Destruction

Quit staring.

15. Valve targeted a lower price for the Steam Frame, then the memory crisis happened: 'I wish we could have shipped it at the price that we were at last year'

You gotta feel for anyone working on a project like this right now. Very few companies are benefitting from the memory crisis.

Robotics

1. Arm to discuss scaling physical AI at RoboBusiness

Dermot O'Driscoll, the VP of go-to-market for physical AI at Arm, will examine key compute principles behind trusted physical AI. The post Arm to discuss scaling physical AI at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Universal Robots launches its seventh generation robot platform at IMTS

Universal Robots has released three new robot arms, a rebuilt core controller, a new AI-ready tool flange, and more. The post Universal Robots launches its seventh generation robot platform at IMTS appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. How autonomous fleets are changing what’s possible in American agriculture

Autonomous tractors can help American agriculture, as exemplified in ASI's collaboration with U.S. Sugar and Everglades Equipment. The post How autonomous fleets are changing what’s possible in American agriculture appeared first on The Robot Report.

Tech General

1. Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips

Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.

2. ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves

If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.

3. Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate

Volkswagen's new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.

4. With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.

5. macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps

The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent.

6. Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll

Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.

7. Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans

The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.

8. Waymo opens robotaxi service in Las Vegas

Las Vegas will be Waymo's 15th commercial robotaxi market.

9. Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg

Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.

10. Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?

If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will continue creating value as they do. Don't miss this interactive session on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

11. TIFF 2026: The latest movie reviews from Toronto

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the […]

12. macOS 27 is available now

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs - Apple released its final big update for Intel-based Macs last year with macOS Tahoe. Siri AI is arguably […]

13. Apple releases iOS 27 with Siri AI overhaul

Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is available as a beta today for English-only devices, and Apple says […]

14. The Steam Frame is made for irresponsible hardware nerds like me

For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC. At first glance, it's easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At $1,059 with 256GB of storage or $1,299 for 1TB, it costs two to three times as much as […]

15. Valve’s Steam Frame costs $1,059

Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also offer a 1TB model that starts at $1,299. Every Steam Frame will come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx, […]

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