Today’s developer landscape is defined by a sharp tension between the rapid evolution of AI and a growing desire for digital sovereignty. As major tech platforms face increasing regulatory pressure over AI-generated content, developers are doubling down on self-hosting, architectural fundamentals, and "spec-driven" development.
Hacker News
Updated 11 minutes agoWired
Updated about 12 hours agoCorsair’s updated Void Wireless sports Dolby Atmos and a lightweight, breathable fit.
Clips from creators in Minnesota have become primary evidence in attempts by the right wing to justify ICE’s surge on American cities.
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enf...
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.”
We’ve found the best travel cameras—from point-and-shoot to full-frame—to help you bring home the perfect vacation photos.
TechCrunch
Updated about 2 hours agoHupo, backed by Meta, pivoted from mental wellness to AI sales coaching for banks and insurers, and secured a $10M Series A led by DST Global
Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.
AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov.
We tried Amazon's new AI wearable Bee. It's not for pro users yet, but more features are expected this year.
Amazon explains where its wearable Bee fits in and whether it will merge with Alexa.
InfoQ
Updated 11 minutes agoMicrosoft Share Update on TypeScript 7
Microsoft's TypeScript 7, codenamed Project Corsa, transforms the compiler with a complete rewrite in Go, achieving up to 10x faster builds and reduced memory usage. With...
Presentation: Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild
Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO challenges. Drawing from real-world Netflix p...
Article: Spec Driven Development: When Architecture Becomes Executable
Spec-Driven Development inverts traditional architecture by making specifications executable and authoritative. It transforms declared intent into validated code through...
Podcast: Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across dis...
AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support
AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatib...
Wired AI
Updated about 12 hours agoTo prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally ide...
A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app a...
What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.
Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 2 hours agoHow I used n8n to build AI study partners for learning Mandarin: vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation correction. The post How AI Can Become Your Personal Language Tu...
The eternal promise of self-service analytics The post Why 90% Accuracy in Text-to-SQL is 100% Useless appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Looking at the performance of different pipelines The post When Does Adding Fancy RAG Features Work? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A deep dive on data transfer bottlenecks, their identification, and their resolution with the help of NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems - part 2 The post Optimizing Data Transfer in...
Walkthrough using open-source prompt optimization algorithms in Python to improve the accuracy of an autonomous vehicle car safety agent running on OpenAI's GPT 5.2 The p...
Anthropic News
Updated 1 day agoThe best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, with meaningful improvements to everyday tasks like slides and spreadsheets.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new benchmark records in coding, reasoning, and computer use while being Anthropic's most aligned model.
Claude Haiku 4.5 matches state-of-the-art coding capabilities from months ago while delivering unprecedented speed and cost-efficiency.
Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a $183 billion valuation to expand enterprise offerings, safety research, and international growth.
Anthropic's response to the White House AI Action Plan supports infrastructure and safety measures while calling for stronger export controls.
Windsurf News
Updated about 2 hours agoParallel agents, Git worktrees, multi-pane Cascade, dedicated terminal, and SWE-1.5 Free
GPT-5.2 is now live in Windsurf! Available for 0x credits for a limited time (paid and trial users). The version bump undersells the jump in intelligence: Biggest leap fo...
The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time
GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex Mini deliver a solid upgrade for agentic coding with variable thinking and improved steerability
SWE-1.5 is our latest frontier model, delivering near-SOTA coding performance at unprecedented speed.
Cursor
Updated 1 day agoA comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.
As models improve as agents, we've found success by providing fewer details up front, making it easier for the agent to pull relevant context on its own.
We're partnering with ecosystem vendors who have built hooks support with Cursor.
Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.
Bringing design and engineering closer together.
OpenAI News
Updated about 2 hours agoOpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy to develop multi-gigawatt AI data center campuses, including a 1.2 GW Texas facility supporting the Stargate initiative.
OpenAI and Datadog brand graphic with the OpenAI wordmark on the left, the Datadog logo on the right, and a central abstract brown fur-like texture panel on a white backg...
How Netomi scales enterprise AI agents using GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2—combining concurrency, governance, and multi-step reasoning for reliable production workflows.
OpenAI for Healthcare enables secure, enterprise-grade AI that supports HIPAA compliance—reducing administrative burden and supporting clinical workflows.
Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conver...
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 2 hours agoGoogle 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.
Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.
Google DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 1 day agoThe capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of t...
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents
Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous
Hugging Face Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoNVIDIA will join the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission as a private industry partner to keep U.S. AI both the leader and the standard in technology around...
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing robust agentic and generative AI capabilities powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture...
Step out of the vault and into the future of gaming with Fallout: New Vegas streaming on GeForce NOW, just in time to celebrate the newest season of the hit Amazon TV sho...
Physical AI is moving from research labs into the real world, powering intelligent robots and autonomous vehicles (AVs) — such as robotaxis — that must reliably sense, re...
The Hao AI Lab research team at the University of California San Diego — at the forefront of pioneering AI model innovation — recently received an NVIDIA DGX B200 system...
arXiv
Updated about 2 hours agoWe show that any stochastic differential equation with prescribed time-dependent marginal distributions admits a decomposition into three components: a unique scalar fiel...
Learning how to learn efficiently is a fundamental challenge for biological agents and a growing concern for artificial ones. To learn effectively, an agent must regulate...
Post-training algorithms based on deep reinforcement learning can push the limits of robotic models for specific objectives, such as generalizability, accuracy, and robus...
We present CLAPS, a posterior-aware conformal regression method that pairs a Last-Layer Laplace Approximation with split-conformal calibration. From the resulting Gaussia...
A growing interest has developed in the problem of training models of EEG features to predict brain activity measured using fMRI, i.e. the problem of EEG-to-fMRI synthesi...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 2 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 2 hours agoBy decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for develo...
Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without...
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME:...
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on...
New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other buil...
Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we op...
The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of...
Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is...
We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG...
Meta’s secure-by-default frameworks wrap potentially unsafe OS and third-party functions, making security the default while preserving developer speed and usability. Thes...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoThe technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appea...
The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (P...
We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt. The post Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) appear...
Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For... The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first...
Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance. The post 1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoMartin Fowler
Updated about 2 hours agoMy favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a un...
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in...
Gitanjali Venkatraman does wonderful illustrations of complex subjects (which is why I was so happy to work with her on our Expert Generalists article). She has now publi...
If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a...
Why does AI write like… that (NYT, gift link). Sam Kriss delves into the quiet hum of AI writing. AI’s work is not compelling prose: it’s phantom text, ghostly scribbling...
Hugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agoLightricks/LTX-2
LTX-2 is a DiT-based audio-video foundation model developed by Lightricks and presented in the paper LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Model. It is designed...
fal/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA is a multi-angle camera control LoRA designed for the Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 base model. It enables precise image-to-image editing...
tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B
HY-MT1.5-1.8B is a high-speed translation model from the Hunyuan Translation Model Version 1.5 series. It is designed to support mutual translation across 33 languages an...
nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b
Nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b is a unified 600M parameter model designed for high-quality English transcription across low-latency streaming and high-throughput batch...
LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is a general-purpose instruction-tuned model from a new family of hybrid models designed for on-device deployment. It features a unique architecture...
GitHub Trending
Updated 7 minutes agoDioxusLabs/dioxus
Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, and mobile.
UberGuidoZ/Flipper
Playground (and dump) of stuff I make or modify for the Flipper Zero
godotengine/godot-demo-projects
Demonstration and Template Projects
jrouwe/JoltPhysics
A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library. Written in C++. Suitable for games and VR applications. Used by Horizon Forbidden West and Death...
microsoft/qlib
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diver...
AWS News Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoAt the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution lis...
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and...
Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days,...
The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you so...
Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 2 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 2 hours agoThere has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests ca...
Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling cha...
We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last t...
Cloudflare's H1 2025 Transparency Report is here. We discuss our principles on content blocking and our innovative approach to combating unauthorized streaming and copyri...
Cloudflare’s R2 SQL, a distributed query engine, now supports aggregations. Explore how we built distributed GROUP BY execution, using scatter-gather and shuffling strate...
IGN News
Updated about 2 hours agoArc Raiders is known for its cutthroat PvP encounters, but some peaceful players prefer PvE to such a degree that they’ve started using the aggression-based matchmaking t...
Where can you play 1993 classic fps Doom? Loads of places. Cooking pots, smart photo frames, receipt printers (what), Wikipedia (what???), Alarmo, the wacky list goes on....
Anthem, the failed attempt at a live-service game by Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare, is now offline for good.
Peak, a popular cooperative climbing game, costs $5. Except it actually costs $8, which is basically $5. And it's on sale right now for just under $5, which is also $5, b...
Game Rant
Updated about 2 hours agoThe original Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2 both get new system updates for the first time in 2026, and gamers can get them now.
Expansive worlds, gorgeous visuals, and a dizzying sense of adventure ahead — these titles promise to deliver all three.
ARC Raiders has been facing a griefer problem, and this early access game may be a strong alternative for fans who have had enough.
With 2026 just getting underway, Nintendo reveals a new promotion that could make this a good time to check out Nintendo Switch Online.
Triple-A games would have you think only games with hyper-realistic graphics matter, but the following titles prove that to be untrue.