Today is Thursday, January 15, 2026, and the developer landscape is currently dominated by a collision of aggressive cybersecurity breaches, a shift in AI coding efficiency, and a growing debate over the "death of the local PC. " While large-scale system design remains a perennial favorite for those leveling up their careers, the immediate news cycle is focused on high-stakes data leaks and the evolving ethics of AI-generated content.
Hacker News
Updated 14 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated 15 minutes agoIran’s government-imposed internet shutdown enters its second week as authorities continue their violent crackdown on protesters.
The Trump administration formalized its 25% cut of H200 chip sales in China with a tariff that applies to certain semiconductors.
Merge Labs is a “research lab” dedicated to “bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability.” OpenAI wrote the largest check in Merge Labs' $25...
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
Transition Metal Solutions is applying a special cocktail to coax microbes into unlocking more copper from ore.
Ars Technica
Updated about 9 hours agoIn-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.
Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration.
AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.
On Jan. 6, there were 211 cases. The outbreak, which began in October, is now at 434.
Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.
VentureBeat
Updated about 9 hours agoThe two big stories of AI in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for Anthropic's Claude Code and a similar huge boost in user adoption for...
Rather than asking how AI agents can work for them, a key question in enterprise is now: Are agents playing well together? This makes orchestration across multi-agent sys...
Egnyte, the $1.5 billion cloud content governance company, has embedded AI coding tools across its global team of more than 350 developers — but not to reduce headcount....
In the chaotic world of Large Language Model (LLM) optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better answers. W...
When an enterprise LLM retrieves a product name, technical specification, or standard contract clause, it's using expensive GPU computation designed for complex reas...
InfoQ
Updated 15 minutes agoTaking the Technical Leadership Path
Technical leaders face challenges beyond individual contributor work: aligning with business on investments, managing systemic aspects, mentoring, and keeping up with a c...
AWS Hikes EC2 Capacity Block Rates by 15% in Uniform ML Pricing Adjustment
AWS has raised EC2 Capacity Block prices for ML by 15% across all regions, impacting GPU-based workloads. The uniform price hikes affect top-tier instances powered by NVI...
Mistral Releases OCR 3 With Improved Accuracy on Handwritten and Structured Documents
Mistral has released Mistral OCR 3, the latest version of its optical character recognition model, focused on higher accuracy across a wide range of document types, inclu...
Django Releases Version 6.0 with Built-In Background Tasks and Native CSP Support
Django 6.0 has arrived, offering developers cutting-edge features like a built-in tasks framework, enhanced security with Content Security Policy, and template partials f...
Presentation: Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Matthew Card discusses the intersection of leadership and inclusivity at the BBC. He explains how "changing the bar" rather than just raising it can transform team dynami...
Wired AI
Updated about 10 hours agoThe departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.
AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.
Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools. Now all of that has changed.
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
The LinkedIn cofounder and frequent Trump target has a simple message for his peers: “Just speak up about the things that you think are true.”
Towards Data Science
Updated 15 minutes agoShapley Values are one of the most common methods for explainability, yet they can be misleading. Discover how to overcome these limitations to achieve better insights. T...
Get the most out of Claude Code The post How to Run Coding Agents in Parallel appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Designing a centralized system to track daily habits and long-term goals The post The 2026 Goal Tracker: How I Built a Data-Driven Vision Board Using Python, Streamlit, a...
Why speed without standards creates fragile AI products The post Do You Smell That? Hidden Technical Debt in AI Development appeared first on Towards Data Science.
From optimizing metrics to designing meaning: putting people back into data-driven decisions The post Why Human-Centered Data Analytics Matters More Than Ever appeared fi...
Anthropic News
Updated 4 days 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 15 minutes agoGPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, enjoy discounts on credit usage.
Parallel 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
Cursor
Updated 4 days 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 15 minutes agoOpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and exper...
OpenAI launches a new RFP to strengthen the U.S. AI supply chain by accelerating domestic manufacturing, creating jobs, and scaling AI infrastructure.
OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute, reducing inference latency and making ChatGPT faster for real-time AI workloads.
By rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise company-wide, Zenken has boosted sales performance, cut preparation time, and increased proposal success rates. AI-supported workflows a...
OpenAI 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.
Google DeepMind News
Updated 15 minutes agoOur latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Google 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.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 4 days 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 2 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated 15 minutes 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 15 minutes agoVision-Language-Action (VLA) tasks require reasoning over complex visual scenes and executing adaptive actions in dynamic environments. While recent studies on reasoning...
Transformer-based language models often achieve strong results on mathematical reasoning benchmarks while remaining fragile on basic numerical understanding and arithmeti...
Integrating Large AI Models (LAMs) into 6G mobile networks is a key enabler of the AI-Native Air Interface (AI-AI), where protocol intelligence must scale beyond handcraf...
Structure-based and ligand-based computational drug design have traditionally relied on disjoint data sources and modeling assumptions, limiting their joint use at scale....
Large Language Model (LLM) routers dynamically select optimal models for given inputs. Existing approaches typically assume access to ground-truth labeled data, which is...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated 15 minutes agoMicrosoft Research
Updated 15 minutes agoOptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve....
By 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...
We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new U...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated 15 minutes agoSpotify Engineering
Updated 15 minutes 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 15 minutes agoMartin Fowler
Updated 15 minutes agoJim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that both of these are im...
My 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...
Hugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agozai-org/GLM-Image
GLM-Image is an image generation model that adopts a hybrid autoregressive and diffusion decoder architecture. It is designed for high-fidelity text-to-image and image-to...
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...
Lightricks/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...
openbmb/AgentCPM-Explore
AgentCPM-Explore is an agent foundation model with 4B parameters designed for on-device deep research and long-horizon tasks. It is the first full-parameter 4B model to r...
Kijai/LTXV2_comfy
LTXV2_comfy provides separated LTX2 checkpoints designed for an alternative model loading method within ComfyUI. This repository includes LTX2 GGUF versions that contain...
GitHub Trending
Updated 10 minutes agogetlago/lago
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics
nlohmann/json
JSON for Modern C++
skypilot-org/skypilot
Run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure. Use one system to access & manage all AI compute (Kubernetes, 20+ clouds, or on-prem).
chidiwilliams/buzz
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
pola-rs/polars
Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust
AWS News Blog
Updated 15 minutes agoDeutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...
At 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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated 15 minutes agoCloudflare
Updated 15 minutes agoCloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic mo...
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root c...
Cloudflare Radar data shows Internet traffic from Iran has effectively dropped to zero since January 8, signaling a complete shutdown in the country and disconnection fro...
There 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...
IGN News
Updated 15 minutes agoElden Ring: Nightreign just got a big balance patch, and even if you're not someone who's great at parsing patch notes, you might want to tune into this one, because basi...
Monster Hunter Wilds fans are asking Capcom for answers after one player seemed to discover that PC performance is dictated by the number of DLCs a user has.
Amazon has announced a Fallout spinoff TV show called Fallout Shelter.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is once again sweeping award nominations, this time at the Game Developers Choice Awards, where it's been nominated for all but one award.
The next Life is Strange game will launch this year and be fully revealed next week, publisher Square Enix has confirmed.
Game Rant
Updated 15 minutes agoWhile Mornye is universal, she still isn't the best option for every team in Wuthering Waves.
Mornye is a healer and a buffer in Wuthering Waves; here's how to build Mornye in WuWa.
Master Azure Logs in Hytale with this guide to finding blue forests, harvesting logs, and using them to build teleporters, wizard staffs, and more!
007 First Light developer IO Interactive updates the game's PC requirements after members of the community pointed out numerous "inconsistencies."
Season 3 of Jujutsu Kaisen is going to be filled with internet-breaking moments. These are just a few that stand out.