Happy Saturday, April 11, 2026. As we wrap up the week, the developer landscape is defined by a significant push toward digital sovereignty, a growing backlash against forced AI adoption, and a renewed focus on foundational engineering.
Hacker News
Updated 5 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 3 hours agoAscend Elements said that it will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a canceled government grant and a challenging market for lithium-ion batteries.
OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit al...
SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos of humanoid robots, sessions on...
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month.
Ars Technica
Updated about 12 hours agoAfter leaks on Artemis I and II, Orion's next flight to the Moon will need new valves.
ACIP's charter now full of anti-vaccine terms and welcomes fringe groups to CDC.
Mythos is "the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date."
Improved gene editing process reactivates the fetal version of a hemoglobin gene.
Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom.
VentureBeat
Updated about 12 hours agoOpenAI is making moves to try and court more developers and vibe coders (those who build software using AI models and natural language) away from rivals like Anthropic.To...
A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the mo...
The age of agentic AI is upon us — whether we like it or not. What started with an innocent question-answer banter with ChatGPT back in 2022 has become an existential deb...
Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open so...
For more than two decades, digital discovery has operated on a simple model: search, scan, click, decide. That worked when humans were the ones doing the web searching; b...
InfoQ
Updated 14 minutes agoPresentation: Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Amir Langer discusses the evolution of latency reduction, from the Pony Express to modern hardware. He explains how separation of concerns - decoupling business logic fro...
CNCF and Kusari Partner to Strengthen Software Supply Chain Security Across Cloud-Native Projects
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kusari have announced a new collaboration aimed at strengthening software supply chain security across cloud-native proje...
Google Cloud Highlights Ongoing Work on PostgreSQL Core Capabilities
Google Cloud has outlined its recent technical contributions to PostgreSQL, emphasizing improvements in logical replication, upgrade processes, and overall system stabili...
Safari Adds scrollend Event Support, Completing Baseline Browser Coverage
Safari's release of version 26.2 in December introduced support for the scrollend event, completing its alignment with major browsers. This event signals when scrolling h...
Podcast: Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sam Bhagwat, co-founder and CEO of Mastra, about building and sustaining open source communities,...
Wired AI
Updated 25 minutes agoThe new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthou...
An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO’s residence before making threats outside of the startup’s headquarters.
Onix is launching a “Substack of bots,” where digital twins of health and wellness influencers dispense advice 24/7. And maybe hawk their products.
Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.
Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 1 hour agoSince September 2025, we have had Calendar-based Time Intelligence in Power BI and Fabric Tabular models. While this feature offers great possibilities, we must be aware...
We fitted the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to 555,000 real fraud transactions and got R² = −0.31 — worse than a flat line. This result explains why calendar-based retraini...
Can we reconstruct audio codes if we have audio for the Voxtral text-to-speech model? The post A Guide to Voice Cloning on Voxtral with a Missing Encoder appeared first o...
How depth estimation, foundation segmentation, and geometric fusion are converging into spatial intelligence The post How Does AI Learn to See in 3D and Understand Space?...
A long-form article featuring over 100 visualizations, covering a range of topics from how to build linear regression model, measure the quality and how to improve the mo...
Anthropic News
Updated 3 months 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 3 hours agoWe're launching multiple updates to Windsurf today: an Adaptive model router, a redesigned model picker with pricing context, and the removal of daily limits for Max.
We're simplifying Windsurf pricing across Free, Pro, and Teams alongside launching a new Max plan for our power users. The new plans replace the current credit-based syst...
GPT-5.4 is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, self serve users enjoy promotional pricing starting at 1x credits.
Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf with Low and High thinking variants. For a limited time, enjoy promotional pricing on credit usage.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 2x credits without thinking and 3x credits with thinking.
Cursor
Updated 3 months 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 agoLearn how to use orojects in ChatGPT to organize chats, files, and instructions, manage ongoing work, and collaborate more effectively.
Learn prompting fundamentals and how to write clear, effective prompts to get better, more useful responses from ChatGPT.
Learn how to create and use ChatGPT skills to build reusable workflows, automate recurring tasks, and ensure consistent, high-quality outputs.
Learn how to analyze data with ChatGPT by exploring datasets, generating insights, creating visualizations, and turning findings into actionable decisions.
Learn how to create and refine images with ChatGPT using clear prompts, iterate on designs, and generate high-quality visuals in minutes.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 2 hours agoGemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
Google DeepMind researches AI's harmful manipulation risks across areas like finance and health, leading to new safety measures.
Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.
We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 3 months 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...
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 3 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoThis National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world — as well as the growing wave of robots transforming in...
A timeless story of grit, faith and rebellion takes center stage as Samson: A Tyndalston Story joins the GeForce NOW library today. The highly anticipated release from Li...
Open models are driving a new wave of on-device AI, extending innovation beyond the cloud to everyday devices. As these models advance, their value increasingly depends o...
No joke — GFN Thursday is skipping the tricks and heading straight into the games. April kicks off with ten new titles, bringing fresh adventures to GeForce NOW, includin...
CERAWeek — dubbed the Davos of energy — is where policymakers, producers, technologists and financiers gather to discuss how the world powers itself next. NVIDIA and Emer...
arXiv
Updated about 1 hour agoVisual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and co...
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains student models under their own induced distribution while leveraging supervision from stronger teachers. We identify a failure mode of...
Applying steering vectors to large language models (LLMs) is an efficient and effective model alignment technique, but we lack an interpretable explanation for how it wor...
We initiate the study of language generation in the limit, a model recently introduced by Kleinberg and Mullainathan [KM24], under the constraint of differential privacy....
We introduce the Value-at-Risk Constrained Policy Optimization algorithm (VaR-CPO), a sample efficient and conservative method designed to optimize Value-at-Risk (VaR) co...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 2 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 2 hours agoFor the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on t...
Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-d...
AI benchmarks report how large language models (LLMs) perform on specific tasks but provide little insight into their underlying capabilities that drive their performance...
Imagine a robot tasked with cleaning a kitchen. It needs to observe its environment, decide what to do, and adjust when things don’t go as expected, for example, wh...
Vision-language models (VLMs) use images and text to plan robot actions, but they still struggle to decide what actions to take and where to take them. Most systems split...
At Meta, WebRTC powers real-time audio and video across various platforms. But forking a large open-source project like WebRTC within our monorepo presents unique challen...
As AI increases developer speed and productivity it also increases the need for safeguards. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig sits down with Ishwari...
AI coding assistants are powerful but only as good as their understanding of your codebase. When we pointed AI agents at one of Meta’s large-scale data processing p...
This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous...
Meta continues to lead the industry in utilizing groundbreaking AI Recommendation Systems (RecSys) to deliver better experiences for people, and better results for advert...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoAI agents are transforming the way we build — and even how we think of ourselves as software developers. Both... The post Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthro...
What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them? The post Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Hi...
When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural... The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising ap...
In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. The post How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Par...
TL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify... The post Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 32 minutes agogoogle/gemma-4-31B-it
Gemma 4 31B is a multimodal, open-weights model developed by Google DeepMind designed for text generation, coding, and reasoning tasks. It features a dense architecture a...
zai-org/GLM-5.1
GLM-5.1 is a next-generation flagship model designed for agentic engineering with enhanced coding capabilities. It is built to maintain effectiveness over long horizons b...
dealignai/Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK
Gemma 4 31B JANG_4M CRACK is an abliterated, dense multimodal model designed for general-purpose assistance and coding tasks without refusal constraints. It utilizes the...
openbmb/VoxCPM2
VoxCPM2 is a tokenizer-free, diffusion autoregressive Text-to-Speech model with 2 billion parameters designed for multilingual speech generation. It supports 30 languages...
netflix/void-model
VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion is a video-to-video model designed to remove objects and their associated physical interactions from scenes. Built on the CogV...
GitHub Trending
Updated about 1 hour agocodecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
jesseduffield/lazygit
simple terminal UI for git commands
astral-sh/ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
mui/material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoAmazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and intera...
Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new...
Organizational safeguards are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, enabling centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS...
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons gives platform engineers independent control over monitoring, logging, and tracing agents without application team coordination, ensuring consi...
AWS announces the Sustainability console, a new standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting and resources, giving sustainability teams independent acc...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 3 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 3 hours agoCloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever record...
By applying symbolic execution and the Z3 theorem prover to BPF bytecode, we’ve automated the generation of malware trigger packets, cutting analysis time from hours to s...
Recent advances in quantum hardware and software have accelerated the timeline on which quantum attack might happen. Cloudflare is responding by moving our target for ful...
Cloudflare Organizations is now in public beta, introducing a new management layer for enterprise customers with multiple accounts. Learn how we consolidated our authoriz...
The explosion of AI-bot traffic, representing over 10 billion requests per week, has opened up new challenges and opportunities for cache design. We look at some of the w...
IGN News
Updated about 2 hours agoThe devs of Dead by Daylight tell me they're extremely committed to keeping the game going as long as possible with support, crossovers, and all sorts of updates. So comm...
Iffy as my own sense of aesthetics in Pokémon Pokopia might be, at least I am not actively causing a second apocalypse to befall the world of Pokopia, like one player is...
The developer of 2025 surprise indie "friendslop" darling Peak is asking players to be a little more gracious to the studio when requesting updates, saying, "Neither us o...
Netflix revealed a first look at two new Peaky Blinders sequel series starring Jamie Bell as Duke Shelby, son of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby. Barry Keoghan played Duke...
Brian Cox, the first actor to ever play Hannibal Lecter on screen, will play another serial killer in Season 2 of Dexter: Resurrection. Cox will reportedly portray Dom Fr...
Game Rant
Updated about 3 hours agoA new update is available for Mario Kart World, resolving issues that players may have encountered in the Nintendo Switch 2 game.
Chris Parsons and Joel Baer of Blueshift Big Band talk Joystick Jazz, the best video game soundtracks, and our generation's folk music.
The same user who initially leaked the upcoming PlayStation State of Play leaks a new Metro game may be closer than expected.
The expectations surrounding GTA are continuing to grow, and one major concern is focused on the game's environmental realism.
These fire quirks are the hottest and deadliest in the history of My Hero Academia.