Today’s developer landscape is defined by a growing skepticism toward commercial OS ecosystems and a "back to basics" movement in software engineering. While AI remains a dominant force, the narrative is shifting from pure hype to a more critical evaluation of its practical utility and ethical boundaries.
Hacker News
Updated 4 minutes agoWired
Updated about 10 hours agoI've spent almost a year testing dozens of heat protectants for hair. Whether you’re blow-drying, curling, or straightening, these are the best formulas I've found.
This is a promising stand-alone Dolby Atmos soundbar for music fans, but it still needs a few software tweaks.
Sony’s latest full frame mirrorless is a hybrid powerhouse with features to impress both video and still photographers.
Traditionally sleep coaches treat babies. But now more and more anxious, screen-attached grownups are the ones who need nursing.
We’ve tested hundreds of the top hybrid, memory foam, and cooling mattresses to find the best combination of support and pressure relief.
TechCrunch
Updated 20 minutes agoAdvertising on inDrive is being rolled out across its top 20 markets following mid-2025 tests.
Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be pulling back from the state where they co-founded Google.
Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.
This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.
InfoQ
Updated 1 minute agoJava News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus,...
AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit
AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where s...
Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code's Creator
Claude Code's creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompti...
NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools Across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The u...
MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data From MongoDB's Heap Memory
MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exp...
Wired AI
Updated about 10 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 20 minutes agoWalkthrough 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...
Learn how I utilize slash commands to be a more efficient engineer The post How to Leverage Slash Commands to Code Effectively appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Understanding the foundations of federated learning The post Federated Learning, Part 1: The Basics of Training Models Where the Data Lives appeared first on Towards Data...
A step-by-step journey through data transformation, star schema modeling, and DAX variance analysis with lessons learned along the way. The post Beyond the Flat Table: Bu...
Achieving infinite context with 114× less memory The post How LLMs Handle Infinite Context With Finite Memory appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic News
Updated about 12 hours 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 20 minutes 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 about 12 hours 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 20 minutes 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 20 minutes 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 about 12 hours 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 20 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 20 minutes agoWe study the discrete-to-continuum consistency of the training of shallow graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) on proximity graphs of sampled point clouds under a...
Automated seizure detection from electroencephalography (EEG) remains difficult due to the large variability of seizure dynamics across patients, recording conditions, an...
Supervised and unsupervised learning using deep neural networks typically aims to exploit the underlying structure in the training data; this structure is often explained...
We develop a practical framework for distinguishing diffusive stochastic processes from deterministic signals using only a single discrete time series. Our approach is ba...
Recent advances in long-term time series forecasting have introduced numerous complex supervised prediction models that consistently outperform previously published archi...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated 20 minutes agoMicrosoft Research
Updated 20 minutes 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...
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...
We’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI. Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at M...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated 20 minutes agoSpotify Engineering
Updated 20 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 20 minutes agoMartin Fowler
Updated 20 minutes 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 1 minute 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...
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...
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...
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...
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AWS News Blog
Updated 20 minutes agoHappy 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.
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Alibaba Cloud
Updated 20 minutes agoCloudflare
Updated 20 minutes 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 20 minutes agoAvatar: Fire and Ash has now grossed $1.231 billion globally after four weekends in theaters, with Zootopia 2 up to $1.655 billion worldwide after six weekends.
After an exciting evening for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, IGN has the full winners list for you to check out!
Warhammer 40,000 lore fans are in overdrive after a single page of a new campaign book teased something that’s never happened before in the setting: the long-awaited meet...
GameStop is closing hundreds of stores just days into the new year as CEO Ryan Cohen aims to take home $35 billion in performance-based stock options.
Game Rant
Updated 20 minutes agoBy using GTA San Andreas cheats for Android and other mobile devices, players can make the experience a whole lot more enjoyable.
Columbina, Zibai, and Illuga will all debut in version Luna IV; here's Genshin Impact 6.3 release date.
Those playing the game on PlayStation can use these GTA 5 PS5 cheats to liven up the single-player experience.
Skill cheats allow Sims 4 players to adjust their Skills without spending in-game hours working on them.
If you love the depth and complexity of Elden Ring's lore, then do yourself a favor and check out these other richly detailed open-world games.