Wednesday, January 28, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the tech landscape as the industry grapples with the intersection of national security, corporate AI competition, and a growing movement toward digital sovereignty. While technical repositories like Vite and Transformers continue their steady evolution, the real pulse of the community today is found in the heated debates over platform censorship, the "humanizing" of development practices, and a global push to decouple from Big Tech monopolies.
Hacker News
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Shadowfax shares fell about 9% on theirdebut, valuing the logistics firm near its last private valuation.
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. Ti...
Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.
By Rotation, one of the U.K.’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.
Ars Technica
Updated about 10 hours agoSignificant discounts come with committing to 1- to 3-year rental periods.
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
Bruce of Drain Cleaning Australia wants everyone to share his deep abiding love for a free-flowing drain.
AI Overviews may get it right more often with the move to Gemini 3.
The EX60 senses a passenger's size and weight, determining how much force to use.
VentureBeat
Updated about 10 hours agoIn the race to bring artificial intelligence into the enterprise, a small but well-funded startup is making a bold claim: The problem holding back AI adoption in complex...
Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an agent swarm orch...
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company that has positioned itself as Europe's leading challenger to American AI giants, announced on Tuesday the gene...
As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry's next big bottleneck won't be writing code — it will be...
Presented by Avalon HolographicsThe pace of AI continues to be staggering. From simple pattern recognition systems to large language models (LLMs), and now as we move int...
InfoQ
Updated 15 minutes agoJava News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK
This week's Java roundup for January 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, targeted for JDK 27; GlassFish Grizzly...
OpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms
OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life s...
Article: The Friction Fix: Change What Matters
Friction is the invisible current that sinks every transformation. Friction isn’t one thing, – it’s systemic. Relationships produce friction: between the people, teams an...
Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access...
Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Guilherme Carreiro discusses the architecture behind Shopify’s theme system, focusing on balancing extreme customizability with platform stability. He explains how they l...
Wired AI
Updated about 10 hours agoAlexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it. Here’s how to change it back.
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration official...
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Here’s what they said.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 11 hours agoExplore a practical approach to analysing massive datasets with LLMs The post Going Beyond the Context Window: Recursive Language Models in Action appeared first on Towar...
Recognize data science as an engineering practice and structure education accordingly. The post Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Iden...
How relationship-aware graphs turn connected forecasts into operational insight The post From Connections to Meaning: Why Heterogeneous Graph Transformers (HGT) Change De...
If adding a feature feels like open-heart surgery on your codebase, the problem isn’t bugs, it’s structure. This article shows how better architecture reduces risk, speed...
Exploring the RAG pipeline in Cursor that powers code indexing and retrieval for coding agents The post How Cursor Actually Indexes Your Codebase appeared first on Toward...
Anthropic News
Updated 17 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 30 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 17 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 30 minutes agoPVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.
TRUSTBANK partnered with Recursive to build Choice AI using OpenAI models, delivering personalized, conversational recommendations that simplify Furusato Nozei gift disco...
Prism is a free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in, helping researchers write, collaborate, and reason in one place.
Indeed’s CRO Maggie Hulce shares how AI is transforming job search, recruiting, and talent acquisition for employers and job seekers.
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
Google DeepMind News
Updated 30 minutes agoD4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Our 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 17 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...
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 30 minutes agoAt the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climat...
AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The recent recognition of...
AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflow...
AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately detect fraud and money...
The wait is over, pilots. Flight control support — one of the most community-requested features for GeForce NOW — is live starting today, following its announcement at CE...
arXiv
Updated 30 minutes agoContinual learning, enabling models to acquire new skills and knowledge without degrading existing capabilities, remains a fundamental challenge for foundation models. Wh...
Large language model (LLM) scaling is hitting a wall. Widening models yields diminishing returns, and extending context length does not improve fundamental expressivity....
The first law of geography is a cornerstone of spatial analysis, emphasizing that nearby and related locations tend to be more similar, however, defining what constitutes...
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) rely on fixed-size kernels scanning local patches, which limits their ability to capture global context or long-range dependencies wi...
Extensive studies suggested that fluid mechanical markers of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) derived from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can indicate disease progression...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated 29 minutes agoMicrosoft Research
Updated 30 minutes agoAI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance o...
Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinations and produces mo...
OptiMind 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...
WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s exp...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated 30 minutes agoSpotify Engineering
Updated 30 minutes agoTL;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 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...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated 30 minutes agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 15 minutes agomoonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model built by Moonshot AI through continual pretraining on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. It utilizes a...
microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR
VibeVoice-ASR is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass within a 64K token length. It jointly performs ASR, diarizat...
Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice is a large-scale text-to-speech model supporting ten major languages and multiple dialectal profiles. It utilizes a discrete multi-codeboo...
zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for text generation. Positioned as a leading model in the 30B class, it provides a lightweight deployme...
GitHub Trending
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Download market data from Yahoo! Finance's API
Z4nzu/hackingtool
ALL IN ONE Hacking Tool For Hackers
tracel-ai/burn
Burn is a next generation tensor library and Deep Learning Framework that doesn't compromise on flexibility, efficiency and portability.
Mbed-TLS/mbedtls
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typ...
go-sql-driver/mysql
Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
AWS News Blog
Updated 30 minutes agoHey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still...
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances del...
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 whic...
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated 30 minutes agoCloudflare
Updated 30 minutes agoAs a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weat...
An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss...
A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. Here we explain the vulnerability and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitig...
The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-dr...
IGN News
Updated 30 minutes agoLionsgate is heading back to the dance floor, as the sequel to Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey’s ‘80s classic, Dirty Dancing, has finally found footing with a new creati...
The release of GTA 6 may still be a long way off, but indie filmmaker Todd Wiseman Jr. has made an ambitious new short film, titled Six Stars, that essentially brings Gra...
Reigns: The Witcher has been announced by indie publisher Devolver Digital, in collaboration with CD Projekt Red.
The Simpsons has announced a star-studded cast for its landmark 800th episode, which is set to include Kevin Bacon, Noah Wyle, Questlove and Boyz II Men.
Game Rant
Updated 30 minutes agoIn these open-world games, you're not just exploring - you're invading! From alien attacks to pirate raids, play as the invader causing chaos.
Fans of Japanese survival horror games are in for a treat, as two classic series reveal they're teaming up for a new collaboration.
The Golden Snitch Dice Skin is a true luxury reward in Monopoly GO. Here’s how to get it.
Mojang shares a look at a brand-new item that should be exciting for baby mob fans, and it is already available for testing in Minecraft.
Super Mutants are a persistent threat throughout the wastelands of Fallout, but with a multitude of factions and variants, which are the strongest?