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Zapier vs. Tray comparison: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]
It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making—thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with enterprise software,…
Read original →No more issues
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Read original →Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue
Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM
We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
An Alien Mind
Research carried out using NetBSD
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on…
Read original →Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time satellite data. It produces hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution, five times more detailed…
Read original →OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available. Internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans got pulled forward by six months. The article OpenAI developer claims…
Read original →Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also available through Flow Music, AI Studio, and Google Vids.…
Read original →Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most accurate streaming transcription…
Read original →AI / coding tools.
Model updates, AI coding tools, agents, APIs, and practical AI shifts.
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on…
Read original →Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time satellite data. It produces hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution, five times more detailed…
Read original →OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available. Internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans got pulled forward by six months. The article OpenAI developer claims…
Read original →Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also available through Flow Music, AI Studio, and Google Vids.…
Read original →Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most accurate streaming transcription…
Read original →Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, but journalists were able to generate…
Read original →Web development.
Frontend, PHP/LAMP, browser, platform, and developer tooling updates.
No more issues
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Read original →Bun v1.4.2
This release fixes two regressions impacting Elysia and AsyncLocalStorage, a hang in @discordjs/ws, CMYK JPEG decoding in Bun.Image, a rare JIT crash, and a GC crash on musl.
Read original →Tools / GitHub.
GitHub, repos, changelogs, infrastructure, and useful software signals.
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue
Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM
We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
An Alien Mind
Research carried out using NetBSD
AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
Automation / SaaS.
Automation, small SaaS, product, and business-tech updates.
Zapier vs. Tray comparison: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]
It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making—thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with enterprise software,…
Read original →Other useful links.
Additional items that did not fit the main buckets but may still be worth a look.
Quoting Zach Kehs
If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in performance.…
Read original →AI, Tools and Transformation
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s: Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more…
Read original →Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism
Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails…
Read original →How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application…
Read original →OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
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