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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 →Email security - Block emails by content with blocked content rules
Cloudflare Email security now lets administrators write their own content-based blocking rules. A new Blocked content area under Policies & rules lets you define a plaintext string or a regular expression, choose whether to scan the…
Read original →DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose…
Read original →US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We…
Read original →Vercel Connect adds observability support
Vercel Connect now gives teams line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. See who created a token, what app or project used it, when, and whether it is still active.Every connector's detail page includes a new Observability…
Read original →WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
Read original →SMX Now: The Target bidding apocalypse and how we’ve been here before
Join us on August 19th for the latest SMX Now where Reva Minkoff will break down Google's August 17 Smart Bidding changes
Read original →AI / coding tools.
Model updates, AI coding tools, agents, APIs, and practical AI shifts.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose…
Read original →Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We…
Read original →🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
Read original →datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by…
Read original →OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock
OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The move is meant to ease pressure on employees waiting for liquidity ahead of a…
Read original →"But marinade" and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT's hidden reasoning
Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that lets them extract encrypted reasoning traces and move them between models. A scan of public sessions turned up dozens of passwords and…
Read original →Web development.
Frontend, PHP/LAMP, browser, platform, and developer tooling updates.
Vercel Connect adds observability support
Vercel Connect now gives teams line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. See who created a token, what app or project used it, when, and whether it is still active.Every connector's detail page includes a new Observability…
Read original →Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains. It makes the organization's identity provider the single source of truth for authentication and account lifecycle, so accounts on…
Read original →Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
You can now integrate 100+ services through Vercel Connect from the CLI. Previously, vercel connect create completed setup in the terminal for some services, and opened the dashboard for everything else.Pass the service name to create…
Read original →Laravel monitoring that doesn't bill you by your traffic
Self-hosted Laravel monitoring powered by laravel/nightwatch telemetry. Keep months of history in your own PostgreSQL with flat pricing from $5/month. The post Laravel monitoring that doesn't bill you by your traffic appeared first on Laravel News.…
Read original →Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical…
Read original →Mock PHP Classes in Tests With the Double Library
Double is a PHP mocking library from Jason McCreary with one API for mocks, spies, and partials, plus failure messages that show the actual call log. The post Mock PHP Classes in Tests With the Double…
Read original →Tools / GitHub.
GitHub, repos, changelogs, infrastructure, and useful software signals.
Email security - Block emails by content with blocked content rules
Cloudflare Email security now lets administrators write their own content-based blocking rules. A new Blocked content area under Policies & rules lets you define a plaintext string or a regular expression, choose whether to scan the…
Read original →DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
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,…
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.22 is now available and introduces new capabilities across the platform. Here are a few highlights in the 3.22 release: Administrators can configure Copilot CLI to… The post GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22…
Read original →Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
This update brings persistent memory, local model access, and more enterprise controls to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also improves everyday chat workflows and resolves reliability issues across MCP servers,… The post Copilot memory and Ollama…
Read original →Anthropic adds AI text watermarking to Claude models worldwide
Anthropic says detection tools and documentation are coming, while warning that watermarks can't confirm authorship or rule out AI use.
Read original →Automatically migrate branch protection rules to repository rulesets
You can now convert your existing branch protection rules to repository rulesets directly from your repository settings. This helps you migrate to GitHub’s more flexible and scalable policy framework without… The post Automatically migrate branch protection…
Read original →Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash
With the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, we will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative MAI-Code-1-Flash 9-10-2026 MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Please update your workflows… The post Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash…
Read original →From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator:…
Read original →MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers improvements across coding quality,… The post MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub…
Read original →300 French newspapers file complaint over Google AI Overviews
Publishers say Google's AI-generated search summaries have reduced referral traffic and may breach a news compensation agreement.
Read original →AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.
Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.
Read original →Google tests advertiser list above mobile Search ads
Google's mobile experiment displays participating advertisers' favicons and domain names above sponsored results.
Read original →Google adds Campaign Data Import Validation Report
Advertisers can now identify missing campaign metrics in imported data, improving the accuracy of cross-channel reporting.
Read original →Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index despite being four times smaller. At nearly 670 tokens per second, it's also the…
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