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TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 21:05 UTC

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Google Cloud Cloud 22 Oct, 21:00 UTC

Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural flexibility to run workloads however they need.…

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 20:59 UTC

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 20:57 UTC

Publisher Pantaloon says the Playbill won't feature games that use generative AI in any way.

AWS Cloud 22 Oct, 20:33 UTC

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull…

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 20:19 UTC

Spotify is trying to make some Premium Family members prove they live at the same address.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 20:17 UTC

Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 20:05 UTC

It's the first state to sue the social media company on these allegations.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 20:01 UTC

Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 20:00 UTC

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polsia's Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 19:59 UTC

We can't have nice things, but at least we can get trailers for them.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 19:55 UTC

'Mass Effect: Universe' looks like it would have focused on a new protagonist and series favorite Liara T'Soni.

Simon Willison AI 22 Oct, 19:42 UTC

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or…

Stack Overflow Coding 22 Oct, 19:37 UTC

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 19:34 UTC

Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 19:14 UTC

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 19:07 UTC

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 19:04 UTC

The departure comes amid turmoil in Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 19:01 UTC

460 kW charging and 450 miles of range are among the reasons the EV is the one to get.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 19:01 UTC

BMW's latest EV will do over 450 miles on a charge and even close its own doors.

OpenAI AI 22 Oct, 19:00 UTC

Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 19:00 UTC

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 19:00 UTC

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 18:59 UTC

A fan-built model of the Alive tour pyramid got the green light to become a real product.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 18:52 UTC

The organization is prioritizing an AI browser called Dia.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 18:49 UTC

Searches for Samsung foldables just happened to skyrocket following iPhone Duo unveiling.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:44 UTC

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 18:43 UTC

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:39 UTC

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 18:38 UTC

Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startup’s human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:32 UTC

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 18:29 UTC

The Russian official who called commercial satellites "legitimate targets" now says concerns are "unfounded."

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:28 UTC

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 18:26 UTC

Profile links to third-party platforms have also arrived on the social network.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 18:10 UTC

The service still offers a library of books, magazines and comics, and now includes a larger selection of audiobooks.

Simon Willison AI 22 Oct, 18:09 UTC

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI…

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:02 UTC

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 18:02 UTC

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 18:02 UTC

Sources at several banks have indicated that they have been taking actions independent of user instructions.

Azure Cloud 22 Oct, 18:01 UTC

ABFS Vectored Read helps compatible analytics engines reduce request overhead for selective reads in Azure Data Lake Storage. By combining nearby file ranges into fewer storage requests and executing reads…

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 17:44 UTC

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 17:36 UTC

The investment will provide a much-needed financial boost as the company seeks to cut costs and lift its stock price.

GitHub Coding 22 Oct, 17:21 UTC

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 17:04 UTC

Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg has ever seen.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 16:47 UTC

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 16:37 UTC

The decried trial was canceled last week before police seized vaccine doses.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 16:27 UTC

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 16:22 UTC

President Trump claimed that the Google CEO refused to rename the Atlantic Ocean in Maps.

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 16:16 UTC

Hacker News Tech 22 Oct, 16:14 UTC

Hugging Face AI 22 Oct, 16:11 UTC

Google Cloud Cloud 22 Oct, 16:00 UTC

Today, we’re launching self-learning context enrichment (preview) and a reimagined Knowledge Studio experience (preview) in Knowledge Catalog , Google Cloud’s context engine for agents. Building on Knowledge Catalog's…

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 16:00 UTC

Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.

TechCrunch Tech 22 Oct, 16:00 UTC

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 15:59 UTC

Tile-based color palettes go way beyond the four shades of red on original hardware.

Engadget Tech 22 Oct, 15:56 UTC

This could reach 27 percent throughout the end of 2026 as prices continue to rise.

Simon Willison AI 22 Oct, 15:34 UTC

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research ,…

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 15:25 UTC

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

Google DeepMind AI 22 Oct, 14:30 UTC

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Ars Technica Tech 22 Oct, 14:22 UTC

"I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."

Cloudflare Cloud 22 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Cloudflare has achieved South Korea's ISMS certification following an audit across 80 controls. Learn how we localized user consent flows, adapted social sign-up paths at the edge, and validated our global security…

Google Cloud Cloud 22 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Every decade or so, a shift in software forces us to rethink computer architecture from first principles. After the first boom of web-scale traffic, Google pioneered warehouse-scale computing and Linux containers on…

CNCF Cloud 22 Oct, 11:00 UTC

Turn on an AI coding agent’s telemetry and it throws a wall of text at you. It’s expensive to store and what’s worse, you can’t make sense of it. It’s all OpenTelemetry native, though. So you...

Hugging Face AI 22 Oct, 07:51 UTC

OpenAI AI 22 Oct, 06:00 UTC

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI

Google Cloud Cloud 22 Oct, 04:00 UTC

Blog authors: Nirav Mehta, VP Product Management; Michael Bachman, VP/GM; Kevin Hutchins, VP Product Management Scaling Gemini to planet scale taught us firsthand that securely running autonomous agents is fundamentally…

OpenAI AI 22 Oct, 00:00 UTC

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

OpenAI AI 21 Oct, 21:00 UTC

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

Simon Willison AI 21 Oct, 18:41 UTC

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes,…

Hugging Face AI 21 Oct, 18:26 UTC

Azure Cloud 21 Oct, 17:38 UTC

What and whyStarting October 30, 2026, Microsoft Entra ID will make the Choose Your Own Telephony Provider experience available. This feature enables organizations to use a supported third-party telecommunications…

Hugging Face AI 21 Oct, 17:35 UTC

Azure Cloud 21 Oct, 17:13 UTC

Safe Key Rotation for Azure Cosmos DB is now generally available. You can view timestamp metadata showing when each account key was last used, helping you identify active keys before rotating or retiring…

OpenAI AI 21 Oct, 17:00 UTC

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

Stack Overflow Coding 21 Oct, 16:26 UTC

Simon Willison AI 21 Oct, 16:25 UTC

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk…

Hugging Face AI 21 Oct, 16:04 UTC

GitHub Coding 21 Oct, 16:00 UTC

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.

Google Cloud Cloud 21 Oct, 16:00 UTC

Today we hear from ZenteiQ , an artificial intelligence startup spun out of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign scientific foundation models from the ground…

Google Cloud Cloud 21 Oct, 16:00 UTC

For data science, data engineering, and machine learning teams, unlocking the value of unstructured data, such as images, videos, audio, and documents, has historically meant managing siloed data pipelines for…

Hugging Face AI 21 Oct, 14:58 UTC

Cloudflare Cloud 21 Oct, 14:10 UTC

Cloudflare's web application firewall can now correlate an HTTP request with its response. Full transaction detection helps every customer find successful exploits, data exposure, and risky misconfigurations that…

Google Cloud Cloud 21 Oct, 14:00 UTC

Editor's note : This blog was updated on Oct. 22, 2026 at 9:25 a.m. PDT, with revised guidance on Cloud Armor, and on Oct. 21, 2026, with additional guidance on monitoring, patching, and remediation. PHP and Wiz…

Stack Overflow Coding 21 Oct, 14:00 UTC

Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the…

Cloudflare Cloud 21 Oct, 13:56 UTC

Cloudflare has deployed default web application firewall (WAF) protections for newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The rules use request and response signals to stop exploit attempts and…

Cloudflare Cloud 21 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Almost 100,000 Commerce.com domains now give AI agents real shopping tools through WebMCP on Cloudflare. Here's how we turned it on across every store at once, while keeping each merchant in control.

Google Cloud Cloud 21 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Partnership is at the core of Google Public Sector’s mission to empower government agencies and education institutions with transformative, mission-aligned solutions. We recognize that we can only scale our impact…

OpenAI AI 21 Oct, 13:00 UTC

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

OpenAI AI 21 Oct, 12:00 UTC

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

CNCF Cloud 21 Oct, 11:00 UTC

If you’re evaluating AI SRE products, you probably own most of one already. The coding agent your engineers use, whether that’s Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, can already investigate a Kubernetes cluster. What it usually…

Martin Fowler Coding 21 Oct, 10:51 UTC

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of…

OpenAI AI 21 Oct, 07:00 UTC

Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.

Simon Willison AI 20 Oct, 23:50 UTC

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and…

Cloudflare Cloud 20 Oct, 22:20 UTC

Following the discovery that eight eMudhra intermediate certificates use weak keys, Cloudflare is deploying mitigations and releasing client updates. We explain the impact, our response, and what customers and…

Simon Willison AI 20 Oct, 19:34 UTC

My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones ( play it here ). Unlike my previous experiments , this one is actually fun to play . I'm somewhat…

Azure Cloud 20 Oct, 18:55 UTC

Announcing the public preview of disable VNet peering route, a route-table capability that gives you more control over traffic between peered virtual networks. DPR suppresses system-generated peering routes on subnets…

AWS Cloud 20 Oct, 17:03 UTC

Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary infrastructure on your behalf, with all…

Azure Cloud 20 Oct, 16:57 UTC

Announcing the general availability of the service tag match condition for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules on Azure Front Door Premium. Service tags represent groups of IP address prefixes used by…

Azure Cloud 20 Oct, 16:55 UTC

Azure Application Gateway now supports keyless TLS termination using certificates whose private keys stay in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. Each TLS handshake signature is performed inside the HSM, and the private key is…

Azure Cloud 20 Oct, 16:54 UTC

Advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor are now generally available. Advanced platform metrics provide finer-grained signals that help customers more quickly and accurately identify changes and trends within their…

GitHub Coding 20 Oct, 16:05 UTC

Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.

Cloudflare Cloud 20 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.

Stack Overflow Coding 20 Oct, 07:40 UTC

Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the…

Hugging Face AI 20 Oct, 00:00 UTC

Hugging Face AI 20 Oct, 00:00 UTC

Simon Willison AI 19 Oct, 23:58 UTC

My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you…

Azure Cloud 19 Oct, 20:23 UTC

Metrics usage insights is now generally available, giving you greater visibility into what’s driving metrics usage across your Azure Monitor workspace. Monitor workspace utilization, identify unused metrics, understand…

Cloudflare Cloud 19 Oct, 19:12 UTC

When our AI code reviewer's cost per run doubled, we dug into the token usage to find out why. Learn how we used prompt caching and intelligent model routing to slash our inference bill by 68% while speeding up reviews.

GitHub Coding 19 Oct, 18:47 UTC

Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context.

Azure Cloud 19 Oct, 17:55 UTC

Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic Manager profile, eliminating the need to create…

Cloudflare Cloud 19 Oct, 17:48 UTC

Clairic is a new model from Cloudflare that is a System One extraction modeI, capable of extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting data from unstructured inputs.

AWS Cloud 19 Oct, 15:34 UTC

Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in…

Stack Overflow Coding 19 Oct, 15:32 UTC

A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.

CNCF Cloud 19 Oct, 11:00 UTC

Kubernetes has quietly run much of the world’s containerized software on a division of labor between two control loops that rarely had to talk to each other. The scheduler places each pod on a node that...

Simon Willison AI 18 Oct, 23:43 UTC

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those…

Simon Willison AI 18 Oct, 23:16 UTC

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the…

Simon Willison AI 17 Oct, 21:11 UTC

Inline rendering with document​.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline <script> element that replaces itself…

Simon Willison AI 17 Oct, 13:16 UTC

Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit ( previously ) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale. I added a "copy to clipboard"…

Azure Cloud 16 Oct, 16:59 UTC

Private network gateway for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to connect to resources in your virtual network (VNet) and transitively connected networks through a single managed…

Azure Cloud 16 Oct, 16:50 UTC

External key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is now generally available in all Azure public regions. For organizations with regulatory or sovereignty requirements to retain physical control of key-encryption…