Creepy crawlies
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...
Scale before the spike: Predictive autoscaling for GPU workloads on Kubernetes
The 3 AM Call We got paged one Tuesday morning. A critical production service had crashed under traffic—not gradually degraded, but crashed. Hundreds of pending pods. Users were seeing 15–20%
checkstyle/checkstyle: Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly co...
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The Defense Department had barred the U.S. military from using Anthropic's Claude in March
CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
CISA added Linux kernel flaw its KEV catalog after confirming active exploitation, could allow local attackers to escalate privileges.
Most Neoclouds Suck At Security
OpenAI vs HuggingFace, Container Escapes, Kernel Bypass, Network Policies, Security Keys, Multi-tenant Grafana, and a ClusterMAX 3.0 Preview
The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead
Findings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur.
It's nice that they are at least looking into it | Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux
Anthropic gives chat and Cowork one memory
Anthropic's Claude now shares one memory across chat and Cowork, updating as you work, with new controls over sensitive topics like health and beliefs.
Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats
A new open letter calls on governments, tech companies to act now.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report says
Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy open source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as the chipmaker expands deeper into the AI ecosystem.
Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal
Editors: Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor
Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces new Stable, Beta, and Alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community.
This release consists of 67 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 16 have graduated to Stable, 23 have graduated to Beta, 27 are entering Alpha, and 1 is a deprecation/removal.
Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.
The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains
Ring is shaking up its camera encryption to ease privacy concerns
Ring says it’s “throwing away the key” to your footage.
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data
Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database developers use to analyze large amounts of data without paying for a cloud data warehouse. The team joins AWS, but the DuckDB project itself stays free and open source under an independent foundation.
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
It agreed to pay $17.1 billion, but some of that is contingent on getting YouTube and TikTok on board.
You need to find product-market fit again (sorry)
A case study in disrupting yourself
How to evaluate LLMs before production
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.
Apple unveils M6, M5 Ultra chips and updates its desktop Macs – Six Colors
Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends
One more follow up on AI Slop. -First, thank you. Over a million people have now clicked ‘seems like AI slop,’ since we launched it two weeks ago...helping us better understand how our community… | Hari Srinivasan | 176 comments
One more follow up on AI Slop.
OpenAI’ Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell
OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets
The AI Bullwhip
AI hardware bottlenecks cascade in sequential multi-year waves from GPUs to memory, SSDs, CPUs, HDDs, and physical data center shells, driving facility buildout costs to $20b per gigawatt through the classic Bullwhip Effect.
DEEP-JLU/Awesome-Graph-Engineering: A Survey on Graph Engineering in the Era of LLM Agents: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence
A Survey on Graph Engineering in the Era of LLM Agents: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence - DEEP-JLU/Awesome-Graph-Engineering
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V
CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?
PicoMQ/picomq: Durable Streams
Durable Streams. Contribute to PicoMQ/picomq development by creating an account on GitHub.