Anthropic’s official guide details prompting techniques for Claude Opus 5.5.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses bot traffic, HTTP 402 payments, and blocking Google.
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially reaching 1000x human traffic, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more — Cloudflare's mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age — Today, I'm talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare.
WSJ profiles OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, which raised $36M for AI-enabled biosecurity drugs.
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal : A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup that raised $36M to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons — Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them
DHS plans to use AI to process FOIA requests and recommend document redactions.
Nate Jones / Washington Post : The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted — Redactions are the Freedom of Information Act requester's bane. Those black boxes that often hide wide swaths of words …
Citrix confirms exploited critical NetScaler zero-day RCEs and releases security fixes.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws — Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix. — Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code …
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet discusses export bans, AI demand, and its 2,000-company supply chain.
Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times : An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chains across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more — Christophe Fouquet has built Europe's biggest business through a total monopoly over the most advanced chipmaking equipment
NYT examines law firms facing client demands to share savings from AI-driven efficiency.
FT profiles South Korea’s AI-focused deputy PM and the country’s heavily funded national AI push.
Daniel Tudor / Financial Times : A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide — Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risks
BCI company Precision Neuroscience raises a $250M Series D at a valuation above $1B.
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times : NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M — By backing Precision Neuroscience, the billionaire Bill Ackman joins Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in diving into an emerging industry.
Dutch government pilots DAWO, a NixOS-based workplace stack, after Microsoft cut off the ICC.
Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS : The Dutch government is testing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment covering the OS, office suite, and more, after Microsoft cut off the ICC in 2025 — Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.
NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard open a Singapore chip fab targeting 2027 mass production.
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard inaugurate their joint advanced chip fab in Singapore, targeting mass production in early 2027 and eyeing a second facility — SINGAPORE — TSMC affiliate Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) inaugurated its first advanced chipmaking plant in Singapore …
AI microscopy startup Ramona Optics raises a $25M Series A to image and analyze samples at scale.
Zachery Eanes / Axios : Ramona Optics, which makes microscopes that use AI to take and analyze large volumes of images of samples, raised a $25M Series A — Ramona Optics, a Durham startup making advanced microscopes for universities and life sciences companies, has raised $25 million from investors in a Series A round.
An experiment finds adding “Do not guess” reduced made-up AI claims from 71% to 20%.
Imp brings DSPy’s LLM-programming framework to the BEAM ecosystem as a full port.
TinyAIArena offers a live interface for watching AI agents compete against each other.
Essay argues code review retains human judgment beyond what automated defect detection can supply.
A 2026 survey of Rust SIMD support covers the current tooling and portability tradeoffs.
Ink & Switch proposes malleable software as an alternative to locked-down application ecosystems.
Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops, signaling a shift in AI-PC positioning.
Technical post documents subtle PostgreSQL pitfalls with `at time zone 'UTC'`.
A developer traces how ten lines of code materially changed their working life.
Armada presents an encrypted open-source Discord alternative built on the Nostr protocol.
Open-source project builds a guitar amp and effects pedal around an ESP32-S3 AMOLED board.
A practical low-level programming post explores compact binary packing techniques.
Felix Rieseberg examines work made through mechanical rather than conventional digital means.
Video presentation covers deterministic concurrency techniques and their programming implications.
Video explores functional programming through the lens of hardware-aware mechanical sympathy.
A self-parking-car project uses a genetic algorithm to evolve driving behavior.
A still-useful 2013 guide collects concrete techniques for writing efficient C++ code.
Caroline Kimeu / Wall Street Journal : Uber removes its branding from Uber Safari 4x4 vehicles in Nairobi National Park due to safety concerns and fierce pushback from local guides and tour operators — Ride-hailing company's new business has ignited a fight with traditional wildlife guides — NAIROBI—Uber's new Kenyan safari business …
Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang : Alexandr Wang says Meta built Muse “to help people build the world they want”, offering “every person on earth ... a second mind beyond their own” — Here's to the wanting. Here's to the dreaming. Here's to everyone. https://x.com/...
Kif Leswing / CNBC : Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping, made up of OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for network chips — Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
The Washington Sun : Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers — Hundreds gathered at a bitcoin-themed bar in D.C. to counterprogram the national backlash against data centers and AI.
Financial Times : AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems