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Visit website →IPv6 Traffic Surpasses 50%
Global IPv6 access share has exceeded 50%, according to Google.
Cybersecurity Now Works Like Proof of Work
LLM cyberattack performance is turning security costs into a token race.
Stanford AI Index 2026 - AI Is Sprinting, and We're Struggling to Keep Up
An annual report condensing the latest indicators of AI adoption, performance, investment, jobs, and trust.
Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Judgment in Spotify Piracy Lawsuit
Anna's Archive was ordered to pay $322 million in damages via default judgment.
The Last Problem AI Will Solve Is Health
Moving past the easy problems AI can solve, the focus of innovation is shifting toward health and longevity.
Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO)
Proposes an AEO framework for structuring documents to be read by AI agents.
Do You Really Need a Database
Benchmarks illustrate where file-based storage alone is enough and where the line for actually needing a DB gets drawn.
Direct Win32 API, weirdly shaped Windows, and why most of them disappeared
A look at the freedom Win32 offered for window shapes, and why it faded away.
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Enhanced Embodied Reasoning
Google unveils Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, which strengthens robots' spatial reasoning, success detection, and gauge reading.
SuperGemma4 - An Uncensored/Speed-Improved/Quantized Model of Google Gemma 4 26B
A fast, uncensored local model optimized from Gemma 4 26B into MLX 4-bit.
Saying Goodbye to Agile
Critiques the limitations of Agile and highlights the rise of spec-driven development.
AI agent skills fail to deliver even half of benchmark performance in the real world
Even the latest AI agents show significantly lower performance when using skills under realistic conditions compared to benchmarks.
Gemini App for macOS Released
The native Gemini app for macOS has been released for free.
Project Think: Building the Next-Generation AI Agents on Cloudflare
Cloudflare has unveiled a next-generation Agents SDK equipped with durability, sandboxing, and sub-agents.
The Next Evolution of the Agents SDK
OpenAI has significantly expanded sandbox and harness capabilities in the Agents SDK.
Show GN: Lazyagent - A TUI for tracking multiple coding agent tasks in one place
A TUI that tracks events and changes from multiple coding agents on a single screen.
Want to build a compiler? These two papers are all you need (2008)
For beginners, Crenshaw and Nanopass are more practical than the Dragon Book.
Google broke its promise, and now ICE has my data
A privacy incident in which account data was handed over to ICE without prior notice from Google.
openai-oauth - Use the OpenAI API for free with a ChatGPT account
An unofficial tool that spins up an OpenAI-compatible API proxy using ChatGPT OAuth tokens.
Subagent feature added to Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI now officially supports specialized subagents.